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Voutsa, A.E. (author)New York is one of the most important Global Metropolises. Due to the increasing urbanization and the congestion of people and businesses, the city’s urban environment and particularly, public space needs to reinvent itself to address the modern challenges and remain an important element of the urban fabric. Towards this direction, public space...master thesis 2020
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Billottet, Camille (author)Smells are everywhere around us. They are within ourselves and around us, they impact us in our mother’s womb and throughout our entire lives, until death. But while sight and touch prevail in the contemporary approach of design and architecture, the olfactive dimension of our built environment is often forgotten.<br/>This thesis aims at...master thesis 2020
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Siritip, N. (author)This project is a part of the Complex Projects Graduation Studio, "New York Midtown", it explores the possibility of introducing a new workplace typology within an industrial waterfront of Clinton piers as a way to respond to the changing landscape of work of the 21st century New York and the revitalization of the waterfront in the previously...master thesis 2020
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Kupzik, Robert (author)The neighborhood of Morgenstond is accounted as one of the 50 problem neighborhoods in the Netherlands. The social development is similar to many post-war urban plannings outside of city centers. After the moving out of the first very homogenic young family population in the course of a suburbanization trend in the late 60s’ and 70s’, the...master thesis 2020
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von Claer, Oscar (author)The specific study of multi functionality within the realm of public architecture is a niche which has had to invent itself relatively recently to cope with increases in both demands and limitations of available space. I consider this discipline to have more potential than simply forcing functions together under the same roof. The Public...master thesis 2020
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Kaniuk, Marta (author)The Netherlands is facing the problem of shortage of suitable housing. Predictions warn about the need of additional million houses for 2030. The rising number of immigrants arriving to the dutch capital city forced the municipality of Amsterdam to prepare a vision for Havenstad 2050 - a development of industrial areas for the residential...master thesis 2020
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Kypriotakis-Weijers, Alex (author)The research attempts to investigate the workings and potentialities of videogames as a medium for participatory design and practices of commoning in architecture. The analysis begins with exploring videogames as non-normative experiences and the effects of those experiences on the players which lead to the emergence of the game commune; a force...master thesis 2020
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Al Zamily, Baeda (author)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the origin, history, and the architectural setting of the Begijnhof in Amsterdam throughout significant periods of change, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and the contemporary era. The combination of these aspects depicts the architectural setting of the Begijnhof that support the needs of the female...master thesis 2020
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Yu, Hao (author)The contribution explores the new agenda of architectural means in contemporary context. Today, in the era of Post-truth, when all the information we learn circulates with uncertainty and doubtful truth, all these online knowledges we perceive are like rumors. As architects, we develop techniques to simulate architectural design throughout...master thesis 2020
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Zhu, Mingke (author)In this thesis, it describes that spirit is the regenerative power in heritage design, and explained how it was inherited from past and still remain alive nowadays. A certain kind of method will be approached to help with the research on this topic. Since heritage design is the re-design based on the existing building, historical research places...master thesis 2020
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Stevens, Denise (author)This design focuses on the upliftment of the community in the settlement Zandspruit, which is located on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is done by creating a community centre with a large program of requirements.<br/>Important is the creation of an innovative building structure, that the community members should be able to...master thesis 2020
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Morais Tejerina, Alejandro (author)In recent years, Quantum Computing has gone from theory to a promising reality, leading to quantum chips that in a near future might be able to exceed the computational power of any current supercomputer. For this to happen, there are some problems that must be overcome. For example, in a quantum processor qubits are usually arranged in a 2D...master thesis 2019
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Hong, Eunkyu (author)The family is the most intimate social environment given to us, and this basic social element plays an important role as we get older. However, changes in family structure and increasing physical distance between family members due to globalization make it difficult to care for the elderly by the family. In the global age, distance from the most...master thesis 2019
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Rouwenhorst, Jasper (author)A new approach is needed for redeveloping peri-urban railway stations in the Netherlands, like Amsterdam Lelylaan,to solve a set of pressing issues in their specific context: the monocentric character of many of our cities, the poor quality of public space around peripheral railway stations, and the disconnection between the local and the city...master thesis 2019
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Aquilina, Emily (author)Through the synthesis of a speculative design project I explore the meditative process of working together with earth forces to create alternative ways of valuing the Arctic and its critic yet fragile environments. Emerging as a response to the changing global trends of climate change, territorial claims and rapid melting of ice in the Arctic...master thesis 2019
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Alkemade, Veerle (author)This project aims to explore ways of being considerate—as architects—with regards to the sites (and the bodies related to these sites) in which we intervene through our practice. Architecture is often meant as a mediator between bodies and their surroundings, however, actually realising this aspiration is rather difficult. In the research it is...master thesis 2019
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Vişan, Andreea (author)The project investigates the possibility of integrating new technological processes into the public realm in the city of Prague. This will act as a statement against the legacy of the new industrial capitalism, which has disconnected production, distribution and consumption spaces in the city. The focus is the design of a grocery re-distribution...master thesis 2019
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Vleeshouwer, Leander (author)In the now a day-age the energy industry is in a transitional phase. Humanity is searching to find an answer to the depletion of fossil fuels, with the exploration of new renewable resources. These renewable resources, in contrary to fossil fuels, require to be continuously balanced between production peaks and lows. Leading to the need for...master thesis 2019
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van den Eshof, Stefan (author)The history of Hembrug goes back to around 1900, when the manmade land got its military production function. For almost a century this area was used for the production of ammunition, weapons and explosives. However, after losing its original function, the area became vacant. The creative subculture, such as artists and squatters, came to this...master thesis 2019
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Gerding, Ditte (author)This graduation is part of a double degree for the master Architecture and the master Construction, Management and Engineering. Research has been conducted into the field of circularity and specifically on design for disassembly as a way to minimize building waste and on improving implementation of circularity by studying the building process...master thesis 2019