“Adsum ergo sum.” I am here, therefore I am: Indoor localisation for blind people with use of LiDAR scanning and ArcGIS Indoors

Blind and visually impaired people currently have inconveniences locating themselves in the indoor environment. No standardized system exists for them yet. After an inventory of the requirements of blind people, different representations do qualify for providing specific information blind people need. The main research question is: "How can...

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...

How did Japanese colonial buildings in Taiwan manifest Japan's intention to change Taiwanese identity?

Architectures were used as a crucial tool to change Taiwanese self-identity during the Japanese rule of Taiwan because architecture is closely related to people's lives. Although Japan is not the most prolonged colonial regime in Taiwan's history, there are still many traces of Japan left in life in Taiwan nowadays. Because the Japanese set the...

Kolfe Low-Cost Housing Site

This graphic novel is the result of a micro-ethnographic research to Kolfe, a neighbourhood in Addis Ababa. Using graphic techniques borrowed from the architecture discipline, this graphic novel aims at bringing together representations of everyday life in Kolfe, that show how human life shapes its environment and vice versa. This graphic novel...

Addis Ababa Living Lab: Dwelling in Ethiopia

This research booklet brings together a selection of data and spatial analysis of dwelling types and housing policies and programmes in Ethiopia – in general – with a particular focus on the case of Addis Ababa. This booklet uses historical iconography, archival research and a selection of bibliographic references, to produce a wide range of...

Casablanca: Analysis and Research in the Afropolis

This book is the result of the research conducted in the P1 phase of the graduation studio ‘Positions in Practice’ of the chair Methods and Analysis in the department for architecture and the built environment, TU Delft.