With the introduction of High-Speed Rail, many transportation hubs have been redeveloped to include this transport. However, these stations are often neglecting important aspects related to the quality of the public space and the connection with the surrounding. To improve the quality of the space, the station needs to be adapted in several days. To start, the areas are to monotone and need to be more diverse. Furthermore, the stations are currently not integrated with the surrounded context. Integration can be split up into functional, spatial, visual, and mental integration. However, each of these aspects is currently lacking. All these aspects need to be addressed to prepare the stations for future expansion and transformation. These aspects and other lessons learned are then applied during a redesign of the most problematic areas of Brussels-South Railway Station

Since 2012 the reading level of students in the Netherlands is dropping. The blame is mostly put on the increasing digitalisation of the world. This research tries to help battle this decrease, by analysing how libraries in lyceums in the Netherlands looked before the digitalisation. This will be done by looking at 5 different case studies in Amsterdam, with their building build between 1900 and 2015. The research will try to formulate a typical library inside a lyceum based on the functionality and other characteristics. The author found out that the libraries started off as mainly a place to store books and having a closed off character. This evolved to larger libraries that would be more open to the other parts of the school. Architecturally, the libraries were not very different from the rest of the school. Therefore, they always look like a function like any other inside a school, while they have different requirements.