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Verhoef, Jonathan (author)Hoptille in the South-East of Amsterdam was created to foster a sense of human-scale architecture amongst the high-rise manifestation that was the Bijlmermeer project. Fourty years later this neighborhood still exists as a modest yet dense neighborhood flanked by an increasingly densifying Amsterdam. <br/>This neighborhood is one of the more...master thesis 2024
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Love, Taija (author)The Netherlands is facing a housing crisis emblematic of a global phenomena. The growing intensity of the need for housing cannot meet the development and resource availability. Mass standardised housing contributes to this irrevocable cycle of supply and demand. This project is an investigation into participatory design practices as a method...master thesis 2023
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van Harrewijen, Savanne (author)How can a community of multi-generational solo dwellers and non-human species coexist near Rotterdam station today? The project “Togetherness” offers loft homes for starters, cluster apartments for middle and senior citizens, maisonettes for solo parents and habitats for bats. Considering different sharing capacities for each target group leads...master thesis 2022
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Kirschstein, Alex (author)Alternative forms of dwelling, and collaborative housing models in particular, are again gaining an increasing amount of interest in the architectural discourse. Although not a new topic, there is a noticeable lack of research on how existing cohousing projects, that were established decades ago, have developed in practice. Among other counties...student report 2021
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Chernyshova, Daryna (author)The project is focused on combating loneliness in single-person households. Concepts of cohousing and coliving are chosen to research the topic to meet the requirements of modern solo dwellers.master thesis 2021
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Bichlmaier, Robert (author)Design of a cohousing project based on partially existing structure of a former 50ies shopping mall. The existing structure is evaluated and freely approached with the open mindset of the bricoleur. The bricoleur as defined by Claude Levi Strauss works with the existing and uses what is at hand. The result is the formation of a new urban...master thesis 2021
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Huizinga, Sean (author)The past generation has built more than all previous generations combined. The houses got bigger, families got smaller and our lifestyle more consuming. Times however have changed so that nowadays we are faced with multiple social problems – such as aging and loneliness – and environmental problems. Living more social and reducing consumption is...master thesis 2020
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Goma Garcia-Ganges, Samuel (author)Increasing ground prices are displacing the middle class families from Amsterdam. The available housing is either too expensive or simply unfit for families. They are therefore forced by the circumstances to move to the suburbs, away from their job, family and friends in the city. In the process, the city loses valuable middle class workers and...master thesis 2020
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Bergsma, Waling (author)Due to an aging population and the consequently rise in publicly funded cost for long-term care a major change was made in the financing structure of the health care system in The Netherlands. Since this change in 2015 care providers have closed care homes. In Delft the main institutional care provider now has partly vacant real estate. This...master thesis 2020
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van Wijk, Nina (author)Our housing market is challenged. Housing prices are rising, and the number of single-person households is increasing, which impacts the affordability of housing. Cohousing offers a possible solution to this problem. However, the level of empowerment of cohousing communities to self-organize is troubled by financial or legal barriers, among...master thesis 2019
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Dirks, Evi (author)As part of my graduation within Architecture, Explore Lab, I want to develop a method to help future residents and other involved parties of a collaborative housing group, to compile a clear and plenary design brief in order to create a coherent architectural design. After developing and applying this method I will redesign a former school...master thesis 2019
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Summers, Ben (author)This paper researches the formation of the Swedish variant of cohousing (kollektivhus) by examining the ideas and cultures which inspired it and asks the question: what has been the contribution of the architect within this history?<br/>Re-writing the script for life at home has been a collective task involving many agents of change and, perhaps...master thesis 2019
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- Klaassen, H.M. (author) master thesis 2016
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Lee, D. (author)By overlapped communal spaces in the dwelling blocks, different types of residents can coexist together.master thesis 2015
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Vester, L.M. (author)In het vergrijzende Nederland hebben veel ouderen last van eenzaamheid. Ook blijkt uit onderzoek dat ouderen 95% van hun tijd binnenshuis doorbrengen terwijl de buitenlucht juist ontzettend goed is voor de gezondheid. Door actieve ouderen samen te brengen in een groepswoning wordt de drempel tot sociale interactie verlaagd. Daarbij wordt over...master thesis 2015
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Kwong, C.H. (author)In the future scenario 5 years from now, the Hong Kong government decided to help gentrify the whole Hong Kong cities, so decided to demolish all the public housing in Hong Kong and relocate the underprivileged people to “Hong Kong Land” in Mainland China. Tin Shui Wai New Town will be developed once again trying to get rid of the negative image...master thesis 2015
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Morosetti, L. (author)Application and adaptation of the monastic typology to contemporary collective housing.master thesis 2015
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Hesselink, S. (author)The portiek dwelling type is a very prevalent dwelling type in the Netherlands but most of the housing is considered 'vulnurable' because they are mostly small apartments in reconstruction neighborhoods. This project examines the portiek dwelling as a unit, rather than on the level of the individual apartment or block, and shows its potential as...master thesis 2014
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Van der Harg, C. (author)“Cohousing is a project where each household has a private residence, but also shares extensive common facilities with the larger group, such as a kitchen and dining hall, children’s playrooms, workshops, guest rooms, and laundry facilities.” (McCamant & Durett, 1988, p. 10) A cohousing project is targeted for all households and these different...master thesis 2013
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- Kapedani, E. (author) master thesis 2013