The Next Step in Circular Housing: An exploratory user-centred research into the relationship between design and circular behaviour of students living in student housing complexes

Earth’s resources are being depleted which creates a need for a transition towards a circular economy. This transition brings multiple challenges and requires new behaviours. However, in current design practice, the focus lies on products and materials, not on the required circular behaviours. <br/><br/>The goal of this research is to describe...

Grandstand Design for Disassembly

This work contains the technical report about the research in how to design and construct a demountable grandstand. The design itself is a modular structure which can be demounted and transported to different locations and to be reused multiple times. With the modular design any event organiser can decide what arrangement and capacity the...

Development of an innovative wastewater reuse plant for the RINEW project

Increasingly, harbour activities in the harbour of Rotterdam are moving west towards the Northsea (Maasvlakte I & II). This impoverishes harbour areas close to Rotterdam like the Stadshavens area. The municipality of Rotterdam is trying to revitalize these areas by transforming them into sustainable living and working communities. Evides N.V. is...

Redefining the way people consume beverages

This thesis describes the development an innovative reusable bottle and beverage enhancement system that will be used to kick-start the recently founded company Oto. The Oto Bottle brings convenience, fun and sustainability to the creation of on-the-move beverages. As such, the thesis is carried out in parallel with two Strategic Product Design...