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Van Hemmen, B. (author)The discourse on circular economy is characterized by perpetual disintegration whilst there is a need for assessment and decision-making supporting models. This normative study proposes a model that assesses the extent to which interventions in the built environment are in accordance with a circular economy (CE) and discloses the financials...master thesis 2016
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Piccinin, Laura (author)The design and research developed in a Lexicon of bricolage definitions of Nijmegen, becoming a new way of recomposing an understandable language as a research product that could be shared but also interpreted by everyone. The research highlights the value of the context, related to typologies, fragments using beguinages as a guiding reference...master thesis 2021
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Hormesch, Frederic (author)Maastricht has a long history as an industrial city and used to be well-known for its ceramics, rubber and paper industries. Due to the decline in industrial production, workspaces and industrious activities are leaving the city and are becoming increasingly secluded from the public sphere. With the Studio theme being gleaning, the project is...master thesis 2022
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Tegkelidis, A. (author)As we have seen so far, the phenomenon of extrastatecraft[2] has been reconfiguring the “urban software” in the national scale of the Netherlands, affecting simultaneously multiple municipal cores with geopolitically background of high importance. In that sense, Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis is subjected to the described reformations that have been...master thesis 2014
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Heijne, Nick (author)The building industry is responsible for a large amount of CO2 emissions. With an estimated 11.7 GT in 2020, the building industry emitted 36% of the worldwide CO2 emissions (Bertin et al., 2022). This results in the need to efficiently use the current material supply. A way to achieve this is by transitioning from a linear economy to a circular...master thesis 2023
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de Vries, Coen (author)Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have played, and continue to play, a dominant role in global energy systems, and thereby in the social, economic and technological developments worldwide. Unfortunately, these energy sources have their negative side-effects: local air pollution and global CO2-emission. The latter has never been this...master thesis 2021
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De Groot, M. (author)Redevelopment of the vacant Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam to the Dutch Design Dock by using reclaimed materials from waste flows of the city itself.master thesis 2016
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de Vries, Romana (author)With the relocation of the industry in Rotterdam from the city centre to the sea, the old harbour area became empty. One of the buildings in this area is Santos, an old coffee warehouse that is located in Katendrecht. Due to the developments in this area, there is a need for a redevelopment for Santos as well. The shape of the waterfront is...master thesis 2018
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Krommyda, K. (author)The current assignment constitutes a concentrating documentation of the research, analysis and re-design implemented within the R-MIT Graduation Studio [Research on Restoration, Modification, Intervention and Transformation] at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, during the academic period of 2013-2014. The specific theme of the current studio...master thesis 2014
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Noordhoek, Thijs (author)Waste generation is one of the main environmental problems and is a result of the current linear economy. Materials/elements are used whereafter they are wasted which is a problem considering the finite material supply on earth. Therefore, the current linear economy needs to move towards a circular one in which materials are reused and thus kept...master thesis 2022
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Ihrig, Elisabeth (author)Under the overarching theme of Bricolage, the studio’s task has been to rethink the given situation and to develop a proposal for the revitalization of the Molenpoort site in the south of the city of Nijmegen – both on urban and on spatial scale. There, the shopping mall of the Molenpoort Passage has implanted itself in the middle of the old...master thesis 2021
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Trzcińska, Agnieszka (author)Material culture plays a significant role in our daily lives, however the value placed on processes involved in the creation of physical objects, manual skills and knowledge sharing has diminished due to the increasing reliance on large-scale infrastructure, standardization, and mass production. Additionally, the disposal of worn and abundant...master thesis 2022
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Naber, N.R. (author)The subject of this thesis is the reuse of hollow core slabs from office building to residential buildings. It was written as final part of the master Civil Engineering of the TU Delft. The occasion for this particular topic is the short functional lifetime of buildings compared to the technical lifetime of their concrete load bearing structure....master thesis 2012
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Legierse, G.P.L. (author)Increasingly, harbour activities in the harbour of Rotterdam are moving west towards the Northsea (Maasvlakte I & II). This impoverishes harbour areas close to Rotterdam like the Stadshavens area. The municipality of Rotterdam is trying to revitalize these areas by transforming them into sustainable living and working communities. Evides N.V. is...master thesis 2013
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Papageorgiou, M. (author)The motivation to adapt a building in terms of an upward vertical extension lies within the need for urban renewable programs. Although this practice has significant supports to make the built environment more sustainable, there are also barriers which invariably concern costs. In the case of vertical extension projects, the constructional and...master thesis 2016
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Kinkel, R. (author)The development of a platform, which encourages companies and designers in the reuse of waste materials.master thesis 2012
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Pol, Lucas (author)The project named production biospheres created a process design aimed on the adaptive reuse of the Plots In The Woods site on the Hembrug terrain near Zaandam. The landscape and urban design for the site is based on methods used by landscape architects and ecologists based on the three terms cultivate, stage and set up, not just creating. The...master thesis 2020
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Glias, A. (author)The goal of this thesis is to research the feasibility level of reusing existing structural concrete elements. Nowadays, a major problem that the Dutch building industry is facing is the high vacancy rate of office buildings. The available solutions for the vacant offices are transformation or demolition. Transformation is the best solution but...master thesis 2013
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Xu, Jingyu (author)Bricolage is a interesting word.It was used with reference to some extraneous movement and means an unexpected result，It was later derived as a <br/>means of solving problems only using the tools at hand. And this essay is a journey to compare bricolage in daily life and bricolage in architecture field to discover what bricolage means in city...master thesis 2021