Circular Area Development: Guidelines for Circular Design Strategies in Residential Area Development

The global shift toward a circular economy, vital for tackling climate change and resource security, necessitates the integration of circular principles in the construction sector. Urban planning, significant in shaping the built environment, offers an opportunity for implementing these principles comprehensively. However, limited implementation...

How to "make it pop", Introducing a tool to receive more effective client feedback on strategy and design in a creative agency

Imagine you show something that you made to a client, and all they give you is the following feedback:<br/><br/>“Just make it pop!” <br/><br/>So.. what do you do with this? Nobody really knows.. and it may surprise you, but this is not a made-up example. This is existing feedback from real clients.<br/><br/>The main focus of this project,...

Towards sustainable and circular maintenance strategies for (existing) civil construction objects: Developing a tool to stimulate the integration of sustainability and circularity via collaboration throughout the maintenance stage in the Dutch context

On a general level, the Dutch government wants to have a fully circular economy by 2050 by reducing the use of primary materials and carbon dioxide emissions. As the consideration and integration of concepts such as sustainability and circular economy are becoming increasingly popular in the civil engineering sector, it might be time to re...

A generative spatial adaptation model for constrained-based housing transformations

This research develops a spatial transformation model to work as a tool to address all possible layouts that can be expected when a building is changed. This tool provides tangible answers to the different spatial configuration possibilities of an apartment that can exist within one building design. It combines existing knowledge about the...

HOPCA: Hospital Layout Design Optimization using Computational Architecture

Hospitals are known as functionally complex buildings in various ways, namely due to their non-trivial spatial connectivity requirements. A spatial configuration has an impact on human behavior, human movement patterns and should match with the operational logic of the buildings. In hospitals, there are several typical problems that can be...

A tool for collaborative circular proposition design

Circular oriented innovation aims to address sustainability problems such as resource scarcity, pollution and climate change by (re)designing industrial products, processes, business models, and value network configurations. Although the literature identifies collaboration as crucial for circular oriented innovation—due to the complexity,...

Developing a Carbon Emissions Tool for Dutch Operating Rooms Using a Hybrid Modelling Approach: A MSc thesis for Industrial Ecology

Climate change is a large and global concern. The healthcare sector contributes between 6% and 10% to national carbon emissions in developed countries. Within the healthcare sector, operation rooms are very resource-intensive. A lot of energy, medical products, equipment and pharmaceuticals are required to perform surgery on a daily basis. This...

Identifying Structural Hazards in Building Construction Projects: A research into structural failure databases and risk assessments

Building failure incidents are occurring within the Netherlands and these incidents can be a valuable source of technical data regarding improvements in structural safety. This research has attempted to utilize this information gained to develop a tool to aid the building construction sector in identifying hazards during building construction...

Tool development & validation for brand manifestation design

Nowadays, social media plays an increasingly important role in people’s daily lives. Many brands make use of it and send out different information, for instance, sales, event notifications and sometimes even their position on social issues through platforms like Facebook and Instagram. However, the process of developing these manifestations have...

Using Dynamic Capabilities in an actionable tool as a vehicle to initiate design-driven innovation

In order to become more innovative, corporations are increasingly turning to design-driven innovation capabilities. These capabilities are dynamic: they influence the way companies run their business and how companies create, capture and deliver value. Building design capabilities has proven difficult, given the tacit nature of design practice...

Re-flex: Responsive Flexible Mold for Computer Aided Intuitive Design and Materialization

The paper presents an ongoing research about the design and a possible use of a responsive flexible mold. The mold is developed by integrating its precedents with automation and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The objective of the design is to provide an immersive design tool which has direct link to fabrication. It allows intuitive...

How to Teach ‘New Tools’ in Landscape Architecture in the Digital Overload

The central theme of the paper is the introduction of hands-on tools showing the integration of information technology within a postgraduate study program (MAS LA) for landscape architects. What has already become a part of the discourse in the field of architecture – generic design – is now also finding more resonance in the context of large...

Scripting Design Supported by Feedback Loop from Structural Analysis

In order to support an architect’s decision to evaluate and choose more efficient structural solutions in the concept design, it is necessary to establish an interactive feedback loop between structural solver and geometry modeller which would allow one to analyse a great number of solutions generated in the scripting design process. Defining a...

An exploration on strategic tool developments in strategic design agencies

This research project is an exploration on how strategic tools were developed in strategic design agencies. In conducting this paper, the author explored the strategic tool development in strategic design agencies of various age. With a grounded theory approach, this project conducted 10 interviews in 7 strategic design agencies in the...

A Tool for the Design of Facilities for the Sustainable Production of Knowledge

The aim of the study is to develop a ‘design tool’, that is a method to enhance the design and planning of facilities for the sustainable production of new knowledge. More precisely, the objective is to identify a method to support the conception of building complexes related to the long-term production of new knowledge. The tool is focused on...

Flight simulation for Aerospace planes: Tool development plan