Limitations to the Row House Paradigm: A design study into an Adaptive and Alternative densification strategy for Almere

The urban environment in general needs to be renewed in light of the shifting demographics in the Netherlands in order to address future challenges. The majority of the Dutch urban environment is made up of low-density, post-war suburban neighbourhoods that are aimed towards a particular socioeconomic group. This is called the Row House Paradigm...

Agro-Urban Ecologies: Design of a climate-adaptive agroecosystem and urban expansion in Almere-Pampus

This research explores the potential of urban design to fulfill the role of integrating the domains of ecology, food, and climate change to achieve long-term restorative goals. Also, the potential of urban design to be the operator of a dynamic coexistence with nature by acting upon the diverse layers of landscape infrastructure and embedded...

Influence of Sandy Foreshores on Overtopping in Non-Tidal Low-Energy Shallow Lake Environments

Sea level rise will increase the risk of flooding in coastal areas. This poses a risk to the coastal protection as well as rivers and lakes close to the coast. Solutions are needed to cope with this threat. The past decade, nature based solutions have gained significant interest. One of these solutions could be sandy foreshores. Due to the use...

SubUrban Renewal: A Future for Post 65 Aesthetic and Spatial Identity in Suburban Housing Renovation and Densification

This graduation project addresses the societal relevance of the increasingly urgent building envelope renovations of Post 65 suburban housing in the light of the necessary improvement of energy performance. The Post 65 aesthetic and spatial identity stands a good chance of being underexposed in the renovation practice because of the lack of...

Redesigning communities: Realising cohousing through circular transformation

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...

Enriching The "Village"

Everywhere in our country there are buildings and neighborhoods that keep history up to date and touch people. They tell stories about where we come from, who we are and how we develop. In the face of major changes in our living environment, heritage offers recognition and gives us something to hold onto, and identity. In addition, monuments and...

Adapting 20C Heritage Architecture - Green intervention: Renovation of Beursgebouw in Almere

The Beursgebouw, as the first office building in Almere has been vacant for ten years. Also, Almere as the youngest city in Netherlands pay more attention on the green city development. My graduation project is to renovate the Beursgebouw in to urban farm. The new program contains two parts, one is urban farm research center and the other one is...

Adapting 20C Heritage Architecture Project: "Re-bridge" the "Islands" in Almere Stad

The graduation project is a transformation and reuse design of a previous office building, De Beurs, in Almere Stad. De Beursgebouw was designed by E.D. Partnership of architects and engineers Amersfoort in 1979 and finished in 1981 as the first building constructed in this area (Fig 1), and Almere is a New Town established around 1970s in Flevo...

Transition of the mixed plastic household waste value chain: Almere as case in a multi-level analysis on innovation in the niche of recycling mixed plastics

Packaging plastics account for the majority of the household waste plastics. These plastics can be divided into a number of types of plastics, namely PET, HDPE, LDPE, PP, PS, EPS and others. However, many plastic packages consist of different types of plastics and are often contaminated, therefore these plastics end up in the mixed plastics....

Transferium for Almere Pampus

The proposed location for a tranferium within Pampus, a new extension of Almere, is subject to long term, short term and 24/7 changes. As a solution to this changing environment this project proposes an architecture that is reconfigurable based on actual demands and constraints. These serve as input for a tool that renders architectural...

New Town Regeneration: Inwards expansion as a tool for the regeneration and growth of Almere

Almere is a city facing a duality of problems; on the one hand, the older districts show increasing signs of degeneration inside the current city while on the other hand the municipality has a huge, but currently very uncertain outwards driven growth ambition to double the city beyond the current borders. During the project analyses have been...

Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.

The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a...