Magna Plaza. Een heel goed slecht voorbeeld: Over schaalvergroting van de architectuur van het Amsterdamse postkantoor in de 19e en 20e eeuw

This thesis explores the development of scale in the architecture of the Amsterdam post offices by C. Outshoorn (1854) and C.H. Peters (1898), and of the urban context around the building. The urban development takes place incited by technical development and rapid expansion of the city. The scale of the architecture of the post office itself...

Amsterdam’s National Memorial of Names: The Meaning and Importance of Scale, and Community Participation, in the Architecture of Commemoration

Embedding an architectural project in its context exceeds the mere use of materials and spatial devices. Rather, those are simply the tools used to convey a message, and to reflect certain values. Any piece of architecture with an urban, residential location, has the potential to impact the daily lives of citizens. This is especially the case...

Philosophical Anthropology and Geometric Design Methods in the Parthenon

This thesis aims to find a correlation between the geometric symbolism used in the design of the Greek Parthenon and the contemporary zeitgeist of philosophical anthropology. It will do so by creating a collective narrative combining the disciplines of architecture, mathematics and philosophy.<br/>Our anthropological predisposition as humans to...

The Journey of the Gods: A case study of Shree Jagannatha Temple , Puri, Odisha, India

The impact of urban morphological changes on heritage structures and their surroundings is investigated in this thesis. To accomplish so, the thesis focuses on and investigates the case of Shree Jagannatha Temple in Puri, which was built in the 12th century. The temple serves as the spiritual heart of Hinduism, one of the world’s oldest...

The Interchangeable Scale of Art and Architecture: The Frame of Hans Vredeman de Vries

Since the beginning of humanity, art and architecture have had an inseparable relationship. They have always been interrelated subjects connected through many domains. This dissertation, however, aims to explore more profound than the surface that creates this interconnectivity. It focuses on turning this surface into a frame through which art...

Rediscovering the shopping centre: Historical analysis of the shopping centre typology and its succes in the Netherlands 1950 - 1975

The ‘shopping centre’ undergoes significant changes due to new social demands and requirements of people. Where large American shopping malls face a consumerist crisis, neighbourhood shopping centres are on the rise in the Netherlands. A combination of complex urban planning concepts, and key building characteristic such as the ‘human scale’, ...

Improved AHN3 Gridded DTM/DSM

The outcome of the project has been successful from the interpolation perspective, where the final results have shown major improvements over the original rasters, and a multitude of possible other interpolation methods have shown potential. In the end, the algorithm used to create the gridded DTM was<br/>based on Startin’s Laplace interpolation...

Open Construction: Envisioning a network for construction circularity in an urbanising landscape in the province of South Holland

A nationwide program for building one million dwellings aims to relieve the Netherland’s housing crisis: nearly a quarter of this construction will take place in South Holland. Currently, the construction industry needs a huge input of raw materials that is not only causing waste problems but is also decreasing environmental quality. A large...

Lab-Scale Nano-Filtration Membrane Performance With High Silica Concentration Feed Water

Water scarcity emphasizes the necessity of water recovery from saline sources, which are plentifully available. Nanofiltration (NF) is widely implemented in water reclamation treatment particularly in industrial field. However, the presence of silica hinders the possibility of obtaining a high recovery in a NF membrane system. In this work, the...

Physical Scaling of Tocardo’s Eastern Scheldt Turbines: Additional Graduation Work

Additional thesis - The largest structure of the Dutch Delta Works, that protect the Netherlands against high water levels at sea, is the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier. The Eastern Scheldt barrier is constructed as an<br/>open structure that can separate the Eastern Scheldt estuary from the North Sea. In case that water<br/>levels of +3.00...