Uncollected Built Memories: Spatial conditions for guest workers in the Netherlands (1940s - 1990s)

This thesis contributes to shedding light on the significance of investigating and archiving the housing conditions of guest workers after the Second World War in the Netherlands from the 1940s to the 1990s. It is a topic that has not been sufficiently addressed in architectural and urban studies. The economic boom after the Second World War...

Woningen in de derde en vierde uitleg van Amsterdam: Het verband tussen de woningen en de percelen, en de uitleggen zelf

The city of Amsterdam was steadily expanding and Jacob van Deventer's minute map from 1560, shows that people were already settling outside the ramparts and along the Amstel River. Something had to be done. The city council decided to expand the city several times. This report focuses on amsterdam's third and fourth extensions and how the chosen...

Creating Home, an inquiry into migration and identity: History of migrant housing in the Netherlands (Guest worker influx to the European refugee crisis) and the incorporation of cultural identities in housing and integration policies

The migration of different ethnic groups into an urban ecosystem over generations can lend to diversity and religious plurality. As people migrate from their homeland, they bring with them their culture and mould their surroundings into something that emulates ‘home’. These migrant populations try to fit into their new environment, and the host...

Embedded in Social greenery: How the green landscape of Overvecht is determinant for its social development

How the green landscape of Overvecht is determinant for its social development. The thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between the deterioration of the neighbourhood and the green landscape.

Addis Ababa as a Palimpsest

The goal of the Global Housing graduation studio is to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Combining analysis, planning and design, the participants in this graduation studio are challenged to use multidisciplinary research methods and tools to elaborate design proposals for mass...

The Soft Transition: Towards a circular construction & demolition sector in South-Holland

Currently the Construction & Demolition (C&D) sector in South Holland produces 2.581.840 tons of waste every year, it is also responsible for 50% of raw material usage and 35% of CO2 emissions. This issue is aggravated when considering the 200.000 houses that still need to be built in the region in the upcoming decade, increasing the...

Docile Bodies: Romanian Communist domesticities and Socialist Women in Berceni (1977-1989)

The research proposes a dialectical re-reading of the Romanian Communist housing as a gendered control mechanism. Therefore, the thesis concentrates on Berceni neighbourhood between 1977 and 1989 as a case study for a larger urban phenomenon under the late Romanian Communist Regime (1965-1989). In this context, the research juxtaposes the...

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...

Aesthetics of sustainable architecture: A small house concept

In order to reduce the ecological imprint on the earth, a concept proposal was designed regarding a minimalistic house partly based on literature. It contains a proposal that takes cooling, heating, providing food and smart water usage in regard.

Shock Safe Nepal: Validation of the model house and a long-term plan for sustainable upscaling of earthquake resistant housing in rural areas in Nepal

Shock Safe Nepal was founded as a response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes to function as a platform to contribute to the development of knowledge on earthquake safe housing. The goal of the report of team 5 is to validate and optimise the design of the pilot house that was created based on the work of previous teams, and the development on...