A comparative study of point clouds semantic segmentation using three different neural networks on the railway station dataset

Point cloud data have rich semantic representations and can benefit various applications towards a digital twin. However, they are unordered and anisotropically distributed, thus being unsuitable for a typical Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to handle. With the advance of deep learning, several neural networks claim to have solved the...

Making a real city for everyone-spatial transformation towards inclusiveness and vitality

Rural-urban migrants are vulnerable facing the industrial transition in China. This research reveals the ignorance of migrants’ interests within current urban renewal in Shenzhen, China. By referring to the theory of arrival city and urban inclusiveness, the provision of affordable work-related space through urban renewal in Shenzhen’s...

Mutual benefit from nature to human society: Reed factory along Oostvaardersdijk

This graduation project as a part of the Delta Intervention studio is meant to explore how much can the architecture contribute to water management based on its new cornerstone “build with nature”. Starting from the research on coastal vulnerabilities to the study of wetland systems, I tried to conceive an extreme environment where man and...

Wanderland: Dementia and senior nursing home along de Rotte, Crooswijk, Rotterdam

A kop-hals-romp Boerderij Transformation Considering Seismic Proof Intervention

The research paper aims to give proper anti-seismic retrofit advices for the architectural typology of the Kop-hals-romp Boerderij as heritage. For the farmhouse that embedded with heritage value, it’s very important to strengthen the building in a heritage friendly way. The notion of heritage value is thus discussed in the paper as to give a...

Border design

The 3145km long US-Mexican border is one of the longest and most intense borderlines in the world. The border twin cities, El Paso and Juarez, are unlike any of the US or Mexican cities. The two cities grow interdependently, asymmetrically and share lots of contrast. Particularly, crossing the border to shop is common in the region. Both...

Elderly home for dementia patients

An Infinite Mini World: Dementia nursing home in Amsterdam Noord

Eventscape: New possibility of developing urban brownfield in central Duisburg to achieve its cultural identity

A number of industrial cities are striving for new directions for their own development in the post-industrial age nowadays. Most of existing projects on post-industrial cities often focus more on a proper re-development of brown field -- spatially and ecologically -- while less on the urgent condition of social structure of post-industrial...

The Dancing Boundary: Towards regional development of the border land between Bratislava and Vienna

The border land has always been where a country ends, designated as the "End of the Plan". It also draws a line between people from different sides of the space. However, the introduction of the euro and Schengen treaty has brought us an opportunity for transfrontier spatial development which may establish a new relationship in the border land....

Renovation of Water-related City Border

The Delta Intervention Studio Deals with the practical problem of the water?related architecture design and urban planning. It’s a combination of architecture, civil engineering and management which provide practical reference for the real project in Houston. Due to a changing climate and changing insights concerning sustainable relations...

Decision-making criteria for the acquisition of retail properties: “Do physical and non-physical features of retail properties affect the building’s financial performance?”

The subject of this thesis is the influence of physical and non-physical building features on the financial performance of retail real estate. The main question throughout this thesis is whether building features affect the net rental income and could be decisive for the acquisition of retail real estate by institutional real estate investors....

Complex projects Southwork Civic Center

Urban Farming Visitor Center

The whole project of South works focus on how to bring back the glory of the neighborhood. We found a new identity of urban farming growing city to help the neighborhood solve the social problems and build a new type of city. All the effort can easily be applied in another place and it will became a prototype of urban farming neighborhood. All...

United Nations Environmental Council

United Nations Environment Council plays an important role as the connection from urban to costline in New York city. ZIGZAG concept solves the 7meter height difference on site with a staircase combining landscape, seatings, tourism functions. It is the collective space inside new UNEC. Vertically the building is divided into three parts, upper...