Nature-positive Architecture: A Regenerative Design Approach of a Winery in the Quarry of the St. Pietersberg

Sustainability in its development is increasingly focusing on nature. However, this research shows that through positive development, benefits are not only gained in nature, but are actually viewed as a common good. From this emerged regenerative development and design, in which there is a judgement from a whole system perspective. Through the...

Le Temps De 'L'Encier': The Time of the 'Inkpot'

A building created out of fear of being overwhelmed by the new era, but now to be embraced.

Sediment Transport in the Westerschelde Delta

The objective of this thesis is to improve the insight into the morphological processes in the outer delta of the Westerschelde estuary, especially those related to the sediment exchange between the delta and the estuary. The main residual sediment transport patterns in the delta have been found to look as follows. On a large scale there is a...

Fieldwork Coastal Engineering: Preliminary design of an artificial island in the Black Sea, Varna, Bulgaria

From Sunday September 30th until October 7th, a group of 16 Hydraulic engineering students and one teacher went to Bulgaria. Three Bulgarian students and two Bulgarian teachers from Sofia University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geology joined them at their arrival in Varna. The students were given an assignment concerning the...

Ingleses - Brazil: Urban problems due to coastal morphology

MSc Project Hydraulic Engineering - Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Section Hydraulic Engineering and Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Centro de Ciências Tecnológicas da Terra e do Mar. - The town of Ingleses on Santa Catarina Island, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, is threatened by nature at...