Extending Alan-DB: Designing a DBMS for storing and retrieving typed, rooted graph-based data on disk

Flood Management: A technical solution for the flooding problems encountered in the Lower Moshi area

This report focuses on the flooding problems in the Lower Moshi area, Tanzania. These floods are the result of the extremely large catchment of the Kilimanjaro region in combination with large peaks in precipitation during the short and the long rainy seasons. The river bordering the area of interest cannot handle these quantities of water which...

Landmark for Justice, a binational courthouse

The design of a binational courthouse on the border between the USA and Mexico. Located on the south side of the border, in Ciudad Juarez, it aims to be an incentive for further cooperation, between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, and on a bigger scale in the border region.

A cost optimal design of a sea dike: Using probabilistic methods and flexibility in the distribution of the total failure probability over the various failure mechanisms

During this research a method is developed for finding the cost optimal design of a sea dike when a probabilistic method is being applied and flexibility is allowed in the distribution of the total failure probability over the various failure mechanisms. A probabilistic model has been set up to calculate the cost optimal design for a sea dike...

United Nations Environmental Council: A new face for the United nations

A design for a new council for the United Nations in New York

The search for leadership! How leadership contributes to breaking through impasses in urban development projects.

Urban area development projects encounter conflict and impasse, currently even more than before. The implications of the economic crisis dominate the progress of the projects that were initiated before the crisis started in 2008 and with legal and economic interventions in the project organization they try to pull the projects through the...

Mfolozi floodplain flood management

The Mfolozi Floodplain is situated in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and is part of Africa’s largest estuarine system: the St Lucia system. This estuarine system forms the main part of the iSimangaliso Wetland, which is a World Heritage Site of UNESCO. Since the beginning of the twentieth century the Mfolozi Floodplain is under...

De belemmeringen om voor Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap te kiezen als verhuisalternatief.

Onderzoeksrapport naar de belemmeringen die mensen hebben om voor Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap te kiezen, bevattende een literatuurstudie naar collectief particulier opdrachtgeverschap, een literatuurstudie naar de beslissing om te verhuizen en een eigen veldonderzoek naar de belemmeringen die mensen hebben om voor collectief...

Fieldwork coastal engineering: Artificial islands Asparuhovo, Bulgaria

Sirius Beach and Azalea Beach are beaches situated north of Varna in Bulgaria. The beaches have names of hotels situated at the beach. The hotel owners describe large scale erosion at the beaches over the years. Throughout the years groups of students from Delft have measured the waterline (by GPS) and the cross sections. The beaches are...

EU Consulate: Mediations and Mechanisms

The one-on-one field research in Odessa, Ukraine, resulted in the development of the jump-cut in space. The jump-cut is originally a film editing tool to (un)relate multiple events in a scene, whereas the notion of re-orientation plays an important role. In space it has been interpreted as the movement form one point to the other, being cut by...

Selecteren op basis van voorkeuren: Ontwerp van een selectie-instrument voor gemeenten

Gemeenten hebben bij selectieprocedures in veel gevallen moeite criteria schaalbaar en daarmee meetbaar te maken. Daarnaast is het voor gemeenten moeilijk te beoorden wat het 'beste' plan is. In de afstudeeropgave is een selectie-instrument ontwikkeld waarmee gemeenten voorkeuren kunnen bepalen en inzichtelijk kunnen maken, waardoor het...

Casa de Cultura | Patos de Minas: spatial interventions to stimulate the development of a medium sized city in Brazil

This final project studies an intervention in the area of public spaces and cultural identity of Patos de Minas, a medium sized city in Brazil in a phase of transition.This final project studies an intervention in the area of public spaces and cultural identity of Patos de Minas, a medium sized city in Brazil in a phase of transition.

Woonhotel in Brussel

Het woonhotel in de Europese Wijk in Brussel is een woongebouw gericht op langer tijdelijk verblijf. Het gebouw speelt in op de behoefte om levendigheid terug te brengen in de Brusselse Leopoldswijk die door toedoen van de activiteiten van de Europese Unie is getransformeerd tot een kantorengetto. Het woonconcept probeert tevens het Europese ...

Morphological modelling of tidal inlets in the Wadden Sea

The purpose of this study is to develop a suitable model to predict morphological changes in tidal inlets. Several morphological models already exist, but they all have their limitations. In this study is chosen for the morphological program ESTMORF. Until this moment the model ESTMORF is only verified for the channel cross-sectional areas and...

Onderzoek naar straalmengen in horizontaal cylindrische vaten