An Architecture For Art: The New Flemish Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp

Humankind has always made art. Through its appeal to the human senses, it has helped to shape the ways in which we perceive the world around us and, in its varied forms, offers a means beyond language through which we have become able to articulate our relationships with one another. Throughout the ages art and architecture were facilitators of...

Unplugged: The Search for a Purpose of Post-industrial Machine Architecture

How can we design a low-energy house in the<br/>post-industrial context with the use of environment and<br/>technology and still keep heritage and expression of the past<br/>or machine architecture?

Weathering: An alternative way of understanding industrial impact on environment and humans in Yekaterinburg

At present, there are two common ways to understand the impact of industries on the environment. One of them is to abstract statistics from the real industrial pollution scene and base the understanding and decision making on those statistics. The other is to regard the images of industrial landscape as a certain type of aesthetics. Neither of...

Electric preheating of combustion air: Design of a cost-effective and compact electric combustion air preheater for the LSV® burner

This thesis report discusses the design of a cost-effective and compact electric combustion air preheating for the LSV® burner. The industry has a complex problem to solve and an important role to play during the energy transition, that is needed because of global warming. Many industrial processes use heat generated by the combustion of fossil...

The line between existing and new: The adoption of material reuse as a design strategy for the transormation of a rear side of the urban block to a new pedestrian front

The main research in question regards what is Bricolage in architecture. This topic is strikingly valuable to contemporary demand, given the fact that there is a considerable amount of buildings and building elements that do not carry a value that is strong enough to be considered historical or cultural. In fact, often the meaning of Bricolage...

An idealized flood risk model for an outer-dike industrial area: Assessment of uncertainties and analysis of risk reduction measures

This research comprised of an investigation into outer-dike flood risks. Both direct and indirect risks were considered and an extensive uncertainty analysis was performed. Additionally, an assessment on environmental risks and protective measures was made based on the pilot of the industrial harbour the Botlek.

Gardens of Heritage

Gardens of Heritage turns an old warehouse in Chicago into a public park to function as a seedbed for a new handicraft economy.

Urban fast charging stations: A design of efficient public charging infrastructure for large numbers of electric vehicles in cities

How could urban areas provide public charging infrastructure for the rapidly increasing number of electric vehicles? The objective of this research is to develop a tool that helps municipalities and market players to understand the need for public charging infrastructure, and to design an efficient solution for charging large numbers of electric...

CatWall

In the pet product market a gap has been noticed in the Dutch field of domestic cat products. Variation in cat perching solutions (commonly referred to as cat trees or scratch posts) has been limited. Almost all products look the same: plush levels connected with sisal posts. To seize this opportunity a new product with an original appearance,...

Ambergy Industrial: A heating control system to save energy

Industrial buildings, used as warehouses or distribution centres, are characterized by large doors which are opened temporarily or for longer periods. A new technique - called Ambergy - is investigated which prevents unnecessary energy loss through open overhead doors in heated industrial halls. This technique consists of a smart coupling...

Can you keep a secret?

"Can you keep a secret?" is about a urban design for redevelopment of the Heijplaat area, and about an architectural design to transforming the former submarine shed of the RDM into an educational center for sustainable science. The thesis is relevant to the assignment we now face: finding a way to deal with the giant built structures left to us...

Mechanical Hive | Artist Community

When dealing with a project related to the RMIT studio, one knows from the very beginning that the main concern will be the reintegration of a building and/or site on different levels: built (usually urban fabric) economic, social, etc. However, what is more challenging is to see whether you can take a step further from reintegration and see...

Industrial Housing in India: The Wall as an Industrial Craft, The Flyash 'Stack-crete'

The building industry in the developing countries, today, is confused between technological developments and the vernacular. The values imbibed in tradition, and colonial hegemony in India have had deep impacts in the psychological perception of the vernacular. Unfortunately, in today’s circumstances, where in population explosion and rapid...

Insight Studio

This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...

Identity regeneration by transformation

Identity regeneration by transformation is focused on an abandoned cigarette factory in Zevenaar (The Netherlands). The city is in need of a new impulse and by transforming the factory a possible solution is provided in the form if a biological food center with a wholesale, a markethall, an agricultural school, offices, dwellings and retail.