Buildings

The construction sector in the European Union is the biggest producer of waste when compared to other economic sectors. Waste prevention could reduce greenhouse emissions by up to 80%. Much of the material demand is from primary mined material sources and both this demand and primary supply have seen an exponential rise in the twenty-first...

Transformative Emergence: Research Challenges for Enabling Social-ecological Tipping Points Toward Regional Sustainability Transformations

A crucial task to accelerate global decarbonisation is to understand how to enable fast, equitable, low-carbon transformations in Coal and Carbon Intensive Regions (CCIRs). In this early literature review we underlined the relevance of the boundary concept of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) and showed that the research and policy...

Exploring Transition in Coal- and Carbon-Intensive Regions Through an Interdisciplinary Lens

This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary perspective to investigate the transition process and to identify empirical evidence of social-ecological tipping points (SETPs) in the case studies on coal and carbon intensive regions (CCIRs) analyzed in the project TIPPING+. The interdisciplinary lens considers different modes of thought,...

Ontwerpen met natuur en landschap voor toekomstbestendige steden: Concevoir avec la nature et le paysage pour des villes à l'épreuve du temps

Duurzame verstedelijking, klimaatadaptatie en biodiversiteitsontwikkeling vragen om een ontwerpaanpak die het landschap als uitgangspunt neemt. In een dergelijke aanpak staat het ontwerpen met natuurlijke en sociaalculturele processen centraal. Naast natuur zijn mensen een belangrijk element van een landschappelijke aanpak. Het landschap...

Augmented Computational Design

This chapter presents methodological reflections on the necessity and utility of artificial intelligence (AI) in generative design. Specifically, the chapter discusses how generative design processes can be augmented by AI to deliver in terms of a few outcomes of interest or performance indicators while dealing with hundreds or thousands of...

Domesticidad ‘entre rejas’: Proyecto de Rem Koolhaas/OMA para la prisión Panóptica en Arnhem (1979-1988)

Presentation on the doctoral thesis 'Domesticity Behind Bars' at the Doctoral Meetings of the Doctoral Programme in Advanced Architectural Projects, Department of Architectural Projects, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In this lecture, aimed at doctoral students, important topics about the development of the thesis are introduced: choice of a...