Building and roof type classification on 3D city models

In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, 3D city models have become more accurate and complex. Despite their widespread availability of open-source 3D city model datasets, these invaluable resources remain underutilized. Our primary goal centers on the classification of building and roof types. For our client, Spotr, our work directly impacts on...

A Comparative Study on Unsupervised Machine Learning Models for Detecting Sudden Lane Changes

Lane-changing behaviour detection is a critical aspect of driving safety and traffic management. This study focuses on detecting sudden lane changes as a subset of abnormal driving behaviours. By analyzing the characteristics of abrupt lane changes, the aim is to develop effective data-driven unsupervised machine learning (ML) methods for their...

Towards an everyday utopia: The whole earth catalog and architectural practice in American counterculture communes, 1968-1971

This thesis explores the impact of the Whole Earth Catalog on architecture practices in communes during the late 1960s and early 1970s, focusing on the relationship between people and the built environment. By analyzing the Catalog's contents, the real self-build works in communities, and the critiques it received, this study reveals the Catalog...

A Study on the Water Treatment System in the Ancient Chinese Village of Hongcun: Focus on its sustainable and aesthetic values and its value as a model for the modern concept of the sponge city

This thesis takes the ancient Chinese village of Hongcun as the main object of study, focusing on the specific functions and modes of operation of the water treatment system in Hongcun as well as the cultural and social context behind it. And the role of different water treatment methods used in Hongcun is analysed in terms of both sustainable...

Removing shared faces in 3D datasets for numerical simulations

Currently more than 4 billion people live in urban areas around the globe, a trend that is expected to be increased in the upcoming years. While urbanisation provides the space for innovation and new opportunities, in the meantime physical, technical and social challenges are rising and the cities’ vulnerability is increasing. A tool to tackle...

Effect of fiber length and dosage on the performance of reed fiber-modified bitumen and mortar

BIO-LOOP ZH2050: A trigger strategy towards a circular economy based on the bio-based plastic industry in the region of Port of Rotterdam

Nowadays, circular economy is of growing importance in the social, economic, and environmental fields. The realisation happens on different scales. First steps towards a circular economy have already been taken, but it will take time before a circular world is reached. Also, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the bio-based concept...

UrbanScraps: A local steel cycle for maritime manufacturing in South-Holland by 2050

Mankind is exhausting natural resources. Therefore, the need to transform the linear material flows towards circular chains is increasing. Steel is a material that is produced and used globally and has high potentials for recycling. However, in the maritime sector, steel is currently barely recycled, let alone reused in a more direct way....

A House In-between | Result of the Elective Course AR0149: Landscape Architecture ON site 2021 | Ode aan de Hollandse Waterlinies

This booklet shows the process and results of Ode aan de Hollandse Waterlinies, a project developed in the elective course Landscape Architecture ON site. Research, analysis and Sense of Place formed the base of this project. The central aim of this course was to express the given site in a project at the interface between landscape architecture...

Station Crowd Redistribution and Pandemic Resilience: Access and Egress-Based Solutions to Station Crowding

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on public transportation. With ridership figures decreasing, it has brought a new sense of urgency to the old problem of crowding. Using a structured design approach, this paper presents the results of a project which set out to reduce crowding in Dutch train stations by<br/>absorbing it at the...

Direct Analysis on Point Clouds: Geomatics Syntesis Project 2019

With the rapid growth in point cloud acquisition technologies the recent years we have the ability to measure large quantities of 3D points of significantly detailed and geometrically composite scenes such as urban environments. This advantage can be exploited and used for direct analysis on point clouds. A direct point cloud analysis has...

A study on numerical problems of a coupled modelling of regional water balance and anthropogenic landcover change

This thesis describes the approaches applied to attempt to solve the numerical problems of the regional atmospheric model incorporated in the coupled modelling of regional water balance and anthropogenic land cover change in Amazon basin. For computational efficiency, the previous atmospheric model is evaluated at monthly scale. In order to cope...

The Commons of Valparaíso: Constructing the Commons in the Latin American Metropolis

Positions in Practice : Constructing the Commons in the Latin American Metropolis, Graduation Studio (Msc 3 | Msc 4), Valparaíso, Chile, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018.<br/>The MSc3/MSc4 Graduation Studio “Positions in Practice” of the Department of Architecture TU Delft (fall, 2017) focused on the urban and architectural context of Valparaíso, as a...