Urban Fabrications: Tensile Tectonics of Labor

Filtering and differentiation at borders shape the composition and multiplicity of living labor, as well as the formation of often exploitative labor regimes. The relation between migration and the garments and textile Industry in the area of Istanbul, the center of textile and garments production and simultaneously a destination and hub for...

Towards a resilient hospital design: Emerging design considerations for future healthcare facilities after the pandemic COVID-19

COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of the healthcare systems in society. The pandemic overwhelmed hospitals and forced rapid and radical changes in healthcare organizations' working practices and management structures (MASS Design Group, 2020; Ramboll, 2021; Capolongo et al., 2020). The virus led to unfamiliar environments, new spatial...

Addressing the mismatch: A strategy for creating adaptable office buildings and adding value for corporations

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to address the mismatch between the constant change of users’ demands and the static nature of the built environment (supply). Aim: The development of a strategy for creating adaptable office buildings, highlighting the relation between the actions proposed and the value they can deliver to the...

Housing the unknown future: Towards adaptability in vacant office transformation

Liberating Access: Architecture as an open framework

The present MSc thesis is an architectural proposal for the redesign of building accessibility, aimed at creating adaptable architecture over time. Adaptability is understood as the measurable quality of a base building to accommodate a range of variations within the constraints of a proposed base structure. An extensive research comprising of...

Design adaptability of the 2ndSkin project in the Northern European market of residential buildings

The thesis investigates the design flexibility and adaptability of the 2ndSkin refurbishment project created by a team of TU Delft. The export of the design concept in the German residential market takes place through the study. The first part is the analysis of Europe’s building stock along with the German, the comparison between reference...

Permanent Temporality

Office vacancy is a growing problem in the Netherlands. In the first half of 2012, office vacancy continued to grow to 7,62 million square meters, 15,4% of the total office stock. Demographic trends (decrease of the workforce), changing ways of working (telecommuting), decreasing immigration and technological innovations (continued automation)...

Is physical adaptability efficacious?: A research to reveal office users’ preferences for adaptable office space

Motivated by the increasingly noticeable amount of structural vacant office buildings, this thesis contributes to the existing literature of user’s preference to prevent structural vacancy. However, this thesis tries to shed light on the effects of different indicators (flexibility and partitionability) that influence the (physical) adaptability...

Investeren in mogelijkheden: De haalbaarheid van een aanpasbaar kantoor

Dit onderzoek heeft ten doel om te onderzoeken of het haalbaar is om in de nieuwbouw van kantorenvastgoed de mogelijkheid van een toekomstige transformatie naar woningen in te bouwen. De haalbaarheid wordt vanuit vier perspectieven bekeken: juridische, technische, financiële en commerciële haalbaarheid.