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Rendon, G. (author)
This thesis is a specific research of the south side of the transborder region of San Diego/Tijuana and its drastic housing deficit caused by continuous migration and uncontrollable population growth. Together, the city of Tijuana in the Mexican side and the city of San Diego in the American side conform the largest urban agglomeration that...
master thesis 2008
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Viscaal, J.H. (author)
The aim of this research is to find an answer on the question of how we should deal with situations where there has been a very large expansion -which results in a shifting gravity point- and we have to search for densification opportunities within existing urban areas. In these situations the new basis of the housing area at the edge of the...
master thesis 2010
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Christiaanse, S. (author)
This graduation project offers an alternative to the tradition in top-down planning in the Netherlands. The test-case for this strategy is the transformation of former industry area ‘Schieoevers’ in Delft. Both a spatial framework and a policy framework are created to support bottom up development of this project location. The spatial framework...
master thesis 2011
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Bedoya Ruiz, A.M. (author)
The study and comprehension of cities development processes becomes nowadays more relevant not only for academics but also for planners involved in practice, policy makers and other groups concerned with urban space shaping. On one hand, it is already known by the ‘state of world population report’ of United Nations, that about one in two...
master thesis 2012
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De Vetyemy, I.F. (author), Scapinelli, V. (author)
The starting point of this thesis is the analysis - both through research and through design – of the ongoing and inevitable process of urban densification, in order to explore possible ways to face it with efficiency and quality. The goal is to investigate an alternative way to deal with the densification process in complex scenarios, where the...
master thesis 2012
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Beijer, J.H.E. (author)
‘the metropolis and five stages of modernity’ is an explorative research on contemporary ecologies and the historic (re)-emergence of public domain, infrastructure and urban form in Los Angeles
master thesis 2013
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Beusink, R. (author), Oh, Y. (author)
The project concerns the densification of a intensely transformed St. Jacobsplaats, located at the the tail-end of the Binnenrotte in Rotterdam. The project embraces infrastructural scars and turns them into qualities. Bringin back symbioses on the site. Through creating a public mediator. The project reflects on its structuralistic context by...
master thesis 2013
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De Ronde, W.R. (author)
Graduation project the urban sculpture is a proposal to densify the urban emptiness within the Sint-Jacobsplaats while dealing with the fragmented patch work of buildings and integrating a hybrid flexible program within a unifying building skin.
master thesis 2014
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Churchill, C. (author)
Urban sprawl is a contemporary issue facing not only newly developed nations and cities but many countries in Europe with historically dense urban cores, including Amsterdam. Urban city dwellers are desiring the the convenience of city life coupled with the qualities of suburbia and having ones own backyard. In the context of Amsterdam the aim...
master thesis 2014
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Oude Wolbers, N. (author)
master thesis 2016
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De Vries, O. (author)
Amsterdam is growing fast, faster than the rest of the Netherlands. This leads to many challenges such as housing shortage and high pressure on space and amenities. For its competitiveness it important that Amsterdam keeps developing. However, it is often considered to be full. This study will show that there is a lot of space unused in the city...
master thesis 2016
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Leeferink, T. (author)
It is important to reconfigure the way of thinking about urban slums. Instead of being considered a major urban problem in third world countries, one needs to realise their essential role in the continual functioning and growth of the nation’s economy. This thesis, through research and design aims at qualifying slum environments and...
master thesis 2016
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De Roij, M.T. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Erçel, Dinçer (author)
De vluchtelingencrisis zorgt voor een grotere druk op de sociale huurwoning markt, mede hierdoor heerst er een negatief sentiment tegen het opnemen van vluchtelingen. Door de behoeften op verschillende schalen te inventariseren en te handelen in gemeenschappelijke belang kan er gezorgd worden voor het omvormen van deze negatieve sentiment naar...
master thesis 2018
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van der Linden, Hedwig (author)
The aim of this exploration is to reinterpretate and revitalise underused areas in the modernist urban fabric of Rotterdam. Since Rotterdam was bombed during the Second World War, a whole new modernist city could arise. The Reconstruction plan can still be seen as a manifesto of modern architecture and urbanism. Main focal points were the...
master thesis 2018
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Gomółka, Dominik (author)
Project tackles the issue of low density and underpopulation in Lelystad by an attempt to retroactively densify the city historical core. The architectural intervention consists of revitalization vertical addition of dwelling function on one of the Lelystad very first buildings - the shopping center Lelycentre. Building is assesed in aspects of...
master thesis 2019
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Reinink, Sebastien (author)
This research focuses on the relation between the compact city and urban life. Literature suggests that a holistic approach to further compacting a city means also integrating urban life qualities. This is currently lacking in Western European practice due to pragmatism, decentralisation and neo-liberal plot-led development. This while both...
master thesis 2020
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Zinsmeister, Machteld (author)
This thesis project, as part of the urban forest places graduation lab, focuses on the relationship between urban environments and the healing aspects of nature. Urban environments affect our body and state of mind, and are not always beneficial for our mental health. Landscape and urban design can do something about this. But the question is...
master thesis 2020
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Türkcan, Okan Fehmi Saban Fred (author)
New Urban Front investigates how waterfront densification can contribute to interiorizing the Maas river in Rotterdam. In the past decade, the post-industrialization of Rotterdam's docks has created a new urban front: the Maas. However, this waterfront lacks character and scale, while water and city lost their programmatic relation after...
master thesis 2021
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Górz, Maciej (author)
The importance of train stations in the Netherlands is growing next to the numbers of passengers. The pandemic hampered the growth that could not be accommodated by the infrastructure. In Europe the future of rail looks bright, as it is essential to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, while in the Netherlands, train station areas...
master thesis 2021
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