Choreographic Borders: A progressive strategy to activate cross-border developments around Korea DMZ border regions

This project is to suggest a sustainable and comprehensive development plan and a design strategy for the cross-border area between North and South Korea. Creating mutual benefits of ecological, social, economical and political conditions will facilitate balanced development for local residents in border area preserving its identity, meet the...

Efficiency and Feasibility of the Disassembly Process for Curtain Wall Systems

This research focuses on “Disassembly” as the environmentally preferred approach to curtain wall systems’ EoL. The process of disassembly can maximize material recovery and facilitate reuse of components. The resulting environmental benefits vary from limiting the need for virgin materials and saving manufacturing energy to reducing the final...

Re-activating the inner-city fringe: Towards sustainable transformation of inner city neighbourhoods to reactivate urban core.

This study fundamentally intends to reflect the process of urban renewal during the period 1974-1993, based on the principle of ‘Building for the neighbourhood'.This was aimed at improving housing quality,living condition and providing affordable social housings to low-income groups.That is to say that not only enhancing physical conditions but...

Renewing the Portiek Flats in Carnisse

The kWh/m2 studio is about designing for a low-carbon cityscape and also analysing the spatial impact of transitioning into new energy scenarios. The focus of my thesis within this stream is the renewal - including renovation and addition of the portiek flats, a common post-war housing typology located in Rotterdam Zuid. Over 85 % of post-war...

Urban Agriculture: Using Buildings to Feed Cities

This "designers' manual" is made during the TIDO-course AR0531 Smart & Bioclimatic Design. By the year 2050, it is projected that the world's population will exceed 9 billion people, with over 70 percent of humans living in cities. The current agricultural practices in rural landscapes lead to several pollution and land use problems. This leads...

Fashion wears Architecture

This is the brand-dedicated building. When the fashion brand desires to promote their brand image, architects realize it as a space. With many informations of the fashion brand, Givenchy, the architect makes a process of how to make the special, and attractive building of brand.

Freeze-bond strength: Analysis of experiments and FE modeling of a shear test on freeze bonds

The objective of this study was to contribute to the knowledge on ice-ridges structures interactions. This work is a follow-up of previous research on simulations of ice-structure interaction using finite element method (Gürtner, 2009b; Konuk, et al., 2009a,b) and a preliminary study of freeze-bond (FB) shear strength (Repetto-Llamazares, et al....

Mediatheque in Manhattan: From high density of skyscrapers

On the grid of Manhattan, a lot of skyscrapers had competitively built before 1916 New York Zoning Law was established and it made possible 'culture of congestion' which speaks for today's Manhattan. Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself. Nowadays, the inside area of skyscrapers is extremly expanded to gain the...