Acoustical Design Guidelines for Living Rooms for Adults with intellectual Disabilities

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of building design tools on acoustical quality parameters in living rooms for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and develop acoustical design guidelines for architects. This study is specifically concerned with the validation of auralizations as an assessment tool and establishing the...

Integral Facade Construction: Towards a new product architecture for curtain walls

Curtain wall constructions are one of the most applied facade constructions today. Independently attached to the primary load bearing structure of the building they protect the building’s interior from external climate conditions and allow great design freedom. With continuously rising requirements in terms of energy savings the constructional...

International Façades - CROFT: Climate Related Optimized Façade Technologies

"International Façades - CROFT" links the fields of architecture, building services and building physics. It aims at an international diversity in façade design to reduce energy consumption in building design. Current architectural planning practices, such as the International Style, perceive the climate often as a problem, rather than an...

Re-Face: Refurbishment Strategies for the Technical Improvement of Office Façades

Two thirds of all office real estate in Europe is older than 30 years. While the load bearing structure of a building can last for a century, the interior design is renovated at relatively short intervals. Practice has shown, however, that at the age of twenty to thirty years the facades and climate installations of a building do no longer...

Naar een Cyclisch Iteratief Ontwerpproces en Ontwerpomgeving

Free Form Structural Design: Schemes, systems and prototypes of structures for irregular shaped buildings

Irregularly shaped buildings with double curved surfaces, also known as free forms or Blobs, have regained interest from architects. Those actually built however, despite their futuristic look, have load-bearing structures which are still based on conventional principles, as building systems suitable for these new shapes do not exist. The...

Componentontwerpen: De rol van architecten in productinnovatie

Gevels & Architectuur - Facades in Glas en Aluminium