Print Email Facebook Twitter Glass that strengthens floors, facilitates change, and tells stories Title Glass that strengthens floors, facilitates change, and tells stories Author Poon, Stefanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Oikonomopoulou, F. (mentor) Pardo Redondo, G. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology Date 2021-06-22 Abstract This text is an investigation of process. It outlines the design development of a historic concrete slab retrofit using glass. By working through iterations that build off each other, it chronicles the steady unfolding of the concept coming into being. Materiality, statics, construction, and aesthetics are the parameters that are mediated in a case study intervention. The divide between preservation and progress, between the currently clear-cut choices of conservation or structural design, is a powerful space for transformation. The research looks in depth into the existing historic structure, recalculating it using modern methods. In turn, this informs geometry and configuration, which are iteratively redesigned to be minimal, respectful, and surgical. Foundationally, this project is a love letter to the ghosts in the hall, who are tasked with handing down their teachings to the future generations, so they better understand their responsibility to the universe and that all things past and present are equal parts of the whole. Subject Historic ConcreteStructural glassAdaptive re-useGlass Beams To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2f02de09-7369-48fc-a829-3e9b12425aba Coordinates 51.9018882,4.4810806 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2021 Stefanie Poon Files PDF 4920937_thesis.pdf 5 MB PDF 4920937_presentation.pdf 4.82 MB PDF 4920937_reflection.pdf 18.88 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2f02de09-7369-48fc-a829-3e9b12425aba/datastream/OBJ2/view