Enhancing Semiconductor Technology Development by Co-Development and Supply Chain Integration

Semiconductor product development becomes increasingly challenging due to diminishing product life cycles, miniaturization, introduction of new physical principles, and new manufacturing processes. These problems are compounded in the absence of standardized development processes for the most complex semiconductor products like MEMS technologies...

Transforming the Built Environment through Product Service Systems: A Path towards a Circular Economy: “Exploring the Key Characteristics, Challenges, and Solutions in Implementing PSS in the Built Environment"

As climate change and resource shortages increasingly threaten our planet, the built environment sector is under scrutiny due to its significant contribution to carbon emissions and global raw resource extraction. A transition towards a circular economy, replacing the prevailing "take-make-dispose" model, is crucial. This research explores the...

NURTURE. RESEARCH. HARVEST. REPEAT: The Kruytgebouw as a biodiversity open lab-farm-hub

The deprivation and loss of biodiversity is one of the most alarming environmental problems of today’s, threatening precious ecosystem services, animal, and plant existence, as well as human welfare. This project attempts to create a win win situation between human and city animals. Ethical farms like guano, feather, worm, and insect farm are...

Berlage’s tectonics: A reflective study on the origin of Dr. H.P. Berlage’s design principles, systems of measurement and thoughts on mass production

This study aims to reflect on the origin of Dr. H.P Berlage’s architectonic principles and systems of measurement to uncover how he designed and why he voiced certain thoughts on mass production. This is done by analyzing his architectural background and writings, namely Normalisatie in Woningbouw and Thoughts on Style. One chapter is devoted to...

The Next Mugshot: Designing the next identity enrolment facility for the Dutch National Police

Pushed by technology and international regulations the world of identities is rapidly changing. Among others, the Dutch government is obliged to keep up. In line with these developments, a special facility for execution of identification processes for crime and migration purposes was nationally commissioned in 2015, called the ‘’Basisvoorziening...

Supporting large-scale escape rooms with a modular system

Raccoon Serious Games hosts so called escape events. These events are similar to an escape room in which teams work together to solve puzzles, only on larger scale. Different kinds of challenges, arise when hosting these events, such as monitoring the progress of the teams and managing collection of physical puzzles. For an escape event,...

Circular Facade Refurbishment

In de Paris Climate Agreement the goal is set to reach an energy neutral built environment by 2050. As a result, there is a high demand for energy neutral refurbishment of the existing housing stock. With the currently low refurbishment rate is it expected to take around 250 years to reach this goal. Due to the high initial investment costs of...

Economical feasibility of prefabricated solutions in healthcare design and construction industry

For almost five years, healthcare design and construction sector is in my focus.<br/>I started my experience in this field from design proposal of health-improving and rehabilitation center in Moscow which was my master thesis in Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI) in 2012. After graduation I also worked as an architect in large...

Modular Headgear Design for Neurotechnological Applications

Over the last ten years, various products have been introduced with which consumers can analyze or even modify the activity of their brains. When it comes to the design of these neurotechnological headgears, there are contradictory requirements between the functionality, fit and experience. As a result, current devices are generally either...

Modularity of Living Wall Systems

Living wall systems are not applied on a large scale, even though they offer multiple benefits to buildings. They are able to improve the air quality, the insulation values or social and psychological benefits. The aim of this Thesis is to increase the application of living wall systems by designing a living wall system with the principles of...

The trade-off between the 'Traditional' and the ‘Modularization & Standardization’ business model in the incumbent plant engineering industry: Developing a framework that can help plant engineers in the assessment between staying 'traditional' or going M&S

The incumbent (chemical) plant engineering industry is under pressure for two reasons. At first, the rising internationalization of the economy results in low-cost competitors putting pressure on prices and lead times of projects. Secondly, the decreasing oil prices result in major investment cuts in the oil & gas and chemical industry. As a...

DeMoLi Bridge [designing an emergency connection]

Extreme events, including natural and man-made disasters such as typhoons, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and terrorist attacks have become the largest destructions around the world over the years. Their impacts can be calamitous devastating entire countries overnight and making millions of people suffer. Due to the above disasters, bridges are...

To save The Last Gap

At home in the city of Amsterdam. The last remaining vacant site along Oostelijke Handelskade has a potential to become the statement for a Housing Hybrid. How to fill this last empty spot in the rigid neighborhood with new dwellings but in the same time to leave it open to serve the whole neighborhood as a high quality public space? Fully...

Logic gene network design: A CAD tool based on modularity and standardization

Motivation: Synthetic biology aims at building biological systems for useful purposes. Relatively simple gene networks have been engineered, but the design process is limited. Many papers advocate the use of engineering concepts like standardization and modular design to simplify the design process and enable the design of more complex systems....