Triest Plein - Monumentality, Representation, and Democracy

The Caritas Psychiatric Center (PC Caritas) in Melle, Belgium, is a clinic campus consisting of about a dozen buildings embedded into a park. Sint Jozef, named after the priest Petrus Jozef Triest from Gent, Belgium, is one of the remaining villas built in 1908 and centrally located on the campus. It was initially used as a treatment center for...

Transit City

One of the cities where the rapid urbanisation of the global south is most eminent is Mumbai, the economic capital of India. Due to a rising economy over the last century millions of people migrated to the city. This urbanisation led to an enormous density and therefore prices of land exploded in the inner city. Due to its physical constrains –...

Rocking Revisited 1: Rocking of a Singe Cube on a Breakwater Slope

Prototype single layer armour units on a breakwater slope are observed to break. To predict when breakage occurs, the objective of this research project is to obtain knowledge on, and measurements of the rocking behaviour and failure mode of single layer armour units. A single cube on a breakwater slope is subjected to investigations. An...

Foresea: An installation about sea level rise at Oerol 2016

Foresea is the result of course 'AR0148 - landscape architecture ON site' 2016, initiated by the section Landscape Architecture at the faculty of Architecture. Central aim of this course is to express the given site in a project at the interface between landscape architecture and landscape art, which will be performed during the Oerol festival...

From Highway to Streetway

The city Utrecht is currently growing towards the A12 Highway and the city Nieuwegein. It is facing complexity problems such as increase in density, population and traffic intensities. However, the Highway (A12) has become a physical barrier and separates the urban fabric of Utrecht. This has a negative impact on the city’s qualities due to...

The design of a next generation Y class aircraft seat

Globalization has resulted in an increase in demand for air travel, whether for business or for leisure. And this demand is expected to rise a staggering 31% between 2012 and 2017 and will continue positive growth rates up to 2030 . In tandem with the growth in the aviation section, the commercial aircraft cabin interior market is expected to...

The Durban Dig-Out Port, Project Durban

The Port of Durban is South Africa's premier port and hub of the region, especially for the Johannesburg (Gauteng Province) area. The current port will eventually not be sufficient to handle the capacity demand. The focus is on the development of a new port in the direct surroundings of Durban. A suitable new location is found at the old...

Flood adaptive cities: Towards climate change adaption and urban development in the Mekong Delta

For three hundred years, Mekong delta has become a water society where inhabitants in this region developed adaptive strategies, often called “shaking hand with floods”. Historically, people first settled on the lightly higher terraces and later on the levees along the river. With the digging of canals, people started to settle along the canal...

Unslotted Hybrid CDMA/ISMA Protocol for Indoor Wireless Computer Communications

A hybrid Code Division Multiple Access / Inhibit Sense Multiple Access (CDMA/ISMA) protocol has been proposed as an effective multiple access scheme for Indoor Wireless Computer Communications. This new protocol combines the advantages of both CDMA and ISMA into one protocol. On the one hand the ISMA protocol introduces a limitation to the...