Searched for: +
(1 - 20 of 168)

Pages

document
Nistor, Ana (author)
This essay explores the relationship between dwelling architecture and mental health, with a particular focus on the housing constructed in Vienna and London between 1840 and 1919, during a period of unprecedented growth that followed the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary building standards guarantee that current dwelling architecture does not...
student report 2024
document
Kimhur, Boram (author)
An ongoing question in capability research is how to incorporate the value of freedom into the measurement of inequality. This article proposes an approach to answering this question in the housing domain and its operationalisation. The approach places an evaluation focus to the conditions constraining or expanding housing choices in the...
journal article 2024
document
Bakker, Yannick (author)
The research and design hypothesize how data centers can complement the urban environment rather than make a negative impact, both environmentally and spatially. Data centers consume and produce a variety of valuable flows, ranging from electricity, cooling/heating and water use. The aim of the research is to discover whether it is possible to...
master thesis 2023
document
van Stijn, A. (author)
Creating a circular economy within the built environment plays a crucial role in society’s pursuit to become more sustainable. A building consists of building components, such as a kitchen, façade and roof. By replacing building components with more circular ones during new construction, maintenance and renovation, we can gradually make...
doctoral thesis 2023
document
Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Gentili, M. (author)
For young adults on the Amsterdam housing market the accessibility of housing has been decreasing for years, due to soaring house prices and rents, the shrinkage and residualization of the social rental sector, and the precarization of the labor market. Consequently, many young people struggle to secure an affordable and adequate dwelling and...
journal article 2023
document
Spoormans, L.G.K. (author), Czischke, D.K. (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author), de Jonge, W. (author)
Although attention for citizen involvement in urban development and heritage management processes is growing, both in practice and in research, the specifics of stakeholders’ interests have been less researched. This paper reveals and discusses the assessment by individuals and groups, to differentiate stakeholders, based on the heritage...
journal article 2023
document
Aalbers, Manuel (author), Taylor, Zac (author), Klinge, Tobias (author), Fernandez, Rodrigo (author)
 Real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been around since 1960 but have only become major players in housing markets in the last twenty years. The current and ongoing wave of residential REIT (R-REIT) expansion has attracted significant scholarly and broader public interest. This article examines how real estate, finance, and the state are...
journal article 2023
document
Taylor, Zac (author), Knuth, Sarah E. (author)
Amidst growing concerns about climate risks to the U.S. housing markets, strategies to physically retrofit homes are gaining attention—including within debates over how to resolve intersecting crises of housing re/insurability and affordability in highly exposed sites like Florida. We consider an important but under-studied example of this ...
journal article 2023
document
Knuth, Sarah (author), Cox, Savannah (author), Zavareh Hofmann, Sahar (author), Morris, John (author), Taylor, Zac (author), McElvain, Beki (author)
As intensifying climate-related disasters strike cities across the United States, they are provoking rising concern for the stability of the U.S. housing market and broader financial system. How homeowners, mortgage lenders, federal institutions/regulators, and investors will variously encounter and manage climate risk is an urgent question...
journal article 2023
document
Wong, Kelly (author)
The design of BIND BY WATER promotes a new way of living in which we rethink the integration of living and bathing into one building. By reimagining the bath as a shared space, the unique timbre of the project offers a space of synthesis, vulnerability, and reconciliation, where the armor of everyday life is abandoned together with one’s clothes...
master thesis 2022
document
Jabar, Shajwan (author)
Currently there is a high demand for more housing dwellings, a change in housing compositions, mis-match between household profiles and their space and lastly a growing demand in sustainability, circularity and adaptivity. Re-adaptive housing prevents demolition, transformation to non-housing functions, is more sustainable and continuously meet...
master thesis 2022
document
Sarabi Daryani, Sarvin (author)
master thesis 2022
document
Kloosterman, Nienke (author)
In today's society, women are still not positioned as equals to men. This is no different in the field of architecture. When designing the built environment, the white man is still the norm and within the work field, the man still fills the majority of the higher positions in architectural firms. However, women have a different, more care...
student report 2022
document
Huang, Wan (author)
The topic of Complex Project this year focuses on the revitalization of Beirut after the explosion in August 2020. Dynamic Habitat Beirut is a starters community that will be constantly under development, located in Karantina neighbourhood. The project has 3 main ingredients: the infrastructure core, the flexible units system, and diverse shared...
master thesis 2022
document
Schwake, G. (author)
Frontier settlements played a key role in the formation of Israeli society and its territorial project. In the pre-statehood years and during the first decades after the establishment of the state of Israel, settling the frontiers formed one of the main national objectives, securing the nation’s control over space while promoting a unified local...
journal article 2022
document
Martinez-Millana, Elena (author)
La domesticidad ha sido definida como un término que hace referencia a la experiencia de la vida privada, a las dimensiones materiales del hogar, y a una ideología que organiza cuestiones complicadas y a menudo controvertidas sobre la privacidad, el trabajo, la identidad de género, la familia, la formación del sujeto, la clase socioeconómica, la...
conference paper 2022
document
van der Bent, H.S. (author), Meijer, A. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Mouter, N. (author)
Benchmarking is a method that can be used to measure progress and create awareness about the performance of organisations. Benchmarking the housing stock energy performance of Dutch housing associations can be used to measure and assess progress towards the decarbonisation of the housing stock. A new national climate agreement was signed in...
journal article 2022
document
Eloy, Sara (author), Vermaas, P.E. (author)
Purpose: Customization is a paradox in architecture, providing necessary modernization for buildings but potentially damaging their architectural integrity. In this paper, the authors introduce the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach for avoiding this paradox; this approach lets inhabitants design the customization from options created...
journal article 2022
document
Mlecnik, E. (author)
Een groot bestand van gebouwen in Nederland is in eigendom van Verenigingen van Eigenaren (VvE’s) en is toe aan renovatie en energetische verduurzaming. Het aantal grondige renovaties van dergelijke gebouwen is in de praktijk nog laag, mede door een trage ontwikkeling van het Nederlands renovatiebeleid, een gebrek aan motivatie van bewoners om...
report 2021
document
Tomova, Mihaela (author)
In the recent decades the economies became more dependent on knowledge - based activities - scientific research, technology, trade, finance. Therefore, the industries strive to be competitive in these categories on global level. In order to achieve that, they need an international recognition which also means attracting international knowledge...
master thesis 2021
Searched for: +
(1 - 20 of 168)

Pages