Building Bonds, Building Safety: A Bamboo Pavilion Fostering Communities of Care

This project presents a response to the pressing issue of women's safety in public spaces, particularly in Latin American cities. Women worldwide are disproportionately affected by safety issues and fear in urban environments. I explore ways in which public spaces can enhance perceptions of safety and freedom instead. Based on extensive four...

Forum Boerhaave

The post-war neighbourhood Boerhaavewijk in Haarlem is an example of rational modernist urban planning following the design guidelines of air, light and space. Repeated typologies or ‘stamps’ of terraced housing and apartment buildings created by industrialised methods of construction were the answer to the population boom experienced in the 60s...

Biobased materials application insights for add-in, wrap-it and add-on retrofitting external wall strategies

On the basis of Konstantinou's research, it has been determined that there are three strategies for the retrofitting of external walls, the Add-in, Wrap-it and Add-on strategy. With the Add-in strategy, something is isolated from the inside, with the Wrap-it strategy from the outside and with the Add-on strategy something is added to the...

[Seaweed] Farm to Table: Designing with shells, seagrass and seaweed for the Dutch Building Industry

Timber as a competitive structural building material in the Netherlands: Qualification and quantification of the conditions under which structural timber is competitive with concrete

To mitigate climate change and to reach Dutch targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with 49% by 2030, emissions by the construction industry must be lowered. Developments regarding mass timber construction have increased the potential to do so. This thesis addresses the problem that the opportunity of reducing CO2 emissions by constructing...

Food community house in the Brettenzone: the local circular economy approach to reduce our environmental footprint

The Harvested Home: A biobased building approach

The Harvested Home is a housing concept that completely eliminates non-renewable materials form its structure and envelope. It was developed specifically for the touristic island of Texel in Noord-Holland to be used in the re-development of one specific camping area near De Koog. More specifically, the site chosen is located within the Dunes of...