Reciclagem do Grande Hotel Beira Mozambique: An open building intervention for socio-economic empowerment in Mozambique

Poor economies find themselves in an almost no-win situation: They would benefit from improving the economic situations of the very poor by making them self-supporting and economically productive. However, the very poor are occupied by daily survival and thus cannot afford themselves to improve. This paper describes the status quo of a...

URBox: High tech energy and informal housing

This paper reports on the URBox concept encompassing the high tech end of solar energy and informal low cost and affordable housing. It aims to contribute to solving the global energy crisis by building solar energy settlements in deserts where land is affordable and sunshine in abundance. First the award winning Solar City 2050 is described and...

Learning from complexity

Architectural design has become disconnected from a slow changing tradition on the one hand and from a traditional way of building on the other hand. All interventions, whether the results of necessity, planning or design have a decision making process in common, a spiral of See Want Can Do. It needs a structure of decision-making and...

Timeless flexible building: Matching demand and supply in flexible housing

The concepts of Open Building and Lean Construction suggest strategies for designing, building and operating the built environment. These concepts create value and take into account all present and future stakeholders who are in control during construction and use. It gives guidelines on how to manage a construction process to create a built...

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Niveaugericht beheer in de naoorlogse wijken: Een Open Bouwen studie in Den Haag Zuidwest

In het woningbouwproject 'De Rade' tekenen zich problemen af in de woonomgeving, de openbare toegangen van de gebouwen en de toegangen tot de bergingen in de onderbouw van de galerijflats. De gebouwen zijn toe aan technisch onderhoud. In een traditionele aanpak zouden deze problemen bouwkundig in een keer per gebouw kunnen worden aangepakt....

Ontwerpen van bouwknopen

Dit boek "Ontwerpen van Bouwknopen" houdt zich net als "Ontwerpen met Draagkonstrukties" bezig met de konstruktie van het hele gebouw. Werd in dat boek iets gezegd over globale ontwerpbeslissingen (de keuze van draagkonstruktieprincipes) en hun gevolgen voor het gebouw, nu zal het gaan over specifieke ontwerpbeslissingen (het bouwkundig...

Low cost multichannel scanning pH-stat

Het railverkeer in heden en toekomst