Leefstijl en woongenot: Evaluatieonderzoek naar tevredenheid onder bewoners met verschillende leefstijlen bij nieuwbouwprojecten

Evaluation research about the relation between lifestyles of owner-occupiers and tenants of new building projects in Rotterdam and their level of satisfaction with particular attributes of their dwelling and neigborhood.

De rol van het Woningwaarderingsstelsel in het huidige woonbeleid

The experience of home: Stages of perception in contemporary housing

The main goal of the design is to find a way to enhance the quality of the experience of the city through the design of living spaces. These are themselves developed according to how the space is perceived and experienced, and not with a mere functional approach.

Upgrading Ayigya, the transformation of a low income neighbourhood in Kumasi, Ghana

A sustainable housing project in Kumasi, the second largest city of Ghana. Part of the neighbourhood and their 'compound' houses are tranformed. The area is as an example project to show that fast growing and developing of a neighbourhood(in a developing country) also can happen in a sustainable and concious way.

From Emptiness to Japanese Space: Designing from a Japanese Perspective

The research on space in Japanese architecture resulted in a number of spatial characteristics. These were then used as starting points for the design of a housing block in Dutch context.

Old Beijing New Life: Climate Adaptive Urban Regeneration in Old Beijing Center

The site Dashilan is the most sever UHI area of Beijing currently. Located in the center of Old Beijing, it is consist of historical courtyards with flourish old brand commercial and many cultural heritages. High density (15m2/house), almost fully covered by concrete without enough green space, make this area really have a bad living quality and...

The polycentric anticlave network of institutional housing; an asylum seekers centre in Maastricht

Because of its fascination with safety and control, Dutch society at the end of the twentieth century became subject to fear for the unknown. Panic and terror overpowered society, and imprisoned it into a permanent state of institutional living. The proposed alternative for this development is to revalue and restate the achievement of todays...