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Cruz Rojas, Juan (author)
From a global perspective, the building industry is one of the significant factors of environmental impact on the planet. Related activities in this industry refer to 40% of total carbon emissions; 28% of this value accounts for building operations, while the remaining 12% represents the manufacturing of new construction materials. Studies have...
master thesis 2023
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Lopes Cardozo, Rebecca (author)
A proposal to set up material conditions that make it possible for dwellers in Teusaquillo, Bogotá to collectively experience the public realms anew through the movement of their bodies during the festive and attentive dance of the carnival taking place along Parkway. Here, one can choose to fully engage with life beyond the self or to withdraw...
master thesis 2019
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Leone, Silvia (author)
A river garden punctuated by 9 pavilions along the River Arzobispo, in Teusaquillo - Bogotá. The design proposal involves 3 levels of intervention : <br/>- the urban/ecological scale for the re-naturalisation of the currently polluted river Arzobispo; <br/>- landscape design for the articulation of the river bed and the zoning of the garden; <br...
master thesis 2019
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Petrounine, Alexander (author)
This graduation project explores the act of listening to “noise”, to develop a new critical attitude to understanding sounds of the contemporary city. The essential aim is to create ears which separate, abstract and re-organize the myriad of sounds of the environment, which often ends up in a cacophony. The sounds of the surroundings are...
master thesis 2019
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van der Heide, Iris (author)
Cities are becoming places for Instagramable experiences and Disneyfication. People are moving as fast as possible to get from one place to the other. We often forget to really look and be aware of our surroundings. I believe that some parts of the city should be dedicated to a more slower, more enjoyable, experimental way of moving through and...
master thesis 2019
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Posada Henao, Manuela (author)
Authors such as Clough (1955) and Rostow (1960) believed that countries endowed with natural resources could achieve sustainable economic growth. This belief was based on the role coal and oil had during the 19th and 20th century in the industrial development of countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States of America. However, this...
master thesis 2018
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Delnooz, Midas (author)
In Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, the museum of modern art Mambo needs an extension. This graduation project is a proposal for that extension, which has a focus on the relationship and interaction between the building and the public domain. The result is a building complex that has many different levels of publicness, an open building that is...
master thesis 2018
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Cook, Matthew (author)
A proposal for a series of water plazas along the route of the Rio Arzobispo in Bogotá, Colombia. This follows extensive research on elements of the city and how they are perceived through my method: Narrative Inhabitation. The bed of the rio has been redesigned to increase its capacity to hold rainwater to be released slowly, mitigating flood...
master thesis 2018
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Barrera Ramirez, Juanita (author)
The peace treaty of Colombia has promised to end over fifty years of armed conflict, which has been significantly financed by the cultivation and processing of illicit crops. The treaty contemplates a substitution policy that offers financial incentives and social investment to the coca-growing communities to replace their illicit crops by legal...
master thesis 2017
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Romero Bogoya, Juan (author)
Urban regeneration has been subject of a changing environment in which increased participation of different sectors of society play a key role. The shift in power and governance structures has put participation in the centre stage, as a key factor to achieve social and economic sustainability in this kind of projects. A response to this...
master thesis 2017
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Del Grandi, Isabella (author)
This graduation project is the result of the ambition of generating a public intervention in an extremely complex and challenging environment, translating in a space of mediation between different - social and morphological - realities, able to embrace urban fact in all its facets and contradictions.
master thesis 2017
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Spada, Livio (author)
From an analysis of the higher education system in Bogotà, it came out an isolation and social closing of university campuses in the city.<br/>It follows that high knowledge becomes elitist and inaccessible, and that the city and the university are losing their relation.<br/><br/>The design consists in opening a new democratic dialogue between...
master thesis 2017
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Voorend, S.J.M. (author)
As a result of increased economic development in Colombia, the pressure on the natural system has increased. The export of natural resources through international ports at both the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea causes conflicts between infrastructure and the dynamic behaviour of the coastal system. This Master Thesis focusses on the bay...
master thesis 2017
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Vaendel, T.M.A. (author)
Within the scope of ‘circular economy in emerging markets’ the aim of this exploratory graduation project is to design a local application for educational purposes with the recycled PET filament that will be developed by Urban Mining in Colombia. A major issue in Colombia is the problem of plastic waste that often ends up in landfill as well as...
master thesis 2017
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McGhee, B.J. (author)
The platform tower building, a tool for creating new centralities and public space across the sprawling city of Bogota, with an emphasis on the plinth as a point of convergence for the urban multitude.
master thesis 2016
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Garcia Velandia, L.A. (author)
This graduation project is called “Based in Place: Alternative economies in the region of Chocó. This project tackles the question of how urban development should consider the qualities of the place, especially in fragile regions such as the Chocó in the Colombian Pacific. It also evaluates alternative methods of strategic planning to lead...
master thesis 2016
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Herrera Manzano, S.C. (author)
A feasible, desirable, viable and impactful business strategy with potential to bring an innovative and context-fitted value proposition (Majicast) closer to the lives of low-income people with mobility disabling conditions at BoP in Colombia though a service outreach delivery infrastructure. With this approach, a non-profit organization based...
master thesis 2015
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Montenegro Charry, L.E. (author)
The transformation of conflict-affected countries into peaceful, stable, and more prosperous ones is an immensely complex task, often susceptible to contradictory pressures and to the risk of relapsing into violence (UNDP and World Bank 2007). Most common approaches link social and economic development with conflict and peace, slowly; the...
master thesis 2015
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De Bont, J.C.A. (author)
In many Latin American cities, like Medellín, the food distribution system has an apparent irrational structure. The case is that food is distributed first to the city centre and from there redistributed towards the periphery with a concentrically raising price. This becomes most clear if we look at the informally built settlements that are...
master thesis 2014
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Tascon Valencia, J. (author)
This thesis begins with a description of the social, political and natural phenomena related with the human settlements at the slopes of the Galeras Volcano. Subsequently, a state-of-the-art is provided in order to understand the relevance of addressing the underlying conflict at this point in time, from a regional planning perspective. Based on...
master thesis 2013
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