Transitecture

Transitecture: Architecture as symbiosis between the energy transition and social challenges

Remishevsky, Erik (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Snijders, A. (mentor)
Parravicini, M. (mentor)
Tomesen, P.L. (graduation committee)
de Krieger, J. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Architectural Engineering

2021-04-08

With the current energy transition in full effect smart ways to integrate sustainable systems are a must. Instead of looking at individual solutions per household or building, this thesis explores the possibilities of a neighbourhood energy system and how it can benefit the community. The social impact of large sustainable measures are often neglected, while if they are taken into account during the development, a mutual benefit can be achieved. The architect plays a key role in this integration process and can be the bridge between often separated developments. This thesis is one example of a concept which can be applied everywhere, but is still able to produce unique and exiting architecture for each individual project. By looking at the possibilities of a context, integrated with the necessities of the energy transition and combined with solutions for social challenges, architecture can provide the symbiosis among these topics to create a mutual benefit on a local, but also on a broader scale.

energy transition
social sustainability
Neighbourhood scale
Neigborhood scale energy system
Integration
community
Circularity
Wood architecture

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Student theses

master thesis

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