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Koopman, Sophie (author)This research aims to develop en apply a new approach towards dealing with heritage in the built environment. By taking the Royal London Hospital area and the Former Outpatient Department within this domain as a case study, tools to connect to specific layers of the context that were found in the research are implied. This is in contrast to the...master thesis 2022
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Liang, Yan (author)This project is to improve the accessibility of military heritage sites in Soesterberg. Because of the different war times this heritage belongs, the scale and form of the heritage differ in spatial distribution. Also, due to the expansion of urban infrastructures, the road approaching the heritage sites are gradually occupied by new roads. <br/...master thesis 2022
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Wesel, Diletta (author)Window openings allow communication between the interior and the exterior, but they are also elements that allow the user to control several aspects such as the light, sound, air, and privacy. Although people spend a great time inside, windows do have a strong relationship with the outdoor space and can influence a building’s openness or...master thesis 2022
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Backer, Karin (author)To reduce the heat loss in heritage buildings, this graduation research aims to explore what alternative solutions arise when thin glass is used to design an insulating glass panel that replaces the single glazing? To do so, six different designs are proposed. The first two are an IGU with thin glass and laminated thin glass. The third design is...master thesis 2022
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Formsma, Annebel (author)This master thesis explores the notion of social space by searching for ways of how architectural elements can encourage social behavior in the public domain. Both spatial planning and architecture offer us places for encounters, freedom and creation. Architecture has therefore an important social task, it gives meaning to a place and can...master thesis 2022
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MEXIS, MICHAIL (author)The graduation project proposes the transformation of the police headquarters in the Hague, into a mixed-use development, including an IT university, co-working spaces, apartments, along with a public library and other facilities that encourage the interaction between the building users and locals, forming innovative knowledge clusters across...master thesis 2022
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Rakauskaitė, Aiste Rakauskaite (author)The Netherlands is facing a severe housing crisis. There is a necessity to create 845.000 new homes due to its growing population by 2030 (NL Times, 2020). According to prognosis (Capital Value, 2020), the housing shortage is greater than recently estimated and will continue to grow. Especially in Groningen, where the Police office building is...master thesis 2022
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Fischer, Lucca (author)The office architecture of the 1970s and 1980s makes up a large part of Dutch office building stock, at about 30%. Most buildings are now in need of major renovation and often no longer correspond to today's aesthetic perception. In addition, the function of the buildings must be adapted to today's needs and technological standards. This is not...master thesis 2022
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Tiraboschi, Matteo (author)The massive blast of August 2020 severely damaged Beirut’s architectural heritage. It is in the very city centre that most of this asset is concentrated, but since the end of the 1975-1990 Civil War citizens have been denied access to this area. Here stands the former Grand Theatre, which will be the epicentre of a new artistic quarter that will...master thesis 2022
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Shah, Nishi (author)Crafted with Care imagines a small-batch bean-to-bar artisanal chocolaterie producing luxury craft chocolate, sited within a space of 1000 square meters on a sloped terrain in the medieval town of Gruyères in Switzerland, located at the top of an 82 meter-high hill overlooking the Saane valley. The rural town of Gruyères specializing in milk...master thesis 2022
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Mein, Rachel (author)Urban public spaces are one of the priorities on Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations (2015), in the target 11.7, on universal access to safe, inclusive, and accessible green and public spaces. Urban public spaces provide opportunities for people to meet and interact with the community, contribute to the connection...master thesis 2022
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van den Elshout, Jaap (author)As part of the Heritage and Architecture studio, the Vacant Heritage project was offered. An adaptive re-use assignment in which a former Vroom & Dreesmann department store is researched and then designed with. In a broader context, this graduation studio is aimed at finding ways to redevelop the existing stock of architecture, while keeping...master thesis 2021
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Świda, Sara (author)The project seeks to stabilise and reverse the degradation of the pier’s walls so it remains available to its users. The structure acts as a stabilizer for this piece of land, so as not to let it disappear.<br/>The light structure takes inspiration from a bird perched on a branch, a metaphor for young Amsterdammer’s searching for their place in...master thesis 2021
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de Ruijter, Marije (author)Many apartment buildings built in the 1980’s are now being considered for demolition, because their technical installations are outdated. However, such demolitions would result in the loss of values, such as social value as well as embodied energy. Transformation of the buildings will preserve the values, but in the future further renovations...master thesis 2021
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Al-Korany, Mays (author)Redesign of two building on Campus North in the Hembrug, Zaandam area. The design focusses on creating a low-tech and stimulating environment for children. Where parents can have workspaces and maintain a connection with their children (visual and physical).master thesis 2021
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Stogiannis, Tryfon (author)The Fenix II building, located in the inner city port area of Rotterdam, has been an integral part of the city's history in both architectural and cultural terms. Serving as storage space after the 1920's for the emigrants of the country, and as industrial storage after the 1950's, it becomes today part of the modern redevelopments of the...master thesis 2021
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de Moes, Marcus (author)The Maassilo, an enormous concrete creature, a remnant of the prosperous growth of the Rotterdam harbour, lies unmoved and quenching for thirst on the bare and abandoned quay. Its identity intertwined with Rotterdam’s DNA and its presence is a pure display of structural power. As part of the studio Heritage + Architecture the project...master thesis 2021
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van Hout, Juul (author)While the benefits of adaptive reusing heritage are widely acknowledged by academic and practice, the process's complexity increases. Stakeholders are not willing to consider reuse as a strategy to deal with heritage vacancy. Studies have tried to grasp this complexity by identifying success factors, but till this point, practitioners have not...master thesis 2021
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Kuiper, Annemijn (author)The graduation studio ‘Harbour Heritage 2020-2021’ offered by the section of Heritage & Architecture, takes place in the city of Rotterdam. Rotterdam is a port city with a vivid history, it has many stories to tell, however, those stories are not always visible in the physical form. Cultural harbour heritage, like the old cotton warehouse...master thesis 2021
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Bramer, Fons (author)The Fenix II (former San Francisco) warehouse was built in 1922 and commissioned by the ‘Holland America Lijn’. It functioned as a warehouse for household effects for emigrants to the US. This project explores the architectural possibilities for redeveloping the Fenix II building into a public building relating to integration and education.master thesis 2021