'Building Epiphanies : Description by Design' explores a design method based on a case study located in the heart of Rotterdam. The method embraces and reveals the identity and the ambivalence of the place; investigates alternatives on current building dynamics and builds a parallel reality in today’s saturated world, hence 'Rotterdam Epiphanies'.

Like designing archaeologists, we dig discovering the stratification of the location and present it to the user of the space through the design of interventions and moments of epiphanies where the user realises the intrinsic values and layers of the existing place.
The architecture appears capable of a sudden, short-lived, performative experiences in which a sensory element can be perceived in the ordinary, everyday reality.
The method possesses an integral vision on sustainability, in which present, past and future of places are interconnected, and tackles the overabundance of building operations of our contemporary city centres.