Recycling Houston: Bringing synergy between improving water safety, reducing energy consumption and reinforcing living quality in suburban

The project discusses how the water system can be transformed with integrated (intensification) strategies, in order to improve the three challenges (flooding, urban sprawl and energy consumption) in Houston suburban.

Architecture Anatomy

Integrating land use conflicts - Resolving conservation and development conflicts through adaptive approach in Northeast Coast National Scenic Area

The research aims to redefine how adaptive planning approach can help traditional spatial planning system to deal with conservation and development land use conflicts through a set of adaptation plans. As most planning system in the world, spatial planning in Taiwan in concerned with both planning making and the control of development (Chen &...

The Upside-Down Publicness

The touch-enabled mobile interface of the future

In close cooperation with MobGen, a full service mobile agency located in Amsterdam, this master graduation project aimed for developing an interface style for touch-enabled mobile devices in the time frame of 2 to 3 years. During the process, a calendar app called FluidCalendar, was designed to embody the new interface style that rethinks and...

Integrating the online and physical apparel shopping experience

The assignment was to study both the physical and the online shopping channel in order to design a concept integrating and thereby enhancing the physical and online shopping experience of Denim+ as a brand. The integrated solution must be intuitive in navigation and easy-to-use for the future customers of Denim+. Denim+ is a denim lifestyle...

Dynamic PTDF Implementation in the Market Model

This master thesis aims at developing the methodology to form dynamic PTDF families, for the implementation into the market model. The main procedures to create a dynamic PTDF family are developed and presented with a study case (See Chapter 4). By fitting data from the market model into the data mining tools, typical scenarios of the time...

Throughput-constrained Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Real-time heterogeneous multiprocessors

Voltage and Frequency Scaling (VFS) has been shown to reduce energy consumption effectively on system level. Most existing work in this field focused on deadline-constrained applications with finite schedule lengths. However, in typical real-time streaming applications, data processing is constantly activated by infinitely long data streams and...

Multi-Carrier Wakeup Radio Receiver

In the development of wireless sensor networks, power consumption is one of the bottlenecks for wide applications. In order to improve the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks, a wakeup radio scheme is presented. The main transceiver that is responsible for data communication is in the sleep mode most of the time. An additional device...

"Eroding on the edges": Integration Stategy for Western Fringe of Xi'An City as a supportive urban tissue in Mega City Plan 2020+

The project focuses on how to combine the current corridor development and the cultural & historic assets by means of the public space network, in order to counteract the fragmentation at the local level and meanwhile benefit the local inhabitants of western fringe of Xi’an City, supplementing the governmental city model.

Development of a design tool for the integration of public art in a built environment

Public art is the artwork in any media that has been planned and executed with the specific intention of being sited or staged in the public domain, which is accessible to all. Public art can be preformed in different manners: permanent or temporary, art installation or art promotion events or programs. For large public building projects almost...

Sound understanding and urban topology: An alternative approach to sound perception in existent fabric