Feasibility study of a wood-concrete hybrid super tall building and optimization of its wind-induced behaviour: A case study on a skyscraper in the city-centre of Rotterdam

The demand for sustainable high-rise buildings is growing. Such sustainable high-rise could be realized by the use of mass timber for the structural design instead of more conventional building materials such as steel and concrete. Timber is a renewable resource which can be CO₂ neutral if reforestation takes place to close its carbon...

Design for the well-being of rabbits

This graduation project aims to find a housing solution for these solitary kept rabbits. This was done by identifying the needs and wants of the solitary kept rabbits and their care takers, which concluded in recommendations for the rabbit hutch. After that, an iterative design project started in which different shapes of hutches were tested, as...

A Problem Analysis of the Pulau Bukom-SBM offshore Singapore

The Pulau Bukom-SBM, situated at about 10 kilometers offshore Singapore, is used as a mooring facility for tankers transporting crude oil for the Shell refineries on the island of Pulau Bukom. The bow hawsers (nylon ropes) which connect the ships with the SBM are frequently subjected to extreme forces excited by the ships. Many similar...