Reinventing the Craftsmanship: Transforming Indonesia’s urban kampungs into sustainable and circular neighbourhoods

The main focus of this graduation project is on the transformation of the building industry within the self-built environment of slums towards a local, circular economy. To do this, it influences the building process, as well as the building materials and its production cycle. The currently highly polluting building industry has an influence on...

Forgotten Heritage: Transforming the Klein Vaticaan into Dementia Care

This thesis focuses on the Klein Vaticaan area of Zutphen. The Klein Vaticaan was part of the Roman Catholic community within Zutphen, and consisted of an ensemble of buildings located in the neighborhood of the Nieuwstad. The Klein Vaticaan grew significantly throughout the years; at its peak it was roughly the whole eastern part of the...

Making a High Density, Mixed-Use Neighborhood Energy Neutral: With new urban building blocks and using renewable resources, in Western Europe

This paper describes a set of guideline that will help architects, planners and policy makers in developing high-density, mixed-use neighbor-hoods that are energy neutral by firstly reducing the initial demand, com-bining functions to reuse and recycle waste streams and thirdly to use on-site renewable energy sources to meet the remaining demand...