Practitioners Interview Series | Marlon Jonkers

Marlon Jonkers works as Head of Design at Moos. From 2021, she was involved in the founding of Moos and has since set up a team of eight talented architects to work together on Moos’ mission. Moos believes that everyone has the right to a nice home. If it were up to us, we would solve both the housing shortage and the climate challenge with one stone.

Moos is an integral company, more than just an architectural firm. Moos designs and does so together with our partner ecosystem, Our family. Moos has its own factory and is responsible for realization, also does maintenance and has a take-back guarantee. Our building system is fully demountable – whether your house is there for 50 or 5 years. This makes Moos unique because it has managed to set up the entire framework around circular construction. According to Moos, this is the way to actually build circularly on a large scale. We do this for the people, Our crowd, all kinds of residents of our homes, streets, neighborhoods – and the world. If your foundation is good, you are more solid in life, Moos believes.

Moos has developed a versatile circular modular construction system to quickly build high-quality permanent homes. The first 30 homes are now happily occupied and Moos is in full swing building and preparing the next 300 homes. After which many more will soon follow until everyone is provided with a fine home!

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Julia Gospodinova
Julia Gospodinova
Architect

Ir. Julia Gospodinova holds an M.Sc. in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences from TU Delft. Specializing in Building Technology, she graduated cum laude in 2023. Being passionate about circularity and humanitarian architecture, she combined those topics in her thesis, titled: “Circular Transitional Housing for Displaced People in Extreme Conditions: The Case of Pakistan.” The project won the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Award in the category of Buildings & Neighborhoods. Currently, she is the secretary at Project Safe Refuge, a foundation dedicated to providing architectural aid to displaced communities.

Circularity for Educators

The platform is intended to provide with content on either circularity or pedagogy for and about circularity. It is one of the outcomes of the Circular Impulse Initiative (CII), a project intending to enhance the integration of circularity in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment education. The platform mainly aims to help tutors get better acquainted with circularity in the built environment by providing a series of resources on this subject that they can either view to get better informed or directly share with their students in class or online. A large number of the Faculty's professors and researchers have contributed substantially both in creating a coherent narrative for circularity in the built environment as well as further elaborating on different aspects of it. Besides this one, a new platform for interaction and direct exchange was also established in parallel that we call ‘Educators for Circularity‘. This one offers the opportunity for all of us to meet and share our experiences and learn from one another.

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