"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates"
"uuid:e8c39f78-9097-4fa5-b719-d68816a97949","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e8c39f78-9097-4fa5-b719-d68816a97949","The Redefined Social: Production in and of an eco-social Condition","Mishra, Pooja (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); van Lierop, J.P.M. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The thesis challenges conventional notions of the social and explores the intricate relationship between humans and the imminent commons. It confronts the consequences of neglecting the imminent commons (water, earth, air) in urban environments, urging a re-evaluation of design principles. The research reveals ecological risks from prioritizing human desires in land use and proposes innovative solutions in the agri-food system to bridge rural-urban divides with the main research question how can architectural intervention through productive landscapes bridge the gap between city and land, people and food? Advocating for sustainable cities, it highlights the reliance of London on an unsustainable global food network. The project reimagines the Newham city farm, which happens to be a part of the Beckton Park redevelopment Plan. By challenging commodity-driven perspectives, the design explores the intrinsic eco-social value of land and the detrimental impact of unsustainable agriculture and food miles as it focuses on the interplay of material and immaterial flows in our daily lives, with design shaping our interactions with the environment.
The design aims to reconnect the social and ecological aspects through productive landscapes as it establishes three pillars: productive landscapes as social spaces, restoring the experiential connection to land, and fostering eco-social production, paving the way for a sustainable future.","Heterogenous City; London; productive landscape","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","Heterogeneous London","51.51333, 0.04035"
"uuid:dde0535e-0b8d-4b54-b605-32e339f6c9a1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dde0535e-0b8d-4b54-b605-32e339f6c9a1","Social Quandaries: understanding the quirks and features of London’s post-war social housing architecture","de Haas, Lucas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kuijper, J.A. (mentor); van der Meij, A.M.R. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","In social quandaries is an analysis of three council housing estates dating back to the 1960s, all situated within the Greater London area. The analytical framework was informed by the book “Paris Haussmann: A Model’s Relevance,” which extensively examines the Haussmann plan in Paris, employing various mediums such as writing, drawing, and photography to explain its characteristics across different dimensions.
Drawing upon the research, my study concludes in several recommendations that form the foundational basis of my research-based design. These principles have been derived from a qualitative analysis of the estates, incorporating insights from two books that cover various factors that are crucial in establishing architectural and urban spatial quality. The principles are: facilitating interaction and vegetation, the incorporation of pedways and walkways, densification, mixed typologies, a multifunctional plinth, and the inclusion of courtyards.
Consequently, the design process that has been undertaken centers around these guiding principles, using them as primary elements to create architectural and spatial quality within the redevelopment of a London council estate.
By doing this I try to complete my design objective, which is to demonstrate the value present in the social housing stock of 1960s London, emphasizing the importance of preserving or redeveloping these buildings rather than resorting to demolition.","social housing; London; redevelopment strategy; Social inclusion; 1960s London social housing; Reuse","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","Heterogeneous London","51.55133849457881,-0.1555299442800151."
"uuid:7483ad67-05be-4ad8-96a3-e17d1ef7160d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7483ad67-05be-4ad8-96a3-e17d1ef7160d","Boosting Urban Soil: Commons of Post-human urbanisation - Architecture, Materiality, Synergies","Mézière, Lucas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Lierop, J.P.M. (graduation committee); Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The ecological question is symptomatic of our time and a multi-disciplinary problem. The material manipulations produced by the architectural and urban design disciplines interfere with essential ecosystemic processes by introducing disruptive materialities and machinery. This work aimed to participate in shaping a solid foundation for the discursive and constructive nature of the practice.
After preliminary definitions, this essay investigates the fundamental ecological dysfunctions caused by the current urban and architectural design model and the construction industry. This preliminary part exposes the leading causes in terms of design semiotics, urban architecture and materiality.
At the urban scale, I then introduce an elementary framework intended for the urban developers, designers and authorities. I propose to establish the 'universal commons', such as air, water and soil, as the elementary infrastructure of the sustainable urban condition and implement, develop and protect them as such.
The final part is dedicated to architectural interventions and develops the previously established principles through the two scales of the site: local and remote.
My research focused on the soil condition, and the design showcases a possible application in terms of urban infrastructure, construction techniques, materiality and architectural principles, to the location of Three Mills Island, in the Lea Valley of London, UK.","Architecture; ecology; soil; London; Urban; Commons; Rammed earth; Synergies; materiality","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.528703, -0.005699"
"uuid:3b1efae1-7b2e-482e-9ea4-994ec31ff52d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3b1efae1-7b2e-482e-9ea4-994ec31ff52d","Weaving the city: Brownfield regeneration through urban manufacturing at the Truman’s Brewery in London","Trzcińska, Agnieszka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor); van der Meij, A.M.R. (mentor); Geurts, E.H.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","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 objects contributes to waste production. The thesis project aims to address these issues by exploring ways to regenerate disrupted areas in the diverse urban fabric of London through urban manufacturing and craftsmanship. The project investigates the potential for transitioning from a linear textile production process to a circular and localized production and reuse chain through adaptive reuse at the Truman's Brewery. The goal is to create a more sustainable and circular economy by localizing production networks, fostering synergies within industry and community, and efficiently using available resources. ‘Weaving the city’ means connecting loose ends, adding new threads, and repairing disruptions in the urban fabric.","Brownfield redevelopment; craftsmanship; making; materiality; reuse; textile; urban manufacturing; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.52138138580742, -0.07196366110722197"
"uuid:e318a01e-db71-4dcf-85d8-658afe96dfd3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e318a01e-db71-4dcf-85d8-658afe96dfd3","Curating City Intensities: The unravelled sensory experience of the urban public realm","Boreel, Noor (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Lierop, J.P.M. (mentor); Kuijper, J.A. (graduation committee); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","In the eighteenth century, the city centre of the metropolis of London was the most chaotic due to its immense industries and excessive noise and smell. This sensorial overstimulation brought and still brings potential unsustainable health and well-being effects on its urban participants.
This research explores the redefinition and mapping of city intensities and follows the process of creating an urban sensescape through different scale levels in London. The root of the problem lies in the experience of city intensities as perceived by the senses of its drifting participants. It appears that there is an imbalance between vibrant public spaces and more tranquil public spaces in the contemporary city of London. This disparity in space, together with the ocular-centric view of society, will result in an imbalance in the sensory systems of its drifters and thus a disregard for their bodies and senses. This research is guided by the following main question:
How can the design of a sensescape in the urban public realm evoke an inclusive, embodied, and multi-sensory experience for its participants, achieving balance in the perceived city intensities?
The implementation of a sensescape in the urban public realm could create an inclusive, embodied, and multi-sensory experience in order to curate a balance within the vibrant and tranquil public spaces on the spectrum of city intensities. The design recommendations made through the different scales will constitute a critical reframing of architectural design concerning an user experience (UX) centered society within the urban public realm of London or other large cities in economically developed countries. This will allow the overemphasis on the intellectual, aesthetic, and conceptual aspects of architecture to disappear, making room for the tactile, sensual, and embodied essence of architecture to emerge. The knowledge gap between the built environment and its impact on society is being narrowed by designing for the balance between vibrant and tranquil public spaces with a sensorial and empirical design approach.
The foundation for future research and design into the interdisciplinary link between psychology, urban design, and inclusive sensory architecture is laid by this thesis in which the city intensities of London are being curated with and for the senses.","City intensities; Multi-sensory stimuli; Public realm; Embodiment; Inclusive; Urban rhythm; Drifting; Ocularcentrism; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.504338, -0.092244"
"uuid:0804fe43-5c77-46c7-ba17-bacac66dc69c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0804fe43-5c77-46c7-ba17-bacac66dc69c","Urban Foodscapes: Intersecting flows","Karnaszewska, Adrianna (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, R. (mentor); Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor); Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); Piccinini, D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Urban foodscapes project addresses issues concerning the food supply chain in London. It aims to combat problems created by current agri-business practice such as long, complex logistical chains, food waste, carbon emissions, wasted water, energy, labour and land scarcity. Foodscape, being both global and local, lies on the intersection of multiple material and immaterial flows, therefore the problems it creates cannot be solved by one discipline alone. The research unfolds the most pressing issues concerning the food supply chain and proposed urban strategy attempts to find ways to improve the system by integrating social and technological aspects to close food-related material and immaterial loops by looking into urban synergies to limit the waste of resources and create new social opportunities that will constitute a framework for the future projects of this kind.","Foodscape; Food; food supply chain; Urban Farming; Urban metabolism; Flows; Vertical Farming; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.5231013, -0.0685351"
"uuid:5daf8066-bc27-419b-b452-2437a9451b19","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5daf8066-bc27-419b-b452-2437a9451b19","Necropolitan London: Psychogeographies of memory, death and burial pattern in the city","Parlar, Yasemin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (graduation committee); Kuijper, J.A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","In a fast moving metropolitan city like London, urban pockets that alter the rhythm and synchrony of life can be described as heterotopias. Cemeteries are such sites that slow down and collect time. They sediment memories of the lived past and the potential future and are therefore regarded as spaces of another realm that operate between the spatial and the temporal. Historically, these sites were found entangled with the living city’s core where people gathered to exchange shared experiences. Today, the speed of the city, along with its rapid expansion, no longer allows for such spaces to occur within the living realm. Spaces that hold memory are detached from other urban systems, and therefore, appear as isolated memory islands. The problem is, without the interaction of people and their use as collective public ground, these spaces are threatened by the loss of memory and can no longer facilitate experiential memories. While the creation and disappearance of new layers of memory can be regarded as a natural cycle of any city, the continuous expansion of funerary spaces outwards means that there is no room in the contemporary city for new memory spaces to be formed.
This research examines the role of the cemetery as a memory space that can act as an interface between such dead and living memory making practices, and challenges society’s changing attitudes towards death that, over time, transformed funerary sites from collective public space to secluded necropoli. In an effort to disrupt the pattern of exclusion of death and memory from the urban fabric, and to accept death as a part of everyday life, this research is guided by the following main question:
How can the contemporary city accommodate new memory spaces within the programs of everyday life without compromising their inherent heterotopic nature?
By exploring the intersections between the layers of individual, collective, and experiential memory, this research defines what a new memory space in the contemporary city entails.","layering; psychogeography; memory space; urban memory; memory; rhythm; temporality; cemetery; burial; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.522830, -0.075305"
"uuid:ff333f0f-ef0f-4e30-8b26-9ce4cd498b6b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ff333f0f-ef0f-4e30-8b26-9ce4cd498b6b","Hidden Communities: <EXCAVATING> PLACELESS CULTURES in POST-COLONIAL LONDON by COMMENSALITY","CEBECİ, Fatih (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van der Meij, A.M.R. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (graduation committee); Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","When the British arrived in the colonial countries, they had the opportunity to adapt the architecture of the local culture to their needs, but centuries later, when the ethnic groups arrived in “postcolonial” London, they did not have the opportunity to have a manifest effect on the built environment and neither the development of the city consider this situation as a problem to tackle. Today, years into the process of decolonization, the situation is still not much different. This occidental acceptance of people separated from their way of living, their culture reflected in the urban structure, creates the hybrid urban environment that hides the existence of different cultures. This oxymoronic thinking concerning diversity creates the complex mechanism of merging cultures, backgrounds, and customs and hides everything different or other. As a result of this situation, it is possible to point toward placeless cultures in the city of London. People or locations that are culturally significant without any material or immaterial connection to their urban surroundings. They maybe are located in the cartesian urban space of London, but they are placeless in the imaginary and mental view of the city. We need to abandon the occidental approach in architecture as we develop our neighborhoods to create a city that belongs to everybody and nobody, to create a city where everything is placeless and placeness.
The design is composed of 3 connected layers of togetherness with different levels of publicness which I categorize as communality, commensality, and conviviality. While communality of the project is completely public, the publicness of the building decreases with commensality and conviviality but still keeps the aspect of togetherness. They are not completely separated, on the contrary, they feed on each other. The layers of the project bridge with each other in different ways. This connection happens, either by the literal circulation of people and goods or by other means such as the visual connection or change in temporality. Hence the design pushes people to gather not only through planned encounters with the program it offers but also through incidental encounters that happen along the connections of different functions.
The changes the 21st-century cities are facing need urgent response. They have to densify in order to accommodate the growing urban population, the new developments bring an additional layer of the threat of the homogenisation and detachment of the new inhabitants from the public realm, as well as gentrification and connected with that relocation of locally established communities. The research analyses the inherent qualities and the essence of marketplaces and searches for similar characteristics in other places in the city, and theoretical works to propose an overview of possibilities to create public spaces that are responsive and inclusive towards their current and new inhabitants.
Firstly, the paper analyses the past and present state of retail in London with a concentration on retail markets, learning how they operate, what traits they represent, and what role they play in the city. Further investigation looks at the importance of those places for local communities and the ways it is manifested, as well as examples of both successful and failed regenerations of the public realm concerned with community values. Understanding them showcases the ways of possibility to go against the current of changes
proposed by the new developments. Lastly, theoretical references showcase how did the designers previously approach the topics and unique, combined characteristics of the marketplaces that came to light during the previous analyses. This comprehensive analysis creates an overview of the possibilities in the designer’s vocabulary to respond to the fast-paced changes in the urban environment.
The research serves as a base for a design project for a neighbourhood public space in the borough of Tower Hamlets. The proposal highlights the values of the existing community and looks into ways to combine them with the new developments in the neighbourhood. The design combines the reuse of existing buildings in a post-industrial context as well as proposing a new development for the neighbourhood.","London; marketplace; public space; integration; creative industry; reuse; post industrial landscape; adaptability","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.5446, 0.0257"
"uuid:1e701ba4-0fc5-49ba-bcc2-eef3bb58e6e9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1e701ba4-0fc5-49ba-bcc2-eef3bb58e6e9","One face - the everchanging use: Analysis of King’s Cross area in London","Krzysztofowicz, Marta (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Edens, J.C. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","London is a city with extremely rich history, where old and new are heavily intertwined. A prime example of this is the King’s Cross area, which has continued to be an integral area of the city for many Londoners. However, throughout centuries its meaning has changed. People have worked there, started journeys there, had their craziest Saturday nights and now, in the light of recent developments, they can enjoy a walk in a park and a meal in a Michelin starred restaurant.
This paper explores how the frequent changes of King’s Cross’ use and function were expressed through architecture. The chapters chronologically describe the site’s transformation. The dynamic changes of the buildings’ and districts’ functions is hugely related to the political and economical situation in Britain, in addition to the global economy. The focus is put on the four periods of time which define the biggest changes: the time of industrial glory (1850 -1914), the decay and abandonment caused by wars and de-industrialisation (1914-1980), the interim use that enhanced artistic expression (1980-2007) and the newly regenerated commercial district (2007-now).
The analysis is conducted considering various aspects. Firstly, each chapter discusses the direct relation between architecture and the function behind it. Secondly, it focuses on the changes of social dynamic of the site. It explores who was attracted to the area during different periods and how the district was perceived by society. Lastly, it analyses the influence of the development of King’s Cross area on the urban fabric.
Part one consists of a quantitative model that can compute annual air traffic demand for a multi-airport region, and the allocation of this demand over airports within, for the period 2010 - 2050. Aggregate air traffic demand is based on UK's GDP projections and the allocation model was based on the relative performance of airports in terms of their accessibility, airfares and connectivity. A multivariate regression model was applied correlating historical (2010 - 2019) airport performance to their respective market shares. The results show regional air traffic demand is likely to grow 82\% over the next 30 years. Based on 60 observations, the model can predict its market shares with an R-squared of 0,952.
Part two progresses the quantitative model to generate a forecasting framework for the next 30 years for various important aviation-related variables in the region. This concludes that for London Gatwick, City and Stansted airport the projected growth in air traffic demand will not form any capacity problems, but for London Heathrow, Luton and Southend airport, it will. A major factor influencing this is the rising environmental awareness and increasing costs for carbon emission abatement. London Heathrow Airport, being UK's most important airport, together with the UK government has identified several developments to facilitate the expected growth in air traffic demand.","Aviation; Modelling; Forecasting; Multi-airport Region; Air traffic demand; London; London Heathrow Airport; London Gatwick Airport; London Luton Airport; London City Airport; London Southend Airport; London Stansted Airport; Quantitative analysis; Qualitative analysis; Accessibility; Airfare; Connectivity; Airport; Urbanization; Metropolitan area; Public transport; Regression analysis; multivariable linear regression; Airport allocation; Air traffic passengers; Market Dynamics; Infrastructure; Environmental awareness","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Aerospace Engineering","",""
"uuid:9b1c3d45-69de-4a30-8f0b-bc4ac098d984","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b1c3d45-69de-4a30-8f0b-bc4ac098d984","The Interactional High Street: How can the architectural composition of the High Street be repositioned to increase its performance being a resilient and social public space?","van Knegsel, Teun van Knegsel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, R. (mentor); Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","London is the product of hundreds of big and smaller cities and villages that collided, merged and blended during the course of time. Each of these places used to have its own Highstreet, the commercial and social heart of the settlement. Contemporary London now has 600 former High streets; scattered all over London’s perimeters. These Highstreets are without doubt diverse, but do share common characteristics, contemporary challenges and opportunities. Exploring these facets we might discover a new canvas for the London urbanist and architect to draw on; impacting London throughout. Highstreets are divers and most certainly every single one is different from the others. But it is possible to distinguish types. The connected high street chains many historical settlements that now form London its outer boroughs and connects them which the center of the city. These high streets have a dual character being both mobile and social/commercial centers for the city its boroughs. However, as London has grown to become the metropole as we know it, mobility increases to impede the social functionality of the connected high street. Decreasing mobility does not seem a reasonable solution. Rather, the imperfect edges, transitional areas and left-over pockets that typify high streets like the Tottenham high street can be used to reposition the high street making it a interactional and social public space.","High Street; London; architecture; Urbanism; interaction; Open City","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.595300, -0.067895"
"uuid:8073192e-85cf-435a-8d3d-9a2c76e36b0a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8073192e-85cf-435a-8d3d-9a2c76e36b0a","Grenfell Tower Memorial: Mourning and Reattachment","Lauri, Maria Pauliina (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, R. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","On June 14 in 2017, 72 people lost their lives and hundreds of families were left homeless as the Grenfell tower block caught fire in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea within the inner-city of London. The tragedy has shaken the society, highlighting the conflict between privileged and unprivileged within the city’s society, as most of the victims were ethnic minorities living below the poverty line. The research aims to analyze and unfold the underlaying issues relating to the fire, looking at the social as well as spatial condition of the Grenfell Tower’s surrounding area. The research draws upon Charles Booth’s poverty maps from over a century ago as well as current Deprivation maps and Space Syntax theories, intending to understand the geometry of poverty in the city. Through the specific case of the Tower fire, the relationship between social and spatial tension will be addressed. Eventually, this paper also suggests an architectural intervention, in the form of a memorial on the authentic site of the fire. The design solution could hopefully bring justice to the people affected by the fire and point the society towards hope again.","London; social division; wealth gap; spatial dissociations; Grenfell Tower fire; social trauma; memorial architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.50722, -0.12750"
"uuid:95bd9112-9ebd-411c-9582-7e308ed19655","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:95bd9112-9ebd-411c-9582-7e308ed19655","Welcome To The Generator: An Invitation for Crowd Machines","Herrewijnen, Wessel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Cavallo, R. (graduation committee); Speksnijder, F.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Architectural Design Crossover Graduation Studio final design project. Research paper and graduation design looking into Temporary Intensities and crowd machines in the city of London, resulting in the design of a live music venue with a capacity of 3000 visitors. This design project aims to design this 'crowd machine' as being part of a 'crowd generator' that is located on top of the former Shoreditch Goodsyard.","Crowd Machines; Crowd Generator; Actors; Temporary Intensities; Discharge; Crowds; London; Events; Venue; Heterogenous City","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","Welcome To The Generator",""
"uuid:782e9e75-54f2-48f5-8575-74901aabbfa7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:782e9e75-54f2-48f5-8575-74901aabbfa7","London Derelicts: Hybrid Encounters in the Interstitial Spaces Through Exploration of Urban Contemporary Leisure","Wenda Andryani, Wenda (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, R. (mentor); Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (mentor); van Ees, C.H.E. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","This graduation research studies the potentials of London derelicts and the interstitial spaces as the new driver of urban transformation. The study aims to reconnect the lost socio-spatial relationship of those spaces to the surrounding context. Here, leisure is utilized as the diagnostic tool to understand the overlooked spatial quality of those spaces. Leisure also acts as the catalyst to invite the public and generate diverse activities in the interstitial spaces of various scales.
The investigation focused on the interstitial spaces juxtaposed with the transportation networks, specifically, the canals, that are derelict and disconnected from urban productive systems. It started by finding the predominant elements of derelict interstitial spaces and resulted in three elements: #Flow, #Relics, #Vagueness.
The study then continued to the site-specific context at the chosen site location: Kensal Canalside, to understand the urban affordances and the intrinsic quality of the spaces where leisure took place.
In the design project, interstitial spaces are explored as an operational tool for design intervention. Furthermore, the interstitial spaces can be the ground of hybrid encounters focusing on the usage adaptability of the space. Usage adaptability refers to the user interpretation of the space that allows various scenarios to happen.
The main idea of the design is to provide spaces that promote spontaneous interactions between people and communities. Furthermore, as a design approach, reflective nostalgia can strengthen the relics and their long-established relationships within the larger social context. Therefore, by integrating all those aspects, the site will blend itself with the buildings as an open stage, where pedestrians and visitors can become the participants, not just passer-byers. As a result, the building plinth becomes part of the landscape where interstitial spaces guide users’ perceptions.","London; Interstitial Space; Leisure; Derelicts","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.527246, -0.219674"
"uuid:e8979500-946d-4afb-a6f7-44ed1122947a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e8979500-946d-4afb-a6f7-44ed1122947a","City Rituals. The Field: Rethinking the brewery","Boeva, Alexandra (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor); Kuijper, J.A. (graduation committee); van Nes, A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Social life in a modern city is conditioned by long-established traditions, cultural codes, and patterns of human behavior. Such aspects will be individual for almost any city since their formation takes place over long periods. A similar activator of social life in London is the beer culture – a complex ritual chain that has lost one of the most important constituent element – the brewery as a typology. As a result, the brewery lost its architectural identity and its place of honor in the city. The central issue addressed in this study is the search for the reasons why the brewery typology has lost its architectural identity in recent years and whether it is possible to rethink the identity of the typology as an approach to design.
The number of new London breweries is growing inexorably. Over the past ten years, it has increased more than ten times, which indicates that the beer culture has experienced a new understanding, and broader demand for the consumption of this product has formed in society. However, due to the comparative youth of the new format and approach to beer culture and its economic uncertainty, it has not yet been architecturally formed. Hence, it exists in a format of technological adaptation rather than an independent typology.
The primary method in the study is the analysis of historical and cultural analogs, and as a result, their comparison with the brewery in different qualities, such as typology, program, function, urban fabric, etc. Using this induction method, we get the necessary conclusions, which are subsequently transformed into specific architectural approaches and rules required to create a new identity of the brewery typology and a new fragment of the urban fabric in heterogeneous London.","Brewery; London; Heterogeneity; Identity; Patchwork","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.521884,-0.088764"
"uuid:09af0019-bc5b-4cac-9115-d461e677635e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:09af0019-bc5b-4cac-9115-d461e677635e","The Revival of the Social Housing Community: Providing security and shelter for the urban poor","van den Broek, Jort (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Romein, A. (mentor); van den Burg, L.P.J. (mentor); Milani, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Adequate housing has long been considered a basic human right. Trends of globalisation, financialisation and urbanisation are oppressing this right. Social housing is neglected by authorities and stigmatised by society. Local, low-income residents are dispossessed and displaced, and social housing is close to disappearance. London has become a fragmented and unequal city, with an unbalanced governance. The power of the private investors induces that residents cannot make use of their right to the city. To recover the right to the city for all residents and to counteract the displacement and dispossession, a shift has to be made towards a revival of the social housing community, providing secure tenure and quality housing for the entire population. This graduation project introduces a community land trust growth model. By gradually taking land out of the market into a CLT, the residents are able to make their own decisions and improve their living conditions. The model provides tenure security and permanent affordability. The project designs a transparent and modular People’s Plan with a holistic, multiscalar vision providing secure tenure and quality housing for the urban poor.","Social housing; London; Urban Planning; Community Land Trust; Right to the city","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","51.530933, 0.08019"
"uuid:86963256-588b-4b29-abec-18dea3ac1664","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:86963256-588b-4b29-abec-18dea3ac1664","The Qualities of Urban Agriculture to Overcome the Urban Crises: A case study of London during urban poverty, war, and climate crisis in 20th-21st century","Jasionytė, Sandra (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Gosseye, J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","This thesis examines urban agriculture as a tool in city planning to overcome a different form of urban crises, such as urban poverty, war, and climate crisis. By examining those specific crises based on historical events, I define agriculture integration strategies in urban planning and their effectiveness to restructure the urban fabric to overcome the different forms of urban crises. The city of London is a case study that is investigated at three specific moments; the early 1900s, during the First and Second World War, and from 1970 to the present. The first part of the research analyses the concept of ‘Garden Cities’ (1902) created by urban planner E. Howard to overcome urban poverty. The second part investigates ‘Victory Gardens’ and the ‘Dig for Victory’ campaigns that were introduced to cope with the food shortage during both World Wars. The last part of the thesis explores sustainable cities concepts created in the 70s and the theory of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes (2004) to overcome climate crises. In addition to this, I am mapping London’s agriculture fields, community gardens, and allotments at each section of the research that monitors the changes of physical connection between food cultivation and urban areas. The analysis defines three main strategies of agriculture integration into urban planning: zoning line; integrated into the urban areas; intermixed with the urban fabrics. Those urban planning strategies have qualities to restructure the physical environment, the ecological, socio-cultural, and economic structure of the city.","AR2A011; urban agriculture; urban crises; London","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:b408f2f7-5a1c-413c-8e01-afb154d5f3ef","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b408f2f7-5a1c-413c-8e01-afb154d5f3ef","A Creatively Inclusive London?: Nomadic urban creative clusters as drivers of socio-economic integration and spatial quality in peripheral urban areas","Lin, Shu-Yu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Ordonhas Viseu Cardoso, Rodrigo (mentor); Harteveld, Maurice (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","As the creative industries started gaining their recognition as beneficial forces for socio-economic transformation in the 1990s, there have been plenty of discussions regarding such phenomenon in urban planning policy and academia. While certain sectors of creative industries are enjoying the economic growth brought by globalisation, some others, especially the Nomadic Creative Community (NCC) as this thesis identifies as young, mobile, highly educated, artistically employed, and low income groups, are suffering from cities’ high land values caused by gentrifications. This thesis aims to explore the potentiality and obstacles of facilitating the NCC as the bottom-up forces for locally based urban regenerations in the case of global city London. On top of that, the thesis adapts the Creative City concept and evaluates the effect of globalisation in the context of creative industries and how they respond to the conditions. Through multi-scale spatial and governance analysis, example reviews as well as empirical findings collected via on-site interviews and observation, the project reveals the importance and values of community-oriented creative and cultural amenities supported by involved stakeholders. In the end, the thesis proposes several design and planning recommendations with aims of improving liveability for all and steering the current London’s metropolitan structures towards better spatial, socio-economic inclusivity.","Nomadic Creative Community; Creative Industry; Creative City; Gentrification; Urban regeneration; Globalisation; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","",""
"uuid:dc3ff599-5e6d-4eee-a7fc-e1fc8c2264bc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc3ff599-5e6d-4eee-a7fc-e1fc8c2264bc","Roadmap towards inclusiv(c)ity: An exploration of Neighbourhood planning to minimise processes of displacement in gentrified London","de Bode, Marieke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Romein, Arie (mentor); Balz, Verena (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Due to its global economic attractive power, London is growing as never before. And although the divided and global city strives to develop towards more inclusivity in the city, the growth, revitalisation, redevelopment and renewal in London currently takes forms of exclusive urban development, better known as gentrification. This gentrification is initiated and facilitated by the private developer and the local authority and causes indirect displaces of the original residents out of their neighbourhood and out of the city. In order to cope with displacement, this research aims towards more inclusivity in London and explores how this inclusive urban development can be supported in the London urban planning system. The research leaves the complex and solid planning system of the UK intact and adapts on the existing system by implementing the strategy towards inclusive urban development in the form of policies via one of the actors; the civil society. Since the introduction of the Localism Act of 2011, the civil society has the ability to gain more power and influence in the urban planning process thanks to Neighbourhood Planning. This Neighbourhood Planning approach is explored as tool to implement inclusive urban development in the London planning system resulting in an inclusive derivative of the Neighbourhood Plan; the Inclusive Neighbourhood Plan. The Inclusive Neighbourhood Plan stimulate and encourage inclusive urban development in areas with high risk of gentrification and comes with a an ‘Inclusive Pattern’ toolbox and a clear and understandable ‘step-by-step roadmap’ to make a faster and stronger Inclusive Neighbourhood Plan (see booklet B). This Inclusive Plan will contribute to a city where both new and original residents will benefit from the urban development in the global city and will lead towards a more inclusive city; an inclusiv(c)ity","Gentrification; displacement; London; Global city; Neighbourhood planning; UK planning system; housing affordability; roadmap; Pattern language","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","","51.515039, -0.003623"
"uuid:aa222f56-a095-4a99-9c0e-c8eb8f0184a6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aa222f56-a095-4a99-9c0e-c8eb8f0184a6","House of Music: A concert hall","de Vries, Rozemarijn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Applied Sciences)","Rosbottom, Daniel (mentor); De Vocht, Sam (mentor); Parravicini, Mauro (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","A design of a concert hall for the heart of London.","Concert hall; London; Barbican; City of London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","House of Music","51.518170, -0.096273"
"uuid:625ec7e5-d879-42cd-a2a9-4b0094facf64","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:625ec7e5-d879-42cd-a2a9-4b0094facf64","London 2041: Challenging a region's mono-centric development paradigm","Leenders, Daan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Stead, D. (mentor); van der Hoeven, F.D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","This thesis proposes the development of a new centrality outside of Central London in order to combat the increasingly evident problems generated by London’s mono-centric model of development. In doing so, special attention is paid to understanding the region of Greater London as a networked urban system. Following a diagnosis of the current condition and the processes that have led to its existence, this thesis generates, optimizes and evaluates several options for a new centrality and the transit links needed to support them. In this process, a network analysis carried out in Python forms a central element to concretely understand the complexity of London’s system of station areas. Subsequently Woolwich, the most fitting of the options reviewed, is further elaborated through a development strategy comprising the local, regional and governance actions needed to create the conditions for, and providing guidance of, its development into a new centrality.","Urban Systems; Transit Oriented Development; Metropolitan Structure; Regional Planning; London; Agglomeration economics","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","","51.490413, 0.067585"
"uuid:5b6deb0e-82da-42da-bab2-a998c6a456da","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5b6deb0e-82da-42da-bab2-a998c6a456da","Urban Stress: Research into the reduction of urban stress through urban design","Koene, Marijke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Harteveld, M.G.A.D. (mentor); Rooij, R.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","Stress is a well-known phenomenon and something everyone experiences. Urban stress however, stress caused by and in the built environment of urban areas, is less known. Still, quite some research has been done on this topic from the fields of sociology and psychology, but there are not many resources that focus on urban stress - with all its stressors - in general, and the relation between urban stress and urban design is also still thin. Therefore, this thesis focusses on getting a better overview of urban stressors, their relation to the public space and how urban stress can be reduced through urban design. This is mainly done by literature research and design, and the interaction between them, but is also supported by interviews, site analysis, data review and testing.
Stress can be reduced using a direct approach or an indirect approach. The direct approach focusses directly on the stressor, while the indirect approach tries to decrease the negative effect of the stressor, or of the stress itself. The indirect approach can be divided into three sub-approaches: perceived control, pro-social places and restorative environments. Perceived control is important because people experience less stress if they feel like they are in control of their environment. Pro-social places, or social support, is one of the ways to cope with stress. Restoration is recovering from stress and might therefore be the most important indirect approach.
It turns out that the scale of the public space within the scale of the project area of this thesis is very suited for the indirect approaches. An urban design is made for four different locations in Caledonian, London, using these indirect approaches.","Stress; Urban stress; Urban design; Public space; London","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Design of the Urban Fabric","",""
"uuid:f76f565b-9adb-42d5-a352-0c12ec7c5663","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f76f565b-9adb-42d5-a352-0c12ec7c5663","House of Music: Courts for Music and City","Yang, Jun (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Rosbottom, Daniel (mentor); Parravicini, Mauro (mentor); De Vocht, Sam (mentor); Pimlott, Mark (graduation committee); Cieraad, Irene (graduation committee); Mejia Hernandez, Jorge (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This project is about reshaping the current site of Museum of London in the City of London and proposing a new House of Music for the city as the new home for the London Symphony Orchestra since the Barbican Concert Hall is not sufficient any more. By continuing and extending the enclosed courts in the Barbican complex, a system of five courts, both interior ones and exterior ones, are created on site to host and communicate different functions. And by treating the ground of the project as a theatrical stage, it provides the possibility for the public to be also engaged in the complex. The topographical ground also negotiates the different height levels on site and therefore open up the Barbican highwalk system back to the city.","Architecture; Interiors; concert hall; London; House of Music; Barbican","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","51.5177942, -0.09932"
"uuid:45cbafe8-80f9-4ba6-83f1-ad6984a2203d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:45cbafe8-80f9-4ba6-83f1-ad6984a2203d","House of Music: London Studio","Singhal, Surbhi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft OLD Interior)","Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor); Parravicini, M. (graduation committee); De Vocht, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The graduation project ‘House of Music, London’ expands upon the idea of designing a concert hall next to the Barbican complex at the existing site of Museum of London. The concert space is envisioned as a viable opportunity to bring together leisure and recreation, but also a lucrative public realm where various social groups can initiate interaction. The base of the building is imagined as a thick plinth. The intimidating thick plinth as a mass is mediated with arches and vaults in various axes to open it to the adjacent streets. To augment this feeling of an over-arching mass, concrete was used to materialize the external façade. This arrangement of porous and non-porous had to also be translated into the spatial arrangement of the plan. To achieve this, various programs were first organized and then categorized as solids and voids. The solids are treated as functions in the building and the voids are the transition spaces designed like the vaults and arches.
The project is about monochromatic tectonic nature of the architecture with a subtle introduction of color through the use of carpet, furniture or even people. The building is inherently in grey concrete while color is added with the bright carpet flooring and the furniture. Through this process, it also became visible that the festive nature of the building truly comes from the users who add color to the monochromatic architecture. In terms of materialization, silver stained wooden interiors were given to
the concert hall. The silver tones complement the grey shades and the wood helps to functionally resolve
the acoustics. Again, in order to balance the effect of the silver walls, bright colour chairs are used
for the seating.