Bricolage in city renovation

Bricolage in city renovation: Student apartment design in Nijmegen

Xu, Jingyu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor)
Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)
Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology

2021-06-25

Bricolage is a interesting word.It was used with reference to some extraneous movement and means an unexpected result，It was later derived as a
means of solving problems only using the tools at hand. And this essay is a journey to compare bricolage in daily life and bricolage in architecture field to discover what bricolage means in city renovation in both urban and architecture scale.

bricolage
reuse
Renovation

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Student theses

master thesis

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