Corporations and cities: Designer’s intentions and user perceptions of the interaction between corporate office building and the city

The city area is dense with business activities, public amenities, transport hubs and high-skilled people. Corporations prefer to be located in the city area to gain benefits from the location. However, annoyance occurs because of the real estate decisions of organisations as they neglect urban planning and context and results in inefficient,...

South Loop Expo

To achieve the goal of Chicago to become the most sustainable city in the country, they need to introduce a recycle-industry. A recycling industry in the South of Chicago gives the neighborhood and city the advantage of the valuable economic revitalization strategies that are present in the recycling industry, the use of recycling initiatives to...

Education Engine: Chicago South Works recycles knowledge

To achieve the goal of Chicago to become the most sustainable city in the country, they need to introduce a recycle-industry. To give a boost to South Works, this area needs to be the place where the recycle-industry have to be introduced. The recycle-industry ensures not only a cleaner and sustainable city, but also a more attractive economical...

T.E.S.T - T.echnical, E.conomical and S.ustainable T.ransformation

The problem of the expanding suburbs of the cities, and the increasing number of abandoned office buildings seems to be a challenge for architects. Responding to the demand of spatial and functional urban circumstances, research assumed the redesign of the existing facilities in accordance with the principle of flex-buildings, based on the...

New BK Faculty

Design for a new Architecture faculty. The design for a faculty building that stimulated social interaction between its users.

Investeren in mogelijkheden: De haalbaarheid van een aanpasbaar kantoor

Dit onderzoek heeft ten doel om te onderzoeken of het haalbaar is om in de nieuwbouw van kantorenvastgoed de mogelijkheid van een toekomstige transformatie naar woningen in te bouwen. De haalbaarheid wordt vanuit vier perspectieven bekeken: juridische, technische, financiële en commerciële haalbaarheid.