Arens de la ciudad

The graduation studio Borders-the Architecture of violence researches on border conditions at rigid borders, where two worlds collide. The focus of the studio was on the border between the United States of America and Mexico. This border with a long history of conflicts, alterations and discrepancies has unfortunately caused for a mostly...

Automatic repair of geometrically invalid 3D City Building models using a voxel-based repair method

In recent years, the concept of 3D city models has been gaining in importance as more 3D geometry of urban areas is becoming available. Although 3D City models offer a structured way of storing geometry, in practice a significant amount of geometry is not considered valid. This hinders the further analyzing or processing of these models. Since...

Tijdelijk bewoond: Een onderzoek naar de financiële haalbaarheid van tijdelijke transformaties van leegstaande kantoorgebouwen naar woningen

In dit onderzoek is getracht een antwoord te geven op de vraag in welke mate tijdelijke transformatie van leegstaande kantoorgebouwen naar woningen financieel haalbaar is. Het onderzoek omvat een literatuurstudie, casestudie-onderzoek en expert interviews. De kennis die middels deze onderzoeksmethoden is verkregen, is gebruikt voor het opzetten...

3D spatial infrastructure for the Port of Rotterdam

This report presents the investigations, developments and the result of the project 3D spatial data infrastructure, funded by Next Generation Infrastructures, Maasvlakte 2.

Hab-I-tation: Ruimte voor individuele expressie

A Graduation Design at the department of Architecture - Dwelling studio: At home in the city. The design focuses on the appropriation of the inbetween space between the collective realm of the dwelling block and the private realm of the dwelling as a means for the dweller to identify with the dwelling and express their own individuality.

De Rotterdam: Creating a smartphone application to locate colleagues

This Geomatics project was carried out in commission of the Municipality of Rotterdam, Geofort Herwijnen and Facility Management of TU Delft. The research project and this report deliver important fundamental information for scientific/academic paper on Wifi tracking.

Reciclagem do Grande Hotel Beira Mozambique: An open building intervention for socio-economic empowerment in Mozambique

Poor economies find themselves in an almost no-win situation: They would benefit from improving the economic situations of the very poor by making them self-supporting and economically productive. However, the very poor are occupied by daily survival and thus cannot afford themselves to improve. This paper describes the status quo of a...

Shrinking Cities and Path Dependency

When cities started shrinking, governments felt they had to do something. Where the main reason for shrinking was the closing down of traditional industry, economic policies were the first to be introduced: first by subsidising and reorganising existing companies, later by trying to create a more diverse employment structure. Gradually it was...

Design after decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities. Brent D. Ryan