"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:ea8b73aa-4f2d-43d5-a916-9368bb729b40","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ea8b73aa-4f2d-43d5-a916-9368bb729b40","Antoni Gaudi, een weg tot oorspronkelijkheid. Bd. 2. Illustraties","Molema, J.","Zwarts, M.E. (promotor); Reinink, W.A. (promotor)","1987","","architecture; urban design and physical planning: designers","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:8e19a4d5-833a-4fbf-929b-bc7459ccc071","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8e19a4d5-833a-4fbf-929b-bc7459ccc071","Antoni Gaudi, een weg tot oorspronkelijkheid","Molema, J.","Reinink, W.A. (promotor); Zwarts, M.E. (promotor)","1987","","architecture; urban design and physical planning: designers","nl","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:f31b3232-af97-4929-8718-4dea74d54d19","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f31b3232-af97-4929-8718-4dea74d54d19","Architectural pattern generation by discrete wavelet transform and utilisation in structural design","Sariyildiz, S.; Ciftcioglu, O.; Durmisevic, S.","","1998","Since computers were introduced in architectural design as a valuable tool, there was a growing need to develop tools that would support the designer from the initial phase of the design till the detailing. In a computer aided architectural design environment it is feasible to stimulate the spatial design ideas and create alternatives in an efficient way. Pattern Grammar approach is one of the design alternatives where patterns, based on complex spatial geometry, are used as an underlayer for a design. In this research, the wavelets techniques are used as pattern grammar and applied to spatial information processing for the generation and analysis of the architectural patterns as well as for supporting decision-makings in structural realisations.","pattern grammar; architecture; wavelets; muitiresolution; space-frame","en","journal article","Delft University of Technology","","","","","","","","Architecture","Computer Science","","","",""
"uuid:6ec1dcad-917f-4fcb-960c-3993a8d19c86","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ec1dcad-917f-4fcb-960c-3993a8d19c86","Architecture, Building and Planning","Reinhardt, H.W.; Nijkamp, P.","","1998","Report by the Review Committee for the Assessment of Research in Architecture, Building and Planning.","quality assessment; research; architecture","en","report","VSNU","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:adc07561-92a4-456d-a6d5-1188bfb73158","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:adc07561-92a4-456d-a6d5-1188bfb73158","Interorganisational design; a new approach to team design in architecture and urban planning","Van Loon, P.P.","De Jonge, H. (promotor); Van Gunsteren, L.A. (promotor)","1998","","design methodology; design management; architecture; urban planning","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:90a6e586-0487-4aad-ab1f-d90837468f73","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:90a6e586-0487-4aad-ab1f-d90837468f73","Montjuïc, her-bergt de stad","De Rooij, C.M.C.","Meyer, H.J. (mentor); Stuhlmacher, M. (mentor); De Wit, S. (mentor); Verbeek, R. (mentor)","2001","Graduation project on rethinking the position of the mountain Montjuïc in Barcelona. Project rethinks what the mountain means to Barcelona as a citypark and how to reemphasize this. And develops a plan for reconnecting the entrance to the Montjuïc from the city centre and harbour front. With the development of a hotel, the Parador + as a meeting point and public space on the Montjuïc.","Barcelona; Montjuïc; urbanism; architecture; hotel; entrance; public space; landscape; city park","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture, Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:ae1372aa-dfeb-4744-abcb-3d58c79194e9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ae1372aa-dfeb-4744-abcb-3d58c79194e9","WAYS to study and research urban, architectural and technical design","de Jonge, T.M.; van der Voordt, D.J.M.","","2002","This methodological book describes eight forms of study and research as they relate to design: 1) naming and describing; 2) design research and typology; 3) evaluating; 4) modelling; 5) programming and optimising; 6) technical study; 7) design study; 8) study by design. It includes the views, design related research projects and research methods being applied by over 40 different authors, all working at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. As such this overwhelimg body of knowledge contributes to the current debate on how to connect research and design.","research; design; architecture; urbanism; building technology; briefing; modelling; evaluation; management","en","book","DUP Science","","","","","","","2012-03-12","","Urbanism + Real Estate & Housing","","","",""
"uuid:ccc25c4a-44c3-49f4-9bdb-505444fcd3c5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ccc25c4a-44c3-49f4-9bdb-505444fcd3c5","Changing Views on Colonial Heritage","Roosmalen, P.K.M. van","","2003","Within the context of a rational study and in order to arrive at a balanced appreciation of nineteenth and twentieth century heritage worldwide, architecture and town planning realized under colonial rule requires special attention. This paper describes the strengths and need for a revised vision of this particular heritage and the considerations and criteria that should be taken into account for evaluation of the objects. The Dutch East Indies are used as a stepping stone.","colonial; built heritage; architecture; town planning; urbanism; colony; criteria","en","book chapter","UNESCO, Paris","","","","","","","","Architecture","RMIT","","","",""
"uuid:d4388db8-f5fb-49c8-b354-799231bc2ec4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d4388db8-f5fb-49c8-b354-799231bc2ec4","Corporate culture and design: Theoretical reflections on case-studies in the web design industry","van der Voordt, Theo (TU Delft Real Estate Management); van Meel, JJ (TU Delft Real Estate Management); Smulders, F; Teurling, S","","2003","In this paper we present a framework to study the relationship between culture and office design. Different levels of culture are discussed as well as various ways in which culture can be expressed in the physical work environment. The framework is applied to contemporary changes in organisational culture and office design. Offices of progressive companies seem to be dominated by ‘hip’ and ‘cool’ design, colourful materials, luxurious facilities such as gyms or lounge areas and gimmicks such as jukeboxes and pool tables. In this article we try to find out whether these characteristics are the visible expression of a new workplace culture. Should the ‘office-de-luxe’ be interpreted as a hype or are the inhabiting organisations the forerunners of news ways of working? To answer these questions we take a look at the what-is-called dot-com industry. By studying three cases in the web-design industry we try to achieve two goals: 1) a better understanding of the relation between office design and culture,
and 2) exploring new workplace demands and desires. Confronting theory with practice, we observe similarities and contradictions between corporate architecture, identity and culture.","architecture; culture; identity; new economy; offices; workplaces","en","journal article","","","","","","Accepted manuscript","","","","","Real Estate Management","","",""
"uuid:28e4308c-ddf2-41f5-a634-769f287ff648","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:28e4308c-ddf2-41f5-a634-769f287ff648","The polycentric anticlave network of institutional housing; an asylum seekers centre in Maastricht","Verrijt, R.","Fretton, T. (mentor); Lefaivre, L. (mentor); Cuperus, Y. (mentor)","2003","Because of its fascination with safety and control, Dutch society at the end of the twentieth century became subject to fear for the unknown. Panic and terror overpowered society, and imprisoned it into a permanent state of institutional living. The proposed alternative for this development is to revalue and restate the achievement of todays society. The valuation of the panoptic and polycentric model helps to propose a positive perspective in dealing with the institutionalised living. The historical precedents of institutionalised living in Dutch society show the continuity of the issue, and help to relativize the current situation. As Schama stated, seeing what distinguished insiders from outsiders is one way of defining the limiting perimeter of the culture itself. The paper discusses this distinction in the seventeenth century Dutch city. The network of institutions that dealt with outsiders proofed to be a humane and relatively peaceful way to bridge the gap between insiders and outsiders. By looking at the asylum seekers centre, which is a result of the way the Dutch deal with outsiders nowadays, the perimeters of contemporary Dutch culture are explored to a certain degree. The establishment of asylum seekers centres as alien and unwanted centralised institutions in the outskirts of the Dutch landscape has mostly been defined by fear for the unknown. This has partly contributed to an increasing polarisation of insiders and outsiders in Dutch society.Architecture, as an object that manifests the type of distinction between insiders and outsiders, and the models and processes underlying the realization of architecture, play an important role in the manifestation of this polarisation. In the reflexive period of a temporary declining pressure on the asylum seekers centres, by a declining number of admitted refugees, other ways of dealing with outsiders should be considered. The architectural design project is an alternative proposal for an asylum seekers centre, as a polycentric, anticlave network of institutionalised housing. The project tries to normalise the dwelling situation of asylum seekers as much as possible. It does so by dividing the common asylum seekers centre into many small parts that interweave in an existing urban fabric. History has taught us that outsiders are relatively well integrated in a polycentric network of institutions. Today the polycentric network could again serve as a model in order to deal with the housing of asylum seekers. The limiting perimeters of the Dutch culture are in this project redefined, restated, and extended.","architecture; asylum seekers centre; immigration; integration; housing; institution","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:546afd8d-96ba-48e2-9481-f259fea481b1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:546afd8d-96ba-48e2-9481-f259fea481b1","Automation in Architectural Photogrammetry: Line-Photogrammetry for the Reconstruction from Single and Multiple Images","Van den Heuvel, F.A.","Vosselman, M.G. (promotor)","2003","Architectural photogrammetry has been practised for more than a century for the documentation of cultural heritage. Nowadays, the emphasis is on the construction of computer models for virtual reality applications. Since the introduction of the computer, and later the digital camera, research in photogrammetry aims at automation. This thesis reports on research on automation in architectural photogrammetry for efficient reconstruction of detailed building models from one or more, possibly widely separated, digital close-range images. This research lies on the fringes of photogrammetry and computer vision. It treats topics frequently studied in computer vision in a photogrammetric way and offers new solutions. Examples cover interior orientation and reconstruction from a single mage, vanishing point detection, and the wide-baseline stereo problem. A semi-automatic approach is chosen that exploits knowledge of the object shape, such as planarity of facades, rectangular and repeating structures in the building, and shape symmetries. Automatically or manually extracted straight image line features are the main observations in the line-photogrammetric approaches presented in this thesis. Furthermore, the methods developed are characterised by the use of robust direct solutions for approximate value computation, followed by least-squares adjustment in which the knowledge of the shape of the building is processed together with the image line observations. This integral adjustment provides optimal estimates for the object model parameters and facilitates quality assessment.","photogrammetry; close-range; computer vision; architecture; camera calibration; image orientation; object reconstruction","en","doctoral thesis","NCG, Netherlands Geodetic Commission, Delft","","","","","","","","Aerospace Engineering","","","","",""
"uuid:369662a0-ed16-4545-970c-2608375ee571","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:369662a0-ed16-4545-970c-2608375ee571","Reweaving UMA: Urbanism Mobility Architecture","Calabrese, L.M.","Bekkering, H.C. (promotor)","2004","The immediate context of this book is the changing theoretical debate within and around mobility. After decades of stagnation into quantitative problem-solving approaches and models of functional organisation the discourse on mobility is now taking its moves - once again - from within the fields of urban design and architecture. However, although there is a growing awareness that mobility is part of the changing perspective towards the built environment, there is still a great deal to do. As Jonathan Bell affirms “we have reached an impasse. Society is torn; economically bound to buy, use and maintain our cars, yet environmentally minded to cut back, hold off and conserve. Roads and cars generate even stronger passions. Can these conflicts be resolved?” (2001: 118). This book discusses the possibility to unravel the conflicts by looking at the source that generates them. Namely, the lacking cooperation among disciplinary fields in charge of the planning and design of the spaces of mobility, and the consequent crumbling of the design knowledge crucial to foster a better integration of roads as infrastructures within the city. It questions the mechanisms underlying the problems of contemporary spaces of mobility and the ways urbanism and architecture have contributed together with transportation and traffic engineering to produce the functional, spatial and aesthetic poverty of such products. Therefore the aim of this book is not to solve the impasse by providing the magic formula for the enduring car-city conflict, but to offer some directions to develop a shared domain theory for urbanism, mobility and architecture. In doing so, this book poses a challenge to a traditional convention of mobility as solely concerned with traffic and transportation, urbanism as solely involved with city planning and design, and architecture as solely related to with the production of artefacts. It presents a paradigm that extends across disciplines to support the design of everyday urban spaces. At its most basic level, it allows us to speak about the possibility to reweave our disciplinary fields, at the intersection of theory and design practice. The basic premise underlying this research is that the spaces of mobility in contemporary cities ask for an integrated approach that can no longer be delayed. Despite the subsequent promises of architecture and urbanism all through the 20th century, the spaces of mobility are still confined to a separate treatment, which tends to leave to the transport and traffic experts the physical definition of their function and location in specialised enclaves. Previous studies have focused, with very few exceptions, on the heroic feats and structures that enhance the speed and drama of automobile travel, as well as facilitate their production and integration in our cities; the story of the modern factory, multi-storey car park, bypass scheme and modernist city plan. However, increasingly unfashionable and controversial, the age of the six-lane solution to traffic congestion is slowly being consigned to planning history, a misguided approach that has resulted in as many problems as it solved. Just compare our current negativity with the automotive optimism of the past. Besides, previous researches have overlooked one significant aspect of mobility that is the progressive disentanglement of urban design and architecture from technical knowledge. Urban designers and architects have lost their ability to create a fruitful cooperation with each other, as well as with other disciplines - especially with transportation and traffic engineering. By this, our professions also lost their ability to understand and foremost to design the spaces of mobility as an integrated part of the built environment. The first hypothesis that this research follows is that this loss corresponds to an important shift in the way practitioners act nowadays. Today urbanism operates in a continuous present. It is a process wherein the outcome, the tangible results remain unpredictable till the last moment. Besides, the geographic scale and the fundamental nature of civil engineering interventions challenge the progressive marginalization of urbanism and architecture. Modernism - rather, its best-known and schematic aspects - had theorized the independence of the road from the urban context, ascribing to the landscape the connecting role between the two systems. This principle, though, supports an intrinsic contradiction. On the one hand, the road is recognized as the new ordering principle not only for specific buildings on a given site, but to construct the site itself; on the other, the road is declassified from material practice to architectural decoration, in the sense that the ‘new role’ of the road as regulator of the modern city and its landscapes has never been specified in terms of design knowledge and technique. Although back in the 1960s some members of the TEAM X turned against the postulations of the Athens Charter (1933), a profound critical analysis of the functionalist tradition - especially of the directions and symbols of modernization - across the disciplines did not yet take place. These directions and symbols of modernization might be summarised as: first, the increase in scale of development urban projects; second, the status of infrastructure, which has changed from a self-sufficient service element to the most visible evidence of the city as network and an attractor of overlapping activities; and third, the increase in car ownership, especially in Europe, that has brought a change of perspective of the contemporary city and its dynamics. As Alex Wall argues “the abandonment by architects of these issues led to the unnerving spectacle of a polarized ideological struggle: the idea of the city of motorways versus the idea of the city of cut stone” (1996: 159). It is precisely ‘the unnerving spectacle of a polarized ideological struggle’ that is here under discussion. For several decades the debate around mobility and related infrastructures has been centred on the themes of the car and urban sprawl. Without denying that the car has inverted our perception of urbanism in many ways and determined its crises, the failure of the integrated urban design project for mobility is due to other factors as well. The most important one is that for too long the themes of mobility inhabited the urban design and architectural project only as a theoretical premise. In the sense that projects on and around mobility have been not sufficiently expert to interpret the increasing complexity of mutational processes characterising physical infrastructures, and at the same time to become operational in the changing territory. Nevertheless, the sustainable development of mobility continues to be a primary task in spatial planning. There is a growing awareness that transportation systems, which will stand to the demands of the future, must be conceived, planned and evaluated according to a set of multiple variables. Once established, they have to be reconsidered and optimised regularly to fit the evolution of the demand and the city development. Because of these facts, the task involving infrastructure design is presently subject to great debate. The traditional approaches to infrastructure planning and design, which rely on decision-making based solely on functional and financial considerations is currently being strongly disputed. As a matter of fact, internationally there is a fairly general consensus about the need to tackle mobility from an integral point of view. What motivates this need is not only the complex nature of the planning and design task itself, but also the huge investments required to develop such infrastructures or to ‘re-integrate’ existing ones. So far urbanists and architects played a rather marginal role in the processes of infrastructure planning and design. Nowadays this situation is changing and designers – especially in The Netherlands – are offered more opportunities to participate actively in the design of the spaces of mobility. However, urban designers and architects run a risk if they allow themselves to be drawn into these kind of processes without having a clear professional role and a clear content to offer. As many projects in real practice teach us, clearly defined ambitions can become subordinated - in the design - to uninspired opportunism. This brings us to define the second research hypothesis: that it is necessary to re-define more clearly the role of designers within these processes. By doing so this book is questioning the legitimacy of the current situation, specifically if this is a missed opportunity, which reflects a hiatus in design knowledge. The third hypothesis therefore is that there is above all the urgent need to give content to that knowledge, as designing for mobility is giving form to urban culture. However, the gap between disciplines and design cultures in appreciating the richness of meaning of road infrastructure is historically so wide that it is exceptionally complex to find answers all at once. This research looks therefore, for readjustment rules, settlement logics that are much more empirical, specific and limited then they were described in the past. It searches for ways to reinstate a positive morphological value to technical intervention, to reflect on the ordering role of road infrastructure within the networks, learning from tradition in the attempt to retrieve it as a component of the urban form. In order to do so it is above all necessary, with respect for the specific competences, to begin by restoring the road - and the spaces of mobility more in general - to the realms of urban design and architecture. Urbanists and architects have therefore an important task ahead. As Ignasi de Solà-Morales argues “to design mutation, to introduce oneself into its centrifugal energy, ought to involve at once design of the public and private space, of mobility and of specialised sites, of the organism as a whole and of the individual elements” (1996: 14). This means that in order to develop integrated projects for the sustainable development of the built environment, urbanists and architects ought to enlarge their ‘working field’ to the so-called technical professions by constructing a common ground, by breaking down disciplinary barriers and by approaching mobility as a new cross-disciplinary domain.","mobility; urbanism; architecture","en","doctoral thesis","TU Delft Press/ Optima Grafische Communicatie Rotterdam","","","","","","","2012-03-07","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:39125e98-5935-464b-95a6-d653f7863e5f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:39125e98-5935-464b-95a6-d653f7863e5f","De stad als architectonische constructie: Het architectonisch discours van de stad (Duitsland 1871-1914)","Claessens, F.","Risselada, M. (promotor); Bertels, C.B. (promotor); Engel, H.J. (promotor)","2005","The city as an architectural construction: The architectural discours on the city At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century a paradigm shift took place within German architectural thinking that can be identified as a turn to the city. Whereas throughout the 19th century architectural knowledge was primarily directed to questions of style of individual, monumental buildings, in the last quarter of that century the attention shifted towards the wider collection of buildings forming a part of a bigger unity, that is, building blocks of the city. Architectural questions were studied more and more in relation to the form of the city: its built, spatio-physical structure. It is argued in this book that, this interest shift from individual buildings to building ensembles indicates the emergence of a new architectural paradigm between 1871 and 1914 which is named here urban architecture. The development of this new architectural paradigm is traced down by analysing a large amount of city studies that appeared in the German speaking countries around 1900. This kind of studies focused on the form of the city from a strictly architectural perspective. It was through these architectural studies of the city that within a few decades an architectural discourse of the city was subsequently built up. This book focuses on the way in which the city as a built structure became an object of architectural study: the city as an architectural construction. For this purpose a genealogy of the rise and development of the German architectural discourse on the city is developed. The object of this study therefore belongs to the order of the discourse: a network of texts of architecture on the form of the city.","architecture; urban analysis; mass-housing; Germany; urban design; aesthetics; 19th-century; 20th-century","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:be1cc2cd-b6e5-4ccb-8fbf-ed2d6bc81125","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:be1cc2cd-b6e5-4ccb-8fbf-ed2d6bc81125","The legal position of architects in the European Union","Meijer, F.M.; Visscher, H.J.","","2006","","architecture; regulation of professions; education; European Union","en","conference paper","Hong Kong Polytechnic Unviversity; Department of Building & Real Estate","","","","","","","","OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment","","","","",""
"uuid:7592fbf9-a4b3-48b3-b9ef-2d72507fa1ac","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7592fbf9-a4b3-48b3-b9ef-2d72507fa1ac","The Park District Town Hall","Boon, A.","Garritzmann, U. (mentor); Linnemann, M. (mentor); Klein, T. (mentor)","2006","Graduation laboratory: Decorated Diagram Assignment: The design is of a district town hall for Osdorp (Amsterdam West) situated at the edge of Osdorp Park. The district town hall has some kind of presence in the area and addresses certain issues in relation to the location and the program. The issue of representation should be present and dealt with in some specific way. In this design for a district town hall in Osdorp, Amsterdam I will address the issue of representation by using the park as a special element in the sequences of use in and around the building and thus creating different ceremonial spaces. I want to emphasize that which unites the population of Osdorp; that which they have in common. The park is that which the people of Amsterdam-West have in common and adds a pleasant and important space, which softens the hard transition from private to public space which exists in Amsterdam West. The district town hall rises out of the ground and is ""decorated"" with natural stone and grass. This envelopes the diagram of a new state bureaucracy that is created in Osdorp Park. The state and the people should be represented in a city hall. The ""ground"" of Amsterdam West is special and out of it rises: the city hall. The park enters the building in many different ways, some more literal than others. There are more than two ceremonial spaces in a town hall. There are not just the Wedding Hall and the Council Hall, but in my opinion the Central (entrance) Hall and circulation spaces are also ceremonial spaces and should be treated as such. There are of course differences between the spaces, but making visitors and civil workers feel important through making spaces special is essential in a good town hall.","interior; architecture; stadsdeelkantoor; Osdorp; space","en","master thesis","TU Delft, Architecture, Architecture","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:a710c0e5-5b58-4d9c-a771-826d0c8c5090","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a710c0e5-5b58-4d9c-a771-826d0c8c5090","Le positionnement de l’héritage colonial bâti","Roosmalen, P.K.M. van","","2006","L’évaluation des artefacts culturels et leur appréciation se font en fonction d’un certain nombre de critères. Si la validité des méthodes d’analyse et d’évaluation occidentales est incontestable pour l’architecture et l’urbanisme occidentaux, leur ambivalence, leur inadéquation et leur insuffisance en dehors de l’Occident, c’est-à-dire dans un cadre colonial, sautent aux yeux dans la mesure où elles sont un frein et même un obstacle à toute évaluation objective de l’importance et de la qualité intrinsèque des artefacts. C’est pour cette raison que l’étude et l’évaluation de l’héritage architectural des anciennes colonies ne sont possibles que moyennant un réajustement de la méthodologie, des normes et des critères de jugement occidentaux, qui sont essentiellement eurocentriques. Pour comprendre et apprécier le caractère, l’importance et le bienfondé de l’héritage bâti dans les anciennes colonies, il est absolument nécessaire d’étudier et d’analyser les sociétés coloniales, car l’architecture et l’urbanisme sont intrinsèquement liés aux besoins, aux demandes et aux moyens de ces sociétés.","colonie; héritage bâti; colonial; architecture; urbanisme; koloniale architectuur; gebouwd erfgoed","other","book chapter","Editions Somogy, Paris","","","","","","","","Architecture","RMIT","","","",""
"uuid:42965e59-2b54-423c-b927-d0e7f5bc629b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:42965e59-2b54-423c-b927-d0e7f5bc629b","Managing collaborative design","Sebastian, R.","De Jonge, H. (promotor); Prins, M. (promotor)","2007","Collaborative design has been emerging in building projects everywhere. The more complex a building project becomes, the closer and more intensive collaboration between the design actors is required. This research focuses on collaborative design in the conceptual architecture design phase, especially during the elaboration of the masterplan and the development of the preliminary building designs. This research is descriptive and has two aims. First, it aims at describing the characteristics and difficulties of collaborative design and the challenges for design management. Second, it aims at presenting a concept for managing collaborative design. A description of the collaborative design will provide an insight into the current practice. A concept for managing collaborative design will be helpful for professionals in improving ways of managing collaborative design. The first part of the research is based on exploratory case studies. Four recent projects in the Netherlands, involving multiple architects from different design firms, are selected and examined. These projects are: De Resident in The Hague, Nieuw Stadshart in Almere, Oosterdokseiland and Mahler4 in Amsterdam. The second part of the research is based on literature studies on design management in the field of architecture and relevant theories in other disciplines. The research outcomes are verified using expert opinions and a case study of collaborative design in the design competition for the Ground Zero / New World Trade Center in New York.","design management; collaborative design; building; architecture; conceptual design phase","en","doctoral thesis","Eburon","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:b42303ca-8c76-4aab-b691-944ab28a87ba","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b42303ca-8c76-4aab-b691-944ab28a87ba","Avant-garde between east and west: Modern architecture and town-planning in the Urals 1920-30","Budantseva, T.Y.","Bollerey, F. (promotor); Macel, O. (promotor)","2007","On hearing the term ""Soviet modernism"", images of Moscow and Leningrad spring to mind. These two cities may compete with each other for the title of the Russian modernist paradigm. Meanwhile little attention has been paid to the developments in more remote areas of Russia. Apparently, the Ural region played a remarkable role in the history of Soviet avant-garde architecture. Without a clear picture of the developments in the Urals, our knowledge of the Soviet modernism is not complete. Within the framework of the state programme of socialist industrialisation, Soviet and Western modernists implemented in the Urals a number of innovative town-planning concepts, such as decentralization of big cities by building satellite towns. Development of cities, industrial sites and settling systems was carried out with consideration of geographical, climatic, economical and other characteristic features of the location. The Urals cities, therefore, represent a unique complex, which fully demonstrates conceptual regularities of modernist town-planning, placed into regional context. In the 1920-30s, Sverdlovsk, the capital of the Ural region, was a major regional centre of architectural and town-planning activities. It was closely connected with the vanguard ""headquarters"" in Moscow and Leningrad. Today this city (renamed into Ekaterinburg) possesses an extensive collection of modernist monuments that deserves a close attention of specialists.","history; architecture; town-planning; Russia; Soviet Union; avant-garde; modernism","en","doctoral thesis","Zjoek Publishers","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:77c425bd-cfe1-4f42-86fd-a3398121e8f8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:77c425bd-cfe1-4f42-86fd-a3398121e8f8","ARCHTCTR 2.0: Phyrtual Space: A personal fluid architectural interface between the virtual and the physical","Siemerink, R.","Oosterhuis, K. (mentor); Westgeest, A.T.M. (mentor); Bier, H.H. (mentor); Biloria, N.M. (mentor)","2008","Everything is getting more and more connected nowadays. Information in all kinds of different media are being digitized and made available increasingly global and widespread by the development of computers and the internet in the last three decades. This enabled the explosive growth of a hyperlinked network of information. By the increasing connectedness of technologies people, buildings and geography are added to this hyperspace. Just look at the emergence of online social networks (like myspace, facebook, etc.), mobile communication, the Global Position System (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (think of Google Earth) and more and more advanced logistic management using coupled databases (like amazon.com) in the last few years. The ever growing network now contains stuff in both the 'virtual world' and the physical world. In Archtctr2.0 the spatial language of architecture is used to visualize and navigate the immense network connecting information, people and geography. An architecture is created in real-time to let you explore your network of friends, information, people; almost everything. The nature of the project is of experimental research. The main question is: Can a spatial (architectural) 'interface help us making sense of the ever growing complexity of people and information around us? And if it can; how do we design these spaces and this interface? The challenge lies in both the technical as in the 'psychological'; how do we 'help' people navigating, browsing, structuring, searching the network around us?","architecture; virtual; physical; hyperbody","en","master thesis","TU Delft Architecture, Architecture","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:032562e6-bdf1-412d-a257-852f77f2652e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:032562e6-bdf1-412d-a257-852f77f2652e","Collaborative architectural design in virtual reality","Hubers, J.C.","Oosterhuis, K. (promotor); Van Duin, L. (promotor)","2008","In this PhD research a method and software prototype is developed for COLlaborative Architectural Design In VIRtual reality. The method consists of developing versions of a concept for a building and the evaluation of them with criteria. Every team member makes his own versions; otherwise they would destroy each others work. They can evaluate the versions with a criteria matrix that helps quickly find the main differences in opinion. The discussion should lead to a next version where advantages of earlier versions are integrated and disadvantages eliminated. On the final version they are working simultaneously in real-time. The main conclusions of the research are: 1. It appeared to be possible to develop a working software application prototype in Virtools with which a multidisciplinary design team can collaborate in a virtual 3D environment in real-time on the Internet. 2. Only the architect in the test team appeared to be able to develop a conceptual building design with this prototype within the limited time of twice half a day. 3. The advisors in the test team need training in developing and 3D modelling of conceptual building designs. Only after that they could be able to effectively participate in collaborative design of architectural concepts based on this method and prototype.","architecture; design process; collaborative design; parametric design; design evaluation; prototyping","en","doctoral thesis","Publikatieburo Faculteit Bouwkunde TU Delft","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:e3772d7f-2847-4d2f-bb63-65b2184d9fb3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3772d7f-2847-4d2f-bb63-65b2184d9fb3","Railways in the urban context: An architectural discourse","Cavallo, R.","Van Duin, L. (promotor); Barbieri, S.U. (promotor)","2008","Railway and city have coexisted for more then 150 years. The realization of railroads in the 19th century can be seen as an important contribution to the development of the city. But during the making of railroads there was too little consideration for the overall picture of the city. The result is that today the railway is entangled with the city while its role has drastically changed. Currently the railway, although indispensable, is often considered as an obstacle, a limitation for city planning. This leads to the following research questions. What is the relationship between the construction of the city and the realization of the railway? Which transformations does the city have to deal with and what does the railway and its buildings have to do with it? And finally, what is the role of architecture in the realization of railway infrastructures in the city? The search for answers to those questions is the core of this research. The area of interest is the Netherlands with particular attention to the Randstad, where the railway is an important part of the traffic network. An important conclusion is that architecture should play a more substantial role in the future transformations of railroads in the (Randstad) city.","architecture; railways; randstad; territory; city","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:0edd0472-39df-4296-b692-e9916e79fb1e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0edd0472-39df-4296-b692-e9916e79fb1e","Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises","Op 't Land, M.","Dietz, J.L.G. (promotor)","2008","Organizations increasingly split off parts and start cooperating with those parts, for instance in Shared Service Centers or by using in- or outsourcing. What is the right spot and way for finding the organization split? And on what subjects should organizations agree to cooperate effectively across the organization split? To find managerial handles for this problem, we applied action research to four large real-life case-studies in which ontology and architecture were used. This resulted in an instrument for supporting organization splitting, allying and post-merger integration, consisting of (1) organization construction rules, (2) algorithms for calculating a plausible organization splitting proposal, (3) a method for finding subjects for contracting split organizations, and (4) a real-life tested combination of all this in a way of working with (5) a known Return On Modeling Effort (ROME). Future research should make this instrument more broadly applicable, more thoroughly tested and delivering faster decision-support, and it should clarify the mutual dependency of organization splitting versus ICT splitting.","splitting organizations; architecture; enterprise networks; contracting; service level agreement; enterprise ontology; demo; shared service center; bpo; enterprise splitting","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","","","","",""
"uuid:1a242261-cf37-4107-aa65-7b55438ba5f4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1a242261-cf37-4107-aa65-7b55438ba5f4","On The Coupling Of Architectures: Leveraging DEMO Theory Within The ARIS Framework","Strijdhaftig, D.","Dietz, J.L.G. (mentor)","2008","This thesis project has been carried out within the Data and ICT Service Centre of the Directorate?General for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat). The project is aimed at exploring how architectures that are based on the DEMO methodology and the ARIS framework can be consistently interconnected in practice. The architectures that were used are the Dienstverleningsmodellen (DVL) and the Uniforme Primaire Processen (UPP) of Rijkswaterstaat, which are based on DEMO and ARIS respectively. The research culminates in the development of a consistent coupling between these two architectures. The project is defined by the following question: “How can DVL and UPP models be coupled to each other in a way that is consistent?” The following results of the project provide an answer to the research question: - A description of the current state of coupling - A description of the consistent state of coupling - A method to achieve the consistent state of coupling - Guidelines to maintain the consistency of the coupling","demo; aris; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Software Technology","","","",""
"uuid:d91e32bc-17cb-4b57-94c1-3cd541b40546","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d91e32bc-17cb-4b57-94c1-3cd541b40546","Finding Sustainable Solutions for Situ Babakan: A preventive approach towards slum forming in kampong peripheries in Jakarta","Surya, F.","De Haan, H.P. (mentor); van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (mentor); Peresthu, A. (mentor)","2008","Kampongs in Jakarta are usually associated with slum areas because it is an informal part of the city that does not get any support in development from the government. What used to be an informal settlement area consisting a group of inhabitants with specific background, has merged with the urban tissue of the city and become part of the city. Since the status of the kampongs is informal, there are no basic facilities such as infrastructure, electricity, water and sanitation. Due to the development of the city, there are a lot of pressure coming to the kampongs, making it unsuitable for many inhabitants to live in, causing deterioration of the living condition. The purpose of this project is to study what kinds of aspects plays an important role in preventing the detrioration of a kampong. Therefore, a kampong which lies in the periphery of the city is chosen as a case study since this is considered to be in a good condition at the moment. However, looking at the development of Jakarta at the moment, these kampongs will face deterioration soon if there is no planning being assigned to them. Situ Babakan is one of the Betawi (native inhabitants of Jakarta) kampongs which lies on the southern periphery of Jakarta. This Situ (lake) is naturally a very potential water retention area. Situ Babakan is situated at 54-64 m above sea leve opographical condition. The total surface area of Situ Babakan is 165 ha with the land use for housing (46.73%), green area (26.19%), swamp (12.05%), and public facilities (5.1%). The kampong at this moment is a green area with low density inhabitants (17,726 inhabitants in an area of 298 ha) with 67.5% of the inhabitants are the Betawi people. The rest of the people are migrants who come to Jakarta, from Java or other islands in Indonesia. In order to prevent the kampong from deteriorating, a series of improvement strategies on the urban level which includes the aspects of infrastructure, water, green areas and buildings are introduced. Each of these aspects are developed using SWOT methode, resulting in a site-specific design proposals in the urban scale focusing on the elements that should me maintained, improved, alternate and minimize. There are also specific solutions that promotes autarkic living environment being introduced in the neighbourhood level. The design made for Situ Babakan is a Neighbourhood Centre, which provides failities for the kampong inhabitants to improve their living condition. The program of the Neighbourhood Centre resulted in different kinds of areas in which one can learn, exchange knowledge, earn money and work in the same area. It also forms the link to the existing market relating to the surrounding. The main goal of this project is to provide facilities so that the inhabitants become independant of improving their own living condition instead of waiting for help from outside, such as the common case of slum areas nowadays. The Neighbourhood Centre is designed using local materials, while taking into account the climate condition, traditional Betawi architectural values and building methods and environmental awareness. This could be seen in the open plan which promotes natural ventilation, and design decissions that allows passive cooling when the building is being used by the inhabitants (this in relation to the custom and culture of the Betawi people). At the same time, the design also integrates new methods on gaining energy through the use of solar panels, rain water purification system and light construction system.","kampong; Jakarta; Betawi; vernacular; architecture","en","master thesis","TU Delft, Architecture, Architecture","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:97406a15-960a-4197-bdc2-16861ad3a453","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:97406a15-960a-4197-bdc2-16861ad3a453","Militarization of New York City / US Terror Tribune","Nicolaas, B.S.","Schoonderbeek, M.G.H. (mentor); Lee, S. (mentor); Hoekstra, F. (mentor); Van Weeren, C. (mentor)","2009","A spatial research focussiing on the militarization of urban space in NYC and architectural design of an US Terror Tribune located in Manhattan, NYC. A new approach to architectural design based on an opposition to the dominance of orthogonal and vertical forms. Blurring the borders between divine curiosity and divine terror.","architecture; terror; oblique; mapping; border conditions","en","master thesis","TU Delft, Architecture, Architecture","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:a22c55d7-4c69-44c9-bc9f-03652b4ddfdf","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a22c55d7-4c69-44c9-bc9f-03652b4ddfdf","Development of a workload set for multi-core architectures","Van Rijk, E.","Al-Ars, Z. (mentor)","2009","With the rise of multi-core chips in commodity hardware, the need for specialized workloads to evaluate the performance of multi-core systems has become apparent. The current generation of workloads used for evaluating multi-core systems often consist of sequential programs not capable of running on multiple processors and are therefore of limited use for evaluating multi-core hardware. Such sequential programs fail to show the bene?ts of adding additional cores to a system, since the programs are not capable of using all of the available resources concurrently. Apple Inc. requested the development of a workload suite that would clearly show the bene?ts of increasing the number of cores, while stressing the main parts of the system. Key requirements for the workload are: Scalability, Reproducibility and Veri?ability. In this thesis report, we present the whole process of workload development for multi-core systems, starting from selecting the programs to be included in the workload, till the application of the workload to actual hardware. In addition, this report discusses the classi?cation of different programs based on fundamental algorithm classes called Dwarfs, which is the basis for selecting possible workload components. The thesis also presents the relevant technologies used for the parallelization of selected workload components. Finally, a case study is discussed showing how to use the developed workload in practice.","amdahl; benchmark; bioinformatics; chud; cpu; heisenberg; HPC; intel; linpack; MPI; NASA; NPB; openmp; parallel; parsec; performance tools; pin; posix; raytrace; scaling; apple; shark; spec; suite; wrf; x264; yafaray; multi-core; multicore; analysis; workload; architecture; Dwarf","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2010-01-04","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Microelectronics & Computer Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:211369c0-f533-4857-8be4-2345dbd39b5a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:211369c0-f533-4857-8be4-2345dbd39b5a","Amalgam Park: The coalescence of recreation and water treatment: Public bath house with swimming pool complex, water purification facility and marsh park in Havana.","Jakuc, M.M.","Milani, S. (mentor); Geerts, F. (mentor)","2009","Problem statement: Historically, water had been extracted from some of Cuba’s major aquifers at a higher rate than they were recharged, but in recent years the pace of water extraction appears to have intensified. Surface waters diverted into man-made reservoirs can interfere with the natural recharge of aquifers. High evaporation rates from tropical region reservoirs can have adverse environmental impacts by increasing the concentration of minerals in irrigation water. Surface waters have been contaminated by industrial wastes and by the chemical runoff associated with the use of increasing amounts of chemical pesticides and herbicides. Scant water distribution management, alarming condition of infrastructure together with high contamination of water resources constitute a scenario, where the need of establishing elementary infrastructure for water treatment opens possibilities to reformulate the image of infrastructure as a by-product of settlement and to relate it to its public role and use, as well as to the whole ecological process. The area of Puentes Grandes district in Havana character calls for fully specified design; sufficiently open to integrate recreational dynamics of natural ecosystems. Goal: The intention is to design beyond the polarized situation where architecture and landscape can be included as systems in an urban design. In the city scale the design solution should aggregate the development of neighbourhood of river Almendares banks and enforce its natural ecosystems. In the more local scale, design intention is to develop a formula capable of fusing previously separated morphologies of industrial production, hydrological infrastructure and public, green, recreation area. Method description: Finding self-referential accommodation in a landscape that has lost its coherence; examining the site in order to discover possible rules for intervention; rediscover the landscape with its critical properties. Use landscape as both structuring element and medium for rethinking urban conditions, to produce everyday urban spaces and architectural solutions. Relevance: Take the floor in discussion concerning the issue of how dense urban forms emerge from landscape and how urban ecologies support performance spaces. Search for new basis for emergence of form geared to the technological and ecological realities of the contemporary city.","architecture; landscape; Havana; baths; park","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2009-11-10","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:c2d528a4-4015-4c00-a9dd-687da1aea79d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2d528a4-4015-4c00-a9dd-687da1aea79d","Accommodation for the craft of education: Secondary school for crafts education in Amsterdam North","Gerritsen, P.","Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor); Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor)","2009","The assignment was to choose a location in A’dam North for a school with extra-ordinary attention to crafts. The department for Horti Culture and for Cooking+Restaurant provide an opportunity to relate to the Florapark nearby the location and to bring in the public from the neighbourhoods nearby. The departments for Carpentry and Metalworking relate to the crafts which were present at the location during the shipbuilding’s era. The building, with its face to the market square of the Mosplein, is placed on an axis which slices the riverbanks of the IJ and the residential and public/green areas. At the same time an axis, the inner street, is introduced in the design of the school. Public facilities as the restaurant are situated at both ends of this axis as an attempt to connect a compact building, as introvert as an school can be, to the rest of the city.","school; architecture; interiors; mosplein; amsterdam; amsterdam north; mosveld; craft; axis; inner street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2009-07-21","Architecture","Interiors; Studio Back to School","","","",""
"uuid:925a7248-09fa-4c90-8fe2-a694461ab039","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:925a7248-09fa-4c90-8fe2-a694461ab039","European directive for tendering architectural services; a too strict interpretation by Dutch local authorities?","Kroese, R.J.; Meijer, F.M.; Visscher, H.J.","","2009","","architecture; tenders; architectural services; European Union; European Directive","en","conference paper","RCIS","","","","","","","","OTB Research Institute","Housing","","","",""
"uuid:01ed6262-fd09-426a-b7d8-e41c232fefa1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:01ed6262-fd09-426a-b7d8-e41c232fefa1","P5-presentation: IJ-opener Youth theatre NDSM-wharf","Klok, K.","Alturk, E. (mentor); Mihl, H. (mentor); Cavallo, R. (mentor)","2009","A stainless steel youth theatre on the NDSM-wharf.","theatre; NDSM; klok; hybrid; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2009-11-05","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:60fc40b7-c625-4f51-a09a-1d2d0f2af7cf","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:60fc40b7-c625-4f51-a09a-1d2d0f2af7cf","Propositions for a study of Architecture with Landscape Methods: Could innovative design methods lead to Sustainable Spatial Development?","Jauslin, D.","","2009","Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. The landscape analogy that accompanied architecture for a long time in tectonics or ornament is now transforming the concepts of form and space. The landscape analogy has moved from marginal subjects to the core of the discipline. We are looking for principals of architectural theory, which can not be derived anymore from an big predominant ideology. What framework for architecture do we still need in the more or less lucky freedom of our time? We might want to use the proposed exercise of knowledge transfer to rediscover some basic principles. A study of landscape as a means of architecture could lead to such a basic theory, not derived from any ideology nor adopting philosophical terms to a practical field. We prefer looking in our own backyard, enjoying the freedom of thoughts about our own subject matter. Paper from DRITTES INTERNATIONALES DOKTORANDINNENKOLLEG NACHHALTIGE RAUMENTWICKLUNG (DOKONARA 2009) 3. Kolleg Globale Krise – regionale Nachhaltigkeit“ 27. bis 30. September 2009, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar Universität Kassel Architektur, Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung Ulf Hahne Universität Innsbruck Institut für Geographie Martin Coy Hochschule Liechtenstein Architektur und Raumplanung Peter Droege","architecture; landscape; architecture theory","en","conference paper","Universität Kassel","","","","","","","","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:611af8bc-7866-433c-949f-86ca415f01aa","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:611af8bc-7866-433c-949f-86ca415f01aa","""De l´architecture sauvage"": Asger Jorns Kritik und Konzept der Modernen Architektur","Baumeister, R.","Bollerey, F. (promotor)","2009","Asger Jorn is a well known artist, especially his activities within the CoBrA group, Bauhaus Imaginiste and the International Situationist, after WWII contributed greatly to his international success. Besides his paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures he produced a remarkable amount of theoretical work. In his early years, he repeatedly wrote on architecture and his ideas and concepts are still relevant for the contemporary discourse in architecture. Other than his artistic oeuvre, his theories received much less attention from scholars of architecture and art history, or philosophy. The overall goal of this research is, to expose this rather unknown part of the artist´s work, by highlighting his theoretical positions in architecture between the late 1930s and mid 1950s. Subsequently his opinions and motivations will be situated within the theoretical debate of his time and also be linked to some built architectures, which influenced and formed his conception of architecture and urbanism. Jorn´s position regarding the relationship between architecture and art on the one hand shows very well a harsh critique on modern architecture, but on the other hand it embraces both the options and the difficulty that derive from it. By developing the concept of an “Architecture Sauvage”, Jorn tries to lay out perspectives as to how Modern architecture can contribute to create the adequate environment for the everyday life of human beings, which even for contemporary architects today are remarkebly important.","architecture; art; cultural studies; aesthetic theory","de","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","2010-01-24","Architecture","History","","","",""
"uuid:f5f4e5e1-4cc1-4d15-a917-0047e96080a3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f5f4e5e1-4cc1-4d15-a917-0047e96080a3","Document Management System design architecture for interdepartmental organization","Safari Asl, H.; Tang, Y.F.","Kleipool, C. (mentor); Sodoyer, B. (mentor)","2009","Our daily life is governed by rules, standards and policies, trying to guide our life as untainted as possible. This is also applicable to organizations. Often unity within organizations is achieved through management systems. Alongside management system are documentations, which form a vital aspect of the veins of the organization. Having a Document Management System(DMS) prevents congestions. Designing such a DMS will enable the organizations to achieve more efficiency, more simplification, more overview and creating a contemporary environment for its employees. Through usage of a framework such a DMS can be designed. The DMS provides valuable components such as wiki, knowledge base, work flow managements, document libraries, visualizations, templates and excellent collaboration tool. Projects need collaboration to be more effective and successful. However this collaboration must not be at the expense of security. Security is vital to survival of an organization, hence choosing the right DMS can be the success or the downfall. In this case SharePoint has proven itself as a formidable choice within the DMS domain.","DMS; Archimate; knowledge; workflow; SharePoint; document management system; Design architecture; Enterprise architecture; template; Layered structure; design template; business processes; requirements; policy; visualization; collaboration; Efficiency; architecture; design; Security","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2010-01-26","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Information Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:329082f9-900b-441b-9de9-e42b061ba951","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:329082f9-900b-441b-9de9-e42b061ba951","People's Palaces: Architecture, culture and democracy in two European post-war cultural centres","Grafe, C.","Graafland, A. (promotor); Forty, A. (promotor)","2010","This thesis is an investigation of the relationship between cultural politics and architecture in the context of the welfare state in post-war Western Europe. The book focusses on two case studies, the London South Bank and the Stockholm Kulturhus, and examines the discourses informing their institutional concepts and architectural forms.","architecture; culture; cultural politics; Sweden; Great Britain; democracry","en","doctoral thesis","Heritage Consultants","","","","","","","2010-03-02","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:f612454e-4839-4cae-a45e-19ad247a55d5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f612454e-4839-4cae-a45e-19ad247a55d5","Minimum impact house prototype for sustainable building","Drexler, H.; Jauslin, D.","Götz, E. (contributor); Klenner, K. (contributor); Lantelme, M. (contributor); Mohn, A. (contributor); Sauter, S. (contributor); Thöne, J. (contributor); Zellmann, E. (contributor)","2010","The Minihouse is a prototupe for a sustainable townhouse. On a site of only 29 sqm it offers 154 sqm of urban life. The project 'Minimum Impact House' adresses two important questions: How do we provide living space in the cities without distroying the landscape? How to improve sustainably the ecological, economical and socio-cultural performance of buildings?","sustainablity; density; energy efficient building; architecture","en","book","Verlag Müller Busmann","","","","","","","2010-04-30","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:4ee0e3c4-8af6-4109-9cc1-8ade2de20e7f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4ee0e3c4-8af6-4109-9cc1-8ade2de20e7f","Preference-Based Design in Architecture","Binnekamp, R.","Barzilai, J. (promotor)","2010","Architectural design is a complex process as a result of two prominent characteristics of choice making: 1) multiple designs can fit into one intended purpose, which raises the question: how to choose the design that fits best, and 2) a multitude of decision makers have an interest in the design process, which is the problem of group choice making. The application of the field of decision theory is aimed at finding tools, methodologies and software to help people, or groups of people, make better choices. The scientific foundation of selection (choice) is preference measurement. The correctness of a decision analysis methodology is determined by the correctness of the scales used for measuring preference. All classical models of the theory of measurement generate scales to which the operations of addition and multiplication are not applicable. A new methodology called Preference Function Modeling (PFM) offers a correct model for the measurement of preference and for the selection of the most preferred alternative. In its current form however, PFM is an evaluation methodology, helping decision makers to choose the most preferred design alternative from a set of already existing alternatives. In the domain of architecture a design methodology is needed, where the design alternatives are not known a priori. The Preference-Based Design procedure proposed in this thesis offers a design methodology in which the feasibility of considered alternatives is established using the concept from the Open Design Linear Programming (LP) technique of defining an alternative as a combination of decision variable values within negotiable constraints. The PFM algorithm is used to rank the feasible design alternatives on preference. The relevance of this thesis is two-fold: 1. The quality of decisions is improved, since only feasible designs are taken into consideration. 2. The acceptance of decisions is improved, since all decision makers can see that their interests are genuinely taken into account.","multi-criteria decision making; preference measurement; design methodology; architecture","en","doctoral thesis","IOS Press","","","","","","","","Architecture","Real Estate & Housing","","","",""
"uuid:e413eddc-1f25-4aee-a16d-22e73963835c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e413eddc-1f25-4aee-a16d-22e73963835c","Architecture with landscape methods: Doctoral thesis proposal and SANAA Rolex Learning Center Lausanne Sample Field Trip","Jauslin, D.","","2010","Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organization and composition of architectural space as a landscape. The scope of this thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like a landscape. In proiects of OMA, MVRDV, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office or Diller+Scofidio the building inside and landscape outside do not merely interact, but the building is designed as an artificial landscape on its own. Landscape constitutes the inside. The landscape to architecture relation is turned inside-out. The analysis of the Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is surely an important part of our discovery of landscape methods for architectural design. Landscape is developing here as the aesthetic mediator between nature and human.","architecture; landscape","en","report","Delft University of Technology","","","","","","","2010-05-27","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:9d900a93-1a35-47df-9527-bf0f57b1010d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9d900a93-1a35-47df-9527-bf0f57b1010d","N-Swap, urban reinterpretation of Nehru Place, New Delhi, India","Sasidharan, H.","Biloria, N. (mentor); Bier, H. (mentor); Sobota, M. (mentor)","2010","The project is the urban re interpretation of Nehru place, the largest Hub for sale of ITC related hardware and software in India. The design uses computational methodologies and swarm behaviors in analyzing, interpreting and developing the architecture.","swarm; computation; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2010-06-26","Architecture","Architecture","","Hyperbody Graduation Lab","",""
"uuid:c7722018-f0e9-4018-a4d7-d19681da6ec2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7722018-f0e9-4018-a4d7-d19681da6ec2","Generic and Orthogonal March Element based Memory BIST Engine","Kukner, S.H.","Hamdioui, S. (mentor)","2010","A Memory BIST architecture and implementation based on the novel concept of Generic and Orthogonal March Element","memory; BIST; MBIST; SRAM; testing; memory testing; programmable; hardware; architecture; implementation; memory BIST; GME MBIST","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-25","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Computer Engineering","","Microelectronics","",""
"uuid:40384e73-fd94-4419-bc43-828b5a020c3f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:40384e73-fd94-4419-bc43-828b5a020c3f","Architecture and the Built Environment: Research in Context 2003-2009","Van der Hoeven, F.D.","","2010","This publication provides an overview of TU Delft’s and Berlage’s most significant research achievements in the field of architecture and the built environment, produced over the years 2003–2009. The publication is produced in preparation for the Dutch 2010 research assessment exercise Architecture and the Built Environment. However, Architecture and the Built Environment – Research in Context is not just published to allow our achievements to be assessed. More importantly the book is intended to communicate those achievements. It provides a point of reference for research performance and excellence in architecture and the built environment. It can be read as a structured effort to establish a benchmark in our field.","architecture; built environment; OTB; Berlage; Research assessment; Onderzoeksvisitatie; TU Delft; Delft University of Technology","en","book","TU Delft","","","","","","","","Architecture","","","","",""
"uuid:810eb93f-c55d-4b28-a8ba-3b831987c5ff","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:810eb93f-c55d-4b28-a8ba-3b831987c5ff","Suburban 2.0: Differentiated houses for the masses","Kramer, N.D.F.","Biloria, N. (mentor); Bier, H.H. (mentor); Sobota, M. (mentor)","2010","Population growth and immigration increase the demand for mass housing developments all over the world. These developments are widely criticized for being mono-functional, mono-typological, and mono-cultural. This project is a design method for a new kind of mass housing. All design rules are reformulated as algorithms, that interact with each other. Important input for the design rules is the future dweller. This leads to a bottom up, dynamic process, providing each dweller with a well fitted house, in a differentiated environment that provides public space and services. The geometry is optimized to use material as efficient as possible, which would be possible in the near future with full scale 3-D printers that are being developed at the moment.","urban; architecture; social; user-specific; mass-customization; complexity; self-organization; hyperbody; complex geometry; optimization; additive manufacturing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2010-11-11","Architecture","Architecture","","Hyperbody","",""
"uuid:a8fa6e8e-b8c4-41ca-bebd-50250dda39b4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a8fa6e8e-b8c4-41ca-bebd-50250dda39b4","House for the city Haarlem","Selen, I.J.W.","Cuperus, Y. (mentor); Vollers, K. (mentor); Asselbergs, T. (mentor)","2010","Het ontwerp van een cultureel centrum binnen een nieuw masterplan voor de stad Haarlem en een uitgebreide bouwtechnisch uitwerking van het architectonische concept.","architectural engineering; architecture; building technology; Haarlem; parametric design tools; archiprix; cultureel centrum","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-02-25","Architecture","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:255b6e1c-2cdb-4ee5-8b5e-30fa9c36b00c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:255b6e1c-2cdb-4ee5-8b5e-30fa9c36b00c","Frei geformte Betonbauteile: Finden einer Fertigungsmethode","Schipper, H.R.","","2010","Due to the complexity of the freeform shapes it is often not possible to distinguish any repetitive elements in freeform buildings at all. Most freeform building designs consist of many single or double curved surfaces which require complex shapes for the mould and element edges. Since the costs of the moulds (formwork) for precast concrete make up a significant percentage of the final price per element or per square meter, the feasibility of freeform buildings in precast concrete is still far from optimal. The PhD research carried out at Delft University of Technology, Faculty ofCivil Engineering, aims to improve the applicability of precast concrete through the development of a flexible mould. At the end of the research the design specifications of vital parts of the flexible mould should be described, and supported by theoretical and experimental study as a proof of concept.","concrete; precast; free-form; complex geometry; cladding; flexible mould; architecture; flexible mold","de","conference paper","Institut für Fertigteiltechnik und Fertigbau Weimar e.V.","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Structural Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:7fb492c1-9aa5-456c-8ada-9fa6342a3712","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7fb492c1-9aa5-456c-8ada-9fa6342a3712","Laboratory Space: Filling Berlin with emptiness","Grim, R.J.G.","Van Zwol, J. (mentor); Jurgenhake, B. (mentor); Cuperus, Y. (mentor)","2011","Dwelling project on the Tacheles-site in Berlin-Mitte.","dwellings; woningen; architecture; architectuur; kader; generieke ruimte; flexibel; Berlin; Berlijn; laboratory space","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","Msc3 Msc4 Dwelling: at home in the citiy","",""
"uuid:b6cf6665-397d-43f7-b208-40a956b3dbdd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b6cf6665-397d-43f7-b208-40a956b3dbdd","New BK Faculty","Taminiau, J.P.A.P.","Van Bennekom, H.A. (mentor)","2011","New BK Faculty (new architecture school).","bk; faculty; architecture; school; new","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-01-28","Architecture","Materialisation","","SADD","",""
"uuid:d4af3d53-6aa1-4cee-9968-a664e19a5c4d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d4af3d53-6aa1-4cee-9968-a664e19a5c4d","Creative Connection Rotterdam; A focal point for creative business in the center of Rotterdam","Al, J.P.","Komossa, S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J. (mentor); Snater, F. (mentor)","2011","Rotterdam is known as a creative city, and successful projects as the van Nelle factory, the Maassilos and the Groothandelsgebouw are there to prove this. The city is rightfully proud of this reputation. But unfortunately, these centers for creative business are not so visible in the city itself. The Creative Connection uses the program of the Stadswinkel as the perfect stepping stone to introduce a center for creative business right in the middle of Rotterdam - connecting the various businesses not only with each other, but also with the city and its inhabitants.","architecture; poster; presentation; facade; creative business; model","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","studio Public Realm","",""
"uuid:14182a59-3ff3-4b01-b052-fbf39f34d8d9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:14182a59-3ff3-4b01-b052-fbf39f34d8d9","Culture, Identity and Sociability (Design of a Flemish cultural center ""De Brakke Grond"")","Liu, Y.","Grafe, C. (mentor); Lohmann, H. (mentor); Meijs, M. (mentor)","2011","Design of the Flemish culture center--De Brakke Grond. Located in the center of Amsterdam. Main function including: Theaters, Exhibition spaces, Art workshop, Meetting rooms, Restaurant, CAFE and Bookshop.","architecture; culture; theater; exhibition","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-01-26","Architecture","Interior, Buildings and Cities","","Design of a Flemish cultural center","",""
"uuid:c7c25580-9b82-4656-abc0-1ed33e3aea74","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7c25580-9b82-4656-abc0-1ed33e3aea74","From Emptiness to Japanese Space: Designing from a Japanese Perspective","Van Es, W.H.","Jurgenhake, B.M. (mentor)","2011","The research on space in Japanese architecture resulted in a number of spatial characteristics. These were then used as starting points for the design of a housing block in Dutch context.","Japanese; Japan; architecture; space; emptiness; the Netherlands; Dutch; Amsterdam; dwelling; housing; Sixhaven; Volewijk","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-03-26","Architecture","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:348a976d-5fcf-4dec-ba03-01e12b465025","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:348a976d-5fcf-4dec-ba03-01e12b465025","Universal Processor Architecture for Biomedical Implants: The SiMS Project","Strydis, C.","French, P.J. (promotor)","2011","HEALTHCARE in the 21st century is changing rapidly. In advanced countries, in particular, healthcare is moving from a public to a more personalized nature. However, the costs of healthcare worldwide are increasing every year. Better use of technology can and should be used to get control of these costs. At the same time, implants have clearly benefitted from the astounding technology-miniaturization trends of late, boasting smaller sizes, lower power consumption and increased performance of the transistor devices. However, such advances do not come for free. Adverse effects in current implant designs are being witnessed, such as increasing power consumption, absence of design for reliability and highly application-specific nature. Operating under the assumption that implants will constitute an important means towards improved, personal healthcare and, in view of the aforementioned design phenomena, we believe that a new paradigm in implant design is required. This dissertation establishes the concept of Smart implantable Medical Systems (SiMS). SiMS is a systematic approach – a framework – for providing biomedical researchers and, hopefully, industry with a toolbox of ready-to-use, highly reliable implant sub-systems and models in order to construct optimal implants for various medical applications. The SiMS framework has to guarantee essential attributes, such as high dependability, modular design, ultra-low power consumption and miniature size. Having defined the SiMS framework, this dissertation is, then, concerned with exploring the optimal microarchitectural details of a crucial SiMS component: the SiMS processor. Contrary to the current state of the art, this processor aspires to be a new universal, low-power and low-cost processor and capable of efficiently serving a wide range of diverse implant applications.","biomedical; implant; architecture; low power; energy; embedded; monitoring; stimulation; cache; branch prediction; design-space exploration; genetic; benchmark; compression; encryption; checksum; synthetic application; SiMS","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Computer Science and Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:d2dd2067-bf49-49a4-a6f1-52fd1d7ecfd8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d2dd2067-bf49-49a4-a6f1-52fd1d7ecfd8","Schiekade towers: A high rise in Rotterdam","Freeke, F.","Bollen, R. (mentor); Meijs, M. (mentor)","2011","A 230 meter high and 370.000 square meter tall building. with a mix use of functions, including office, housing, hotel, casino, conference centre, retail, clubs, parking and parks. This project is a link between architecture and urbanism and includes a 3 phase developmentplan. The main concept serves the phasing and devides the building into serving and served spaces. the first includes all the construction, vertical transport, shafts and techincal instalations. The served spaces are hung in between to create a ""plan libre"" troughout the building 7 ""serving zones are materilezed"" in huge vertical and diogonal concrete strips, creating several unique spaces. On groundlevel an public passage fits in the urban context while on top of this roofgardens are designed which lay between the high towers.","TALL; High Rise; Rotterdam; architecture; urbanism; fasering; dichtheid; mix use; duurzaam","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-05-27","Architecture","Architecture","","Materialisation/TALL","",""
"uuid:17ff53b8-149c-4f94-b91e-306252d12093","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:17ff53b8-149c-4f94-b91e-306252d12093","The Urban Interior Setting: Towards a Habitable Urban Landscape","Kok, W.J.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van Timmeren, A. (mentor); Van Esch, M.M.E. (mentor)","2011","The theme of my thesis is the development of a better micro-climate for the public space around The Hague Central Station. "" In my research, I formed a generic framework on how the area around a station can be better utilized. I posed conditions and made recommendations for creat ing pleasant places for pedestrians and waiting users. I have included the results in my thesis and my architectural design project, where I have designed a better connection between the city, park and station on an urban scale.","urban landscape; microclimate; public space; urban interior; climate adaptation; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Faculty of Architecture, SMART Architecture","","ExporeLab","",""
"uuid:dc42ace2-8aca-4d1a-9121-b2dc9b19431d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc42ace2-8aca-4d1a-9121-b2dc9b19431d","New BK Faculty","Nederstigt, J.J.W.","Van Bennekom, H. (mentor); Gremmen, B. (mentor)","2011","Design for a new Architecture faculty. The design for a faculty building that stimulated social interaction between its users.","faculty; architecture; social interaction; routing; visual relation; flexibility; sustainability","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-04-19","Architecture","Architecture","","materialisation","",""
"uuid:397da64e-2952-49c7-a720-ebc3be91d365","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:397da64e-2952-49c7-a720-ebc3be91d365","Cultuurcentrum de Brakke Grond","De Wit, M.R.","Grafe, C. (mentor)","2011","","architecture","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-04-15","Architecture","Interiors, buildings and cities","","","",""
"uuid:d3e330d7-b3fc-429f-907e-6edd7628440d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d3e330d7-b3fc-429f-907e-6edd7628440d","Acoustic design of Schools","Van der Hooft, B.J.H.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Tenpierik, M.J. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor)","2011","This report is a research to acoustic design of schools. It gives an overviews and tools for architects to improve/ control the acoustic and noise in their design. Acoustic is one of must important aspect in an open-plan school. This aspects and other inner climate aspects, do not receive enough attention. This report was part of my gradution project, I gratuated as an architect.","acoustic; comfort; school; inner climate; design tool; architecture; buffer","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-11-08","Architecture","Architecture","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:07db1af3-068a-4585-9aec-7615b0c22256","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:07db1af3-068a-4585-9aec-7615b0c22256","Paradoxes of innovation and architectural design: A model of design knowledge generation in architectural practices","Raisbeck, P.","","2011","What are the organisational paradoxes that beset the design process in architectural firms? As innovative knowledge workers and system integrators architects are often called upon to produce innovative and custom designed buildings. Architects can be characterized as knowledge intensive professionals who help to lead innovation. However, most of the research conducted in design innovation and organisational paradoxes has had a product portfolio focus. For example, it has been claimed that product innovation relies on two seemingly contradictory and paradoxical processes in product development organisations: the exploitative and the exploratory. How might these concepts be related to architectural firms and design teams? Using the above concepts an initial model was developed and then tested in order to understand the paradoxical processes that architects employ when designing. How might design processes in service firms differ from either linear or dichotomous models of innovation with their origins in product development? An initial model is proposed which is then tested and refined. These questions are tested in a broader survey of 73 Australian architectural practices. The survey aimed to identify the links between exploitative and exploratory design processes in the firms and the organisational paradoxes which surround these. A survey framework was developed which defined and highlighted to what degree architects instigate Radical or Incremental design changes in projects. The survey identified the extent to which Australian architects generate new design solutions after a particular design has been mandated. It concludes that these architects deliberately sought to foster highly paradoxical processes within their firms in the early stages of a project in order to create new design knowledge. Highly paradoxical processes, which oppose exploitative and exploratory design activities, tend to diminish as the project proceeds. Further research is needed to clarify if design processes with a high degree of paradox are where project innovation occurs. The paper concludes by outlining a model of exploitative and exploratory innovation and organisational paradox in knowledge intensive design firms.","architecture; design; organizational paradoxes; innovation","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:4d455f91-431e-4ad2-98b2-67815f6f3d2d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4d455f91-431e-4ad2-98b2-67815f6f3d2d","Architecture and life in Aroumiatte: An oases village in Morocco","Goebertus, L.; De Visser, M.","Van Dorst, M. (mentor)","2011","This document contains a research on architecture and life in Aroumiatte. Aroumiatte is a small oasis village in the desert of Morocco. The research has been done with relevant literature and fieldwork on the site. It can be used as a guideline for designers and other organizations who want to build or start something in this area, or in other oasis areas. This presentation shows in short our design for a digital market and women center in Aroumiatte, an oasis village in de desert of Morocco. Maaike and Loes together made a urban plan and general guidelines for our design, after which we both focussed on one part: Maaike on the digital market and Loes on the Women Center. Graduation project in an oasis village in Morocco. The design has been made of local available materials, used in a new way. One building is a women center, the other a digital market (shown on another poster). Before the design proces had started, a research has been done on the architecture and life in Aroumiatte, which can also be found on the repository, and has has a great influence on this design.","oasis; desert; morocco; aroumiatte; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:8de9b5be-f398-4905-b0a6-0242739ba680","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8de9b5be-f398-4905-b0a6-0242739ba680","Interaction of Lines","Knol, E.M.G.","Bier, H.H. (mentor); Schoonderbeek, M. (mentor); Hoekstra, F.J. (mentor)","2011","The main focus of my MSc3 was based upon an interest in a subject I couldn’t specify at the beginning of my project. It was an abstract subject to research, a lot became clear during the process of research in Odessa. The phenomena of the infrastructural lines in between the city and its harbor and the actual encounters of the city towards the harbor gave an more actualized subject to research. The actual routes at the level of approach, transition, crossing and a parallel projection formed the basic elements of my mappings. The relations in these areas reflected upon the routes were mapped each by a different approach. These mappings related to my theoretical essay by subscribing a way of thinking towards new architectural space and a technique to create these spaces by the act of folding and an iterative process. By pointing out new ‘set of virtual movements’ by using 4 existing precedent locations. The set of virtual movements became limited to one act, the act of folding. This act became the act of actualizing abstract thoughts and interests into architectural space. During an iterative process of folding, relating unrelated elements, order and disorder a program brief full of tension and complexity, the program – dog shelter, hotel, wellness, rabies clinic – were combined into a mixture of new programmatic and social interactions. By the use of a digitalized act of folding, a feedback loop within the iterative process and even more at the level of connecting sections the complexity of the building and its program became at a level where I was able to design architectural space.","border conditions; Odessa; architecture; folding; mapping","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-07-02","Architecture","Architecture","","Border Conditions Odessa","",""
"uuid:7c1856ea-93f7-4993-b69a-dee6d1229efd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7c1856ea-93f7-4993-b69a-dee6d1229efd","SoundSpaces: A Bridge for Cairo","Van der Neut, J.","Bier, H. (mentor); Hoekstra, F. (mentor)","2011","Mapping spatio-acoustics in Cairo, Egypt; and the design of a bridge based on the findings of the research.","sound; space; Border Conditions; bridge; architecture; Cairo; Egypt","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Public Buildings","","Studio Border Conditions","",""
"uuid:7736b3d2-e36b-4fcf-8257-12f650038a37","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7736b3d2-e36b-4fcf-8257-12f650038a37","Mind the evaluation gap: Reviewing the assessment of architectural research in the Netherlands","Van der Hoeven, F.D.","","2011","How the assessment of the scientific quality and societal relevance of Dutch architectural research has evolved to bridge the evaluation gap between design and engineering.","architecture; assessment; design; engineering","en","journal article","Cambridge University Press","","","","","","","2012-08-08","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:35129f32-7024-45f9-88cf-a0bff486d696","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35129f32-7024-45f9-88cf-a0bff486d696","Considering internal space layout as a majore component of visual analysis for urban systems and a key to reinterpret urban structures","Fisher-Gewirtzman, D.","","2011","Reviving neglected existing urban fabrics is one of the main frame-work for our future. A contemporary theory of conservation regarding architectural intervention and buildings subsequent re-use, has been developed to address a growing number of tired and neglected buildings. Rehabilitation is required for buildings that are no longer fit to purpose and struggling to adapt a new use. The Spatial Openness Index, is a visibility analysis model defined as the volume of the visible part of a surrounding sphere: the potential of a view and exposure that can indicate on the Perceived Density. Using visibility analyses models and tools, regarding internal space layout, in reinterpreting the functional use of existing buildings would contribute to future refurbishment and reviving urban fabrics. In this paper, a study of the relation between internal space layout and functionality and external visual analysis is suggested. The study is demonstrated on a neglected Haifa neighborhood.","architecture; design; sustainable; environment; geometry; configuration; building; visualization","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:4a8ce867-6f35-4241-bd9f-41d4d3da0980","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4a8ce867-6f35-4241-bd9f-41d4d3da0980","Toward accessing spatial structure from building information models","Schultz, C.; Bhatt, M.","","2011","Data about building designs and layouts is becoming increasingly more readily available. In the near future, service personal (such as maintenance staff or emergency rescue workers) arriving at a building site will have immediate real-time access to enormous amounts of data relating to structural properties, utilities, materials, temperature, and so on. The critical problem for users is the taxing and error prone task of interpreting such a large body of facts in order to extract salient information. This is necessary for comprehending a situation and deciding on a plan of action, and is a particularly serious issue in time-critical and safety-critical activities such as firefighting. Current unifying building models such as the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), while being comprehensive, do not directly provide data structures that focus on spatial reasoning and spatial modalities that are required for high-level analytical tasks. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to provide computational tools for higher level querying and reasoning that shift the cognitive burden of dealing with enormous amounts of data away from the user. The user can then spend more energy and time in planning and decision making in order to accomplish the tasks at hand. We present an overview of our framework that provides users with an enhanced model of ""built-up space"". In order to test our approach using realistic design data (in terms of both scale and the nature of the building models) we describe how our system interfaces with IFC, and we conduct timing experiments to determine the practicality of our approach. We discuss general computational approaches for deriving higher-level spatial modalities by focusing on the example of route graphs. Finally, we present a firefighting scenario with alternative route graphs to motivate the application of our framework.","architecture; analysis; modelling; artificial intelligence; spatial; technology","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:29fce0ab-5b53-4d59-9688-ad5118e04a5b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:29fce0ab-5b53-4d59-9688-ad5118e04a5b","Architecture-Centric Design: Modeling and Applications to Control Architecture Generation","Alvarez Cabrera, A.A.","Tomiyama, T. (promotor)","2011","Design activities, including control design, are becoming increasingly difficult due to a corresponding increase in product and product development complexity. Model-based (or driven) engineering, development and design have become common concepts related to modern complex product development practices. However, it is argued here that currently such approaches only remain successful within a domain-specific context. This work has as main contributions the analysis of desirable characteristics and a proposal for a model which can effectively support model-based development in general (i.e., not only within specific domains), coined here as “architecture-centric”. Another contribution of this work is an intensive review (though hardly complete) on existing tools and methods related to the model-based development of control architectures for complex mechatronic systems. Synthesis, analysis, and verification of the proposals are based on the generic case of control (architecture) design, which represents most of the relevant characteristics and problems in current design practices for complex mechatronic products. Besides the main contributions above, the case studies for control architecture generation provide an overview of the control design process, as well as additional insight into the required characteristics of the model and possible methods to effectively implement it and use it in the context of industrial product development.","design method; architecture; mechatronics; control; methods; model-based; design model","en","doctoral thesis","VSSD","","","","","","","","Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering","BioMechanical Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:60b6b99e-1d54-417c-b2cc-96f02da7e475","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:60b6b99e-1d54-417c-b2cc-96f02da7e475","Technology as in-between","Read, S.A.","","2011","This commentary on Søren Riis’s paper “Dwelling in-betweenwalls” starts from a position of solidarity with its attempt to build a postphenomenological perspective on architecture and the built environment. It proposes however that a clearer view of a technological structure of experience may be obtained by finding technological-perceptual wholes that incorporate perceiver and perceived as well as the mediating apparatus. Parts and wholes may be formed as nested human-technological interiorities that have structured relations with what is outside—so that the outside constitutes an interiority in its turn which contextualises and situates the first. This nested structure raises questions about the way architects and urbanists see the built environment and understand inhabitation. It is hoped that this effort continues with conceptual and empirical work to research ways to make the human places of our built environment.","architecture; postphenomenology; perception; embodiment; relationality; space","en","journal article","Springer","","","","","","","","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:7f37434c-05ae-4ebf-8ee7-e3c8f742c7fe","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7f37434c-05ae-4ebf-8ee7-e3c8f742c7fe","Odessa Youth Cultural Centre: The Rhizome as Model for Architecture","Zlatkov, M.","Schoonderbeek, M. (mentor); Bier, H. (mentor); Rommens, O. (mentor); Jennen, P. (mentor)","2011","The project is an attempt to recognize, map and interpret complex self-organized spatial relations, on the example of the Seventh kilometer market in Odessa, Ukraine. These interpretations are then used as tools for architectural design of a complex public building, resembling the rhizomatic model, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, to achieve surprising spatial relations of connectivity and separation.","architecture; urban networks; Border Conditions; rhizome; mapping","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Public Building","","Border Conditions","",""
"uuid:77820ee3-c4bf-42dd-b628-92e6aea77ec4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:77820ee3-c4bf-42dd-b628-92e6aea77ec4","Ecological campus: Research into a more sustainable TU Delft campus","Van Schadewijk, F.","Jauslin, D. (mentor); Nottrot, R. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2011","Research into a more sustainable TU Delft campus. This document contains a presentation for an ecologically sustainable campus centre for the TU Delft. The aim of the design was the creation of an attractive study environment, while at the same time strengthening the ecological quality of the surrounding area. The building takes into account the local water system en green infrastructure.","sustainable; sustainability; architecture; ecology; ecological; campus; TU Delft","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Explorelab","","","",""
"uuid:d0ce5182-d5d6-4fa0-9fe3-40eb41ddb664","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d0ce5182-d5d6-4fa0-9fe3-40eb41ddb664","Let it rain","Van Rijswijk, M.","Nillesen, A.L. (mentor); Bobbink, I. (mentor); Van Dooren, E. (mentor)","2011","As a result of the climate change, showers of rain become more and more extreme. This results in water problems in dense build areas where large amounts of rain water are immediately discharged into the sewer system. Rotterdam is one of these dense cities that struggles with this problem. The water system of Rotterdam can’t handle the amount of water during extreme weather. The sewer is discharged into the city canals which results in large water problems. Rotterdam is solving the direct causes of the water problems but also stimulation solutions to solve the problem in a indirect way. This project is about solving the water problem at its cause: the 99% hard surface in the inner city. The location along the Hoogstraat is chosen because it is a part of the area in which the municipality of Rotterdam has planned an open water system to collect rain water. Also the location includes a new-construction project and is situated along a main route. The special charachteristic of this is location is the link between the quiet Grote Kerkplein, the bustle Hoogstraat and the Delftsevaart. The Waterplan of Rotterdam argues for more temporary rain water storage in the innercity of Rotterdam. In the Museumpark a new parking garage is combined with water storage and the same concept will soon be used for the Zuidplein. But what happens if we combine rain water storage and architecture in a visible way? Multifunctional use of space and construction becomes possible and the relation between water and daily use will become more and more important. We already know buildings that collect rainwater and re-use it in a self-sufficient way. It is a challenge to design a building that also collects rain water from its surroundings and provides the surrounding area with purified water. If architecture and rain water storage are combined in a visible way the architecture and shape of the building will change if it rains. Rain water can be an integrated part of the architecture and the functional design. The project will be designed following these new concepts. The project will contain a restaurant and open air theater that is already planned in the area in the masterplan of KCAP. These two functions will be combined with a new and political relevant function: a museum about Water and Climate Change.","architecture; landscape; rain; water; climate change; museum; restaurant","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-11-14","Architecture","Architecture","","Delta Interventions","",""
"uuid:f8826c47-2e91-4a4d-928b-35ca5f41a8f5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f8826c47-2e91-4a4d-928b-35ca5f41a8f5","Terug naar de basis: Belevingsgericht bouwen voor mensen met dementie. Back to basics: emotion-oriented building for people with dementia.","Van Dieren, R.","Willekens, L.A.M. (mentor); Van Dooren, E.J.G.C. (mentor); Van Dorst, M.J. (mentor)","2011","These documents contain a research and a design for a health care institute for people with dementia and the graduation presentation. The research has been done with literature, interviews and case studies in three existing health care institutes in the Netherlands. The research can be used as a guideline for designers who want to build a institute for people with dementia as well. In the design, the recommended guidelines of the research are tested. It contains an urbanism design and two dwellings, pavilions at the location, are elaborate. In the design are four important architectural elements: wayfinding, zoning, sensory perception and recognizability. These elements come back in the urbanism design as well in the architectural design. The presentation shows both the research and the design.","architecture; dementia; perception; wayfinding; senses; health care","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-11-15","Architecture","Architecture","","Explore Lab 11","",""
"uuid:0ca42252-3138-402e-ab0b-46299c66384d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0ca42252-3138-402e-ab0b-46299c66384d","Materializing Identity: Utilizing inherent urban identity as a main design factor in the inner city regeneration of Rotterdam","Pinheiro, A.","Calabrese, L.M. (mentor); Mihl, H. (mentor); Trienekens, G.C.O. (mentor); Wilms Floet, W.W.L.M. (mentor)","2011","Abstract – In order to create good urban environments city planners need to start addressing the issue of urban identity (Oktay 2002). According to Oktay, people should again feel that some part of the environment belongs to them, individually and collectively, some part for which they care and are responsible, whether they own it or not. For, as Oktay also states, people use their environment not only in a functional way, but also identify and express themselves through it. In a sense people form their environment and their environment forms them and it is exactly this role of spatial form that is being forgotten in the urban planning (Fortuin & Van der Graaf 2006). In addition Fortuin & Van der Graaf point out that increasingly such issues, of socio-cultural nature, take a backseat to the economic issues. Such projects often limit their impact on identity to that of the economical relevance of the ‘image’ or ‘brand’. Municipalities thus tend to develop ambitious plans that are bluntly imposed on their respective locations, in order to ‘sell’ the city (Jacobs 1992). In doing so however, any trace of the original urban identity is wiped out, including the communities, the culture and history. Consequently also the connection between the original inhabitants and their environment is lost, resulting in undefined, undesirable, useless and unliveable spaces (Oktay 2002). Nevertheless, in general, planners decide to stay this course. This is largely do to the illusive nature of ‘identity’. For how can something be factored into a design, when its spatial form is unknown (ed. Bell & Tyrwhitt 1972)? This paper thus provides a solid grip on the issue of identity. More specifically, the goal is to identify and evaluate the spatial form of urban identity in inner cities, through its sub-elements of public space and the neighbourhood. In doing so, this paper assists in the building of the theoretical framework of the author’s graduation project, which proposes strategies and interventions for the regeneration of problem-neighbourhoods (dutch: probleemwijken) in the inner city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. (Broader academic interest: The development and implementation of analysis methods and strategies for the revitalisation of neighbourhoods)","architecture; urbanism; urban acupuncture; Identity; social; sustainability; regeneration; revitalisation; public space; social studies; RMIT","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture & Urbanism","","Urban Acupuncture","",""
"uuid:87ed69f8-fe2a-4569-ac6c-ba249c3f6dfb","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:87ed69f8-fe2a-4569-ac6c-ba249c3f6dfb","Multisensory design in architecture: Concept development for a multisensory experience in a high school library","Van der van der Worm, S.","Schifferstein, H.N.J. (mentor); Pasman, G.J. (mentor); De Jong, G.E. (mentor)","2011","DP6 architectuurstudio developed a new high school building for the Sint Nicolaaslyceum in Amsterdam. First a multisensory concept for the library of the new school building was developed using the multisensory design approach from the faculty of industrial design engineering, Delft. The second part consists of a guideline for multisensory design in architecture. This guideline is based on an extensive evaluation of the concept development process. The project started with intensive literature and user research. The literature study showed it is important, when focussing on human well-being in environments to take into account that users need the possibility to create the desired level of privacy, they need a certain level of change and complexity in order to be stimulated. Furthermore natural processes and a link to nature in an environment is perceived as positive by users. During users research the users – high school students – of the library were involved in the context mapping research process. Context mapping is used to gain empathy with the user and to understand their dreams and wishes for the environment. The user research started with observations of the users within the library and interviews with employees. Then twelve students filled in booklets explaining interesting aspects of their everyday life. Finally user sessions are done with two 3rd grade classes. All results combined results in the conclusion that the main desire for the library is to have a motivating library. This results in the design goal ‘design a motivating multisensory library for the Sint Nicolaaslyceum’. Further investigation of the concept ‘motivation’ led to the interaction vision “the room should guide you like an easy flowing river”. The main target expressions that are empathised are: inspiration, reliability and support. The vision with its main characteristics lead to a concept separated in three main parts. Every part communicates one of the target expressions. The final concept consists of an inspiring pathway, bookcases that empathise reliability and supportive work spaces. The multisensory character of the designs contribute to the expression they communicate. The pathway meanders through the whole library. It consists of three layers, when walking across this floor a congruent fluid is moved by the users’ body weight. The sub floor, containing inspiring images, short stories and images which are linked to information which is available in the library, shows. The upper layer of the floor is made from scratch resistant plastic. This layer is slightly compressible, which gives it a bouncy feeling when walking across. Furthermore it contains a very subtle smell; the smell is called tranquil escape and is scented with lime and geranium which gives it a light and fresh appearance. The polymer which encapsulates the scent is developed by Eastman Innovation lab. The bookcases have a wave shaped shelf in them which is made from the same material and colour of the pathway. It represents the information from the bookcases flowing into the floor and back. The other material used for the bookcases is pressed lacquered bamboo. This gives it a solid, warm and natural appearance and feel. The expression which it carries out; reliable is expressed by its solid character and the use of warm coloured and feeling, solid wood. The glass shelf communicates transparency which is an important characteristic belonging to reliability. Finally there are three types of work places; the individual work places, group work places and computer work places. The work places should support the activities of the users in every specific place. This does not only include the ergonomic aspect but the preferred way of working, level of privacy and the support of the posture belonging to the performed activity as well. The individual work places should enable students to work concentrated and quietly. The group work place should enable students to work together and therefore should have a dynamic character. The computer work places are similar to individual work places. In addition group lessons are given here sometimes. Therefore all chairs have to be able to face the same direction. To create suitable environments, the aesthetics and feel of the furniture is taken into account; furthermore special attention is given to the lighting and acoustics. The evaluation of the concept led to an adjusted road map of the original Multisensory design method. The method is presented in a booklet called “multisensory design in architecture”. After consulting DP6 the decision is made to make a booklet with theoretical value and practical information without it being a proposal for implementation in their process. The final booklet contains the background of MSD, the MSD current method is explained. In addition detailed set of sensory characteristics that can be addressed in architecture is defined while evaluating the project, this set is presented and explained in the booklet. Finally interesting findings from literature are presented.","multisensory design; high school; architecture; senses; experience; target expression","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","Industrial Design","","Master of Science Design for Interaction","",""
"uuid:b8915e9a-c3b3-4c63-a88d-6f340240f26b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b8915e9a-c3b3-4c63-a88d-6f340240f26b","Aesthetics of sustainable architecture","Lee, S.","Lee, S. (contributor); Hill, G. (contributor); Sauerbruch, M. (contributor); Hutton, L. (contributor); Knowles, R. (contributor); Bothwell, K. (contributor); Brennan, J. (contributor); Jauslin, D. (contributor); Holzheu, H. (contributor); AlSayyad, N. (contributor); Arboleda, G. (contributor); Bharne, V. (contributor); Røstvik, H. (contributor); Kuma, K. (contributor); Sunikka-Blank, M. (contributor); Glaser, M. (contributor); Pero, E. (contributor); Sjkonsberg, M. (contributor); Teuffel, P. (contributor); Mangone, G. (contributor); Finocchiaro, L. (contributor); Hestnes, A. (contributor); Briggs, D. (contributor); Frampton, K. (contributor)","2011","The purpose of this book is to reveal, explore and further the debate on the aesthetic potentials of sustainable architecture and its practice. This book opens a new area of scholarship and discourse in the design and production of sustainable architecture, one that is based in aesthetics. The chapters in this book have been compiled from architects and scholars working in diverse research and practice areas in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. While they approach the subject matter from different angles, the chapters of the book help clarify the key principles behind environmental concerns and sustainability in architectural practice. At its very core, ""Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture"" underlines the connection that exists between our approach to the environment and sustainability on one hand, and our approach to certain aesthetic propositions and practices on the other.","architecture; sustainability; aesthetics; tectonics; environment; vernacular; tradition","en","book","010 Publishers","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:73153f9d-d021-485f-b394-2f4678e108c6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:73153f9d-d021-485f-b394-2f4678e108c6","CREAtive ways: The art of looking sideways","Meijer Timmerman Thijssen, B.","Zeinstra, J. (mentor); Grafe, C. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2011","A design for a cultural center and a swimming pool designed at the Binnengasthuisterrein in Amsterdam, a former cloister and hospital. The design is a (happily naive) exploration of the possibility to reconstruct and elaborate on the delicate and unusual local urban condition.","interiors; architecture; Binnengasthuisterrein","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Interiors of Buildings and Cities","","","",""
"uuid:cb1d932a-985d-4e85-a204-f7c99c1554e9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb1d932a-985d-4e85-a204-f7c99c1554e9","H2 Architecture","Aukema, B.","Van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (mentor); Engels, J.F. (mentor)","2012","Hydrogen Technology integrated in an architectural design.","hydrogen; architecture; research; waterstof; architectural engineering; sustainability; sustainable; energy; experimental; NDSM; Amsterdam; hydrogen technology","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-01-01","Architecture","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:bfb18f1a-54a7-4e68-ba97-86aab9130539","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bfb18f1a-54a7-4e68-ba97-86aab9130539","The Last Resort","Van Embden Andres, M.V.","Engels, J. (mentor); Kamerling, W. (mentor)","2012","The Last Resort illustrates how the specific formal language of the Port of Rotterdam is used to come up with a functional and formal concept for a building at the entrance of the harbour. The contrast between industry & serenity. Logistics and dreams. A building that emerges the world of trade with personal experience of emptyness and intense exposure to natural forces. The structural challenges of large spans and tilted columns have inspired the architectural design and vice versa.","pier; large span; structural design; Formal study; the last resort; resort; port of rotterdam; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Building Technology","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:d9f3fac9-721d-46a2-8c29-939bf4c14fd0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d9f3fac9-721d-46a2-8c29-939bf4c14fd0","Converting office space: Using modular prefab architecture to convert vacant office buildings.","Koornneef, F.P.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Remøy, H.T. (mentor); Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor)","2012","Almost 7 million square meters of office space in The Netherlands is vacant today. Conversion into housing is an often named solution, but is hardly ever put into practice because of financial and technical difficulties (location aspects not taken into account). On the other hand, standardization in office design can be seen as an opportunity in making conversion on a large scale more viable: if office buildings are similar in construction, façade systems, dimensions and materialization, modular prefab architecture could offer a solution. If the office structure is considered as a support that needs a new (prefab) infill, this could contribute in making conversion projects time- and cost effective and therefore more feasible. This research aims to explore the difficulties and opportunities that are presented in the building characteristics of the vacant office stock of today, to help define a conversion concept. The result is the design of a prefabricated dwelling unit that has the potential to be deployed in ten percent of the current vacant office stock in The Netherlands. For the final design project, the conversion concept is applied in the redesign of a vacant office building in Rotterdam, Boompjes 60-68.","modular; prefab; architecture; support; infill; office vacancy; office architecture; conversion; explorelab; dwelling; unit","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-06-06","Architecture","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:c2f4c575-0bbe-4276-b42c-19793a1b252a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2f4c575-0bbe-4276-b42c-19793a1b252a","Cadavre Exquis: Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods Vol. 3. (pre-release 0.02)","Jauslin, D.; Skjonsberg, M.","","2012","Contemporary architecture is increasingly influenced by the concept of landscape, and this is particularly the case in the Netherlands. Like at many other places, a new mindset is emerging, transforming the core values of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism with the notion of the organization of architectural space as a landscape. Through experiment our lab develops methods to analyze such phenomena in focused studies of specific cases, understanding how architects use landscape not only as a metaphor but also as a method to design buildings. 32 students selected and analyzed outstanding built work of a wide field of architects from four generations of Dutch practitioners starting with Huig Maaskant (founder of the RAvB), Huig Maaskant, Wim QUist, OMA, SANAA, Mecanoo, MVRDV, NOX, De Zwarte Hond, NL-Architects, Onix, FACT and MonderschijmMoonen. Students drew and built models of their analyses, where four layers are detachable as a separate entity, and then played a game the surrealist called Cadavre Exquis. The result is a dismantled floating olympic village for Rotterdam, which is exhibited at it’s site in the historic docklands RDM on the Heijplaat. This Book is the catalogue to the exhibition.","architecture; landscape; design methods; Huig Maaskant; Wim Quist; OMA; SANAA; Mecanoo; MVRDV; NOX; De Zwarte Hond; NL-Architects; Onix; FACT; MonderschijmMoonen","en","book","DGJ DasGehtJa","","","","","","","2012-04-18","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:29a5d017-16c6-409a-a4ea-4c9557b747dd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:29a5d017-16c6-409a-a4ea-4c9557b747dd","Architecture for the re-socialization of forensic psychiatric care: Building for the insane criminal","Miedema, E.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van Doren, E.J.G.C. (mentor); Wagenaar, C. (mentor)","2012","Architecture for forensic psychiatric care is about the fitted architecture for a specific target group which is in need of security AND a treatment environment. The research, partly literature, partly design, is focused on finding the best environment for these patients. The contracts between being locked down and feeling at home plays a central role. The result is a research on how to build for forensic psychiatric care and an example on how to implement these diverse contrasting requirements.","environmental psychology; health care design; care homes; identification; authenticity; architecture; reserach by design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-05-01","Architecture","Architecture","","ExploreLab","",""
"uuid:83c662a0-ef72-48d2-aa28-09ea2d90a7a2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:83c662a0-ef72-48d2-aa28-09ea2d90a7a2","Architectuur van het productielandschap: Afvalwaterzuivering - landbouw - brouwerij","Bochanen, F.A.","Geerts, F. (mentor); Plomp, H. (mentor)","2012","Na de inpoldering van het Haarlemmermeer halverwege de 19e eeuw was de polder een groot productielandschap. Hier is weinig van overgebleven. Een groot deel van de polder is volgebouwd en het landbouwgebied dat er nog is staat onder druk, niet op de laatste plaats vanwege het zilte water dat omhoog komt en problematisch is voor de landbouw. Met het ontwerp voor een productielandschap in de wig tussen de Schiphollijn en de HSL wordt er nadruk gelegd op de processen die de maatschappij draaiende houden. De gekozen processen zijn bovendien gekoppeld aan de waterproblematiek in de Haarlemmermeerpolder. Afvalwater van het stedelijk gebied wordt aan de grens van het grootste probleemgebied (peilvak 9) gezuiverd en kan vervolgens voor de landbouw gebruikt worden, zodat er veel minder zoet water van buiten de polder nodig is. Dit wordt zichtbaar gemaakt in het landschap, zowel op de schaal van de snel passerende treinreiziger als op de schaal van de fietser die alles op zijn gemak kan bekijken. De landbouwproducten worden op hun beurt weer gebruikt in de brouwerij annex café-restaurant, een gebouw waarin de stappen van het brouwproces duidelijk te zien zijn. De schaal van het gebouw probeert zowel aan te sluiten op de schaal van het productielandschap - met een erf als tussenliggend element - als op de schaal van de gebruikers van het gebouw. Zie voor meer informatie www.fransbochanen.nl","Haarlemmermeer; verzilting; polder; verstedelijking; agrarisch gebied; rioolwaterzuivering; hergebruik gezuiverd afvalwater; infrastructuur; water reuse; brouwerij; café; restaurant; landbouw; waternetwerk; fietsbrug; productielandschap; architectuur; architecture; uitkijktoren; leidingenbrug; schaal; snelheid; waterbeheersing; spoorwegen; Waterwolf; slibverwerking; helofytenfilter; salinisation; public territory","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-04-26","Architecture","Architecture","","ExploreLab","",""
"uuid:a71aa8f1-0bd0-4e76-8ac7-b86ed635ba96","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a71aa8f1-0bd0-4e76-8ac7-b86ed635ba96","Design Methods for Young Sustainable Architecture Practice","Jauslin, D.; Drexler, H.; Curiel, F.","","2012","This paper introduces landscape aesthetics as an innovative design method for sustainable architecture. It is based on the framework of a recent paper where the young and unfamous authors criticized three of the most prominent? architects today in regard to sustainable architecture and its aesthetics. Leading architects expressed their skepticism as to whether there is such a thing as aesthetics in sustainable architecture, or for that matter, if architecture can indeed be sustainable at all. ?Against such a setting, DGJ will illustrate what we believe to be the landscape perspective’s inherent relationship to the natural environment, the principles behind it as well as the potentials that these landscape perspective holds for sustainable design. After first discussing the kind of professional and political impetuses that have made sustainability one of the most compelling changes to face the profession of architecture, we argue that the mandate for a sustainable environment did not come about by choice of the architects and planners, but rather, that sustainability is imposed on the profession by the necessary, external forces that influence it. To bridge the existing gaps ?between current practice and sustainability, we will trace some thoughts and principles of landscapes? and territories. Our approach views the landscape as a human interface with nature, as a basis for the design of sustainable architecture and a new context for sustainable aesthetics. It will be illustrated with practical work samples from a small but globally operating practice DGJ Architects & Landscapes. They will demonstrate how sustainable design happens in practice, throughout its evolutionary process, with some of our recent projects.","landscape; sustainable design; architecture; design methods; aesthetics; born global","en","conference paper","CIB (International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction)","","","","","","","2012-08-13","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:6c24cd87-50db-4e38-98a7-c0d3672c13b6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6c24cd87-50db-4e38-98a7-c0d3672c13b6","The experience of cancer: Research and design for the oncological center","Schaap, J.J.A.","Radman, A. (mentor); Melles, M. (mentor); Van de Voort, J. (mentor)","2012","In collaboration with the Netherlands Cancer Institute/ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL), research was done on the experience of cancer patients within their hospital environment. Questioning what were the feelings, emotions, thoughts patients have in relation to the (built) environment. Out of this research which consisted of a observation, interviews with staff and a context mapping research, came data which was translated into a Patient Experience Scenario, a timeline which gives insight in the patients experience during its treatment of cancer. Out of this timeline came conclusions and design strategies which were implemented into the design of a new cancer center of around 8000 square meters in Leiden. In the end trying to build from the patients experience a improved hospital environment.","architecture; cancer center; patient experience; Perception; NKI-AVL; context mapping; industrial design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-08","Architecture","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:bddc096d-c8e7-4656-ad17-dd6a346d4f72","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bddc096d-c8e7-4656-ad17-dd6a346d4f72","Transferium Almere 2.0","Ondejcik, V.","Biloria, N.M. (mentor); Bier, H.H. (mentor); Sobota, M. (mentor)","2012","The project Transferium Almere 2.0 was developed in two separate but tightly connected stages. The networked urban solution and wind informed geometry of main Transferium volumes. The development of urban solution ran in fall term. The solution is reflexing changes needed in development of new cities’ extensions. The current master plans served as informational base for new networked system that is capable of changes in real time. The result is swarm based active system that operates on functional level of urban development. The created platform however doesn’t operate on level of physical volume, but contained all information needed for developing final master plan for new area. The system is based on general rules, and can be theoretically used for any city extension. The research into wind systems tries to cover unexplored territories in building integrated wind energy systems, and implements new parametric tools from urban phase. The final design is yet a unique solution to this problem that operate between realms of computation design, engineering and sustainable design. More informations on http://www.architect.eu.sk or ondejcikvladimir@gmail.com","wind; swarm; second skin; pressure difference; responsive; component; sustainable; energy; non-standard; architecture; train station; canopy; cable; smart; active","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-31","Architecture","Hyperbody","","Non-standard and interactive architecture","",""
"uuid:c3fac2a7-dda4-43db-be6e-0b0fdee69949","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c3fac2a7-dda4-43db-be6e-0b0fdee69949","Pheromone networks - a computational approach to improve the social dynamics of the Almere central train station and it's urban network.","La Roi, F.M.","Biloria, N.M. (mentor); Bier, H.H. (mentor); Sobota, M. (mentor)","2012","The amount of travelers from and to the Dutch city Almere will grow from 40.000 back in 2009 to 100.00 in 2030. This requires intensive infrastructural improvements to the current situation of Almere. One of the main improvements of the network will be the redesign of the central station of the city. The current station is situated around a combination of small dysfunctional public spaces and conflicting flows of traffic. In a series of experiments with the topics of different network speeds, users, behavior and needs is tested to propose a infrastructural landscape and embodiment that is both efficient and pleasant as a new design for the central train station of Almere. The quest is no search for an optimal result, but rather a proposal abstract machine that can generate pretty good solutions while still maintaining intuitive decision making in the design process. The aim of the design is to enhance the connectivity of the dysfunctional part of the Almere city center and to create a multi-functional area with a 18 hour usage pattern. The design method is based on a bottom-up research process with the use of different algorithmic principles for generation and performance evaluation like swarm behavior and ant-trail and Dijkstra algorithm’s. Organizing infrastructure is the main interest in this project, not only to make a more efficient network but also to revitalize the area by influencing the behavior patterns of the users of the area.","architecture; parametric; pheromone; ant trail; algorithm; swarm; Infrastructure; Almere; hyperbody; self-organization; Dijkstra; Optimization; CNC; Bridge; Train station; computational","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-04","Architecture","Hyperbody","","Hyperbody Graduation Studio: Advanced Non-Standard & Interactive Architecture Formations & Embodiments","",""
"uuid:771f2b1d-2fb9-41f8-9b20-c4daaa96d926","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:771f2b1d-2fb9-41f8-9b20-c4daaa96d926","Redefining the Hong Kong Typology","Snyder, E.","Bracken, G. (mentor); Bruyns, G. (mentor); Plomp, H. (mentor); Cuperus, Y. (mentor)","2012","Hong Kong for me is a fascinating city; it embodies many contradictory conditions while at the same time acts as a palimpsest -- a readable, but layered, whole. The city exists as a lamination of eastern and western forces that can be seen in both the social and built environment of the city. As the city has grown and become wealthier, these contradictions have intensified, and become increasingly asserted onto the built environment. As a result, a growing asymmetry exists between globalized space and local spaces. Such is the case with the site I have chosen, as 40 storey high-rise towers are being constructed within an existing fabric of 4-7 storey shop houses. For the design, I was inspired by the contradictory conditions mentioned above. The starting point for my research was in the most general sense a study of residential typology. I began with an analysis of the existing neigbourhood fabric to see which typologies were most common and what the specific characteristics of each type are. From this, I was motivated to investigate the forces which catalysed change in typology, many of which were related to demographic [population] and economic changes. Furthermore, research into the relationship between architecture and typology lead me to question the role of the luxury high-rise residential tower given the growing wealth disparity and increasing need for affordable housing in the city centre. Continuing along with the theme of typology, I began to investigate some traditional Chinese dwelling typologies such as the tu lou and siheyuan as a starting point for the design work. The courtyard house [siheyuan] was the most interesting because of the gradation of privacy embedded in the architectural layout. The courtyard house then became the basis for the design, and the public/private relationship was flipped to the vertical in order to develop the formal nature of the building. This reconceptualization of the courtyard house provides a new alternative to the isolated high-rise typologies prevalent in Hong Kong and infuses public space, green space and flexible dwelling typologies into the design.","architecture; asia; dwelling; mixed-use; typology","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-01-30","Architecture","Architecture","","DSD Architecture Thinking","",""
"uuid:04606996-992b-4499-9f50-4e9d6bca5d52","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:04606996-992b-4499-9f50-4e9d6bca5d52","i-Food/ AgroCity","Symvoulidou, A.M.","Hackauf, U. (mentor); Plomp, H. (mentor); Maas, W. (mentor)","2012","2050: The earth’s population as estimated by the United Nations will be 9.2 billion people. In order to be able to sustain this population number and afford a further growth, humankind has to radically change the way we produce, process and consume food. The current food production system abuses the natural environment in a multitude of ways. Ranging from soil deterioration to the draining of fossil fuel and the consequent CO2 production and climate change effect, the issues that food production causes are complex and interconnected. AgroCity is examining possible solutions to this series of challenges. Looking into different approaches as sources of inspiration, AgroCity is revisiting old methods of agriculture and combines them with new technologies and innovation. Further into the food chain, other aspects are examined to some extend: food processing, storage, water and waste management are some examples. In terms of design, AgroCity is using a bottom up approach, starting from the needs of one person. It illustrates how space efficiency increases when food production becomes collective. The result of this study is an optimum size of communities. This optimum size changes also according to the diet ingredients. Diet changes are also proposed, as an effort to assure a healthy, nutritionally dense diet in a much smaller space than we are used to. AgroCity is organizing the different elements used throughout this new food chain into a “Toolbox”. Using modular designs that can easily be combined with each other, AgroCity offers a catalogue of growing, processing and preserving units that can be added as “plug ins” to the dwelling units or other urban program. This way, even existing cities could be transformed into food production machines, by taking advantage of empty spaces. AgroCity is attempting to be a highly sustainable, space efficient, “user friendly” alternative to the current food chain, giving back to the people the power to feed themselves and know what they eat.","urban farming; architecture; food production; i-crates","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","The Why Factory","",""
"uuid:c2f8ed8b-07ea-4038-a1e0-87b69465b181","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2f8ed8b-07ea-4038-a1e0-87b69465b181","Trondheim warehouses: Past - present - future","Laros, A.K.S.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor); Stellingwerff, M.C. (mentor)","2012","Graduation at ExploreLab 12 Topic: ""Trondheim warehouses - past, present & future"" Research: An exploration of the reusability of the wooden warehouses in Trondheim, Norway. (The uploaded research is only part of the work done, please contact me form more information about the full research.) Design: A masterplan for the warehouses and the area and a design for the transformation of three wooden warehouses into a museum in Trondheim, Norway For more information, send a message: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/annelaros","hergebruik; re-use; norway; architecture; trondheim; pakhuizen; pakhuis; warehouses; warehouse; noorwegen; houten; wooden","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:fc093933-187f-4e21-900e-4610fa16ceee","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fc093933-187f-4e21-900e-4610fa16ceee","Library Street - A Public Interior","Koenen, J.","Zeinstra, J. (mentor); Pimlott, M. (mentor); Van Der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2012","A new academic library and study center at the Sarphatistraat, for the University of Amsterdam.","library; architecture; interiors; study center; passage; street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-14","Architecture","Architecture","","Interiors, Buildings and Cities","",""
"uuid:d0f262d9-ab07-4ae7-839d-782727c534af","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d0f262d9-ab07-4ae7-839d-782727c534af","Flowscapes: Infrastructure as landscape, landscape as infrastructure. Graduation Lab Landscape Architecture 2012/2013","Nijhuis, S.; Jauslin, D.; De Vries, C.","","2012","Flowscapes explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure, and is focused on landscape architectonic design of transportation-, green- and water infrastructures. These landscape infrastructures are considered armatures for urban and rural development. With movement and flows at the core, these landscape infrastructures facilitate aesthetic, functional, social and ecological relationships between natural and human systems. Through transdisciplinary design-based case studies at different scale levels Flowscapes seeks for a better understanding of the dynamic between landscape processes and typo-morphological aspects; here interpreted as flowscapes.","landscape architecture; landscape infrastructure; landscape urbanism; green infrastructure; transportation infrastructure; water infrastructure; design research; flowscapes; graduation studio; urbanism; architecture; civil engineering","en","report","Delft University of Technology","","","","","","","2012-09-18","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:9fd478ea-59b6-4c2a-a448-66ed61c18c89","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9fd478ea-59b6-4c2a-a448-66ed61c18c89","Design after decline: How America rebuilds shrinking cities. Brent D. Ryan","Mulder, A.","","2012","","shrinking cities; architecture; planning","en","book","Springer","","","","","","Campus only","2013-10-26","Architecture and The Built Environment","Real Estate & Housing","","","",""
"uuid:e4c0a971-2e86-487e-8304-a0b0d988d7b7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e4c0a971-2e86-487e-8304-a0b0d988d7b7","Post-colonial Hong Kong’s urban space and cultural protection under globalization: Multi-functional Civic/Culture Centre Design","Wang, Q.","Bracken, G. (mentor); Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor)","2012","Globalization is an inevitable trend that the whole world needs to face. Hong Kong is of course one of those global cities belonging to such a growing network. The politics of space comes in when the city needs new built environments. When people work in these spaces, they also require homes, services. In my design project, I will not do a Hong Kong urban space discussion on aerial view which cannot accurately reflect the daily life of urban status. In contrary, I will explore urban space of Hong Kong from microscopic, bottom-up (cultural), and ethnographic-historical points of view. When Hong Kong citizen discover that culture is difficult to be found, the fact is that they cannot see what is there. A kind of developing urban space in Hong Kong which experiences too fast makes people living in old or traditional community almost lose their collective memory and sense of belonging. As a result, my general research question goes to what kind of change was presented by 'urban space meaning' combined with cultural protection in Hong Kong. It is a research on Post-colonial Hong Kong’s urban space and cultural protection under globalization. In order to give a further study on this general research question, I found some problems need to be solved in my selected site after a site analyzing. Here I try my best to keep, or to say protect, two kinds of culture, one is traditional culture that facing disappearing and scattering named wedding-card making, the other is low culture in typical Hong Kong style named street market. Both of these cultures are located in a really high density community. And of course both of them have a close relationship to daily life. According to all mentioned before, my specific problem goes to first How to enhance space quality of communities in WanChai, second how to make interference without breaking community characters on history (Tong Lau) and culture (street market), and third what kind of protection can we make to keep culture on wedding card and avoid culture disappearing. I pay more attention on three important components as follows: street activity, transportation Mode and high density community. All methods of analyzing and problem solving leads to my final design, which will first keep and protect two kinds of culture I mentioned before, and then at the same time better the daily life and space quality of high density community in Wanchai where the two kinds of culture are located.","architecture; culture; history","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-10-31","Architecture","Architecure Design","","DSD","",""
"uuid:f7bd4288-8a37-4c2a-8869-fc79640c81e3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f7bd4288-8a37-4c2a-8869-fc79640c81e3","De toegevoegde waarde van architectuur voor de zorg in ziekenhuizen","Niemeijer, C.E.A.","Van Duin, L. (promotor)","2012","","architecture; healthcare; added value","nl","doctoral thesis","Eburon","","","","","","","2013-01-25","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:d7884462-abde-48f9-82ea-6cac583aa08e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d7884462-abde-48f9-82ea-6cac583aa08e","The potential of metadata for linked open data and its value for users and publishers","Zuiderwijk, A.M.G.; Jeffery, K.G.; Janssen, M.F.W.H.A.","","2012","Public and private organizations increasingly release their data to gain benefits such as transparency and economic growth. The use of these open data can be supported and stimulated by providing considerable metadata (data about the data), including discovery, contextual and detailed metadata. In this paper we argue that metadata are key enablers for the effective use of Linked Open Data (LOD). We illustrate the potential of metadata by 1) presenting an overview of advantages and disadvantages of metadata derived from literature, 2) presenting metadata requirements for LOD architectures derived from literature, workshops and a questionnaire, 3) describing a LOD metadata architecture that meets the requirements and 4) showing examples of the application of this architecture in the ENGAGE project. The paper shows that using metadata with the appropriate metadata architecture can yield considerable benefits for LOD publication and use, including improving find ability, accessibility, storing, preservation, analysing, comparing, reproducing, finding inconsistencies, correct interpretation, visualizing, linking data, assessing and ranking the quality of data and avoiding unnecessary duplication of data. The Common European Research Information Format (CERIF) can be used to build the metadata architecture and achieve the advantages.","metadata; linked open data; LOD; open data; metadata; architecture; requirements; elements; CERIF","en","journal article","JeDEM","","","","","","","","Technology, Policy and Management","ISS","","","",""
"uuid:9b197079-384d-406d-9cc6-534f95905dab","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b197079-384d-406d-9cc6-534f95905dab","The Bureaucratic Arcadia","Borgo, D.","Milani, S. (mentor); Khosravi, H. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2013","This Thesis is about the relations between religion and bureaucracy, from history to architecture.","bureaucracy; religion; politics; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-01-25","Architecture","Architecture","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:5692a898-150f-4ab5-baf9-f0d178fafce1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5692a898-150f-4ab5-baf9-f0d178fafce1","Los Angeles: The metropolis and five stages of modernity","Beijer, J.H.E.","Read, S.A. (mentor); Bekkering, H.C. (mentor); Vanstiphout, W.A.J. (mentor)","2013","‘the metropolis and five stages of modernity’ is an explorative research on contemporary ecologies and the historic (re)-emergence of public domain, infrastructure and urban form in Los Angeles","urbanism; architecture; modernity; ecology; public domain; los angeles; infrastructure; monorail; densification; place making","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-01-30","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:3d2c648d-09d6-406e-b114-3254290854dd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3d2c648d-09d6-406e-b114-3254290854dd","Towards an architecture of experience","Minter, C.","Nottrot, R. (mentor); Van den Dobbelsteen, A. (mentor); Healy, P. (mentor)","2013","Many urban and architectural designs bring about a different experience in its visitors than the designer originally intended. Typical architectural qualities such as ‘dynamism’, ‘harmony‘, ‘lightness’ are often guiding themes in the de- sign, but hardly ever experienced in reality when the design has been built. Especially the notorious grand schemes of sixties and seventies, intended to give lots of open green space and fresh air to its inhabitants, are experienced differently — nowadays people mostly experience them as unsafe and cheap. Luckily, there are also some examples of designs that are able to bring about positive experiences in its visitors, some of which are included in this research. The fact that many designs do not afford a positive experience is the problem that is addressed in this project, of which this written research is a part. It is due to a lack of knowledge of experience and a decent method for designing an architectural experience that designers fail in their attempts to create a positive experience. This research aims to fill that hiatus by providing relevant knowl- edge of perception and experiencing and a preliminary method for design. This is the design for a peaceful subway station on Kottbusser Tor, Berlin. It includes an urban design for the circus, a design for the underground station which is sustainable.","experience; merleau-ponty; descartes; skinner; corbusier; zumthor; eisenman; architecture; gestalt; maslow; Berlin; Kottbusser Tor; Kreuzberg; U-bahnhof; underground station; Peaceful; experience; sustainable","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-01-30","Architecture","Explore Lab","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:987fafd0-cd76-4230-be0e-be8843cae08e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:987fafd0-cd76-4230-be0e-be8843cae08e","Historic Concrete: From Concrete Repair to Concrete Conservation","Heinemann, H.A.","Van Hees, R.P.J. (promotor)","2013","Concrete like materials were already applied during the Roman Empire. After the decline of the Roman Empire, a wide scale application of concrete only reappeared in the 19th century. Here lies also the origin of modern (reinforced) concrete. Since then, both concrete application and composition have significantly changed. Today, concrete from the 19th and early 20th century is considered as historic concrete. In this thesis, we study historic concrete in the Netherlands, that is to say the concrete dating back from the middle of the 19th century up to the 1960s. Within this period, the application and properties of concrete varied, due to increasing technological insight and social acceptance of concrete as a building material. Although the application of concrete in the Netherlands was late compared with neighbouring countries, there are quite specific and interesting developments and innovations in Dutch concrete, especially with regard to surface finishes. Historic concrete in the Netherlands is thus specific enough to require a dedicated study. Inaddition to this, the commonality of the history of concrete in different countries makes the relevance of this study broader than the Dutch case. Knowledge on historic concrete is increasingly relevant, as conservation of historic buildings dating from the 19th and 20th century internationally emerges as a new field within heritage care. This period is characterised by both architectural and structural innovations and by novel construction materials, of which (reinforced) concrete is probably the most important. Although a growing number of concrete buildings is listed as monuments, conservation specialists have still to become acquainted with the history and properties of historic concrete. Even though the structural history is frequently addressed, only little is known about the composition and surface finish of historic concrete. For the conservation of historic concrete buildings, generally ordinary repair techniques, which have been developed for modern concrete, are applied. From a technical point of view, their performance is not always satisfactory, as the properties of historic concrete can deviate from modern concrete. From a conservation point of view, additional threats exist, because requirements such as respecting the historic material and heritage values are commonly not considered. An uncritical application of repair approaches and a lack of knowledge on historic concrete induce the risk of loss of historic evidence and historic material. Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to develop a real concrete conservation approach, which takes into account the specific properties and the heritage values of historic concrete. The main research questions are therefore the following: - How can historic concrete be preserved together with its ascribed heritage values? - How can a proposed conservation strategy be evaluated for its impact on both the heritage values and the technical performance? - How can we balance the technical demands and the preservation of heritage values, when heritage values and durability issues originate in the same material properties? The structure of the thesis reflects its aim to achieve a dedicated conservation strategy for historic concrete: Part I - Understanding and characterisation of historic concrete The first part offers a compendium of historic concrete addressing the development of design rules and standards in the Netherlands, and in particular the constituents used (binders, aggregates, mixing water), mix design, reinforcement, and surface finishes applied. This part is illustrated with Dutch examples, supporting both technical and historical surveys in the field, and offers historical background information for further (material) investigation. Part II - Interpretation and evaluation of historic concrete The second part gives guidance to identify risks for both material and heritage values. This includes methods to correlate heritage values with the historic concrete and the state of conservation. Additionally, the risks and benefits of different repair techniques are evaluated from a conservation point of view. The new approach is applied to three case studies: Fort Bezuiden Spaarndam (1897-1901), the Hofplein railway viaduct (1900-1908, A.C.C.G. van Hemert), and the earth retaining walls for the unfinished Groot Museum (1921, H. van der Velde). Part III - Development and evaluation of dedicated conservation strategy The concluding part addresses the decisions to be made when developing a dedicated conservation strategy. The proposed approach considers balancing the preservation of heritage values and technical demands. Case specific criteria are formulated, which allow the characterisation of possible conservation strategies. This thesis presents new knowledge on historic concrete, combining historical developments with material properties. Different periods within the life in service of concrete are linked: the past by explaining its possible significance and durability, the present by evaluating its in practice performance and state of conservation, and the future by supporting decisions on an appropriate conservation strategy. This thesis aims to strongly support the necessary transition from concrete repair to concrete conservation.","historic concrete; binders; reinforcement; aggregates; mix design; concrete repair; conservation; restoration; architecture; surfaces; iron; degradation; heritage values; the Netherlands; 19th century; 20th century","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","",""
"uuid:e739df32-bfa2-4073-ae72-40e66eef8261","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e739df32-bfa2-4073-ae72-40e66eef8261","Learnscapes","Kaja, F.P.","Mihl, H. (mentor); Hermans, W. (mentor)","2013","Knowledge environments as catalyst for urban redevelopment.","architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-04-09","Architecture","Architecture","","Hybrid buildings","",""
"uuid:07ec9cec-70ae-4795-8211-cba7ad28dd02","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:07ec9cec-70ae-4795-8211-cba7ad28dd02","Rethinking Sustainability: United Nations Ecological Council, New York City","Stockand, E.","Korpershoek, M. (mentor); Plomp, H. (mentor)","2013","When tasked with the assignment to design a world headquarters for sustainability and sustainable development, I was perplexed by the ambiguity of the conceptual aspect, but at the same time restrained with a comprehensive list of pragmatic requirements. Firstly, the term ‘sustainability’ is one that is vexed with different definitions, perceptions and contradictions. It was thus necessary to define what a United Nations Ecological Council strives to achieve in humanistically, ecologically, and symbolically. Secondly, as part of the U.N., there lies a fine line between security of the building and the potential for public space, as well as the public perception of the building and what it stands for. Finally, situated in New York City and next to the existing U.N. headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier, a balance between old and new, modernism and a relatively new paradigm of sustainable building, and urban and natural, needs to be achieved in an approach that is sensitive, yet novel. The design must complement the history of the site and the UN, reflect the technology and knowledge of today and anticipate a very uncertain future. These aforementioned problems necessitate a holistic methodology that balances these contradictions in such a way that creates value for the site, the city and the world. Looking at the task and understanding the task of design this building at several scales -- site, regional, global -- I began to understand the need for this building not only to be merely a ‘sustainable’ building in terms of energy efficiency or the usual interpretations of the ‘sustainable’ label within the discourse of architecture. I saw the necessity for this building to be a pedagogical tool that will educate the general public, one that serves to be a catalyst vis-à-vis sustainability and public understanding. The building and site must aspire to demonstrate the commitment of the UN to finding solutions to global issues: food security, greenhouse gas emissions, fossil fuel dependence, and provide an example for a future in which humans will work with nature rather than against it. The UN Headquarters of Sustainability will be designed to be part of the larger ecosystem in that it will, like other organisms, have a certain lifespan, will be able to grow and adapt and over its lifespan it will bring a positive net benefit to the city and the larger global community. The overall aim was to find and develop innovative techniques and schemes that mitigate local and regional issues that can be translated to larger global problems. My departure point with regards to researching and understanding the site, city and objective involved looking at typology and morphology of the city, environmental aspects such as climate and geography, society, culture, philosophical and ideological discourse, and phenomenology.","UNEC; SADD; New York City; materialisation; sustainability; architecture; United Nations","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-05-01","Architecture","Materialisation","","Strategic Architectural Design Development (SADD)","",""
"uuid:e0f49ca7-9211-4a2d-a522-66ecd3976a36","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0f49ca7-9211-4a2d-a522-66ecd3976a36","Holonic architecture of the smart grid","Negeri, E.O.; Baken, N.H.G.; Popov, M.","","2013","With the growing concerns about sustainable energy, energy efficiency and energy security, the electrical power system is undergoing major changes. Distributed energy sources are becoming widely available at the lower parts of the grid. As a result, more and more end consumers are transforming from passive consumers to active “prosumers” that can autonomously generate, store, import and/or export power. As prosumers increasingly dominate the power system, the system demands capability that allows enormous number of stakeholders with heterogeneous types to exchange power on the grid. Unfortunately, the classical power system cannot efficiently handle this scenario since it was designed for centralized power distribution. Thus, restructuring the rather old power system is indispensable. In this paper, we apply the holonic approach to structure the smart grid as a system that is bottom-up organized from autonomous prosumers that are recursively clustered at various aggregation layers. Based on this, we present a control architecture of the smart grid using holonic concepts. Our control architecture is characterized by autonomy of the prosumers, distributed control, recursive self-similar control structures at different aggregation levels. Further, we present a service oriented architec-ture (SOA) framework that models the control functions that make up the holonic control architecture. Our proposed control architecture is tested using a simulation set-up.","smart grid; architecture; holon","en","journal article","Scientific Reseach Publishing","","","","","","","","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Intelligent Systems","","","",""
"uuid:0e4353a4-477e-41c1-976e-c372aa9b9a90","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e4353a4-477e-41c1-976e-c372aa9b9a90","Engagement and Estrangement: Participation and Disciplinary Autonomy in Álvaro Siza’s S. Victor Neighbourhood","Mota, N.J.A.","","2013","Citizens’ participation in the design process has been discussed since the aftermath of World War II as an instrument to promote a more humanist approach to habitat. However, it has been also accused of fostering populist outcomes where the designer is merely the hand of the people, challenging the traditional limits of architecture’s disciplinary autonomy. Hence, to which extent can architects negotiate their critical approach to the status quo with the will of the people? Is there any contradiction between the architect’s social commitment and architecture’s disciplinary autonomy? Should the architect design for the people or with the people? To contribute with some possible answers to these questions, this paper presents a critical approach to Álvaro Siza’s S. Vitor housing neighbourhood, a project designed with citizens’ participation. It will discuss the contributions brought about by the creative tension immanent in the relation between the designer and the user. It will chiefly explore the delicate negotiation between the architect’s engagement and estrangement in the design process, and its consequences in promoting urban inclusion.","architecture; citizens' participation; populism; disciplinary autonomy; Álvaro Siza","en","conference paper","University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:b9a721ba-9b8b-436f-8cc6-9ec5bde0f175","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b9a721ba-9b8b-436f-8cc6-9ec5bde0f175","'European Debate' - A high rise proposal for the European Commission","Barendregt, J.","Merkeley, T. (mentor); Ronald, D. (mentor); Bergsma, A. (mentor)","2013","The question of dealing with public & private zoning, and especially that area where the two meet, is one of the fundamental questions in architecture. In this project, this area has an important role, both functional and metaphorical. The European Union knows a big gap between the people and the political power. The EU is democratic in theory, but in practice it seems very technocratic, with a very big distance between the people and the power. This gap also shows in the city of Brussels, where the European Quarter is like an island within the city center. Inhabitants of brussels do not visit the neighborhood, while the EU-workers do not leave the area. The decision to build a skyscraper as the new European Commission headquarters will only cause a bigger distance to the people. The skyscraper typology is based on efficient development, not on architectural quality. It's a typology that separates the interior from the urban context in a very rough way. Instead of creating larger barriers, the new EC building should instead be a connective element between the metaphorical people and power. To achieve this, the city is extended inside the building. A neighborhood-like urban structure is creating in the form of interior public space. Different themed zones of public functions are added to the building to create a mixture that will be both usefull for the EC-employees as for any other inhabitant or visitor of brussels. A vertical metro-system removes the barrier of going up into the building, by offering a capacity comparable to the urban metro running underneath the building, and makes the interior public space part of the city.","EU; Brussels; high rise; skyscraper; architecture; design; interior public","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","Materialization - TALL VCE","",""
"uuid:2f4b9cb3-655e-4647-8abb-99c5ad33d6ce","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2f4b9cb3-655e-4647-8abb-99c5ad33d6ce","Hypercraft","Van der Linden, P.J.A.","Nottrot, R. (mentor); Bilow, M. (mentor); Van de Voort, J. (mentor)","2013","This Master Thesis as presented to the chair of Explore Lab 14 of the TU Delft, deals with the issue of perspective. The problem that architecture is all too often drawn out of a singular perspective and even opposes different modes of perception, is an issue which influences the role of the architect. This problem, generated at the hand of massmedia, assists in the construction of perspectives on life that in certain pataphysical instances make such an ‘activity of living’ into a completely absurd experience. A sort of ‘Hyperculture’ is constructed as tradition are denounced and embraced in society. This phenomenon is catalyzed by rapidly evolving technologies and methods of communication, and poses a problem whether a Hyperculture is absolute or not. To what extend are we dependend on traditions, and to what extend are these traditions a threath to the survival of our species? To generate architecture that facilitates both the current zeitgeist as well as a localized identity, is the imperative for the architecture of the 21st century. Not just subcultures struggle at the hand of hyperculture, but also certain professions, as economic and political life changes from day to day. In this contemporary context of hypermodernity, an entirely new generation of architects is emerging with seemingly unlimited technological possibilities. But is the current generation of architects ready to introduce them into this profession, or must we seek others to do so? The research concludes that the architects can do nothing but observe, and as such the problem of hyperculture transcends onto other actors involved in the architectural construction process: the hypercraftsman. The individual who wields these new technologies has the upperhand in deciding which traditions fuel his professional ability, and which traditions pose a threath not only to his profession, but also to the quality of the products of his making and a quality of life that these products generate. ‘How is hypermodernization apparent in professions that contribute to a broadening of design possibilities in Dutch architectural design and what is the added value of these possibilities?’ is the research question that is propoosed for this thesis. The conclusions of this research implies changes for the role of the architect as the rapid emergence of new design and manufacturing possibilities requires cooperation to a much greater extend than in contemporary architectural design. By introducing new stakeholders in the design process hyperculture may be deflected. Leading to a much greater degree of freedom for both the user and the maker-designer. This work adresses contemporary manufacturing methods and technologies and may contribute to the evolution of positive anomalies in socio-technical regimes.","hypercraft; technology; craftsmanship; philosophy; industrial ecology; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Explore Lab","","","",""
"uuid:77b8c7b5-fb5b-4a33-b4ce-70f272efc740","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:77b8c7b5-fb5b-4a33-b4ce-70f272efc740","The Lobby of the Metropole","Loer, F.","Pimlott, M. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E. (mentor); Madrazo, F. (mentor)","2013","The lobby of the Metropole, a habitable bridge in Rotterdam In our mobilized epoch considered as the network era, hubs are crucial devices for the orchestration of our cities. Road and building mediate in the quality of our cityscapes like the Randstad in which we live as continuous commuters. The habitable bridge is used as the ultimate typology for the examination of a new form of architecture in which a multitude of urban functions are brought together. The province meets the city, the artificial meets the natural, architecture meets infrastructure. Despite a strong belief in the capacities of architecture and infrastructure, Rotterdam did not manage to merge these two paradigms after the Second World War. Although the ambition is there to merge the boulevard with the river, the south with the north, the street with the building, significant proposals are lacking. Through the use of historical precedents like the multifunctional Boompjes of the Golden Age, the reintroduction of the river as valuable public space is envisioned. The fascination for a multifunctional bridge, merged with the ambitions of Rotterdam, catalyzed by the architectural needs of a new era forms the base for my proposal ‘The Lobby of the Metropole: the Fusion of Architecture and Infrastructure in Tomorrow’s Megalopolis’. METABOLISTIC COLLECTIVE FORM AND THE POTENTIAL OF CONGESTION The city is approached as an organism that comes to life through a multitude of streams. The careful orchestration of urban flows is considered as the main challenge of the urban fabric. The integral design of landscape, architecture and infrastructure could catalyze the quality of our future cities. Previous to my design ‘The Lobby of the Metropole’, I did an extensive research into the ideas of the Japanes Metabolists and the history of Rotterdam. Through a written report called ‘The fusion of architecture and infrastructure in tomorrow’s Megalopolis - The Relevance of the Metabolistic Collective Form in the Network Era’ I have laid the foundation for my design. The acknowledgement of different speeds in the city is integrated in the design of a habitable bridge in which a variety of streams are accomodated, among other: walking, biking, living, working, commuting (tram) and driving (car). The resulting proposal for a multimodal hub exploits densification in favour of urban sprawl. The design acknowledges the potential of metropolitan accumalation instead of considering a new realm as unmanageable congestion. Approaching the infrastructure of the city as architectural challenge provides a new attitude in which landscape (public space), architecture (buildings) and infrastructure (roads) are considered as equal mediators in the city. To improve the quality of Rotterdam, the ground floor of the design is kept free for pedestrians, bikers and public transport. Favouring slow traffic at the expense of cars will improve the habitable quality of the city. The large open ended steel structure accomodates public and private program. Future transformations can easily be processed through the use of a flexible system in which ventilation, data, energy and walls are easily accessible. Programs work through a ‘plug and play’ method.","lobby; Metropole; habitable bridge; architecture infrastructure; architecture; infrastructure; bridge; megalopolis; metabolism; Rotterdam; Multimodal; Hub; Terminal; New era; Flexibility; Sustainability; Technology; Domestication; Collective Form; Fumihiko Maki; Havenstad; Harbor; Harbour; Riverside; River; Urbanism; Plinth; Groundscraper; Living Bridge","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2016-07-05","Architecture","Explore Lab","","","",""
"uuid:459e1478-2283-4d1f-b876-c4e442ebb688","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:459e1478-2283-4d1f-b876-c4e442ebb688","Innovative Learning for Collaborative Design in Ergonomics","Folcher, V.; Zreik, K.; Ben Rajeb, S.; Leclercq, P.","","2013","The proposed article deals with introducing collaborative architectural design into the training of ergonomists at the Master 2 level. The collaborative design workshop aims to confront ergonomists with the difficulties any design project involves, and which challenge architects, designers, engineers and so on: collaboration between people with different skills and different expertise; powerful time constraints; need for their work to converge; working together and/or at a distance; sharing documents; decision-making, etc. The article will present a short review of work carried out in the domains of architecture and design, and of the contribution of ergonomics within architectural projects. We shall then present the workshops educational aims, and give details of the way it functioned. Finally, observation results will be presented and discussed.","collaborative design; architecture; ergonomics; training workshop","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:f29cf07b-f3d4-494e-8d5d-a12cc0872b00","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f29cf07b-f3d4-494e-8d5d-a12cc0872b00","Non-Verbal Communication in Collaborative Architectural Design","Hergersic, A.; Pungercar, E.; Zupancic, T.","","2013","The paper introduces a novel approach to understanding the nature of visual communication within the design process in architectural education using open-source interfaces. It derives from the idea that visual non-verbal communication indicates the critical moments of the design process, where communication efficiency could be improved. The aim of this research is to evaluate how effective can non-verbal communication become in the early design phases. We will also discuss how this mode of communication works in collaborative design in architecture and how it relates verbal communication.","collaboration; collaborative design; architecture; visual non-verbal communication; remote communication","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:8c1d558a-8ff2-43ff-9067-32f1e1c97a58","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8c1d558a-8ff2-43ff-9067-32f1e1c97a58","Information Materials: Smart material based architectural design","Kretzer, M.","","2013","This paper questions the current use of materials in architecture, which furthers the preference of surface and form over inherent material properties. It then investigates recent advancements towards the notion of a Digital Materiality, comparing various international research activities and approaches. It concludes with the potentials of Smart Materials for the creation of dynamic, adaptive spatial design. With a focus on the work of the Author it represents a number of projects that have been realized in this area within the past years and gives an insight in his recently established Materiability Research Network, a community platform that reveals Smart Materials, their properties and how to self-make them in an applied hands-on manner.","smart materials; digital materiality; open source; do-it-yourself; adaptive; architecture","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:e664e0ce-42c6-4383-a892-b2d1aa2650d2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e664e0ce-42c6-4383-a892-b2d1aa2650d2","Designerly Visualisation: Conceptions, Methods, Models, Perceptions","Breen, J.L.H.","","2013","If we wish to reach a deeper, more objective understanding of the phenomena of Architectural and Environmental Design, we need to develop and apply working methods that allow us to imaginatively analyse and consequently envision the formal issues which are at (inter)play: demonstrating their workings and effects in the ‘Real World’. First of all, it is essential that we reach a level of clarity – and preferably consensus – concerning our shared conceptions about how we actually consider acts and artefacts of architectural enterprise. Subsequently, we need to appreciate and elucidate what we might consider to be fitting and relevant working methods, which may do justice to the qualities and peculiarities of architectural design, yet may stand up to scientific scrutiny... In the context of the methodical study of designing as a process and designs as their physical, tangible outcomes, it may be beneficial to look for conceptual and perceptual models that may help to further and structure intellectual enquiry and help us to visualise and communicate options, findings, insights and outcomes. Lastly, it is essential to create visual modes of organisation and representation that will not only do justice to the physical and intellectual qualities of architecture, but may trigger perceptions, eloquently and imaginatively demonstrating the consequences of characteristic formal interventions.","conceptions; methods; models; perceptions; architecture; design; visualisation","en","conference paper","Politecnico di Milano","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:189078d4-c81e-44de-bc43-fee6c3173655","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:189078d4-c81e-44de-bc43-fee6c3173655","Model & scale as conceptual devices in architectural representation","Stellingwerff, M.C.; Koorstra, P.A.","","2013","This year we celebrate the tenth anniversary of our Computer Aided Manufacturing laboratory (CAMlab, http://www.camlab-bk.nl). From the start we provide laser cutting, CNC-milling and 3D-print facilities for the students and the researchers at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. Over the past ten years we have delivered uncountable amounts of fabricated model parts and we have advised several thousands of students. Also, we have participated in many faculty-, museum- and world traveling exhibitions, and we have conducted many courses about model making and prototyping related to architecture and industrial design. Although we can report and show many successes in scale model making, we also noticed a number of problems, pitfalls and too many examples of rough and unarticulated scale models from students in our own workshop and elsewhere. The downsides of computer directed fabrication techniques were obvious and multiple. First and foremost, we noticed the attitude to see models as an end product. Secondly, as a consequence, there often was the un- articulated outlook, missing the human touch. Thirdly, we noticed the missing sense for scale as a conceptual device. Many models were made as if they were shrunken depictions of reality. This paper describes how we responded to these new problems.","scale model; representation; design process; architecture","en","conference paper","Politecnico di Milano","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:1624342e-c059-45b7-9cb0-ecb45b479d14","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1624342e-c059-45b7-9cb0-ecb45b479d14","The use of SCC and textile reinforcement","Schipper, H.R.; Grünewald, S.; Kok, M.A.D.; Nijsse, R.; Raghunath, P.","","2013","In an earlier article (CPI issue of August 2011 [1]) a method was presented for producing precast curved panels with a thickness of a few centimeters using the 'flexible mould method'. This method is the central theme in the PhD study of the first author on the realization of freeform architecture in concrete. The concrete panels manufactured with the flexible mould method can be applied for many architectural purposes in which curvature is present, such as facade cladding, precast plank floors or roof elements. The method essentially comprises a reusable and bendable smooth surface that can be deformed into a wide range of geometries, including variable curvatures in one or two directions and freely shaped edge contours. In the earlier article in CPI it was concluded that some aspects needed further research, among which were the choice of suitable concrete mixtures and the investigation of fibre reinforcement. This article discusses the results of experiments investigating these aspects: the mixture choice was guided by measuring the workability in time and the ability to undergo deformations after casting without cracking. Furthermore, AR-glass textile was used to strengthen the panels with a flexible reinforcement that allowed deformation in the non-hardened state. Experimental work has been done to check the position of the reinforcement after deformation and the contribution of the textiles to the strength of the panels.","concrete; precast; free-form; complex geometry; cladding; flexible mould; architecture; flexible mold; double-curved","en","journal article","Ad-media GmbH","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Structural Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:1a1f4bb6-4475-43f0-af87-69b9ae168fb1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1a1f4bb6-4475-43f0-af87-69b9ae168fb1","Consumer preferences in the design of airport passenger areas","Van Oel, C.J.; Van den Berkhof, F.W.","","2013","In recent decades, commercial developments have become increasingly important for the overall profit of airports. However, little is known about consumer preferences regarding the design of passenger areas, which is striking as the design of terminal buildings affects consumers' emotional state and shopping behaviour. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate how architectural design characteristics are valued by airport passengers, using visualizations of hypothetical passenger areas. Discrete choice experiments were used to investigate passenger preferences for eight design characteristics. Data on 346 passengers were collected in June 2008 in departure and transfer areas at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Analyses showed that passengers preferred a passenger area with a curvilinear roof, a curved layout, the presence of greenery, no decoration reflecting the distinctiveness of Holland, warm lighting, wide dimensions and white materials. Signage had no influence.","architecture; consumer preferences; discrete choice experiments; aesthetics; user-inspired design","en","journal article","Elsevier","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Real Estate & Housing","","","",""
"uuid:64f53e54-aaa9-4f67-8306-52c0741c72e4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:64f53e54-aaa9-4f67-8306-52c0741c72e4","Possible future role for architects and developers in reuse","Blanksma, A.K.","Remoy, H.T. (mentor); Roos, J. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor)","2013","Since the economic crisis in 2008 there is a common impression that things are about to change. No more large scale newly built neighbourhoods, growth is no longer a keyword. More transformation, reuse and redevelopment within the existing city boundaries is. New building assignments like increasing number of 1- and 2 person households and office vacancy strengthen this tendency. There is also a sustainability aspect in reuse. This is not only about saving building materials, but also saving existing structures and landmarks the area, which has characteristics for people to identify with. As a result of this, developers tend to take more interest in redevelopment. What does this mean for our built environment? Are they going to take certain values into account? The main research question is: Considering the changing building industry, what is the sum of co-operation between real estate developers and reuse architects in the initial phase in the building process in a reuse project? This will be tested on a post war housing flat, with two different design approaches known within the faculty of architecture: value assessment (department of Renovation, Modification, Intervention and Transformation) and feasibility analysis (department of Real Estate and Housing). The main reason for choosing this typology is because over 30% of our building stock is built after the war and lack modern comfort. This makes them likely to be redeveloped. Although the methods used are not completely fit for this building typology, this research shows that there is a sum. The most interesting conclusions are: - Financial analysis gives a designer insight in where exactly the costs are made and where the creative freedom might be. This resulted in equal costs for a simple functional intervention and a more extensive architectural intervention. Same costs, big difference in appearance; - The value analysis can show developers and building owners that a depreciated building, seemingly outdated and ‘ugly’, still has qualities and demolition is not the only option. - Combination of both created a profitable redesign of a post war housing flat with architectural quality and respect for values and heritage of the building and neighbourhood.","reuse; redevelopment; architecture; post-war housing; portiekflat; herontwikkeling; na oorlogse woningbouw","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","explorelab","",""
"uuid:251b0d39-4435-4076-a0f9-0c46cc9abdde","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:251b0d39-4435-4076-a0f9-0c46cc9abdde","An ethnographic study of architecture students and their workspaces: A small architecture school in the city","Nieveen van Dijkum, C.F.D.M.","Nottrot, R. (mentor); Heintz, J.L. (mentor); Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor)","2013","An ethnographic study of architecture students and their workspaces in Bath, Aarhus and Delft plus a design for a small school of architecture in Den Haag.","workspaces; architecture studio; architecture school; education; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-11-08","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:4f0c21c3-8647-4608-9159-fb51f7d8b7cf","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4f0c21c3-8647-4608-9159-fb51f7d8b7cf","The Typology of Astronomical Observatories","Waumans, A.A.","Engel, H.J. (mentor); Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor); Heintz, J.L. (mentor)","2013","Architecture graduation project, Explore Lab 15 studio Research thesis on the typology of astronomical observatories. Design project of a small (~350m2) amateur observatory located in the south of France.","observatories; architecture; typology; astronomy; observatory","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-11-08","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:e79c7646-bf3b-467b-b01f-3d61f8e1fa4a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e79c7646-bf3b-467b-b01f-3d61f8e1fa4a","Rotterdam Zuidplein: Briding the gap between the local and the regional","Morel, F.","Vermeulen, P. (mentor); Jennen, P. (mentor)","2013","","architecture; Rotterdam","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Hybrid Buildings","",""
"uuid:6392ca0a-1a7c-4881-9ae6-17d844dfa0d0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6392ca0a-1a7c-4881-9ae6-17d844dfa0d0","Integration of water into an architectural design - Tamale city expansion","Elliott, P.J.","Nottrot, J.R. (mentor); Van den Dobbelsteen, A.J.F. (mentor); Luising, A.E. (mentor)","2014","Since a few years, more than 50% of people live in urban areas and this number will increase, resulting in major city expanions while facing (potential) problems such as an inadequate access to drinking water, poor levels of sanitation and not enough space for rainwater. Therefore the integration between the water system and architecture becomes ever more important. Especially in a growing city as Tamale, Ghana, all of the scenarios above are actual problems already. On one hand you have the increasing needs for drinking water, utility water and dwellings, while on the other hand there are the increasing risks of drought, high levels of surface runoff and poor quality of sanitation. These problems all come together and coexist once people decide to live in a certain area. Because of growing demands and diminishing space, it makes sense to integrate architecture with a plan for water in stead of treating all problems individually. Preferably in such a way that they can support each other and perhaps even enhance the design as a whole. In short the design will contain a small a small neighbourhood for 500 people that has all the facilities to provide for safe utility and drinking water all year round, to provide for hygienic sanitation and to minimise flood risks during the rainy season. The design is a combination of architecture and the water system. They both ‘share the same space’ and influence each other rather than the water system being an individual aspect that is subordinate to the architectural framework. The scale of the project is not limited to the neighbourhood, but includes building blocks (50 people) and individual houses. (Whenever ‘water system’ is mentioned in this guidebook, it will always refer to more than just what happens inside the walls of a building. It can include up to the whole cycle: precipitation, harvesting, storage, filtration, use, source separation, nutrient recovery, infiltration, retention, etc. as all of them affect the human environment.)","water; integration; architecture; sustainability; nutrients; water management; expansion; vernacular architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explore Lab","",""
"uuid:59fc800c-0c0f-4078-a98a-9d83069ed83e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:59fc800c-0c0f-4078-a98a-9d83069ed83e","United Nations Environmental Council","Zhang, Z.","Van der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2014","A council and office building design of environmental council for UN","architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-02-01","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","SADD","",""
"uuid:fb35d386-de95-4f8c-b47b-48bfddb40f90","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fb35d386-de95-4f8c-b47b-48bfddb40f90","Conference information of the 5th International Conference on Competitions 2014","Volker, L. (ed.); Manzoni, B. (ed.)","","2014","Sessions are themed around: the climate, innovation, the client, strategies, assessment, case studies, the concept and identity.","architecture; competitions","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:87d45d54-dc01-49de-817d-c33158ccbf5b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:87d45d54-dc01-49de-817d-c33158ccbf5b","Competitions of Distraction or Hope? Public Responsibility, Social Advocacy, and the Dismantling of Architectural Priorities in the Open Ideas Competition","Plowright, P.D.","","2014","The paper addresses the cost and issues around the open idea competition in architecture through an understanding of disciplinary syntax and priorities. Through using case studies of successful competition submittals, including access to the design decision-making process, competition entries are discussed as having other issues than the widely noted efficiency and cost critiques. On a disciplinary level, there is an absence of architectural concerns in the projects and the outcomes only look like architecture. That is, there is a clear misalignment between competition outcomes and architectural priorities. Following this line of enquiry, the research connects the architectural idea competition as a form of marketing to a legacy of social advocacy and activism. However, this form of advocacy might be limited and ineffective on a cultural level when considering the voice it replaces. Research method: Qualitative Sampling, Reflective Analysis, Case Study Research, Cross Case-study Pattern Search Preliminary Results: The paper is professionally based. Preliminary results show the lack of architectural priorities and syntax application (circulation, context massing, environmental effects, structure) through considering major idea competition proposals using an unified framework theory of design process. This was collaborated through reflective and critique-based interviews with the young designers involved in competition process. The question was raised of what is replacing architectural content in these major publicity events. Statement in relation to theme: The research, abstract and resultant paper addresses theme statement 4 Why do clients and architects participate in competitions? Contributing to the long lasting debate about impact and legacies of competitions."" and the question ""How can the structure and procedures contribute to client/architect interactions, and how do they push them apart?"" It does this by discussing the contest as a conflict between architecture's ideas of public responsibility and developing the internal syntax of the discipline. The idea competition can be seen as problematic in syntax terms but also positive as it provides a forum that separates designers from clients, replacing client with constituency. Ultimately, the question becomes that while the aspirations might be positive, is the current format one that is sustainable or even ultimately effective?","architecture; open ideas competition; disciplinary syntax; advocacy; social hope","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:88014432-1b80-4e77-9451-07f06bf00977","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88014432-1b80-4e77-9451-07f06bf00977","Healing City: Rehabilitation Center Amsterdam","Van Niekerk, B.N.J.","Zeinstra, J. (mentor); Alvarez, L. (mentor); Gremmen, B. (mentor)","2014","Design task While 20 years ago rehabilitation centers were protected environments that secluded patients from society, recently the focus has shifted towards integration of patients in public life. The assignment for the design of the rehabilitation center fits in with this development, as the location for the project is in between the Overtoom, which is a crowded street near the city center of Amsterdam, and the Vondelpark. The site provides the opportunity to mingle disabled and non-disabled people. However, although the character of the rehabilitation center becomes more public, it still means the patient room’s environment should feel private and safe. This ambiguity makes the design of a rehabilitation center very interesting. The above raises two questions. How does the building contribute to the integration of patients in public life and how should you deal with the ambiguity of a public and private building? Generally speaking, the programme consists of ward departments, where patients live for up to a year, and the rehabilion facilities, where specialized therapists work with patients to improve their locomotor system or learn them how to talk. The main goals of rehabilitation are to become self reliant and to participate in society again. Approach Becoming self reliant and participating in society does not only require intensive therapy, but also initiative from patients. Therefore, the design offers stepping stones for a return in society. Architecture is used as a tool to create these stepping stones. By designing the building like a city, an environment is achieved that invites for movement and a stepwise transition from the protected patient room to the city. This miniature city is a preparation for the real city. Architectural spaces invite to come out of the patient room and succeed each other with an increasing level of publicness. That starts with a continuous quiet hallway that offers a view into several courtyards. Different paths lead to the center of the building – a spacious main street that connects the different levels visually by means of shifting voids and physically by a staircase on the outer parts of the street. From this street all courtyards, that vary in ‘publicness’ are visible. Some of these courtyards are covered and used as therapy spaces such as the swimming pool and the sporthall, thus making these facilities transparent. Another courtyard serves as the entrance courtyard and becomes an in between space between the building and the Overtoom. From the patient’s perspective, the sequence of architectural spaces that I incorporated in my design contribute to the fact that the border between private and public is not direct. Gradually, the level of publicness increases and the blurred transitions between these spaces invite to go one step further every time.","Rehabilitation Center; rehabilitation; healthcare; Amsterdam; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-08-16","Delft University of Technology","Architecture","","Interiors, Buildings and Cities","",""
"uuid:14f1b2c1-7696-4d46-97c1-236f41c96b92","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:14f1b2c1-7696-4d46-97c1-236f41c96b92","the Living Plant: A building that purifies air and water and at the same time grows food","Smits, R.","Homans, T. (mentor); Van Timmeren, A. (mentor)","2014","In my graduation project I use plants to clean air and water and at the same time grow food. In this way I create a system that turns urban waste into food while at the same time providing a nice and green environment. The food that is grown in the system will be sold in the shop and restaurant that are part of it. I want to show with the project that plants offer a lot more services than just being green and that they can become an essential part of the urban system.","living machine; urban agriculture; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:c47556d9-f360-41d0-b874-c989587b26af","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c47556d9-f360-41d0-b874-c989587b26af","4FFland","De Vries, S.","Van Timmeren, A. (mentor); Snijders, A. (mentor); Meys, M. (mentor)","2014","This paper presents a research which seeks ways to transform the Brettenzone, an existing recreational area in Amsterdam, into an energyscape: a landscape which produces renewable energy. Renewable energy production will increasingly start to compete with other forms of land use such as recreation, nature and agriculture. Its careful integration therefore becomes detrimental. This paper discusses renewable energy systems and what determines their sustainability. It offers a set of analysis methods which can be used when designing for renewable energy production. These methods include energy potential and system mapping. This paper also presents an analysis of Amsterdam’s energy system and it’s potentials for renewable energy production using the before mentioned methods. This analyses describes the design casus and seeks to identify possibilities for an intervention. It gives a set of possibilities producing renewable energy in the Brettenzone which include: recycling nutrients from industrial waste streams to agriculturally produce food and biogas, producing electrical power using PV cells, harvesting heat for the district network using solar collectors and aquifers, as well as harvesting cold for a future district network (Teleport) using deep water source cooling (Sloterplas), absorption cooling devices, the Binnen-IJ and aquifers. The most promising proposal, an agricultural enterprise producing food and biogas, is analysed further. Such an enterprise would produce food, feed and fuel whilst maintaining a theoretically closed cycle of fertilising nutrients. This paper present research into the requirements of such a food, feed, fuel and fertiliser farm entitled, the 4F farm. The paper presents the aspects which determine the sustainability of the 4F farm with an emphasis on the bioenergy aspect. It explores possible sources of plant biomass by comparing their biogas yield rates as well as their climatic requirements in comparison to the conditions in Amsterdam. A similar analysis is made for manure as a source of biomass. The biogas production process is also discussed as well as the required systems and equipment. From this paper it can be concluded that the described food and biogas farm should seek to optimize the yield of food, feed, fuel and fertilizer in that respective order of importance. Also it offers the required data and recommendations for designing the 4F farm. The paper notes however that the 4F’s energy yields per acre are not sufficient to fulfi ll the ambition of acting as an energyscape. For this goal to be reached the 4F farm should also integrate other energy harvesting techniques such as PV cells or solar collectors. The 4F farm can be suffi cient however to sustain a small autarkic neighbourhood.","4Ffarming; closed cycle agriculture; energy potential mapping; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-04-13","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","",""
"uuid:650ec0d0-4613-4dae-96b1-1f685dff0e60","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:650ec0d0-4613-4dae-96b1-1f685dff0e60","Automatic Hardware Generation for Reconfigurable Architectures","Nane, R.","Bertels, K.L.M. (promotor)","2014","Reconfigurable Architectures (RA) have been gaining popularity rapidly in the last decade for two reasons. First, processor clock frequencies reached threshold values past which power dissipation becomes a very difficult problem to solve. As a consequence, alternatives were sought to keep improving the system performance. Second, because Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) technology substantially improved (e.g., increase in transistors per mm2), system designers were able to use them for an increasing number of (complex) applications. However, the adoption of reconfigurable devices brought with itself a number of related problems, of which the complexity of programming can be considered an important one. One approach to program an FPGA is to implement an automatically generated Hardware Description Language (HDL) code from a High-Level Language (HLL) specification. This is called High-Level Synthesis (HLS). The availability of powerful HLS tools is critical to managing the ever-increasing complexity of emerging RA systems to leverage their tremendous performance potential. However, current hardware compilers are not able to generate designs that are comparable in terms of performance with manually written designs. Therefore, to reduce this performance gap, research on how to generate hardware modules efficiently is imperative. In this dissertation, we address the tool design, integration, and optimization of the DWARV 3.0 HLS compiler. Dissimilar to previous HLS compilers, DWARV 3.0 is based on the CoSy compiler framework. As a result, this allowed us to build a highly modular and extendible compiler in which standard or custom optimizations can be easily integrated. The compiler is designed to accept a large subset of C-code as input and to generate synthesizable VHDL code for unrestricted application domains. To enable DWARV 3.0 third-party tool-chain integration, we propose several IP-XACT (i.e., a XML-based standard used for tool-interoperability) extensions such that hardware-dependent software can be generated and integrated automatically. Furthermore, we propose two new algorithms to optimize the performance for different input area constraints, respectively, to leverage the benefits of both jump and predication schemes from conventional processors adapted for hardware execution. Finally, we performed an evaluation against state-of-the-art HLS tools. Results show that application execution time wise, DWARV 3.0 performs, on average, the best among the academic compilers.","high-level synthesis; hardware; reconfigurable; architecture; compiler; survey; dwarv; HLS; optimization","en","doctoral thesis","CPI Koninklijke Wohrmann","","","","","","","","Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science","Computer Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:ead5977e-71db-4b39-9633-22399647430c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ead5977e-71db-4b39-9633-22399647430c","Architectural engineering of FRP bridges","Smits, J.E.P.","","2014","This paper deals with the use of Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP's) in architectural and structural bridge design. The challenges and opportunities that come with this relatively new material are discussed. An inventory is made of recent engineers' solutions in FRP, followed by a discussion on architectural application of FRP's derived from the authors architectural practice.","architecture; structural design; bridge design; FRP; Juliana Bridge; fly-over Waarderpolder; Wildlife crossing Rijssen-Wierden; Dragonfly Bridge Harderwijk; Delft Design Composite Bridge","en","conference paper","IABSE","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering +Technology","","","",""
"uuid:5b7faa1f-a2a7-46e2-974d-7b77c13836f3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5b7faa1f-a2a7-46e2-974d-7b77c13836f3","Typical Plan: The Architecture of Labor and the Space of Production","Marullo, F.","Riedijk, M. (promotor); Barbieri, S.U. (promotor); Aureli, P.V. (promotor)","2014","In a short essay dealing with the repetitive homogeneity of the Manhattan’s office layouts, Rem Koolhaas defined the term Typical Plan as one of the purest American architectural archetypes. A plan stripped of all its qualities and reduced to a calculated relation between discreet standardised elements: an empty surface able to host whatever program and on which life could be simply performed. Nevertheless, more than a technical achievement in electric lighting, air-conditioning and fire-safety protocols, the alleged “specific indeterminacy” of the typical plan was the outcome of violent political and economical passages, epitomised by that historical convergence between the modern industrial revolution, the scientific management of production and the financial imperialism which marked the first three decades of the 20th-century. Through the analysis of coeval case-studies in United States, Germany, Soviet Union and Italy, this thesis conjectures the typical plan as the creation of the working-class, whose struggle always forced capitalism to constantly extend its infrastructural apparatus and to further improve its architecture of production in order to ultimately reduce the genericness of labor-power as lymph for progress. Only by reconstructing its spatial genealogy through the instruments of political economy and the dialectic of class conflict, the typical plan could be eventually reconsidered in its twofold framing character, both as managerial dispositive – to maximise exploitation and profit – but also as a platform of organisation – to articulate the workers’ opposition and resistance against any form of slavery, within and beyond the factory walls.","architecture; plan; production; political economy; abstraction","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:288c0ce7-70cf-42b9-90a9-05408edc33a8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:288c0ce7-70cf-42b9-90a9-05408edc33a8","Innovation with open data: Essential elements of open data ecosystems","Zuiderwijk, A.M.G.; Janssen, M.F.W.H.A.; Davis, C.B.","","2014","Open data ecosystems are expected to bring many advantages, such as stimulating citizen participation and innovation. However, scant attention has been given to what constitutes an open data ecosystem. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of essential elements of open data ecosystems for enabling easy publication and use of open data. To achieve this objective, the literature has been reviewed and a scenario about the publication and use of open data has been analyzed. It was found that various applications, tools and portals are available which together can form an ecosystem. The best functionalities of this ecosystem can be selected and utilized by open data providers and users. To create an open data ecosystem at least four key elements should be captured, namely, 1) releasing and publishing open data on the internet, 2) searching, finding, evaluating and viewing data and their related licenses, 3) cleansing, analyzing, enriching, combining, linking and visualizing data and 4) interpreting and discussing data and providing feedback to the data provider and other stakeholders. Furthermore, to integrate the ecosystem elements and to let them act as an integrated whole, there should be three additional elements 5) user pathways showing directions for how open data can be used, 6) a quality management system and 7) different types of metadata to be able to connect the elements.","open data ecosystem; open data; open government; ecosystem; architecture; infrastructure; innovation","en","journal article","IOS Press","","","","","","","2015-06-19","Technology, Policy and Management","Infrastructure Systems & Services","","","",""
"uuid:12821b33-45a0-4e63-94dc-30882b9b478d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12821b33-45a0-4e63-94dc-30882b9b478d","Breaking the Dichotomy: The borderland and the decentralization of the food supply system. The case of Medellín, Colombia","De Bont, J.C.A.","Sohn, H. (mentor); Nottrot, R. (mentor); Van de Voort, J. (mentor)","2014","In many Latin American cities, like Medellín, the food distribution system has an apparent irrational structure. The case is that food is distributed first to the city centre and from there redistributed towards the periphery with a concentrically raising price. This becomes most clear if we look at the informally built settlements that are mostly located in the outskirts of the city adjacent to surrounding rural area. These settlements mainly started to grow from the 1950s on. Until the 1970s the city of Medellín prospered economically. This prosperity leaded to an immense growth of the city, as in most of the other Latin American cities. It was round this time that the expansion limits of the city were reached as well. Next to the growth of industrial centers, proliferation of squatter settlements took place. This resulted in an increasing differentiation between the formally and informallu built parts of the city. The informally built neighbourhoods on the slopes around the city covers the whole ring surrounding the metropolitan area in all possible directions. A clear example of this differentiation is the food distribution system that was not equally developed throughout the city. Ever since the introduction of the Mayorista (central wholesale market) in 1971 no public markets were added to the network. Instead private developments took over, from the 90s on mainly supermarkets, and big vacuums emerged in the supply network. This imbalance causes increasing food prices for the people in lower social classes (mostly living in informally developed areas in the periphery). Next to that it creates an undesirable dependence on big scale centralized systems and organizational structures. There is a big contrast between the systematics of the informally built neighbourhoods and the (food) logistics system. The informal as a counter to the formal system is developed in a decentral and adhoc manner. The informal systematics work just like the slums themselves namely from the bottom-up. This decentral character of the informally built structures is not reflected upon in the (spatial) structure of the food distribution network in Medellín (and other Latin American metropolitan areas). The hypothesis is that this issue becomes most clear there where we can see exchange between the formal and informal. For this reason this will be the area of focus. In order to develop strategies that are complimentary to the projects that are done in the past years in Medellín the research and project that will follow from this is focused on food. The issue of food (in)security is not widely covered within the upgrading projects as they are proposed up till now. By addressing the theme of food we start at the foundation of the Maslow pyramid. We could say that without proper nutrition one is not able to develop further as a person. It makes possible that people will go to libraries, study and go to school. In more than one way it forms the basis of life. Within the process of segregation the dichotomy of formal versus informal practices plays a major role. Spatial segregation goes hand in hand with the social stratification process taking place in the urban society of Medellín. In order to tackle this dichotomy the concept of analytic borderlands (after Saskia Sassen) is introduced within the debate. The socio-economic phenomenon of informality has a big influence on the spatial reality of the city, from the emergence of informally built neighbourhoods all the way to the ambulant vendors appearing on the street. The informal can be seen as a counter to the formal system, but is as well complementary to it. It is developed in a decentralized and adhoc manner. The decentralized character of the informal is largely ignored within the contemporary spatial systematics of the city. The centralized strategies as used by the conquistadors, (formal) urban planners and food distributors have one thing in common. What they have in common is that they are not capable of dealing with the entire city as a complex (decentralized) heterogeneous system. The metropolitan food distribution in Medellín, like in a lot of other Latin American cities, is immensely centralized, which has an enormous impact on the issue of food security. If we look upon the role of the borderlands as they occur in Medellín, we see that they are as much spatially disintegrated as most of the other areas in the city. One of the main reasons for this spatial segregation is the ongoing social stratification of the urban society. On the other side we can see that the borderlands play a major role as the facilitator of exchange between what are supposed to be formal and informal systematics. If we look into the flow of commodities, in this case food distribution, than we see that these systems are not at all separated, but are fully interwoven. Next to that the necessity to reconnect demand and supply of food products will be taken in account. This results in the concept of introducing a hub that reconnects the formal and the informal, both with regards to architectural spatial aspects as well as with regards to demand and supply of food. The borderland thus plays a big role in the urban (food distribution) system, mostly in the socio-economic sense. The spatial framework that will be worked with treats the borderland as mediator between formal and informal structures. The borderland consists of a spectrum reaching from absolute formal to informal. We should take in account that there where formal elements appear in the city, the city is not fully formal. At the same time informally built pirata developments (organized informal land occupations) are not through and through informal as they can be legalized. This heterogeneous representation of the city is reflecting the urban reality more sincere and appropriate than the dichotomous view does. The conclusive urban strategy states that there is a necessity to introduce additional food trading hubs in the city. This is mainly a reaction to two specific results of the currently followed strategy. The first being the emergence of a large area that is not covered by these centrally acting distributors.The second are the homogenization attempts by the various markets in the city, mainly the Mayorista, that are not sufficiently working. Although they succeed (up to a certain extend) to keep informal activities outside their own perimeter, they are not able to do so with regard to informality in general. Informal trading emerges just next to the market, also since the two are largely depending on each other. With regards to the working of the urban distribution network an alternative is presented in the form of an decentralized hub network. Additionally to the proposed decentralized (cross dock) hubs new connections in the road network need to be introduced. One of the main objectives of decentralizing the food distribution system is to cut some of the intermediaries that are now needed, since all products (have to) pass through the Mayorista. Based on the docking station logistic system food can find its way directly to the several hubs. The food products will get closer to the consumer and this with less resale points, making a lower price possible, mainly for the people living in the (lower social strata) periphery. Additionally these hubs will be locally integrated as architectural objects within their direct context. Central to the idea of the heterogeneous borderland is the concept of hybridization. The hybrid is where the formal and the informal come together and form a hybrid cityscape. This term the hybrid cityscape will be defined based on the theoretical framework, based on the borderland and the assemblage theory (after Manuel DeLanda). Theories on hybrids, in-between worlds and an emerging third world are wide spread. From Popper’s Third World, to the Third World of Bhabha all the way to Foucault’s Heterotopia. All of these theories try in one way or the other to pose an alternative to the (then) leading concept of the dichotomy as a way to perceive the world. Although on several levels (scientific, cultural or spatial) they all aim at the same, they fill the gap that is left by the dichotomous world view. Or as Foucault puts it: “they have a function in relation to all the space that remains”. The hybrid is thus not the space that is left between the two outer poles, but forms the connection, the relation between the two. It is the middle of the spectrum between formal and informal where the hybrid cityscape emerges. Within the project the hybrid cityscape is dealt with as a product of the borderland. This is about integrating informal elements within a formal scheme. It is chosen here to work with the grid, as a representation of the universal. But instead of using the grid as a tool of homogenization it will be used to offer room for the spontaneous.","Medellín; food distribution; architecture; peripheral food market; informally built settlements; Colombia; Mayorista; informal vs formal; dichotomy; hybrid cityscape; food security; analytic borderland; assemblage theory; decentral food supply hubs; short chain; heterogenisation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explore Lab","","6.2308, 75.5906"
"uuid:430c8765-e6f4-4811-8d52-62a025ddf27e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:430c8765-e6f4-4811-8d52-62a025ddf27e","Conflicten over Haagse Stadsbeelden: Van Willemspark tot Spuiforum","Oorschot, L.M.","Bekkering, H.C. (promotor); Van Bergeijk, H. (promotor)","2014","This study is about the continual stride between 1860 and 2010 amongst the various interest groups involved with what the city of The Hague should look like. The thesis of the study states that the fragmented image that people in the city have or experience is the result of the wide variety of urban ensembles and public buildings, whether or not they are crowded together or even completed, that were successively presented and implemented by the interest groups involved. Stakeholders such as national and local politicians, the royal family, banks, industrialists, housing corporations, developers, architects, urban planners, and organizations of critical citizens have always been in conflict about what public buildings or iconic urban compositions should look like. With the best of intentions each group wants to shape the city with public buildings and urban compositions in their own way and the urge to achieve this is always playing a role in the background. It is as if the city is being stripped of space, movement, and time and that only the image of the city is what counts, an image that is endlessly being reproduced in the media to influence the public opinion. The scramble over the Spuiforum is just the latest affair in a long series of incidents in The Hague. The hard-hearted efforts of those involved to create one balanced townscape has only delivered more fragmented images, yet perhaps this is the city’s greatest quality. It seems like just about everyone has been occupied with the Spuiforum since 2009 to the present. The battle between supporters and opponents has been going on for years. The media critics are always there looking for the next scandal, finding fault with motives that may not always be clear. However, as intense as the conflict appears now, it will soon be forgotten. Who remembers the conflict over the Willemspark or the Peace Palace? The numerous conflicts around the sea resort Scheveningen? The battles over urban renewal, the haggling around the competition for the House of Representatives or the rivalry and troubles around the The Hague City Hall? The Eurojust (The European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit)? The International Criminal Court? Such stormy conflicts arise and no sooner ebb away again, often into silent oblivion. And still, in most cases, the construction of the urban image is executed as planned, though often partially. Even more, the conflicts are of importance because they reveal how people experience the city and want to see it. Cracks in society are bluntly exposed this way. For example, the most monumental gateway in The Hague is that of the The Hague Police Precinct built in the 1950’s, which faces the rear side of The Hague’s progressive party’s flagship (1986-1989), the residential complex designed by Ricardo Bofill with parking access, garbage containers, and other utilities. A good observer can see the many contradictions of society mirrored in this situation in the city. The object of this study is to examine the image of the city and the conflicts pertaining to it. The image of the city, also referred to here as the city image, has become particularly popular in recent years. This is due in part to the new position of cities in the global urbanization process, whereby cities have become competitors and moreover, new opportunities for cities to present themselves worldwide result from the revolution in communication technology and digitization. The research shows that the city image, despite its elusiveness and fluidity, played an imperative role in the genesis of the city far earlier. Churchill’s statement ‘we formed our cities and the cities formed us’ could be broadened to: ‘we imagined our cities and that image formed us.’ Nancy Stieber (2006) gave in the book de STAD (2006) an insightful analysis on the relationship between images and the city. The city is conceptualized as a metaphor. According to her, that is one of the transformations of the urban fabric might undergo in our minds. She distinguishes three categories: the image of the city, the imagined city, and the imaginary city. The image of the city is the idea that is composed by individuals or groups: a creation that is triggered from experience of the city in the mind or a concept based on the actual city itself. The imagined city is the virtual arena conceived by artists, architects, city planners, marketers, and others through art, film, literature, music, advertising, architecture, and urban designs. This idea is certainly related to the first category, but here the focus is on the representation of the city by specialists that are making the presentations to convince people of the value and significance of an urban composition or public building. In this sense, the producers of the images are crucial since, after all, who needs to be convinced of which statement? Using a caricature on Berlage’s Amsterdam South, Stieber demonstrated that the categories are inseparable and all three are about metaphors of the city. ‘The city between the ears’, as noted by the geographer and urban marketing specialist Gertjan Hosper (2010). The goal of this study is to discover and describe consecutive city images of The Hague and the conflicts associated with them between 1860 and 2010, as well as to determine for whom, with what motive and background these city images were developed, where, in how far, and if these consecutive city images were realized, what the conflicts were about, and why the often unfinished images disappeared again, which resulted in the current fragmented image of the city. The human activities that take place in the buildings and surroundings, no matter how significant, were left out of the study for practical reasons. Every case study is of a dominant city image from a certain period. The central context is the relation between ‘the city between the ears’, the actual built city, and the many conflicts pertaining to that image. Each image will be analyzed in this study on the basis of iconic ensembles in the urban setting. The urban ensemble is iconic if it has been part of a public debate. It is unraveled by way of three aspects: the motives for and against of those involved, the shape of the urban space, and the architecture of the buildings. This study inevitably comprises multi-disciplinary research. Results of research on the morphology, typology, imagery, and historical sources are associated to each other. Aspects like urban space, development, and motives of stakeholders concerning the appearance of the locations are compared and present a new light. It’s not the knowledge acquired about the cause, a condition or situation from the past that is central to the study like in the research of a historian, but the knowledge gathered about the exchange between image and reality during a certain time frame. Throughout the case studies on particular urban ensembles, cross references are made between the histories of architecture, town planning, and politics and the social reality. The case studies chosen to prove the above mentioned thesis led to the following conclusions. The fragmented look of The Hague was directly caused by debates on the image of the city. Images of a city are a kind of visual or esthetic category that cannot be sharply defined but rather have something intangible and are fluid. Only at the project level can images be bright and clear. All of the city images were found to run a certain course in time of no longer than a 20 to 30 year time span. The image of the city is not always visually homogenous or in one particular style, but can instead be diverse. It also tends to bind places together that are distant, such as typical Dutch cauliflower neighborhoods from the 70’s, which can be found throughout the country. City images can also unite local and international aspects of the city and are more successful and domineering when there is a high development rate. In this respect, there are some large gaps in the historical context, blank areas where there was hardly any building development going on. There is always a motive behind the city image: the spontaneous city is fictitious. However, the motive is often forgotten whereby people wonder later on about the consistency between urban space, development, and the imagery that was used in the development process. As townscapes appear with new city images, they seem inadaptable. They are destructive and intolerant towards their predecessors, especially when those images rise within the existing city. It is normal to demolish an area to a build new ideal. The role of the stakeholders like architects, urban designers, and officials is highly overrated. It is the synergy between them and the context that is crucial. The city image plays a unifying and sometimes persistent role under these conditions, reminding us: the city, that’s us. On the basis of the study on the image of the city it is possible to draw the map of a city differently, precisely because that way the differences between cities become apparent.","city image; architecture; urbanism; history","nl","doctoral thesis","A+BE Architecture and The Built Environment","","","","","","","2014-07-04","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:a0a8e4d0-b7e9-47d1-a73e-ec15ab66eeb0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a0a8e4d0-b7e9-47d1-a73e-ec15ab66eeb0","Superdutch - Eine Kopfgeburt der Medien","Beumer, G.; Van den Heuvel, D.","","2014","Statement on contemporary Dutch architecture for a special issue of the German weekly Baunetzwoche devoted to Dutch architecture.","architecture","de","journal article","BauNetz","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:82ce51a3-5ccd-4f40-b550-5b62d8b9ec1b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:82ce51a3-5ccd-4f40-b550-5b62d8b9ec1b","An Archaeology of the Ordinary: Rethinking the Architecture of Dwelling from CIAM to Siza","Mota, N.J.A.","Van Gameren, D.E. (promotor); Van den Heuvel, D. (promotor); Bandeirinha, J.A.O. (promotor)","2014","This dissertation examines architectural operations developed from the 1950s through the 1980s that challenged modernity’s “anxiety of contamination” and that have negotiated the boundaries between the realm of the individual and the social, the expert and the mass men, the local and the universal, modernity and the vernacular. The central project of the dissertation is to present ambivalence, ""thirdness"", and “strangeness” as conditions that activate the creative power of conflicts in negotiating binary polarities. The research is supported by a special focus on the Portuguese architectural design and theory and its relation with the societal transformations that ensued from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. Throughout this period, the world in general and Western Europe in particular lived under the all-encompassing polarity triggered by the postcolonial geopolitics and the Cold War. In this context, Portugal's position at the semiperiphery of the world system, i.e. simultaneously located at the periphery of the core and being the core for the periphery, generated a productive outcome from the entwined relation between modernity and the vernacular that pervaded the disciplinary debate in general and the architecture of dwelling in particular. Firstly, the dissertation analyses in detail the work of the Portuguese CIAM group and its most prominent members and followers, underlining their negotiation of the universal tenets of modernity with the ethos of local culture. From the aftermath of WWII until the emergence of the protest movements in the late 1960s, their work went beyond a pastoral vision of the vernacular tradition, contributing to negotiate the mechanist tropes of architectural modernism with the development of a humanistic approach to the habitat for the masses. Then, the purview of the research moves to the work of a single architect, Álvaro Siza, examining how his housing projects designed and developed from the 1970s through the 1980s, in Porto, Évora, Berlin and The Hague, tackled the disciplinary challenges brought about by a pervasive contestation on hegemonic powers. In this period, Siza’s work asserts the vital role of the architectural project to activate collective memory and to confront a counter-pastoral view of modernity. The research suggests that a critical articulation between architecture’s disciplinary codes and conventions and the specific aspects of the situation contributed to create a contaminated landscape, bypassing the shortcomings of social, political, and disciplinary constructs based on polar oppositions. The conclusions of the dissertation assert the importance of activating collective memory, coping with contingency, and the creative potential of ambivalence and conflicts, as vital contributions to frame disciplinary approaches prone to yield a negotiated outcome in contexts dominated by hegemonic relations and the rhetoric of binary polarities.","architecture; housing; CIAM; Portugal; Álvaro Siza; modernity","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:cfc75fe4-bdb9-42ed-b2eb-7f44b5739446","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cfc75fe4-bdb9-42ed-b2eb-7f44b5739446","A new space design for Impact Hub Oaxaca, based on a reproducible interaction model for the spaces of Impact Hub around the world","Borst, M.M.","Tange, L.A. (mentor); De Rijk, T.R.A. (mentor)","2014","HUB Oaxaca is a hub that provides office space, workshops and connections to a community of 120 entrepreneurs that strive for social change in Oaxaca, Mexico. HUB Oaxaca is part of Impact Hub, a global network of more than 50 hubs that together grow social impact. The current physical space of HUB Oaxaca does not reflect its complex but enchanting local context and global connectedness, nor does it inspire and stimulate community interaction. The aim of this graduation project is to design a new inspiring, locally embedded concept for the physical space of HUB Oaxaca, based on a reproducible interaction model for the co-work spaces of Impact Hub around the world. The approach that has been chosen for this project is the Vision in Design model (ViP), a context-driven model that deconstructs the existing product, interaction and context to create a new future context, interaction and product. This report presents the analysis, the synthesis and the evaluation that led to the final interaction model and its translation into the new space design of HUB Oaxaca.","interior; retail; office; branding; furniture; architecture; design; mexico","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","Industrial Design","","Integrated Product Design","",""
"uuid:8fd82874-7ef2-48d6-bfb5-2f99ca26e254","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8fd82874-7ef2-48d6-bfb5-2f99ca26e254","Building for a better hospital: Value-adding management & design of healthcare real estate","Van der Zwart, J.","De Jonge, H. (promotor)","2014","Recent deregulation of laws on hospital real estate in the Netherlands implies that healthcare institutions have more opportunities to make independent accommodation choices, but at the same time have themselves become responsible for the risks associated with the investment. In addition, accommodation costs have become an integral part of the costs of healthcare. This sheds new light on the alignment between the organisation of healthcare and accommodation: care institutions themselves bear the risk of recouping their investment in real estate and high accommodation costs lead to higher rates for healthcare compared to competing institutions. In this thesis, the ideas and concepts of Corporate Real Estate Management (CREM) are examined in terms of the contribution they could make to the process of accommodation decision by using recent cases in Dutch hospitals. CREM can be defined as the management of the real estate portfolio of a corporation by aligning the portfolio and services with the needs of the core business in order to obtain maximum added value for the business and an optimal contribution to the overall performance of the organisation. This definition assumes that accommodation can add value to the organisation and contribute to its overall achievement. Elaborating on the added value of real estate in addition to quantifying these added values and making them applicable to hospital real estate management is therefore central to this study. The added values determine the transition between the different phases in the cycle of the initiation, design, construction and occupancy of the accommodation. In addition, the added value of real estate functions as a common language between the disciplines involved in the design and construction of hospital accommodation, such as the healthcare institution, healthcare manager, real estate manager and architect. In four sub-studies (1) Context, (2) Management, (3) Value and, (4) Design several concepts that contribute to a more informed decision-making on accommodation aligned with the organisation of healthcare are made applicable by elaborating on, and connecting, existing conceptual frameworks. Conceptual models from different disciplines are aligned in order to achieve an integral approach by both organisation and accommodation management. In addition to the conclusions and recommendations of the separate studies (1-4), the final result is a toolbox (PART 5) that can be used to support a decision-making process that results in a better informed real estate strategy. The instruments are tested by an assessment of recently completed hospital construction projects.","hospital; added value; real estate; alignment; healthcare; architecture","en","doctoral thesis","AB+E Architecture and the Built Environment","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Real Estate & Housing","","","",""
"uuid:dbab7a8d-1905-4fd5-ab6f-686c6d4ad40f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dbab7a8d-1905-4fd5-ab6f-686c6d4ad40f","Guided self-organization for Vilnius","Baltrusaitis, D.","Relats, M. (mentor); Van den Burg, L.P.J. (mentor)","2014","Exploring alternative urban planning models and policies. Designing a strategic model of self-organization for context specific neighborhoods and districts. The study case is Vilnius, capital of Lithuania and it’s district Newtown. Focal points of the project: political agenda behind spatial design implementation in Vilnius, financial streams of project funding, and the concept model for self-organization for context specific neighborhoods and districts.","urbanism; architecture; self-organization; shared economy; civic society; policy making; urban design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Design as Politics","",""
"uuid:897e78e0-0e92-453a-bf40-3424dbf9fc58","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:897e78e0-0e92-453a-bf40-3424dbf9fc58","South Chicago Complex Graduation Studio—Health City—Sports Complex Architecture Design","Du, X.","Van Bennekom, H.A. (mentor); Van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Cavallo, R. (mentor)","2014","Along Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago lies a huge vacant land-the Chicago Southworks. It belonged to the US Steel company before 1992 and then became a bare land accompanied by the bankrupt of the factory, leaving several huge ore walls on the site. Our group develops a Health City system to largely activate the land and its surrounding neighborhoods. Each of our individual design is based on the team strategy. The site of my personal project is located inside the walls that to build an ideal relationship between the architecture and the site and create spatial qualities is the most essential aim in the progress.","architecture; Chicago Southworks; sports complex; spatial quality","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Complex Projects","","41.740062, -87.534121"
"uuid:cb51f942-6d73-4db5-a257-be7680cdcbc8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb51f942-6d73-4db5-a257-be7680cdcbc8","Muziek en architectuur, vier relaties","Kuijper, J.A.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van Dooren, E.J.C.G. (mentor); Olsthoorn, B. (mentor)","2014","Een ontwerp voor een crematorium in Flevoland gebaseerd op enkele relaties tussen muziek en architectuur.","music; architecture; polder; crematorium","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-11-04","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:39ca0212-7339-4c00-90aa-17353ad412c2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:39ca0212-7339-4c00-90aa-17353ad412c2","E-Synergy, local collaboration in Agriport","Smits, E.","Schroën, R.J. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); Geldermans, R.J. (mentor)","2014","Sustainable energy brings us not only advantages, but some problems as well. This research is an exploration to the problem on our energy infrastructure and comes with a proposal of solving this problem with architecture.","sustainability; exchange; synergy; biofilter; architecture; pool","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","","52.760023, 5.041244"
"uuid:55e3c209-aec8-4609-b6a9-35c8da6a7cb2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:55e3c209-aec8-4609-b6a9-35c8da6a7cb2","European high speed railway, understanding design contradictions for long-term urban architecture strategy","Triggianese, M.","","2014","","infrastructure; polycentric mega-city; station area development; urban design; architecture","en","conference paper","Institute of Social Sciences - University of Lisbon; Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems - Rome; The Chinese University of Hong Kong","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:2fcfaece-99a6-4eca-9a58-eca729cb85c1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2fcfaece-99a6-4eca-9a58-eca729cb85c1","Bust a move!","Van Til, J.S.K.","Smit, M.J. (mentor); Meijs, M.H. (mentor); Bilow, M. (mentor)","2015","This project is about a design for a temporary building that will help areas that are in the process of a large-scale transformation to fill the gap between the past and the present. Temporality is dealt with with in materialisation(cardboard), location and the programme.","architecture; temporary; cardboard","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2015-01-30","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","","52.388384, 4.839609"
"uuid:824ba1aa-4a15-444c-9696-d86c648a724d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:824ba1aa-4a15-444c-9696-d86c648a724d","Elderly Care Home: A Home For Dementia Patients","Chung, K.H.","Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)","2015","","architecture; interiors; healthcare","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Interiors","",""
"uuid:15505481-89e1-491c-848b-953291833c40","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:15505481-89e1-491c-848b-953291833c40","Flowscapes: Designing infrastructure as landscape","Nijhuis, S.; Jauslin, D.T.; Van der Hoeven, F.D.","","2015","Social, cultural and technological developments of our society are demanding a fundamental review of the planning and design of its landscapes and infrastructures, in particular in relation to environmental issues and sustainability. Transportation, green and water infrastructures are important agents that facilitate processes that shape the built environment and its contemporary landscapes. With movement and flows at the core, these landscape infrastructures facilitate aesthetic, functional, social and ecological relationships between natural and human systems, here interpreted as Flowscapes. Flowscapes explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridisation of the two concepts seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing spatial design to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. This academic publication aims to provide multiple perspectives on the subject from design-related disciplines such as architecture, urban planning and design, landscape architecture and civil engineering. It is a reflection of a multidisciplinary colloquium on landscape infrastructures held at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, preparing grounds for in-depth discussions and future collaborations. The authors explore concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research of landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design-oriented approaches. Through focusing on multidisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that can guide urban and rural development and have cultural and civic significance.","landscape infrastructure; design research; landscape architecture; urban design; architecture; civil engineering; green infrastructure; water infrastructure; transport infrastructure; infrastructural urbanism","en","book","TU Delft","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:a7d1021f-9a9a-4eb9-9743-934014a3ba0f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a7d1021f-9a9a-4eb9-9743-934014a3ba0f","Urban landscape infrastructures: Designing operative landscape structures for the built environment","Nijhuis, S.; Jauslin, D.T.","","2015","This paper explores infrastructure as a type of landscape and landscape as a type of infrastructure. The hybridisation of the two concepts, landscape and infrastructure, seeks to redefine infrastructure beyond its strictly utilitarian definition, while allowing design disciplines to gain operative force in territorial transformation processes. This paper aims to put forward urban landscape infrastructures as a design concept, considering them as armatures for urban development and for facilitating functional, social and ecological interactions. It seeks to redefine infrastructural design as an interdisciplinary design effort to establish a local identity through tangible relationships to a place or region. Urban landscape infrastructures can thereby be used as a vehicle to re-establish the role of design as an integrating practice. This paper positions urban landscape infrastructure design in the contemporary discourse on landscape infrastructures. The space of flows, as opposed to the space of places, is introduced as an impetus to develop the concept of landscape infrastructure into a more comprehensive form of urban landscape architecture. Furthermore, this paper outlines a set of principles typical for urban landscape infrastructure design and suggests three potential fields of operation: transport, green and water landscape infrastructure. The design of these operative landscape structures is a crosscutting field that involves multiple disciplines in which the role of designers is essential.","landscape infrastructure; flowscapes; design; urbanism; transport; green infrastructure; infrastructural urbanism; landscape architecture; systems thinking; architecture; regional design; infrastructure","en","journal article","TU Delft","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:4f3320b8-6523-42c3-a114-39c8e6f65dc5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4f3320b8-6523-42c3-a114-39c8e6f65dc5","Naval Archive, the subversion of order","Groenendijk, L.","Marzot, N. (mentor); Deboutte, N.E.A.I. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)","2015","The graduation master of the public building studio focused this year on the topic of the biennale of Venice; ‘Palazzo Enciclopedico’, combined with the city of Istanbul. Since the beginning of my master architecture am I highly interested in the fundamental orders for the built environment. The combination with the public realm made me realize that these fundamental orders, as we perceive and use them as architects, in some assets are a subversion of the order. The theories described by the architect Bernard Tschumi and muscian John Cage helped me in developing a position within architecture that, together with the graduation assignment, resulted in the proposal of a public building on the quay of the Golden Horn in Istanbul.","subversion of order; architecture; John Cage; indeterminacy; evolution of space appropriation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Public Building","",""
"uuid:1ff86687-03e8-4561-ab55-9426b73e426c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1ff86687-03e8-4561-ab55-9426b73e426c","CanoPV: How can a canopy system be used to create temporary public space which generates energy","Eekhof, R.","Smit, M. (mentor)","2015","","canopy; space frame; architecture; photovoltaics","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","",""
"uuid:682d496f-1c06-49e4-bf45-387b8170de38","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682d496f-1c06-49e4-bf45-387b8170de38","Design for a Hospice: Rite of Passage","Pulskens, R.","Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)","2015","","hospice; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2016-06-25","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","The Architecture of the Interior","",""
"uuid:38a906e1-2720-45c3-ba70-e30a17147ac9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:38a906e1-2720-45c3-ba70-e30a17147ac9","The parasitic invasion of heritage and the redevelopment of the inner city campus of Amsterdam","Tabakovi?, M.","Meijers, L. (mentor); De Voort, J. (mentor); Stroux, S. (mentor)","2015","The thesis is focused on the redevelopment of existing buildings. Most of the buildings on site are heritage and are located in a unique part of Amsterdam, between the historic city centre and the UNESCO world heritage canals. The concept of the design is derived from ""the use of existing"" and how the existing can be used to create advanced and future study spaces.","architecture; masterthesis; RMIT; heritage","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Heritage & Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:fd51308f-e416-402c-8fdb-28d1d23f1ba3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fd51308f-e416-402c-8fdb-28d1d23f1ba3","Fairtransport Thuishaven: De tolerantie voor verandering in monumenten","Bennebroek, T.P.","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor); Quist, W.J. (mentor)","2015","Fairtransport Wharf: the tolerance for change in listed monuments. Defining the tolerance for change in listed monuments with the redevelopment of a 17th-century Warehouse in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Listed monuments are buildings we ought to preserve. However, more and more monuments lose their functions and become vacant. So in order to preserve our buildings nowadays, reuse is necessary. Reuse demands change, which conflicts with the idea of preservation. So how do these two tolerate each other? In my project the tolerance for change in listed monuments is defined by different theories and instruments. These can be used as a method for communication between different stakeholders acting on the reuse of a listed monument. The theories and instruments are developed and tested with a single object, a Warehouse in Harlingen, The Netherlands, dating from 1657 and owned by Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser since 1930. This very deep building, with a strange plan of 7 by 42 m is located in the historical centre between a harbour and an alley. With the results of the research, a redesign for this warehouse into a wharf for the Fairtransport Shipping Company is made. They will use the building for storage, store, workshop and dwellings, while mooring their ships in front of the building.","reuse; architecture; Harlingen; Fairtransport; monument; redesign; heritage","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explore Lab","","53.10315, 5.25099"
"uuid:62da2df1-6b08-41fb-b979-03d4f3f19245","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:62da2df1-6b08-41fb-b979-03d4f3f19245","EventHUB: A self-sustaining and relocatable pavilion for events","Dijkstra, A.M.","Smit, M.J. (mentor); Broersma, S. (mentor); Meijs, M.H. (mentor)","2015","For the design of the EventHUB a research was done on the possibilities for renewable onsite power production for temporary outdoor events. The research concluded that flexible PV cells were an interesting possibility and were here for used as starting point for the architectural design. During the design process the integration of the PV cells in an architectural way and smartly configuring and limiting the amount of freight transport needed were taken into account to reduce the carbon footprint of outdoor events. Furthermore, by creating the possibility for a multifunctional programme in the pavilion its flexibility and lifespan is extended.","sustainable; sustainability; relocatable; temporary; ephemeral; moving; flexible; outdoor; transportable; architecture; events; pavilion; festival; multifunctional; PV cell; solar panel; multifunctional","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","Architectural Engineering Graduation Studio","",""
"uuid:406abf91-8d29-4324-bbea-9260c89bcb1b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:406abf91-8d29-4324-bbea-9260c89bcb1b","Architecture of the Contemporary Barricade","Grace, C.L.","Khosravi, H. (mentor); Healy, P. (mentor); Cyperus, Y. (mentor)","2015","","barricade; Venice; architecture; baths","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Explorelab","",""
"uuid:d22ce123-5211-4cdd-af8a-e4202c42f1e2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d22ce123-5211-4cdd-af8a-e4202c42f1e2","Open up the semi-public space: A plea for a work & live dwellings in Amsterdam","Leferink, N.W.","Kuytenbrouwer, P. (mentor); Jennen, P. (mentor); Jurgenhake, B. (mentor)","2015","In this graduation project the main assignment will be the task if the design of the dwellings can be designed mainly for single household low-rise high density dwellings in the city center of Amsterdam. The design should be an effective solution towards the costs resulting in a qualitative design with simple detailing, effective and multifunctional use of the interior space and which simultaneously stimulates the semi-public space. This space, on the border of the public and private, the inhabitants can give a personalized character to the public space. Resulting in a public space where individual expression will be dominating permanent or temporary activities. The interior, detail, atmosphere and sustainability aspects should be fully integrated with the permanent living condition of combined working and living together of the residents.","semi public; architecture; Amsterdam; high density; low rise","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Dwelling","","52.36685, 4.92381"
"uuid:616248c7-7a81-4d29-92a5-e53658321398","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:616248c7-7a81-4d29-92a5-e53658321398","Calexico-Mexicali Central Station","Van Toorenburg, A.P.","Dixit, M. (mentor); Westcott, J.C. (mentor); Jansse, S.P. (mentor); Smidihen, H. (mentor)","2015","The Thesis and architectural Design is part of the studio's attempt to rethink and reorganise the US-Mexico border region. We found that although the region has a lot of potential, hostile politics and problems of mobility result in a region which is unable to deal with its problems, and the potential remains untapped. In absence of the border between Calexico-Mexicali, the architecture of a train station is used to connect multiple divided urban areas. A large volume is elevated above the landscape, connecting different urban areas. A shaded public route underneath the slab, connect to the mixed functions above, Making the trainstation an urban connection to travel trough, but also a destination.","trainstation; complex projects; architecture; US; Mexico; border","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Complex Projects","",""
"uuid:597f915f-c9c6-4912-8848-668be8d3fb92","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:597f915f-c9c6-4912-8848-668be8d3fb92","Digital Wayfinding / Blades: A research & design project for a modular architectural lighting system applied for adaptive wayfinding in a park environment and on to buildings of architectural heritage.","Verkerk, T.J.","Bilow, M. (mentor); Asselbergs, M.F. (mentor)","2015","The project researches the implementation and integration of media technologies for communication purposes in architectural and natural environments. These technologies give designers new tools to create spaces which can be more responsive, functional and communicative and adapt in realtime. By creating a network of light landscapes, shapes and screens, the Blades concept improves the wayfinding capabilities of the case-study location: Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek. Besides dynamic route signalling, the lights and screens can be used to advertise activities and events in the park, to turn to an art canvas at night blending in with the natural surroundings. ?The development of a modular architectural lighting system enables designers to create a variety of screens, shapes and landscapes which fit the existing context precisely. Its modular design allows for form freedom, while maintaining a cost-advantage over custom made objects. Made from aluminium, the blades are light but strong enough to stand freely as self supported ‘blades’. In the production (process), aluminium profiles offer more advantages including having multiple joining techniques and contoured slots within the same profile. ?","mediafacade; architecture; LED; dynamic; wayfinding; interactive; adaptive; light; media","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:8086cfbc-98a7-435a-b785-193d48bf7563","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8086cfbc-98a7-435a-b785-193d48bf7563","Food Hub / Food Valley","Sawaki, R.","Westcott, J. (mentor); Dixit, M. (mentor); J Vollers, K. (mentor)","2015","An Agricultural Complex tying together U.S and Mexico and allowing to create a new type of land of producton.","agriculture; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Complex Projects","",""
"uuid:af86512f-af53-42df-ac2d-807559753621","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:af86512f-af53-42df-ac2d-807559753621","Kine-Mould: Manufacturing technology for curved architectural elements in concrete","Schipper, H.R.; Eigenraam, P.; Grünewald, S.; Soru, M.; Nap, P.; Van Overveld, B.; Vermeulen, J.","","2015","The production of architectural elements with complex geometry is challenging for concrete manufacturers. Computer-numerically-controlled (CNC) milled foam moulds have been applied frequently in the last decades, resulting in good aesthetical performance. However, still the costs are high and a large volume of waste is produced. This paper describes the first outcomes of an R&D project funded by STW, the Dutch Technology Foundation, that was executed in close cooperation with industry. The work aimed at offering a viable alternative technology for CNC-milling, reducing cost and material waste at the same time. By constructing a prototype of a flexible mould system, and evaluating its viability in the production environment of a concrete factory, conclusions could be drawn concerning its feasibility. The context for the R&D project was a real ongoing project at the start of the research - a subway station in London - for which double-curved cladding elements needed to be produced. This paper discusses the principles of the technology, the construction of the prototype and the performance evaluation and accuracy. Some of the more fundamental technical aspects of the technology are discussed in a second paper in this ISOFF conference.","concrete; precast; complex geometry; double-curved; architecture; flexible mould","en","conference paper","","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Structural Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:217c9206-5ab2-49ae-a3c9-2818b297b989","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:217c9206-5ab2-49ae-a3c9-2818b297b989","Digital technology impacts on the Arnhem transfer hall structural design","Van de Straat, R.; Hofman, S.; Coenders, J.L.; Paul, J.C.","","2015","The new Transfer Hall in Arnhem is one of the key projects to prepare the Dutch railways for the increased future demands for capacity. UNStudio developed a master plan in 1996 for the station area of which the completion of the Transfer Hall in 2015 will be a final milestone. The Transfer Hall is a merging point of passengers, commercial and social interchanges, containing a multi-use development integrating program and flows of people and vehicles. The design includes a complex geometrical, double-curved shell roof where many functions are combined as well as many other geometrically challenging structural elements. This paper forms the fourth and final paper of a series [1][2][3] and focuses on the developments in digital technology during the project’s design and construction phase and how these developments could impact the structural design of a special project like this.","building information modeling; advanced geometry; parametric design; structural design; digital fabrication; free form shell; transfer hall; architecture; master planning","en","conference paper","KIVI","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Structural Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:70d2b8f8-df6f-4137-908d-0620aabc91fa","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:70d2b8f8-df6f-4137-908d-0620aabc91fa","Designed Self-Help: Producing Closed Forms for Open Buildings","Mota, N.J.A.","","2015","Designing Self-help sounds like a contradiction in terms. Indeed, a great deal of the scholarly accounts on self-help housing excludes the agency of the designer, stressing instead the roles of the policy maker and the owner-builder. In the architecture discipline, from the late 1950s through the 1980s the notions of open form, group form and open building, gained momentum as a reconceptualization of the relation between author and addressee. Yet, while pursuing similar goals, assisted self-help housing was a matter of interest mainly for social scientists, even though it became pervasive as an affordable housing policy in the developing world. In this paper I discuss the importance of the design decision-making process in assisted selfhelp housing, reshaping the latter as part and parcel of the rationale of the idea of open building. This paper will address two key questions: To what extent the agency of the designer in assisted self-help housing alienates or emancipates the other stakeholders in the process? And how can design expertise contribute for creating a more open and inclusive participation of the many actors involved in self-help housing strategies? I will examine the case of the Malagueira neighbourhood, a housing estate designed by Álvaro Siza in the late 1970s for the periphery of the Portuguese city of Évora. Supported by archival material, interviews, and empirical observations, I will discuss the contribution of design expertise to activate a productive negotiation between collective identity and individual expression. This paper will explore the intertwined relation between policy makers, designers and the grassroots to critically reflect on the use of self-help strategies to foster citizens’ participation in the design-decision making process. The paper asserts that, in Malagueira, a carefully crafted design strategy to accommodate growth and change over time contributed to foster ownership and to promote social inclusion.","incremental housing; self-help; architecture; Portugal; Álvaro Siza","en","conference paper","CIB","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:cc231be1-662c-4b1f-a1ca-8be22c0c4177","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cc231be1-662c-4b1f-a1ca-8be22c0c4177","Double-curved precast concrete elements: Research into technical viability of the flexible mould method","Schipper, H.R.","Vambersky, J.N.J.A. (promotor); Van Breugel, K. (promotor)","2015","The production of precast, concrete elements with complex, double-curved geometry is expensive due to the high costcosts of the necessary moulds and the limited possibilities for mould reuse. Currently, CNC-milled foam moulds are the solution applied mostly in projects, offering good aesthetic performance, but also resulting in waste of material, relatively low production speed and fairly high costs per element. The flexible mould method aims to offer an economic alternative for this state of art technology by allowing repeated reuse of the same mould, and if necessary, reuse in adapted shape. A patent and literature review and comparison of state-of-art formwork methods reveals that, although the idea of a flexible formwork already dates from the mid-20th century, in building industry it has not yet found widespread application, and is still experimental to a large extent. In other industries, such as aerospace and automotive, flexible moulds are occasionally used for rapid prototyping purposes, mostly for the forming of thin metal sheets. The understanding of the flexible mould principle in terms of mechanics is still in development. In combination with concrete, the flexible mould has been industrially applied only on occasion. Deliberately imposed deformation of concrete after casting allows the use of only one single-sided flexible mould, but - being a method quite alien to normal precast concrete production - has hardly been investigated. Therefore, models are needed both for the flexible layer as well as it's use in combination with concrete. By analysing a number of architectural cases in terms of geometrical aspects, more information is gathered about building size, element thickness, curvature radius and number and type of elements. This information is used to define the type of shapes for which the flexible mould method would be suitable. Through the last 80 years, the shape of curved architecture has changed; whereas the early famous shell designers such as Isler and Torroja aimed for structurally optimized and material-efficient shapes, nowadays these shapes have mostly made place for free-form curves, in which parametric design or sculptural influences are leading. For larger projects, several hundreds to even thousands of uniquely curved elements are manufactured, varying in curvature radius in a range between 0.75 m and 45 m. Furthermore the contours and edge position can vary from element to element. Prediction of each element's edge position is non-trivial for the flexible mould method, especially not for elements with strong curvature. The deformation process can be described mathematically by analysing thecurvature parameters. An important and meaningful parameter is the Gaussian curvature. Depending on the change in Gaussian curvature, the imposed deformation of the mould surface and the concrete results in certain amounts of bending action (B) and in-plane surface stretching (S). Bending tensile strains in the still plastic concrete can be in the range of 25 to 50 for an element with 50 mm thickness, which is far more than the values normally encountered in concrete after casting. The application of in-plane shear deformation appears to be helpful to deform the mould from flat to double-curved. The exact positioning of the element edges can be determined from this in-plane shear deformation. The shape of the mould, in the present research, is controlled by a grid of actuators - extendible support points that follow the intended architectural shape. As mould surface, a thin rubber layer can be used, that, however, has to be supported by a material that is capable of carrying the weight of the concrete without visible deflection between the actuators. Various solutions are investigated for this support material, of which the strip mould offers the most accurate results and predictability. As said, the concrete in this method is deliberately deformed after casting in an open, single-sided mould. This requires control over both the fluidity and strain capacity of the fresh concrete: if the concrete is too fluid, it will flow out of the mould after deformation due to the slope of the mould, if it is already too stiff, cracks may occur. Various experiments are conducted to investigate the viability of the principle as well as the parameters that influence the risk of either flow or cracking. It appears that the use of a self-compacting concrete with thixotropic properties reduces both the risks: as a result of quick stabilisation after casting, the yield strength build-up will prevent flow once the mould is deformed and put at a certain slope. Thanks to it's plastic strain capacity, this type of concrete will be able to undergo the imposed deformation without cracking. An important measure to prevent this cracking is the curing of the concrete directly after casting and a deformation that takes place before initial setting time. Thin steel rebar, glass-fibre textiles or mixed fibres are all applicable as reinforcement, the latter two giving the best results. For the measurement of yield strength development of the concrete mixture before and after casting, various methods are investigated. Literature research and experiments demonstrate that, once the rheological behaviour of a mixture has been determined with a viscometer accompanied with slump (flow) tests, the correct moment of deformation of the flexible mould can later be determined from repeated slump (flow) tests with sufficient reliability. However, as soon as the mixture constituents will be adapted, new viscometer measurements have to be carried out again. The flexible mould method has been successfully tested on single- and double-curved precast concrete elements with a radius down to 1.50 m and an element thickness up to 50 mm. Until this moment, the maximum element size tested was approximately 2 x 1 m2, but larger elements are expected to be feasible. An integrated design-to-production process is required: due to the complex geometry and the impact of this geometry on all aspects of the manufacturing, all parties involved should cooperate to make the use of this method possible. Computational skills are needed to determine design parameters and control the manufacturing process. Several new questions were identified during the research, but at this moment, implementation of the flexible mould method in an industrial environment in cooperation with a concrete product manufacturer is the best way to determine the priorities for further research. From the full research it is concluded that the flexible mould method is viable for the production of double-curved concrete elements.","concrete; precast; double-curved; doubly curved; curved; panels; cladding; elements; rheology; thixotropy; complex geometry; architecture; structural engineering; building; fabrication; CNC; mould; mold; file-to-factory; production; gaussian curvature; panelisation; panelization; beton; dubbelgekromd; prefab; geprefabriceerd; architectuur","en","doctoral thesis","","","","","","","","2015-08-14","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Structural Engineering","","","",""
"uuid:f41b0095-4fd5-473b-8ebc-00481a816c18","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f41b0095-4fd5-473b-8ebc-00481a816c18","ColorTracker","Holzheu, Stefanie (Aleatorix); Lee, S. (TU Delft OLD Public Buiding)","Herneoja, Aulikki (editor); Österlund, Toni (editor); Markkanen, Piia (editor)","2016","With the work-in-progress research project ColorTracker we explore color as a formal design tool. This project-based paper describes a novel software application that processes color composition of a place and transcribes the data into three-dimensional geometries for architectural design. The research comprises two parallel trajectories: a theoretical survey and the software application design. The theoretical survey presents the historical background of color. The project-based research seeks to develop digital methods and techniques that analyze the color compositions of the environment. Subsequently the objective is a novel application software for smart mobile devices in order to demonstrate the potentials of examining the color composition and chromatic parameters of a given environment and how it can contribute to the design.","color; architecture; urbanism; tracking; form-generation","en","conference paper","eCAADe","","","","","","","","","","OLD Public Buiding","","",""
"uuid:2f432aa2-62a1-4f07-8cd7-9d4dbb8041c8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2f432aa2-62a1-4f07-8cd7-9d4dbb8041c8","Hangar of the Future","Kok, J.M.","Van Bennekom, H.A. (mentor); Kaan, C.H.C.F. (mentor)","2016","Design of the hangar of the Future at Schiphol oost.","hangar; architecture; design; aircraft","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Complex Projects","",""
"uuid:58731072-677f-421b-872e-7c78d00009dd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:58731072-677f-421b-872e-7c78d00009dd","Refurbishing vacant offices with EWF into architectural attractive, low energy, comfortable and durable working environments","Swier, P.A.","","2016","My graduation project was split up into a generic exploration which resulted in a research paper and a specific design in which I have tested the results of the generic part. I explored the potential of applying the Earth, Wind and Fire (EWF) concept on vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. In order to find a specific solution that I could apply on a vacant office building in the IBA Parkstad region I first had to investigate the limitations and possibilities of the existing stock and the EWF concept. The tools I developed during my research helped me to choose a building, guide my design process and to finally develop a showcase. In the end my graduation project is an example of how architects and engineering could use EWF to refurbish vacant office buildings into architectural attractive, low energy, healthy, comfortable, productive and durable working environments. By doing so it could help to solve some of the current problems at the real estate market, such as oversupply, greenhouse gas emissions and vacancy.","Earth; Wind and Fire; EWF; natural airconditioning; airconditioning; architecture; vacancy; refurbishment","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","",""
"uuid:dc475b73-7a52-4ec5-ad5d-735c6c971028","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc475b73-7a52-4ec5-ad5d-735c6c971028","Wood for all - the environmental and atmospheric value of all-wood architecture","Bergkamp, A.","Schroën, R. (mentor); Meijs, M.H. (mentor); Gommans, L.J.J.H.M. (mentor)","2016","In Kerkrade, one of the municipalities of Parkstad Limburg, the population shrinkage is particularly manifest. In an attempt to balance the housing market, HEEMwonen, a local social housing association demolishes a part of her building stock. Among other places, this has already happened in Heilust, a residential area in Kerkrade-West. The resulting vacant land will be transformed into a public park in the coming years. I design a fragment of this park and include a restaurant to increase the park’s value for tourism. The architectural goal is to create an all-wood building with wood and wood products that are kept in the timber life, without compromising architectonic quality.","wood; architecture; sustainability; building material; construction","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","","","50.863234, 6.027189"
"uuid:0801510d-bd32-4cd8-8ddf-1a87c1d85bfc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0801510d-bd32-4cd8-8ddf-1a87c1d85bfc","The Health Factory","Scholten, E.","Van Gemert, M. (mentor); Groenewold, S.C. (mentor)","2016","The Health Factory is a health complex with sports facilities, healthy food options and a medical center that focusses on serving workers in the neighborhood. More than a third of all U.S. residents are obese, and this number has been increasing over the past three decades. Americans eat unhealthy and do not get enough exercise. Although there are many regulatory programs to improve this, like Obamacare or local city initiatives, this is not enough. The numbers keep rising. By embedding a healthy lifestyle in the physical and built environment, we can adress this problem. Architecture should not always comply with the way we behave. Sometimes architecture should improve our behavior.","health; obesity; architecture; active design; sports; chicago; urban strategy; brick","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Complex Projects","","41.852901, -87.649830"
"uuid:9c64ed37-a4a3-43df-8363-9991bbe70df5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9c64ed37-a4a3-43df-8363-9991bbe70df5","The Private, The Public and The Common: What Spaces Do?","Paicu, I.L.","Radman, A. (mentor)","2016","Frequently compelled by their knowledge and governance legislations, architects act as agents of expertise and impose top down solutions, in the form of fixed typologies, to bottom up and often temporary problems. Together with the fact that, in a fast paced, open source and migrating society, we still rely on the public-private dichotomy, results in the prematurely termination of any spatial emergent affordances. In order to adapt to the new social and cultural shift, architecture needs to arrest the terms of public and private and embrace a new spatial ontology that arises out of the Spinozian natura naturans and not natura naturata. The present paper investigates the possibility of achieving such an alteration in the design of spaces, through the use of a transcendental and phaseal common realm.","assemblage theory; field conditions; intra-action; public; private; common; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Theory","","AR2AT030 Architecture Theory Thesis","",""
"uuid:a8abc460-155c-4584-9952-dca7e439844b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a8abc460-155c-4584-9952-dca7e439844b","Ruin Prosthesis, using new crafts to rehabilitate the ruin of castle Schaesberg","Schreuder, T.W.","Snijders, A. (mentor); Meijs, M.H. (mentor); Stoutjesdijk, P.M.M. (mentor)","2016","This graduation project aims to integrate digital techniques within the practice ruin renovation. From studying ruin renovation projects and theory, this project argues that the use of digital capture and fabrication has the potential to be the tool to make that joint in a more specific, more customized and more elegant way than before. To realize this, the workings of 3d scanning have been studied in both literature and practical experiments in order to state their suitability for the proposed design. With the obtained knowledge, a few proposals for building details that integrate digital capture and fabrication with standard building methods are conveyed and studied to conclude that the method has great potential and could be elaborated further in prototyping on architectural scale.","ruin; architecture; digital fabrication","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architectural Engineering and Technology","","Graduation","","50.8999964, 6.0166666"
"uuid:873a22f8-d32e-442f-a0d5-5f6e5f37ed64","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:873a22f8-d32e-442f-a0d5-5f6e5f37ed64","Ruinophilia","Demir, B.","Snijders, A. (mentor); Roos, J. (mentor); Meijs, M.H. (mentor)","2016","Ruins and residues of the past have held a moral, emotional, and aesthetic fascination throughout history. In the region of IBA parkstad Limburg there is a lack of cultural identity. The former meaning and significance is disappeared. The aim of this paper is to research the qualities and identity of significant layers in time, which are the Roman period, medieval period, mining industry period and modern period, to translate this in a new layer. In the research the via Belgica, a former fundamental development axis, is used as an unifying concept. The principal question for this research is: ‘How to reinterpret the cultural history of the via Belgica, with a focus on the development of the area along the road, with the aim to make the area recognisable and valuable back again using the via as a primary connecting axis.’ The study starts with some theories around ruins. After the theories a palimpsest approach is used to analyse the region, ending up with the superimposition of the different layers of this palimpsest. Finally, a new identity will be formed. This research combines the agricultural character of the Roman period with the industrial character of the mining period to propose an intervention in the research area.","architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Architectural Engineering","",""
"uuid:e3c8c0f1-a543-4290-a8d7-0faefe04a576","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3c8c0f1-a543-4290-a8d7-0faefe04a576","From Infrastructure to Flowscape: The Houtribdijk as an operative landscape structure","Shao, S.","Nijhuis, S. (mentor); Palmboom, F. (mentor); Koostra, P. (mentor)","2016","The theme of the landscape architecture graduation lab is “Flowscape”. It states the landscape infrastructure is not only a technical structure but also a carrier of natural and urban processes. It is proposed to solve the environmental problems and adapt to the surroundings as well as providing the appropriate environmental conditions for the long-term dynamic natural and urban development. (Nijhuis, S and Jauslin, D., 2015). Transforming the Houtribdijk into an operative lanscape structure as the subject is under the guiding of “Flowscape” concept. The Houtribdijk is located between two different eco-system-Ijsselmeer and Markermeer as well as two different urban tissues-Enkhuizen and Lelystad. There are highly dynamic nature processes and urban development happening in this area. However, the Houtribdijk was designed to make the southwestern polder. Since that polder plan was canceled, the Houtribdijk, this fixed infrastructure has not fit into the environment any more. For example, the Houtribdijk blocks two lakes (the Ijsselmeer and the Markermeer) which results in an unbalanced eco-system. Moreover, it only carries a high-speed linear traffic line between Enkhuizen and Lelystad without a place for people to stay and enjoy the open horizon. So I choose this location to apply the “Flowscape” theme in order to transform the Houtribdijk into an operative landscape infrastructure, which provides a coherence landscape condition for nature and urban development while considering ecologic, technical, architectural and social aspects.","landscape; architecture; design; flowscape; infrastructure; Houtribdijk","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2016-10-01","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Landscape Architecture","",""
"uuid:d2dd6e53-1f69-43d8-8bf3-64724eb7ed56","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d2dd6e53-1f69-43d8-8bf3-64724eb7ed56","Greenwich Works","Groskaufmanis, M.","Frausto, S.E. (mentor); Vanstiphout, W. (mentor); Gremmen, B. (mentor)","2016","The project is a spatial product intended to accommodate 900 households of flexible workers. It combines the domestic and productive environments in a single housing complex, serviced 24 hours a day. More information in the brochure.","architecture; austerity; deregulation; economy of scale; flexible accumulation; housing crisis; immaterial labour; LinkedIn; London; precariat; rent-only; ROI; spatial products; typical plan","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Design as Politics","",""
"uuid:299e935e-64e7-4195-9d9f-6db8a9991e94","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:299e935e-64e7-4195-9d9f-6db8a9991e94","International Institute of Boundary Water","Van Hall, P.C.","De Koning, S. (mentor)","2016","My graduation project focuses on providing a water management institute within a conceptual, better alternative for the unsustainable water management in twin cities Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA) which are divided by the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is the main source of water for both twin cities and the rest of the region along the border. The graduation project consists out of an conceptual masterplan for a more sustainable form of water management which then forms the context for the final architectural design. The building itself is a water management institute which is located on top of the Rio Grande, where the building filters stormwater and manages the boundary water of twin cities El Paso & Ciudad Juarez. This junction of water is also the perfect place to promote and educate people on the subject of sustainable watermanagement. Besides this, the institute also provides the infrastructure for people to safely swim in the river, adding a much needed form of recreation in the region.","architecture; water management; Rio Grande; El Paso; Ciudad Juarez; USA; Mexico; border; boudary water","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:7acb210c-a897-4d8a-94db-ef26b519fbdd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7acb210c-a897-4d8a-94db-ef26b519fbdd","The Water Institute","Huang, J.","Palmboom, J. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor)","2016","The design assignment is to design a water institute to use Amsterdam, an international port where talented scholars could gather, to deal with water related issues, especially ones happen in Ijsselmeer. The Water Institute is an educational facility which focus on the sustainable use and management of water resources to support health and prosperous communities. In the same time, public events would be held in the institute to raise the attention of citizens in Amsterdam to the issues mentioned above. With the increasing attention to the Ijsselmeer region, the connection between Amsterdam and Ijsselmeer is hoping to be reactive. In the perspective of architecture, water-related architecture will be explored to strengthen the relation between water and architecture users.","water related design; delta; flood resilience; institute; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:e0161233-5cd4-44a1-9c1b-a32a9743c8b0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e0161233-5cd4-44a1-9c1b-a32a9743c8b0","PackCity","Hui, C.H.","Ravon, A.B.O. (mentor)","2016","The project started with the fascination of pop-up activities with space “PACK and PICK”. With this individual fascination, there are questions keep challenging my own fascination through out the process of the project. First of all, there is the main research question of the inefficient use over time in one day in the “FIXED” architecture, can we live more dense and free with the method of pack and pick? The research part of personal experiment of packing my own apartment. Activities timeline is introduced to estimate the usage of one day and the studies is focused on how much volume we can save by packing the unused space. The result we have is 80% volume saved by fully pack the space, and 61% for picking space according to activities time-line in one day. Applying the same method of calculation from the research chapter, we got the average volume use of one dwelling floor in the block over one day is 18.9%. Taking the advantage of “PACK and PICK”, is that means we can put 3 times more people in the floor because of “PACK and PICK”? As result, there are conflicts between neigbourhood once the density glowed, in term of volume, privacy, view & light, the limited condition on the floor. The PackCity is now an attempt to introduce as less mono-function stable elements in the block, by redefining the function of packs and elements and sharing condition in the block, to achieve the mimimum volume of packs and maxmium the freedom on the formation of activities with the right value of space condition. From the principle of space performance to the technical built environment transformation, the relationship between each elements in the block became the important focus to achieve the goal of maximum density and new space possibilities.","pop-up; architecture; tailor-made; bottom-up; change-over-time; co-housing; the why factory; egocity","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:52e82737-420c-4ddd-b766-ad2265cccee9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:52e82737-420c-4ddd-b766-ad2265cccee9","Favelas and the normative, institutional Social Housing System in Brazil: discipline versus freedom, private versus public through the analysis of the unprivileged working class history","Chagas Cavalcanti, A.R. (TU Delft OLD Woningbouw)","Hein, Carola (editor)","2016","Most of today’s Brazilian Social Housing Institutional complexes are standardized mass buildings. They are planned in the periphery of cities, have no connection to public transportation systems and are disconnected from their respective local context. The planning approach to housing is compliant with ‘state simpli cation models’ which turn a blind eye from the dynamics of the informal sector. This unprecedented study demonstrates that the polarization between institutional planning and the changing needs of society continues to expose the vast inequalities between social classes. This is analysed through a historic study of the Brazilian working class system and its development over recent years. The study compares two very distinct scenarios: on one hand, social housing conceived by traditional stakeholders, institutions and real estate agencies seems to follow a disciplinary approach and segment the life of privileged workers/formal workers. On the other hand, less privileged workers are allowed to freely build their own housing. Thus, this article traces a -binary interrelation between planning for the privileged and for the unprivileged, explaining how favelas became a legitimate form of mass housing in Brazil.
By experiential descriptions, the article will give an account of two projects of each architect, based on my own repeated visits to these buildings over the past two decades. The projects include Centro Gaitan in Bogotá, the Virgilio Barco Library in Bogotá, Colombia (Rogelio Salmona, 2001), Helsinki University of Technology and the Viipuri City Library of Alvar Aalto. The comparitive descriptions will show that the resonances between the work of both architects goes beyond their similar use of brick and their preferences for certain geometries, but rather concern the humanism that lay at the basis of both their architectural practices, a human interest translated into form, materiality and light.","architecture; literature; alvar aalto; rogelio salmona; humanist architecture","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","OLD Methods & Analysis","","",""
"uuid:56d5a64f-15aa-446a-86ae-62f58ef80728","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:56d5a64f-15aa-446a-86ae-62f58ef80728","Reuse of industrial Heritage the Sphinx factory in Maastricht","van Zeijl, K.","de Jonge, W. (mentor); Koopman, F.W.A. (mentor)","2017","","Maastricht; Sphinx fabriek; heritage; architecture; Mouleursgebouw; Molengebouw; fabrieksgebouw; factory; herbestemming","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Heritage & Architecture","","Stilwerk","",""
"uuid:b1ec00d1-1606-4f8f-adba-ea2b0c0a60bd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b1ec00d1-1606-4f8f-adba-ea2b0c0a60bd","A Ferryman who Stutters: From the Architectural Subject to an Architecture of Subjectivation","Kousoulas, Stavros (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions)","","2017","","architecture; perception; stuttering; subjectivation; metastability","en","abstract","","","","","","","","","","","Theory, Territories & Transitions","","",""
"uuid:b4e51530-7c60-49e8-94e5-5b0b2d09c1d5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b4e51530-7c60-49e8-94e5-5b0b2d09c1d5","MATCH: Disclosing the military city Lisbon","hols, jochem (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Zijlstra, H. (mentor); Quist, W.J. (mentor); Kuipers, M.C. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Disclosing the military city Lisbon My project involves a former military site located in the edge of Lisbon. The project is located in the district Beato located near the harbor north of the center of the city. This project is closely related to the studio of Heritage & architecture as it is not only worth keeping, but can and needs to be used to improve the quality of the neighborhood. With this project we find a new use and purpose for the unused site and near urban surroundings. We analyze the area and use this knowledge to create a funded design that shows the quality of the existing and the future. This project is a socially relevant project as it is being redeveloped at this moment by the municipality of Lisbon. A MODERN MANUFACTURING COMPLEX The manufacturing complex is the name for the new purpose of the project. The complex consists out of an upper floor zone with semi-private functions like creative workspaces, schools, conference rooms, hotel, craft brewery and winery. The ground floor is a public area with public spaces, craft shops and a museum. The area can be used by local inhabitants, young skilled entrepreneurs and eventually tourists. The site has zones where the different target groups can conduct their daily activities. The upper part will offer contemporary housing for new users. THE MEETING SPOT The focus of the design is in and around the old warehouse. This area is a meeting spot where all users and target groups can come together and enjoy and experience the qualities of the complex. This area is focused on recreational and cultural activities like a market square, exposition spaces, a food hall, tasting rooms, sport center and activity center. This area is the main entrance of the enclosed complex. This results in a design that is the mediator between the outside world and the manufacturing complex. MATCH The old warehouse has a new public use. This building located in the meeting spot is an old building with a new purpose where the old can be seen, touched and experienced. The focus of the building design is on the relation with the surroundings, the strength of the building characteristics and the relation between old and new. THEMES The project has focused on the problem statement translated into the research question ‘How can an enclosed industrial area work together with the urban surroundings as a tool to become reconnected that will serve as an incubator for future developments?’ With the help of themes the project uses the existing to create a new purpose without losing the values and character of the site. The themes are input for the design strategy and concept. The following themes related to the heritage studio are determined. The main theme ‘unite‘ is overarching social related. Bringing together different target group by promoting social cohesion on site. A new purpose is needed for the complex, but this might have negative consequences like gentrification.","Lisbon; Portugal; Military; Manutencao militar; disclosing; Beato; Match; Manufacturing; meeting spot; meeting; cultural value; technology; Heritage; architecture; heritage & architecture; social cohesion; brewery; foodhall; mixed use","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","Disclosing the military city Lisbon","38.73041979074967, -9.10740852355957"
"uuid:c96c9628-ab19-4550-9ae5-0f84b1df0493","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c96c9628-ab19-4550-9ae5-0f84b1df0493","Disclosing the military city: Bridging the border of MMC","Dong, Jessie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Roos, J. (mentor); Quist, W.J. (graduation committee); Kuipers, M.C. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Having lost its productivity, MMC became isolated from its context. Most of its links to neighbour and region broke as a result of its changing role. A series of dilemmas
mainly exists as social conflicts and spatial conflicts appeared around the
border as result. However, as the carrier of social conflict in MMC and witness of colonial war, the enclosed border embraced the introverted character of MMC, which is its site spirit in the history. When the introverted character of site encounters the demand of connection, how to re-link MMC to the neighbourhood while protecting its site spirit turns into the main problem to be solved from my perspective.","architecture; transformation; industrial heritage","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","","38.731656, -9.106713"
"uuid:096c0c0f-2684-457e-865b-d70eaff8a367","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:096c0c0f-2684-457e-865b-d70eaff8a367","Inflate in case of emergency: Generative design of a lightweight mobile high performance emergency shelter via the use of a computational intelligent method","Gonzalez Duarte, Gerardo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)","Turrin, M. (mentor); Bilow, M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Every year catastrophic situations such as earthquakes, wind storms, floods, environmental and socio-geopolitical changes periodically affect the living situation of thousands of people around the world.
In order to face such catastrophes the proposed methodology intends to address the need of a rapid design tool for emergency shelters based on the use of pneumatically inflated membranes. The present work employs a computational workflow that integrates a collection of solutions and methods that enable the designer to collaborate with all the parties involved in the plan and design of such constructs.
In the of planning of complex structures like an emergency shelter the responsibility for the designer to integrate not only the technical but social and functional aspects is crucial for the success of the building, In that regard the present work aims to present a cohesive method that incorporates all these aspects.","pneumatic; computational; emergency; shelter; architecture; inflatable; jordan; generative","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","",""
"uuid:1ad48428-0d5d-4174-be59-5bf567f53721","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1ad48428-0d5d-4174-be59-5bf567f53721","Architecture & Loneliness: Designing against loneliness among the elderly","de Vrede, Amber (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Willekens, Luc (mentor); Cuperus, Ype (mentor); Wagenaar, Cor (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","","built environment; architecture; loneliness; elderly; healthcare design; social architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","50.8441925, 5.690127"
"uuid:3b5396a3-b38f-4031-84fd-d1c7e6b24a48","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3b5396a3-b38f-4031-84fd-d1c7e6b24a48","De generatie van integratie: De rol van architectuur in het integratieproces","Henkes, Maura (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Cuperus, I.J.J. (mentor); Mulder, A. (mentor); Vitner-Hamming, D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Hoewel met de piek in asielaanvragen in Nederland sinds 2015 is gebleken dat vroege integratie veel voordelen heeft, is de architectuur van Nederlandse asielzoekerscentra daar nog niet op aangepast. In de sociologie zijn veel onderzoeken gedaan naar voorwaarden voor de facilitatie van integratie, maar deze zijn nog nooit toepasbaar gemaakt voor architectuur en architecten. Op basis van een literatuur- en praktijkonderzoek is een toolbox opgesteld voor architecten, met voorwaarden op het gebied van schaal, programma, doelgroep en gebouwkenmerken, waaraan een gebouw moet voldoen om integratie te faciliteren.","integration; refugees; architecture; toolbox; azc","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:dd126615-30ed-4388-a574-0aaf19953902","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dd126615-30ed-4388-a574-0aaf19953902","KeramiekFabriek: Design for a ceramics centre in Maastricht","de Lange, Laurens (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Schreurs, Eireen (mentor); Zeinstra, Jurjen (mentor); van der Meel, Hubert (graduation committee); Vande Putte, Herman (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The thesis, consisting of a design for a ceramics centre in Maastricht, deals with two main themes: the urban institution and the local use of natural stone. Architectural research focuses on (in)formality and visual perception of historical domestic façades in Maastricht featuring natural stone. The results of this study are used as a design tool to shape the identity of the ceramics centre as an open, inviting and approachable public institution. The local language of building with natural stone is translated into a contemporary form using precast concrete elements. Urban massing, structure, materiality and organisation of the programme are informed by a research into Maastricht’s industrial heritage, specifically its inner-city factory complexes. A tripartite load-bearing structure and spatial experience offer a variety of atmospheres to showcase the production of ceramics and shed light on Maastricht’s disappearing industrial past.","industrial heritage; Natural Stone; Ceramics; urban institution; informality; visual perception; architecture; interiors","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","Maastricht, City of Stone","50.852665, 5.685612"
"uuid:732d23a1-cc0c-458a-8f52-96a7f6c56334","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:732d23a1-cc0c-458a-8f52-96a7f6c56334","De Illusie van Inclusie: Wonen en leven in de wijk voor mensen met een psychiatrische aandoening","van der Lande, Maya (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Wagenaar, C. (mentor); Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Kuitenbrouwer, P.A.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Vulnerable people with a psychiatric disorder are no longer staying in institutions outside of society, from now on the will live in the neighbourhood, in the so called ‘inclusive society’. In reality, some challenges need to be overcome such as loneliness and social isolation while living independent, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of people with psychiatric disorders, absence of the necessary safety nets of outpatient care, a lack of suitable low-cost rental housing and a society that is not entirely inclusive. This is to be seen as ‘the illusion
of inclusion’. In my research I aimed to develop architectural principles to enable psychiatric patients to live independently within the neighbourhood. These architectural principles were developed by means of a literature review, best practices and interviews. The architectural principles serve as a method of testing the design. Even though the design itself is positioned on a specific location, these principles are a general guideline for designing for independent living with a psychiatric illness.","psychiatric illness; living independent; health care; care; architecture","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:6ed56200-97fd-4225-8494-6087b5ce8fb5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ed56200-97fd-4225-8494-6087b5ce8fb5","De tijdelijke architect: Een onderzoek naar de inzetbare middelen en de rol van de architect in tijdelijke projecten in leegstaande kantoorgebouwen","Triemstra, Saimi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor); van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Remøy, Hilde (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","","architecture; transformation; Re-use; family dwelling; Temporary","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","51.917131, 4.486825"
"uuid:646cf498-07d4-4f23-977f-da68c79980d6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:646cf498-07d4-4f23-977f-da68c79980d6","Mercado de La Perseverancia: a reflection on permeability, staging and appropriation","Buchholz, Helen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Havik, K.M. (mentor); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The project deals with the three themes of permeability, staging and appropriation, set in a context of high social and spatial segregation and presenting a place of the commons, developed under the three strategies.","commons; bogota; architecture; market","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Methods and Analysis | Positions in Practice","constructing the commons; position in practice","4.616642, -74.066135"
"uuid:88ce2c09-07b5-4568-a7f7-b7274b6f88e0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88ce2c09-07b5-4568-a7f7-b7274b6f88e0","Return to Eden: The School for Contentment","Warmerdam, Yannick (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Bilow, Marcel (mentor); Snijders, Anne (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Technology will not be enough to make our lifestyles sustainable, we have to change our lifestyle and learn to become content and not always strive for more comfort and technological progress. The school for contentment shows the beauty of sober architecture in the picturesque Dutch landscape.","picturesque; contentment; landscape; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:96aedb19-d0e4-4519-876d-978591e8ebda","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:96aedb19-d0e4-4519-876d-978591e8ebda","Experiencing music through architecture","Luursema, Dieke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)","van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor); Bilow, M. (mentor); Klijn, O. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The increase in number of festivals in The Netherlands and the importance of live performances for musicians leads to the question of designing new performance places for festivals. Today, most tents do not provide sufficient acoustic qualities for the performance of music and do not add to the experience of the visitor. This leads to the main research question: What aspects of a performance place contribute to the experience of the performance at a pop music festival? To answer this question, visitors, musicians and sound engineers have been interviewed. From these interviews a
collection of wishes has been drawn which have been compared and analysed to form a set of elements. The perfect festival performance place is a place with good atmosphere which can be created by the four elements: participation, sound quality, uniqueness and carefreeness. A design was made for Lowlands Festival. The wooden construction adapts these four elements and thus creates a new innovative concept for a temporary performance place for (pop)music performances at festivals.
The merging of a failing luxury hotel in embargoed Cuba with an architectural invention, a tower of stacking levels of public and social space, allows for a new opportunity to revitalize Vedado. Cubans in Vedado are able to construct temporary spaces to make use of for their social activities and tourists are able to partake in these spaces and activities, creating a merger of the two worlds. It brings a new business model in tourism, allowing for hotel visitors to meet the new Cuban reality within the hotel itself.","Tourism; Cuba; Social; public space; architecture; Tower; Vedado; Havana","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","","23.139706, -82.402699"
"uuid:217e789c-5dac-4a24-8744-fae82131a937","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:217e789c-5dac-4a24-8744-fae82131a937","Architectuur in overgang","Majoor, Hinke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Nottrot, Robert (mentor); Jennen, Pierre (graduation committee); de Wit, Saskia (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","br/>In dit afstudeerproject wordt de architectuur benaderd als een proces.
Als onderdeel van de wereld.
Als iets dat in overgang is.
Aan constante verandering onderhevig.
Aan invloeden van buitenaf,
aan weer en wind,
aan de mens.
De mens die middels zijn handelen de wereld om hem heen vorm geeft.
zijn waarnemingen aan de basis,
om hem van informatie te voorzien.
De architectuur in overgang,
laat zich niet langer beschrijven als een vast gegeven.
De ruimte is niet langer te zien als gesloten.
De mens niet langer te zien als los van de natuur.
Verbinding wordt niet alleen noodzakelijk maar ook evident.
De ruimte zelf wordt beschreven als een gelaagde realiteit.
Door de architectuur als gelaagd op te vatten wordt het evident dat de mens de ruimte deelt met dieren, planten, organismen en niet levende materie. Als architect hebben wij de mogelijkheid ook met deze andere ‘bewoners’ rekening te houden. Dit verbreedt de professie van de architect.
Zoekend naar een wereld in overgang.
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In this graduation project architecture is approached as a process.
As part of the world.
As something in transition.
Influenced by constant changes.
By forces from outside,
by rain and wind,
by humanity.
Human kind that through his action transforms and forms the world around him,
his perception at the basis,
giving him information.
The architecture in transition,
no longer can be seen as a fixed situation.
The space no longer as closed.
Human kind no longer separated from nature.
Connection is not only necessary but also manifest.
Space itself is described as a layered reality.
By approaching space as layered, it becomes clear that humanity shares space and time with animals, plants, organisms and non-living matter. As architects we are consequently capable of taking care of these other ‘inhabitants’ of space as well. This leads to a widening of the profession of architecture.
Investigating the world in transition.
Met het aantrekken van de bouw komen ook de hoogbouwplannen weer op tafel – met de nodige discussies tot gevolg.","architecture; stedenbouw","nl","report","Archined","","","","","","","","","","OLD Methods & Analysis","","",""
"uuid:93180898-3c49-4a4d-8220-d1a9a0a3bce1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:93180898-3c49-4a4d-8220-d1a9a0a3bce1","Media Center: Rethink media typology in Cuab","Li, Mengyu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Mulder, Koen (mentor); Cournet, Paul (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","My graduation project starts from the research on the media situation in Cuba. While everywhere in this world has free access to Internet and information, only 5% of Cubans have access to Internet and most of Cubans still rely on an informal way of getting information. Since Cuba is now opened to the world and will embrace a digital age in future, a media center was designed to reinforce information accessibility and help Cubans transforming from a traditional print media situation into a digital future. The selected site is located at the end of Malecon, Vedado District, next to a heritage buiding- Vedado Tennis Club. The Vedado District is the cultural heart of the city, with crowds of hotels, contemporary art galleries, restaurants and bars. Laid out on a rigid grid system, there’re also different building types such as high-rise, commercial street which envision a modern and future economical center in Havana. As for the site Vedado Tennis Club, it is a landmark embodies with a historical and cultural value in Vedado. Before the revolution, sports aren’t a political issue and Vedado Tennis Club was built as an entertainment place for the use of bourgeoisie. However, after the revolution, the recreation club was nationalized and turned into the Jose Antonio Echeverria Social Circle opening to the public. The transforming history of the site laid its cultural value and potential for revolution. As a reinterpretation of the site spirit, it became fitting to develop a project under the theme of media.","media center; information; architecture; learning; sharing; publishing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","media center",""
"uuid:29b5d149-db77-43bc-96c3-d52db6659ef9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:29b5d149-db77-43bc-96c3-d52db6659ef9","Freedom and Control in a Contested City","Tanner, James (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Havik, K.M. (mentor); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The graduation project addresses two parallel themes - the observation of everyday life in an unfamiliar context, and an investigation into the relationship between the architectural interior and the city. The design project uses observational drawings to reflect on this relationship, and modifies it using a system of simple, repeatable parts in fragmented, leftover sites of Bogota. In doing so, the research and design leads to a reflection on Stan Allen's 'Field Configurations' and its design implications as a methodology.","Bogota; architecture; methods and analysis; field conditions; appropriation; configurative; wajiro kon","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Methods and Analysis | Positions in Practice","",""
"uuid:ffb0c2b0-13db-4e3d-af91-8cf9e8d82bdb","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ffb0c2b0-13db-4e3d-af91-8cf9e8d82bdb","The hybrid FRP and glass bridge: Research for a material adapted and optimized hybrid pedestrian bridge design","Blankenspoor, Arthur (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smits, J.E.P. (mentor); Veer, F.A. (mentor); Wamelink, J.W.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","This thesis focuses on the collaboration of two innovative materials - Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP) and structural glass – in the design of a (hybrid) footbridge with a 30 meter span. The choice of subject is led by a rising popularity of these materials in bridge design and strengthened by positive recent developments in conceptual small-scale FRP & glass hybrid structures. This research will try to take previous research one step further and will combine the advantages of both materials to reach a structurally efficient bridge design. The research question is as follows: “Can a hybrid pedestrian bridge with a loadbearing structure of FRP and structural glass be designed while making optimal use of the material properties of both materials?”. The design by research process is divided in multiple steps. First of all a theoretical framework is created, with state-of-the-art information about the material properties of glass and FRP. This theoretical framework resulted - via design rules - in several preliminary design variants of which the structurally most efficient, most transparent and safest variant is chosen and subsequently elaborated on. The chosen variant is optimized by using a form-finding and geometric optimization process powered by the Grasshopper plugin Kangaroo and Finite Element software DIANA. The research shows - via its design rules – that a hybrid facetted shell bridge, consisting of glass facets and FRP joints is the most efficient variant. A concave shape is chosen for its “natural” parapet and relatively low share of bending stress in the total stress, while still measuring up to the bridges’ requirements. The concave shape is tessellated with triangular panels due to problems with the – in theory – more efficient hexagonal panels. By shortening the length of connections along each side of a triangular panel, the behavior of hexagonal panels is approximated. Several topologically different triangular tessellation variants have been analyzed using DIANA. The topological variant based on a combination of the equilateral and isosceles triangle proved to result in the lowest stress and deformation values under NEN-based loads and is therefore the most efficient variant. By adding more curvature to the base of the bridge, better shell behavior is achieved, resulting in even lower stress and deformation values. The connection between the panels is made using an FRP embedded sheet, which results in a higher axial stiffness and ultimately also a higher critical load of the bridge. The ideal thickness of this sheet is determined with FEM analysis. A clamped double-pin joint is chosen for its uniformity and adaptability. Finally, an uncertainty analysis is performed to investigate the influence of tolerance related production flaws on stress levels in the joint, which resulted in no issues.","architecture; pedestrian bridge; plate shell; glass; gfrp; form-finding","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","",""
"uuid:db6edeb1-1baa-476f-80d8-04c1d9afb461","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:db6edeb1-1baa-476f-80d8-04c1d9afb461","Beauty of artificial boundary - Carpark Plus Project based in Bucharest","Qin, Xiaoyi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Schoonderbeek, Marc (mentor); Rommens, Oscar (mentor); Jennen, Pierre (mentor); Lee, Sang (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","","architecture; mapping; public building; parking; Bucharest; fences; light; structure; art; landscape","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:4cff13e8-e50c-4e0a-bb38-93916275c1da","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4cff13e8-e50c-4e0a-bb38-93916275c1da","Lost in altered perspectives: A method on changing our experience on architecture by the use of montage techniques","Barendse, Nezza (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Schoonderbeek, M.G.H. (mentor); Rommens, O.R.G. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","","architecture; perspectives; montage techniques; structural; public building; hotel; bucharest; extension; intervention; provocative; framing; cinematography","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Public Building","",""
"uuid:45e4b330-76ab-42a3-92fa-aabb3160b134","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:45e4b330-76ab-42a3-92fa-aabb3160b134","Spaces of experience: About the spatial implications of contemporary art and the agency of architecture","Martellono, Francesca (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Avermaete, Tom (mentor); Pimlott, Mark (graduation committee); Jennen, Pierre (graduation committee); Teerds, Hans (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The framework of this work is situated between the typological issue about the epistemological definition of art spaces, and their role as consequence within the city, and a personal interest in the kind of attention art demands in space for a specific engagement. It is in the place where art is displayed that the knowledge about it is produced.
Within the art system, a distortion in the value of art has been staged by the increasing significance of the role of private collectors in investing in contemporary art and legitimating their collections trough the echoes of certain art spaces’ typologies. As consequence, private collectors become the accepted ‘manager of consciousness,’ and the former distance between collectors and museum is confused, and the museum academic capacity is being replaced. Here, the question of how a private collection is presented to the world became particularly urgent.
In response to this context, the construction of two specific narratives embedded in two contemporary art spaces for two private art collections has been delineated not in a deconstruction of values, but contextualised in-culture within the realm of architecture and its position towards the system.
Seeking a condition of nearness to the art world has been necessary in order to trace the encounters, or relationships which would construct the notion of place for contemporary art, and the values of the prelude to it. A certain alertness and respect towards the other and the world can be achieved in the art gallery that is otherwise often elusive, since what the art gallery as site does that ‘real life’ does not is that it forces the issues of attention – towards the space, the place and the other. Especially in this context, “considerations of where implies more than an ontology of position.”
The fiction of the art space started from the definition of the collection as first assemble to relate art to places and spaces, since the structure and identity of it became fundamental. A section through two collections and their collectors tries to trace the ways and rules which define the different spatial implications of art, in order to relate different specificities to the word, to find them a place within the world.
The role of architecture has been a negotiation between narratives, the one of the existing place which I found as connected to the specificity of the two collections I was dealing with, and the one of the artwork within the collection itself. And in measuring the one with the other, a staged uncertainty would lead to a certain awareness of the place one is in, and how does it relate with the collection itself, and with the world. I believe architecture has to offer a framework that should elicit reactions – it cannot be, as consequence, neutral.
I do think that the role of architecture in relation with art it is not so different from the one of storytelling in “establishing the rights of intensity” of encounters. Since eventually, everything become visible through relationships.
This book reports on her workshops and studios during her time at TU Delft. It presents re-use projects at different scales, in different situations and with different programs. These projects generated reflection along with pertinent and inventive ideas that made it possible to overturn the situations in a positive manner, to change the approach and bring forth interesting solutions, a new situational intelligence and a new intelligence towards thinking about architecture and the urban situation.In these projects, what is initially seen as obsolete and as a constraint or restriction through an opening of the mind and a change in outlook and approach, becomes an opportunity, a chance and an asset. If you look at a situation without a frame or filter and with an open spirit, a building that no longer has a purpose and is a hindrance becomes a liberty.The students adhered to this specific approach: No longer looking at something existing as imperfect, constraining, obsolete, not beautiful etc., but instead as a resource, a component, a stratum/layer and a basis for creativity.The idea of drawing value from everything existing, producing richness with less money but with the greater means and parameters offered by existing situations. Extending the story to do better and more of it. A process of regeneration, extension, adaption and re-use rather than replacement. This way of seeing, thinking, projecting is not really widespread. Making new, remove and replace, restarting from the empty remains mostly the way of doing; whereas the superposition, addition, combination, overlapping, infiltration, appear accurate, contemporary, rich, innovative. Therefore, with regard to this work of the semester and to conclude the guest invitation, I think it’s important to collect and publish these ideas and positions by students and teachers involved with the semester’s work.
We hope that this booklet will leave a trace and a lasting material for reflection and discussion.","reuse; architecture; education; Design workshop; heritage and design","en","book","Delft University of Technology","978-94-6366-080-8","","","","","","","","","Heritage & Design","","",""
"uuid:3a076c59-98aa-4469-a5e7-74a587f1ae8e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3a076c59-98aa-4469-a5e7-74a587f1ae8e","Women's Studies at the Architecture Department of Delft Technical University","van Wijk, C.A. (TU Delft OLD History of Architecture & Urban Planning)","Seražin, Helena (editor); Garda, Emilia Maria (editor); Franchini, Caterina (editor)","2018","This paper discusses the section for Women’s Studies at the Department of Architecture in Delft (ca. 1978-2000). It describes the circumstances that made it possible that such a section came to exist. And it investigates what the activities of the section were, and what the impact of this section has been.","women's studies; education; research; architecture; urbanism","en","conference paper","France Stele Institute of Art History","","","","","","","","","","OLD History of Architecture & Urban Planning","","",""
"uuid:00cc0013-ed05-405d-8dc7-5d64ea29ca58","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:00cc0013-ed05-405d-8dc7-5d64ea29ca58","The meanings of materials: A Phenomenological Study on the Influence of Materials on the Experience of Architecture Aimed to Address the Feeling of Alienation towards the Modern Built Environment","Saâdi, Skander (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Healy, P.E. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","By establishing a phenomenological frame, this research paper demonstrates that the feeling of alienation towards the modern built environment originates from the failure of this built environment to allow man to identify himself with his own human condition, abstract ideas and natural environment. The study focuses on materials as primary suspects of that failure. From the phenomenological point of view, modern and traditional materials are compared, and their physical properties are analysed in the way they allow the identification with the environment. The results show that modern materials, while allowing man to identify himself with his abstract ideas, do not allow him to do so with his natural environment and human condition. Through the analysis of contemporary architectural works, the study explains how modern materials can be transformed and articulated in a way that they can contribute to a meaningful experience of architecture. Finally, this research paper suggests a need for further study to be conducted. For that, the presented earlier methodological phenomenological frame can form the basis for the analysis of other architectural aspects, allowing a broader understanding of the problem of alienation towards the modern built environment.","materials; meaning; architecture; experience; perception; phenomenology; identification; environment; modern built environment; feeling of alienation","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:488fc7ca-8b36-474e-8f85-3f7fbe7705df","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:488fc7ca-8b36-474e-8f85-3f7fbe7705df","Architectural Strategy in Urban Security and Terrorism: The role of the architect in projects dealing with urban security and terrorism","Pijnenburg, Wouter (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Geerts, F. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The adminstrators of urban security and terrorists are in an endless loop of self-reinforcement and adaptation fueled by the serendipitous nature of contemporary terrosism. This thesis questions the role of the architect as a facilitator of products of the industrial military complex in the field of urban security and attempts to explore ways in which they can approach the subject differently using their particular set of skills, that would lead to a more sustainable ways of going forward.","security; terrorism; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Strasbourg: Rethinking urban security",""
"uuid:29b24e3c-9b8d-4304-a49c-2f1bac77f1ff","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:29b24e3c-9b8d-4304-a49c-2f1bac77f1ff","Santos as part of the waterfront landscape","de Vries, Romana (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Ridder, A.C. (mentor); Koopman, F.W.A. (graduation committee); Stroux, S.A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","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 inspired by my research of different reference projects with old harbour waterfronts. One of the outcomes is the layering in heights and the routing along the water. In this way, Santos becomes part of the waterfront landscape. Another important aspect that enlarges this connection is the public stair to the rooftop, which makes that the roof becomes part of the public landscape. These main interventions will give Santos more attention then it will get in the existing future plan. The attention that it deserves, because it shows the history of the neighbourhood, while most of these references are destroyed already.","Santos; heritage; architecture; waterfront; reuse","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","",""
"uuid:9c72406d-089b-406f-bed0-0a7d738b0b9c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9c72406d-089b-406f-bed0-0a7d738b0b9c","The Embassy of Metropolitans","van Kints, Sebastiaan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Nottrot, Robert (mentor); van der Meel, Hubert (mentor); Hackauf, Ulf (mentor); Bet, Els (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","An architectural project for a biodiverse embassy, creating a place for close encounters with the other creatures of the city. The goal is to create awareness and interraction with other species both on a local and global scale and provide the means for a biodiverse community of urban species.","biodiversity; architecture; embassy; birds","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:a7277f83-214b-4fcf-8f61-bcde2050ead1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a7277f83-214b-4fcf-8f61-bcde2050ead1","Literary Methods in Architectural Education","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft OLD Methods & Analysis); Perrotoni, Davide; Proosten, Mark (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule)","","2018","The topic of the journal’s first issue, Literary Methods in Architectural Education, derived from our observation that many of the contributors to the 2013 Writingplace conference shared a particular practice: that of architectural education. Realizing that many scholars interested in the crossovers between architecture and literature find room to experiment, particularly in the environment of seminars and studios, we decided to dedicate the first issue of the Writingplace journal to this topic, in the hope of creating an international dialogue upon the topic of architecture and literature within the space of architectural education.","architecture; literature; literary methods; architectural education","en","contribution to periodical","","","","","","","","","","","OLD Methods & Analysis","","",""
"uuid:4985fd02-ceab-4468-870c-2b114c0d790e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4985fd02-ceab-4468-870c-2b114c0d790e","Factory of the Future: Printing in space","van der Doorn, Olav (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Bier, Henriette (mentor); Mostafavi, Sina (mentor); Adema, Ferry (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","","steel printing; architecture; free-form","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.379658, 4.919162"
"uuid:eb4659b4-1c37-4095-992b-e5942903d45d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:eb4659b4-1c37-4095-992b-e5942903d45d","Space Modders: Architects, Game Developers and Gamers","Kypriotakis-Weijers, Alex (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kousoulas, Stavros (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This paper will outline the connections between videogames and architecture as a form of representing and experiencing physical or digital space and their potential in participatory design. By analyzing communicative and expressive patterns in the videogame community I attempt to find links between architects, game developers and gamers. The ambition is to create an initial framework of how gamification elements can be implemented in the design process and promote commitment and engagement with the public. Keywords: gamification, videogames, participatory design, game developers, architecture, modders, simulation","gamification; videogames; participatory design; game design; architecture; modding; simulation","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:413b6bd9-da26-496d-9570-2051fd973574","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:413b6bd9-da26-496d-9570-2051fd973574","House of Music : Festivity from city to seat","Sofawala, Mohammed Rahil (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor); De Vocht, Sam (mentor); Parravicini, M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","","architecture; interior; concert hall; london; house of music; simon rattle; classical music; Barbican; Barbican Estate; Master thesis; culture centre","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities","House of Music : Festivity from city to seat.","51.517991, -0.096290"
"uuid:14779c4e-8ca2-4b05-a1c4-422f6a8dfa7b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:14779c4e-8ca2-4b05-a1c4-422f6a8dfa7b","Facilitating a festive community","Cijntje, Stephanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft OLD Interior)","Schreurs, Eireen (mentor); Fokkinga, Jelke (mentor); Pietsch, Susanne (graduation committee); van der Spoel, Willem (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This projects addresses the social aspect of daily life, how different people in a community get to meet each other and how the community as a whole, and in a larger context the city, can benefit of these festive social qualities.","festive; community; interiors; social; maastricht; architecture; festive city","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:d3a0aaa1-a271-4ccd-856e-62c47f2ad99f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d3a0aaa1-a271-4ccd-856e-62c47f2ad99f","House of Music: A public living room","Harmens, Hannah (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Rosbottom, Daniel (mentor); De Vocht, Sam (graduation committee); Parravicini, Mauro (mentor); Pimlott, Mark (mentor); Cieraad, Irene (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","","architecture; interior; concert hall; london; house of music; simon rattle; classical music; Barbican; Barbican Estate; Master thesis; culture centre","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","51.517991, -0.096290"
"uuid:cd62e786-c921-4161-8296-f6ecab57083e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cd62e786-c921-4161-8296-f6ecab57083e","Cinema Urban Space","Gilboa, Ori (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Bier, H.H. (mentor); Mostafavi, Sina (mentor); Adema, F. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","Parametric architectural design of cinema-space as an urban generator in Scheveningen harbor (The Hague). The project focuses on media facade as a responsive design element and as an interactive environment. Visual connection to the city and the surroundings as well as urban screen is implemented as a flexible, urbanic growing-on site, alternative for cinema.","architecture; cinema; urban; screen; media; parametric; python; growing; computational design; The Hague; scheveningen; Design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","Hyperbody","52.100072, 4.262563"
"uuid:14afbfcc-a91f-4055-9761-f998ca3f2a77","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:14afbfcc-a91f-4055-9761-f998ca3f2a77","Het Verticale Hof: De omgeving zorgt voor ouderen","Hartman, Nora (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Willekens, L.A.M. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (graduation committee); van Oel, C.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The population of the Netherlands is ageing. The number of people above 65 is expected to grow from 3.1 million in 2017 to 4.8 million in 2040. The increasing ageing population results in more elderly in need of care and a lower percentage of young people able to provide formal care. The classical welfare state seems to gradually change to a ‘participatiesamenleving’, a society in which people initially take the responsibility for themselves. Elderly live independently as long as possible instead of living in an intramural setting. When they are not able to take care of themselves, they can appeal to their social network for more support. Formal care will be additional to the informal care. The participation of the social network is therefore important, not only to handle the shortage of formal care, but also to give people the possibility to live their own, trusted life. The research provides insight into the importance of the relationship between architecture and the provision of informal care to elderly in need of care, which is an increasingly important issue. Architectural tools that fulfil the needs of the informal caregivers can be used by architects while designing environments that stimulate informal care provided by people of the social network of elderly in need of care.
'Het Verticale Hof' is an example of such and environment. It is a housing project with public functions on the ground floor. It is an environment for residents, informal caregivers, the community and professional caregivers and will stimulate informal care.","informal care; elderly; social architecture; health care; architecture; participation; community; hofje","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Health","","52.003407, 4.357292"
"uuid:d2e8f297-9039-4533-b195-db39125073af","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d2e8f297-9039-4533-b195-db39125073af","Into the climate: Improving living conditions in informal settlements in tropical countries","Sarara, Wioletta (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smit, M.J. (mentor); van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (mentor); van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The problem of lack of healthy living conditions is touching all of us. People nowadays base too much on mechanical appliances, forgetting that just small changes in the shape of the building could change the living conditions throughout the whole lifespan of the building.
The biggest problem is in informal settlements where they do not have access to infrastructure while using modern building materials. My project cope with this problem by shaping building with climate, use of natural, low-tech materials and living with symbiosis with nature, while closing the circles of water and natural matter.","bioclimatic; architecture; Circulations; Water management; low-tech","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:8dec83d1-dc6a-4fe9-9ef2-1803075c9f05","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8dec83d1-dc6a-4fe9-9ef2-1803075c9f05","A Sonic: Designing with sound acts","de Beer, Michael (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Havik, K.M. (mentor); Andrade Castro, Oscar (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","To listen and to make a noise, as sonic acts, formed the premise of the project. Continuing a lineage of inquiry of human conduct that is underpinned by the notion that humans engage in purposeful behaviour; the sonic act in the field of architecture questions how people behave sonically in their environments. The importance of this spatial query is underpinned by the premise that sound is critical for experiential engagement and a defining feature of phenomenological attributes of spaces.
As with many forms of praxeological inquiries that have given form to the typologies of buildings we have come to know and love; the project was underpinned by continual introspection as to the sonic inhabitation of spaces. Throughout the iterative design phases of the project, continual cycles of questions were being asked- What is the sonic behaviour and how does this form spatially (Vis-à-vis)?
The project is situated in Valparaiso, Chile. On the steeps slopes between plan and hill. Drawing on the strong sonic research component the outcome presents four primary spatial interventions that each hold diverse qualities for the sonic act of presence to occur. These are a learning centre; collective school environment; market square; and Sonic Vantage point. Each of which serve as precedent for the utilisation of the sonic act as being a core design tool in defining the spatial logic. The significance of the work is that it aims to test notions of experience, that have over the last two decades gained increasing recognition as being fundamental to architecture and calling for a turn away from the dominance of visual mechanisms.
This type of production breaks down several barriers such as the two sides of supply and demand within sharing economy, but also the stance we take of the artificial and the genuine, technology-ecology and city-nature. What does it really mean to be human in a world where anything can be produced from synthesised DNA - is technological production just an extension of our biological selves?
By using the enclosed garden as a typology, the project incorporates production spaces on the lower floors and dwellings on the upper floors, creating a close relationship between living and working. It transpires from the urban to the natural and offers spaces for both individual and communal production within a complete man-made environment, reflecting on human cultivation and production within the historical concept of the garden bridging city and nature.","architecture; garden; garden city; production; Industry; Industry 4.0; additive manufacturing; ecology; amsterdam; Complex Projects; Anthropocene; manufacturing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","","52.416456, 4.864843"
"uuid:8722833a-074a-4261-933e-a5ee5d3fdf22","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8722833a-074a-4261-933e-a5ee5d3fdf22","Shifting points in the city: reflection and representation about vertical life in Valparaiso","Zhang, Nan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Havik, Klaske (mentor); Andrade Castro, Oscar (mentor); Thomas, Amy (mentor); Jennen, Pierre (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This project aims to take advantage of the leftover space in the city and create a
new type of public space in the high-density low rise residential area. It contains
three parts: firstly, renovating the existing infrastructure---the funicular on the site, which is an important feature of Valparaiso. However, as the development of other modern transportation, the funiculars have been gradually abandoned in recent years. To reserve this unique icon, it is essential to apply a new function and social role to it. This project combined funicular with a community center and create different activities along the funicular track. Secondly, renovating four abandon housings and creating several different projects, which are supposed to be “bookshop”,”sharing kitchen”,”day care center”, and” bakery“ to meet the
need of locals. Together with the design of the vertical parks, this site will become a community center with its own characteristics.","architecture; vertical park; drawing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:031596f1-bfcc-427c-8284-f848b219b56b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:031596f1-bfcc-427c-8284-f848b219b56b","The Self-Organization of Stuff","Groenewoud, Stella (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor); Stolk, E.H. (mentor); Cuperus, I.J.J. (mentor); Vitner-Hamming, D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The common description of the configuration of stuff in a room, one of order (tidy) and chaos (messy), fails to explain the phenomenon that artifacts create structures around people and activities in a space, with both functional and cognitive properties. This form of organization, that is recognizable on various scale levels, emerges spontaneously in the system, without the conscious intention of ordering. Following the growing insight in different disciplines that a theory of complexity can more adequately describe real-world phenomena than the classical causal-mechanistic model, a theory is proposed in which a third state, one of self-organization, is added to the order-chaos dichotomy. Stuff systems are considered complex systems, whose global patterns and properties unfold in time, generated through local interactions between the parts. When projecting models that describe complex system dynamics on stuff systems, much of what we observe in a house can be explained, such as the rise of order parameters structuring the parts, life cycles of accumulation, growth, restructuring and renewal, and interdependencies across scales.
The problem here, is that the constant reconfiguration of stuff can only be explained through interaction with human beings, but does not solely follow a path of top-down design. A theory is proposed that links the self-organization of stuff to action identification theory. This theory from psychology explores the cognitive construct of the action (“what one thinks one is doing”) as an order parameter filtering incoming information and thus structuring behavior. Action identification and affordance creation act in parallel and can be considered a doubly complex system creating and created by the self-organization of stuff.
Because of the process through which it emerges, this form of order is functionally optimized, cognitively logic and endlessly more complex than could be designed by drawing lines on paper. Architecture is always about order, while this order comes completely for free. The proposal following this theoretical explanation is therefore a house that uses these network-like structures as the organizational pattern of the design, instead of the traditional orthogonal ‘grid’. Three designer tools that are created following the research and a simulation through agent-based modeling in Netlogo are used in the design process to make this possible.","self-organization; complex adaptive systems; complexity theory of cities; agent-based modeling; design tool; design toolkit; spontaneous order; system dynamics; house; design; architecture; living","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:294429fd-ace7-4356-beda-9ecb405bb8ef","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:294429fd-ace7-4356-beda-9ecb405bb8ef","Cross contamination: architecture and theatre as contaminant agents","Gioia, Stefania (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Pilav, A. (mentor); Nottrot, R.J. (mentor); Cuperus, I.J.J. (mentor); van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Vitner-Hamming, D. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","Scattering and mixing their roles, tools, space and knowledge, letting them interact with the environment, and translating it into a spatial intervention.
This graduation project is about merging together two of my interests and passions and making an architectural project out of it. But also much more than that.
Being involved in Theatre and Architecture as two distinct fields has led me to the point I wanted to merge the them to allow the possibility of fueling each other from different backgrounds and points of view.
Nowadays the need of artificial ice has increased, since the oppurtunity to practice the ice skating sport outside with natural circumstances ceased to exist. The main cause of this development is the increasing annual temperature, which has been a result of global warming.
Due to this climate change, an ice rink building will soon be the only means to practice the sport.
Another development is the increasing demands of the ice skaters to have the right circumstances to enhance their sporting performance.
The architectural typology of the ice rink had been initiated in the 1980’s, before that speed skating on artificial ice had mainly been practiced outdoors. This newly introduced architecture merely played a role as a shell of protection, but is low performing in controlling the right circumstances for high-quality ice and comfort of the sporter.
The ice rink building nowadays is still generally challenged in providing a controllable environment and the typology is still associated with being occupied in winter, and vacated in summer. The ice rink typology can be described as unsustainable.
The directive of the research is to find architectural means to improve an ice rink in its sustainable characteristics. This is mainly focussed on lowering the energy demand by application of architectural solutions, and compensating this energy demand by integrating energy producing elements.
For this research, mainly the usage/operation stage will be taken into account. For the construction stage (choice of materials and their embodied energy) only assumptions will be made to improve the buildings energy sustainability. The result will be an energy neutral ice rink.
To gain insight in the building requirements, case studies of ice rink predecessors and questionnaires on larger potential user groups were necessary. To go into depth of the building characteristics and usefull feedback on how to design an ice rink, specialists in the ice rink field were interviewed. Where needed the research was expanded with literature studies.
Outcomes of the research are, among others, a roof and a double facade acting as an climatic buffer, insulation in the building envelope, avoidance of heat radiation by the sun or surrounding materials, strong climate regulation devices, and a hermetically sealed sport area as protection from its outer environment. In the end the building design will provide an ice sport venue in winter and multifunctional venue in summer with its own fully controllable micro climate.
These solutions will be applied in a program of requirements for a design proposal of the ice rink of the future.","ice rink; Energy Efficiency; architecture; explore lab; ice skating; skating; stadium; manual","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:6abb7296-8c34-45a8-af62-0b419bbe1e75","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6abb7296-8c34-45a8-af62-0b419bbe1e75","Transactions; or Architecture as a System of Research Programs","Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft OLD Methods & Analysis)","Avermaete, T.L.P. (promotor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This study of the historiography of architecture and the built environment develops the thesis that well-known modernist histories of architecture, such as those written by Reyner Banham, remain unable to appraise the many nuances and complexities that characterize modern architecture. It is argued here that, among other reasons, they are unable to do so because they follow a fundamentally hermeneutic trajectory, on the one hand, and because they are strongly reliant on elements of historicism, as defined by Karl Popper, on the other.
In order to confront the inabilities that stem from these two causes, the study reflects on Karl Popper’s investigations on knowledge, science, and society; and more specifically, revises the architectural historian Stanford Anderson’s attempts to use the work of Popper and Imre Lakatos (one of Popper's critics and collaborators) for the appraisal of architecture.
Key among this work is Imre Lakatos’s formulation of a methodology of scientific research programs, of which Anderson tried to produce a qualified version for the appraisal of architectural design. This study evaluates that qualified version, paying special attention to the examples utilized to present it at work.
Subsequently, a tripartite counter-example is advanced as a development of the examples used by Anderson to present his qualified version at work. Together, the study of Anderson’s approach to the work of Popper and Lakatos, and the description of three architectures understood as parts of an architectural research program, confront the hermeneutic trajectory and the elements of historicism identified in modernist architectural historiography, and provide new elements for the appraisal of modern architecture.
Therefore, the method is framed around the idea that the particular situations [spatial practices of an urban environment] have the embedded and coded potentiality to be unraveled through the architectural discourse. The project puts a focus on a dual (multiple) understandings(readings) of the spatial emergencies. The design and research is also an exploration and a dispute of the itinerary potentialities of the urban conditions. The line between one becoming another gets into a blurred zone, unclearness. Therefore, the new entity could be seen as an emerging topology for the design. Architecture could be seen as an in-between factor to release one’s spatial triggers. Therefore, the research becomes a mental exploration of the phenomenon. The irrationalities embedded within the spatial understanding of the situations manifest themselves through selected methodology. Throughout the research phase, analytical models and drawings were produced to incorporate the approach into a coherent design synthesis.
With the project, I intend to integrate the notion of derive and estrangement into an architectural design of mental understandings of the space. An idea that built-up spatial entities embed the qualities and capabilities of being several things at the same time. All depending on personal visceral factors. From there the architecture of phobia derives. The manifestations of the spatial elements and an in-between which is in this case architecture itself are seen through the most fluctuating point of view. The phobia in itself is an irrationality and by facing it various discontinuities in the spatial understanding of the space are embedded.
The architecture, therefore, is understood as an active agent in terms of releasing the itinerary embedded in the factors. However, the spatial phobias are nested round and directly linked to the elements by which the architecture is made of.
Mixed, juxtaposed, superimposed, joined and fused the construct makes perverse and determined spatial understandings of the spatial equivalents. Bodily positioning in space.","architecture; Public Building; Mapping; derive; phobia; Archive; Concept Design; Experimental","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","40°11'14.3, 44°30'05.4"
"uuid:9cdf4cf2-4713-4038-aac8-44b6ff3c765b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9cdf4cf2-4713-4038-aac8-44b6ff3c765b","Response-ability: building together as performative political practice","Koekoek, Catherine (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Altes Arlandis, Alberto (mentor); Pilav, Armina (graduation committee); van der Meel, Hubert (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Politics no longer works like the democratic ideal presumed it did. We need to find other ways of doing politics: not just representational and abstract, but situated and performative. Architecture can help us doing this. This project focuses on the situation of Reyeroord, IJsselmonde, Rotterdam. I propose a building process of three theatre typologies that provide a place for theatre as well as community gatherings. Using local building methods and materials, these three structures and their building process, aim to increase the response-ability of this place and its inhabitants. Through the building process, a ""Skilled Practice involving Developmentally Embodied Responsiveness"" (Ingold 2008) inhabitants learn new ways of relating to their environment, and by changing that environment, it becomes easier to respond to it. Building together can thus be a performative political practice, creating micro-kosmic instances of a reality as it could be, situated in the mud of a place, materials, bodies, thoughts and values. Even if this happens on a small scale, the experiences, agencies and skills emerging in this process will taken far beyond this immediate situation.","response-ability; building together; participation; politics; alternative spatial practice; architecture; performativity; embodied knowledge; skilled practice; temporality; ephemerality; representation; publicness; domesticity; improvisation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","51.882450, 4.554464"
"uuid:9b2b53e6-9124-41bf-8886-d190b545cd71","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b2b53e6-9124-41bf-8886-d190b545cd71","Thickening the threshold: Public spaces for encounter in the entry squares of Universidad Nacional de Colombia.","Panasiuk, Agnieszka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Altes Arlandis, Alberto (mentor); Koskamp, Gilbert (graduation committee); Mejia Hernandez, Jorge (graduation committee); Havik, Klaske (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","class=""MsoNormal"">In September 2018 I have traveled to Bogota - the capital of Colombia with a group of Methods & Analysis students and teachers. During the trip to Bogota I have repeatedly visited the campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia – a national higher education institution. What stayed with me the most after these visits were not the sights of the most prominent university buildings and representative spaces but quite contrastingly – pictures of the forgotten lawns and the dilapidated fence which marks the boundary of the campus. Universidad Nacional has been isolated from the rest of the city by a fence raised in 1970’s and even more severely by busy traffic arteries. In spite of the separation, the campus plays an invaluable role in the lives of the inhabitants of Bogota. Not to mention the thousands of students, who daily cross the gates, innumerable families and groups of friends arrive at Universidad Nacional to rest and play there. The campus is a green resource for the city.Boundary is a social contract in which the sides agree that a contradiction cannot be resolved in any way other than separating the conflicted sides. If the separation is not questioned the status quo remains. An architect – a person whose work is to introduce change – is inclined to question the division. And what happens if we transform the environment in such way that the discourse, more intensive exchange between the sides and with each other realities become possible? The reality supplies one of the possible answers. In the present state of affairs many aspects of the functioning of the student life have been left to the informal market. In fact the informal markets flourish near the boundary. Vendors have discovered the boundary in a way that does not conform to the orthodox understanding of a boundary. The organic, unplanned, improvised erodes the stiff, regulated, formalized.What would it take to open the gates for the other realities though?","boundary; threshold; topography; architecture; thirding; Bogota; informal economy","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:a69a8076-36bd-459e-9e0a-eaa2b71424d1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a69a8076-36bd-459e-9e0a-eaa2b71424d1","Understanding and Designing Place: Considerations on Architecture and Philosophy","","Havik, K.M. (editor); Passinmäki, Pekka (editor)","2019","The present book addresses a topic that seems common-place, and yet is often overlooked in many architectural debates and practice. Everything takes place, and architecture, by default, is a profession that deals with, intervenes in, transforms and creates places. However, in contemporary architecture, in the globalized world of today, the understanding of the particular place in which a building or a city is situated is either taken for granted or not addressed at all. In this publication, that was preceded by an international seminar held at Tampere University of Technology School of Architecture in Tampere, Finland, in 2017,1 we aimed to bring the concept of place back to the centre stage, and to reflect on the experience of place and the complexities of situation from both a philosophical and a practical perspective. Acknowledging that place is a complex phenomenon, the present publication focuses on un- derstanding and designing place from different perspectives. In doing so, it will specifically draw on connections between architecture and philosophy in addressing issues of place.","architecture; place; philosophy; phenomenology","en","book","datutop","978-952-03-1113-1","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:35556cd9-78c0-42a9-a197-a8fe4d78851f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35556cd9-78c0-42a9-a197-a8fe4d78851f","Reading(s) and Writing(s): Unfolding Processes of Transversal Writing","Gabrielsson, Catharina (KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Frichot, Hélène (University of Melbourne); Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Jobst, Marko","","2019","This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and responding to texts. By presenting not only resulting texts, but discreet readings of works in process integrated with the discussions that unfold, the issue reveals complex modes of writing that move between the scholarly and the fictional.","architecture; critical writing; creative writing","en","contribution to periodical","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:88963377-f67f-48d3-b0f7-363a945551b0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88963377-f67f-48d3-b0f7-363a945551b0","Skopje: The Multiple Faces of the City","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2019","","Skopje; architecture; writing; urban transformation; Skopje 2014 project","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:f4a9cae5-4413-43b3-a620-025168e3abf2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4a9cae5-4413-43b3-a620-025168e3abf2","Re-printing architectural heritage: Exploring current 3D printing and scanning technologies","Bekkering, Juliette (Eindhoven University of Technology); Kuit, Barbara (Eindhoven University of Technology); Hein, C.M. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics); Turrin, M. (TU Delft Design Informatics); Dik, J. (TU Delft (OLD) MSE-4); Hanna, J.M.K. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics); Alkadri, M.F. (TU Delft Design Informatics); Așut, Serdar (TU Delft Digital Technologies); Knaack, U. (TU Delft Design of Constrution); Koorstra, P.A. (TU Delft Space & Type)","","2019","Additive Manufacturing (commonly known as 3D printing) technology has become a global phenomenon. In the domain of heritage, 3D printing is seen as a time and cost efficient method for restoring vulnerable architectural structures. The technology can also provide an opportunity to reproduce missing or destroyed cultural heritage, in the cases of conflicts or environmental threats. This project takes the Hippolytuskerk in the Dutch village of Middelstum, as a case study to explore the limits of the existing technology, and the challenges of 3D printing of cultural heritage. Architectural historians, modelling experts, and industrial scientists from the universities of Delft and Eindhoven have engaged with diverse aspects of 3D printing, to reproduce a selected part of the 15th century church. This experimental project has tested available technologies to reproduce a mural on a section of one of the church’s vault with maximum possible fidelity to material, colors and local microstructures. The project shows challenges and opportunities of today’s technology for 3D printing in heritage, varying from the incapability of the scanning technology to capture the existing cracks in the required resolution, to the high costs of speciality printing, and the limited possibilities for combining both printing techniques for such a complex structure.","3D printing; 3D scanning; heritage; architecture","en","journal article","","","","","","Energy Innovation #5: 4TU.BOUW Lighthouse projects + PDEng ISBN 978-94-6366-246-8","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:554d45da-2295-4df0-ba23-6dcad2533116","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:554d45da-2295-4df0-ba23-6dcad2533116","Samen Leven: A research about elements in architecture which contributes to a healthier environment","Himmit, Imane (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Wit, L.M.M. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (graduation committee); Willekens, L.A.M. (graduation committee); Quist, W.J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","This research and design is about ""Het Gemeenschap Gezondheidshuis; Samen Leven"". A research about the change of healthcare nowadays; where people want to stay at home longer and have care at home. But also where the needs of a patient are more central. The main question is: what elements of architecture contributes to a healthier environment, to create a home like feeling for everyone with different cultural backgrounds. In the design this was the mainfocus. In the design these aspects where applied in the forms of a single room area, where the rehabilitated had the choice to whether stay in there rooms, make use of the common kitchen of have a coffee in the public coffee bar. In this same bar passants have the oppertunity to drink a coffee as well, without having the feeling to be in a place of recovery.","health; architecture; healthcare; interiors; stairs; society","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","51.921445, 4.483129"
"uuid:a2399cdd-3510-4ae6-b2f5-8587eaa806b0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a2399cdd-3510-4ae6-b2f5-8587eaa806b0","Towards a Digitised Era","van Ardenne, Maurits (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, Roberto (mentor); van der Meel, Hubert (graduation committee); Harteveld, Maurice (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","We have entered a new époque, transforming our societies from the mechanical to the digital. This unlocks a lot of new opportunities and abilities, but also results into big societal and behavioural changes, which need to be addressed in our built environment. Architecture seems to have disappeared on the background, while technological advancements appear to dominate the field. As a result, a representation of the human dimension lacks in our cities and buildings, risking alienation of our settings. Meanwhile, the digitised city drives our mental capacity to an extreme by firing an abundance of stimuli upon us in a velocity that keeps accelerating and intensifying. There is a need to retrieve answers to the emerging design themes in order to meet the demand of human centred architecture in a digitised era. This quest pictures different other dimensions that should be considered, but simultaneously can reinforce the character of an architecture appropriate to a digitised era, resulting in an embodiment of a new zeitgeist. Main discussion points within the debate are: creating human awareness, offering solutions for cyber criminality, allowing technological development to be more democratic, avoid an excess of overexposure from our environments, fusing globalisation with our different local settings and finding the right design tools and methods to approach architectural representation interlaced with digital systems. It is important to keep in mind that the human should stay at the focal point of design at all times and not the machine. Technique should be seen as nothing more than a prosthesis of the human body, it should be restricted - by all means - to take over human functioning. We need to provide open systems and not define everything by algorithms. In this way we can make way for the plurality of human development through creativity and have a stronger interaction between human and machine. In the end the networked systems can behave, together with the city, as an organism that is open to evolve in any direction, based upon the gathering of data. By realising our potential human influence we can have impact upon the network, through manipulating or hacking it towards our own benefits.","architecture; digitisation; innovation center; mental health; environmental psychology; Sense of Place; globalisation; democracy; digital representation; awareness; blackbox; automated landscape; human dimension; Cyber Security; Transformation; heritage; hybridisation; honourable mention","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:d6736f9b-f870-4736-a5e7-2ef292cf69aa","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d6736f9b-f870-4736-a5e7-2ef292cf69aa","Accelerating the transition towards circular economy within the built environment: Utilizing blockchain technology and designing a circular, modular, temporary start-up incubator on the Marineterrein in Amsterdam","Bolier, Marc (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van de Pas, Roel (mentor); van der Zaag, Engbert (graduation committee); Peck, David (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","The master graduation project focusses on accelerating the transition towards the circular economy. Specifically it is a design for an intervention on an existing building on the Marineterrein making it into start-up incubator in a way consistent with the thought frame of the Circular economy. The project is a exploration of the role of the architect within the proposed circular economy. In depth research is conducted into blockchain technology by a startup Circularise to explore how this technology could stimulate the transition towards a circular economy within the Built Environment industry. The design is intended to combine the whole Marineterrein into a transition campus by fulfilling the necessary program and urban function needed. The design is built up by a set of modules that is made out of elements that are all leased by a number of manufacturers. Main conclusions can be found within the emphasis on the standardized sizes and easy connections of these elements and the effect that these decisions have on the design. Other conclusions include 1) the need of the continues involvement of the architect within the project by creating policies for the use of the building by the start-ups and pro-actively stimulate the living lab function of the building and 2) the need for a ‘creative’ architect to combine the different element into ‘good’ architecture instead of just a combination of different element. The latter conclusion is incorporated in this design by finding a set of design principles to guide the design found in the history and context of the Marineterrein and the concept of the circular start-up incubator.","Circular design; architecture; marinterrein; transition; Circular economy; Blockchain technology; Circularise; Role of the architect","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.373611, 4.916667"
"uuid:ed07c934-d719-431c-a08e-b7cecde69612","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ed07c934-d719-431c-a08e-b7cecde69612","ARthouse Sloterdijk: Een nieuwe schouwburg als bestemming aan de A10 boulevard van Amsterdam 2050","Woudenberg, Rafaël (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Koning, S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","In light of the huge growth in population and tourism that Amsterdam will encounter in the future, the city might have to work towards a polycentral urban setup in which multiple city centers can contribute to the (social-, cultural-, economic-) wellbeing of the overall city. In this project we find that the likelihood of Sloterdijk, a place known for its transit node Sloterdijk Station and the nearby A10 ringroad-highway, becoming one of these poli-centers is high. But the A10 ringroad as a connecting factor between multiple new poli-centers will get a new meaning as well. The Western part of the ringroad will likely expand towards the A5, A9, A1 highway to reduce heavy transit within the city of Amsterdam. Could we in this case create a more approachable A10 highway, and what would that need? Looking at presidents of great European ringroads, like the Ringstrasse in Vienna, Boulevard de Marechaux in Paris, Boulevard Ring in Moscow but also the Binnenring of Amsterdam, we find that these places are full of green, approachable for pedestrians and cyclists, and with a great variety of cultural destination. In Amsterdam most of the cultural amenities are clustered within the old inner city. This results in a great pressure on the inner-city with overcrowding as a result. Sloterdijk has a few Cultural amenities on its own near the Sloterdijk station but these will have to relocate due to the envisioned future densification. Because of the need for cultural destinations at a renewed A10 ringroad, the solution became the clustering of these cultural amenities and the formalization of a multifunctional theater; a place for music, drama, pop-podia, movies and other means of performing art. Due to the fact that the project is based in the context of Amsterdam 2050, another question arose; what will the future of theater look like? Currently we can see the birth of new digital technologies that combine digital art with reality; Augmented Reality. Eventually these technologies could mean the addition of another production unit within the theater production team that we know. Digital attributes will become part of the story and the spectacle on the podium. This puts the AR in the ARthouse.
In the peri-urban sphere, at the urban fringe, stacked apartments next to station areas are offering the density that lets many more inhabitants benefit from living in the city, through the infrastructure network: living somewhere, travelling and working somewhere else, connected on a city scale. But at the moment, these peri-urban railway stations are small and outdated, and often unattractive. Spoorbouwmeester Eric Luiten (Spoorbouwmeester, 2018) points out how changes in the transit network through the years have especially impacted smaller railway stations in peripheral areas: gradually, increased efficiency and technology have resulted in ticket offices at
these stations going vacant. No more amenities are needed today at these stations than a ticket machine and a platform. These stations show that they have no social significance or added qualities, locally, which in turn reflects onto the quality of their surrounding public space. The station areas were designed only as a necessity.
The perceived issue is that the transit oriented city diminishes local values and qualities and replaces them with infrastructure, nodes and efficiency on a non-local scale. At this moment when new urban developments focus on public transport nodes, the railway station is in the middle of this change as something that is both part of the network and part of the local built environment.
Today, contrasting developments are taking place: we are designing our cities with TOD focusing on the efficiency of the connected city, but at the same time aim to enhance the quality of local public space around station buildings and peripheral neighborhoods. We are building mixed-use buildings that are extremely well connected to amenities elsewhere in the city while also offering as much as their inhabitants need inside or near the building itself. Architects and urban planners as well as Bureau Spoorbouwmeester are looking to redevelop railway stations together with their environments as an integral master plan. This integral approach was used for the first time with the NSP program for the six largest railway stations in the Netherlands. As a result of this successful program, the interweaving of station and urban plan has become a standard in the vision of Bureau Spoorbouwmeester and the appointment of a Landscape Architect as their director ensures this new policy.
With this duality of city network and local qualities, a great challenge is taking shape for the peri-urban railway station. On one hand, there is the realisation that we need to integrate the station into its local environment to enhance the quality of the surrounding public space and liveability of the neighborhood which in many cases of post-war neighborhoods is considered an issue. On the other hand these stations and new urban developments are advertising connectivity and mobility within the city network as the new way of living, a diversification of life through the possibilities of the transit oriented city and the sharing of spaces that it offers. The station area now has these two very different perspectives, but the next step should be to study these two perspectives alongside eachother, and to start blurring them: the station as the perfect mediator, offering a place that is connected to city life and at the same time extends this city life and its livelyhood into the local public sphere.","Station development; Railway station; peri urban areas; architecture; Transit Oriented Development; amsterdam; lelylaan; Strategic Design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","City of the Future","52.357638, 4.834053"
"uuid:0259ac5b-29fb-49bb-81cb-4c47e65869c0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0259ac5b-29fb-49bb-81cb-4c47e65869c0","Arctic Frontier: Fragility of the monument, power of the environment","Aquilina, Emily (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kuzniecow Bacchin, Taneha (mentor); Sohn, Heidi (graduation committee); van der Meel, Hubert (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Through the synthesis of a speculative design project I explore the meditative process of working together with earth forces to create alternative ways of valuing the Arctic and its critic yet fragile environments. Emerging as a response to the changing global trends of climate change, territorial claims and rapid melting of ice in the Arctic region; this research evolved as an investigation into the theoretical concepts of Architecture x Power x Territory within the context of the Arctic. To understand the complex conditions and factors that have influence within the Arctic Ocean a process of mapping conflicts – defined as disruptive forces – documented the interactions and relations between assemblages and ecologies existing within past, present and future organisations of territory. The overall methodology and investigation into the mediation of this planetary condition unravels through Levi Bryant’s Onto-Cartography and his three dimensions of geophilosophy: cartography, deconstruction, and terraformation (Bryant 2014). The political practice of cartography combined with the deconstruction of the theoretical concepts establish a point of intervention, mediation and negotiation of relations between assemblages and ecologies through an iterative process of mapping, analysis, deconstructing and redefining. The deconstruction of the key concepts – Architecture, Power and Territory translates and shifts the application from the territorial context of land and constructed landscapes into the context of the ocean, challenging the current understanding, dynamic and interaction of the concepts. Where Territory is explored through the notion of Terrain, a term that considers volume, the three-dimensional space or verticality of territory (Elden 2017), Power is expanded to include earth Forces and Architecture is inherently linked to Environment and its critical ecologies. Finally, the terraformation dimension or the “building of alternative worlds” (Bryant 2014) materialises as an alternative path of movement - enabling humans the ability to escape existing conditions such as those of extractive measures, creating the possibility of projecting new realities through the relations and intermingling of ecologies and the built environment. Thus, projecting an alternative future for the territory by rendering ecological and intrinsic processes visible.
In the present situation, many elderly homes are not only disconnected from society but also isolated in their private rooms due to the large scale and institutional space organization. For elderly people who lose their connections with society after retirement and have less mobility, these living environments are not suitable for them to build and develop new intimate social relationships.
Therefore, this study aims to provide a social environment like family by creating architectural spaces that help them form intimate social relations with their neighbors, and also assist the elderly to stay connected and part of our society. In order to achieve this, the thesis suggests a new elderly housing environment by incorporating the characteristic of ‘Volkstuin’ (community garden) that commonly exist around us into elderly housing.","elderly; care; volkstuin; community garden; cluster; family; multi-generation; neighbor; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.346, 5.613"
"uuid:e73259c9-a0df-44f4-b24d-0a14b049197c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e73259c9-a0df-44f4-b24d-0a14b049197c","Urban informality shaped by labor: Addressing the spatial logics of favelas","Chagas Cavalcanti, A.R. (TU Delft Space & Type)","van Gameren, D.E. (promotor); Rocco, Roberto (copromotor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","This doctoral thesis mainly consists of a series of journal publications written by the author between 2015 and 2019. The doctoral thesis presents the results of ten years of research on informal settlements, with particular reference to Brazilian favelas. The research aimed to understand the social dynamics of the production of space in these settlements. To this purpose, the author took residence in favelas and performed field research for a total of six years, including the witnessing of a resettlement process from a favela to a formal social housing development in the city of Maceió, in Brazil. The social dynamics that produces and influences the space of the favelas observed in the field were systematically codified in a new pedagogic tool by the author. As main findings from the analysis, it emerged that labor primarily shapes, plans and governs space in informal settlements. Working activities explain the emergence of these settlements, influence the dynamics of space inside the domain of the house, influence the shape of streets up to the margin of the favelas, but also has influence on city and global scales. From the residents’ perspective, labor represents both a means to earn their subsistence, livelihoods and underscores their inner self-esteem as human beings. Working practices originally present in the favelas were in fact restored in the social housing development to where citizens were relocated, with their original domestic function. According to this thesis, labor practices of inhabitants of informal settlements must be addressed when designing housing solutions for deprived citizens fighting for their survival and must be considered as a housing right. The reasons why the current housing approaches do not contemplate work are understood in context and interpreted according to their historic and economic backgrounds. A housing architectural and planning approach aimed at restoring the combination of working and domestic functions of human beings is proposed instead.","work; labor; informal settlemens; slums; architecture; planning; livelihood; housing","en","doctoral thesis","A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment","978-94-6366-199-7","","","","A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment No 9 (2019)","","","","","Space & Type","","",""
"uuid:cb7194fb-7b99-4ea9-a5ad-8e3617d1f9f5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb7194fb-7b99-4ea9-a5ad-8e3617d1f9f5","Mapping quantum algorithms in a crossbar architecture","Morais Tejerina, Alejandro (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)","García Almudever, Carmina (mentor); Al-Ars, Zaid (graduation committee); Sebastiano, Fabio (graduation committee); Veldhorst, Menno (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","In recent years, Quantum Computing has gone from theory to a promising reality, leading to quantum chips that in a near future might be able to exceed the computational power of any current supercomputer. For this to happen, there are some problems that must be overcome. For example, in a quantum processor qubits are usually arranged in a 2D architecture with limited connectivity between them and in which only nearest-neighbour interactions are allowed. This restricts the execution of two-qubit gates and requires qubit to be moved to adjacent positions. Quantum algorithms, which are described as quantum circuits, neglect the quantum chip constraints and therefore cannot be directly executed. This is known as the mapping problem. This thesis focuses on the problem of mapping quantum algorithms into a quantum chip based on spin qubits, called the crossbar architecture. In this project we have developed the required compiler support (mapping) for making quantum circuits executable on the crossbar architecture based on the tools provided by OpenQL. Using this compiler, we have analyzed the mapping overhead of the crossbar architecture and studied how it relates to the characteristics of quantum algorithms. In addition, we have developed a verification program that checks the output of the compiler and provides a visualisation tool for debugging.","mapping; spin qubits; crossbar; architecture; quantum; silicon; OpenQL; routing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Computer Engineering","",""
"uuid:c04f1489-fa62-46d6-878c-db344a950585","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c04f1489-fa62-46d6-878c-db344a950585","TerriStories. Literary Tools for Capturing Atmosphere in Architectural Pedagogy","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2019","By recognizing the potential of literary language in the description of architectural atmospheres, this contribution aims to confront the shortcomings of conventional pedagogical approaches in architecture that often fail to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiential aspects of place. To contribute to the development of appropriate instruments of analysis and design to read and describe urban atmosphere, this article combines two main insights: first, that it is of crucial importance to investigate site-specific atmospheres to understand how people experience the urban territories they use or inhabit; and second, that it is through literary devices that atmospheres can be read and described. By bringing together these insights, this article aims to propose pedagogical exercises that help students of architecture to develop a better understanding of the experiential aspects of site-specificity. By adding to the conventional tools of architect and planners a set of tools inspired by literature, it hopes to offer students in architecture more appropriate tools to describe, respond to, and produce site-specific atmospheres. It will illustrate the potential of this approach by presenting an example of the use of literary methods in architectural education, in Tampere, Finland.","atmosphere; site-specificity; narrative; architecture; architectural education","mul","journal article","","","","","","Published in the issue 5/2019 Phenomenographies. Describing urban and architectural atmospheres, Edited by Federico de Matteis, Mikkel Bille, Tonino Griffero and Andrea Jelić","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:964b797b-0f94-47cb-8bf5-29d98f276644","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:964b797b-0f94-47cb-8bf5-29d98f276644","Settle and Rule: the evolution of the Israeli national project","Schwake, G. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics; TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions)","","2020","Settling in Palestine is an integral part of the national revival of the Jewish nation, which eventually led to the establishment of the state of Israel. This paper defines the Practical Zionism territorial strategy as a Settle and Rule mechanism that evolved through four periods of development, from the pre-state era to the post-state era: first, the agricultural settlements of the 1920s and 1930s (cultivate and rule); second, the 1950s’ industrial towns (industrialize and rule); third, the suburbs of the 1980s (suburbanize and rule) and; and fourth, the recent corporate-led development (financialize and rule). This paper argues that the national settlement mission transformed according to the changes in the modes of production and the interests of the ruling hegemony. Therefore, it focuses on four different national plans for the frontier area of the Galilee and analyses the layout of the proposed new settlements and the architecture of the housing units.","Israel/Palestine; architecture; neoliberalism; privatization; urbanism","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:be7b3c6b-3171-4f8f-a2d2-282e6b2059a8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:be7b3c6b-3171-4f8f-a2d2-282e6b2059a8","Writing, Filming, Building: Using a Taxonomy of Moviegoers to Appraise Spatial Imagination in Architecture","Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2020","How do we envision possible futures for the built environment? What allows us to imagine spaces that do not yet exist? While superstitious approaches to these questions often explain spatial imagination as an ineffable or arcane process, this article advances a simple description of how built space can be understood, envisioned and ultimately produced. The analytical approach developed by the writer Andrés Caicedo to explain how professional film makers approach a movie, and the differences between their approach and that of the general public, are used to illustrate how architects can also confront built space professionally, with an operative intention. Both in the film arts and in architecture, it is argued here, the technical understanding of what exists, and how it has been produced, is indispensable to imagine what might or should be. By using methods obtained from literature and cinema to illustrate the relation between architecture’s telos, or its ability to advance visions of possible futures for the built environment, and its technique, or the instruments and methods required to achieve those visions, the article makes a strong case for the utility of interdisciplinary analyses for artistic practice.","spatial imagination; technique; analysis; methodology; trans-disciplinary; architecture","en","journal article","","","","","","No 4 (2020): Choices and Strategies of Spatial Imagination","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:a45362fc-16e3-4f81-8394-f57aac8526e7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a45362fc-16e3-4f81-8394-f57aac8526e7","Architecture & Urban Design—Amsterdam and Boston: MSc 2 Elective Design Studio AR0067 Spring 2018–2019","","Cavallo, R. (editor); Harteveld, Maurice (editor); Kuijper, J.A. (editor); Hoogkamer, S.S. (editor)","2020","At TU Delft, in the interdisciplinary MSc II Design Studio Architecture & Urban Design, students of the master tracks Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment work closely together. The integrative approach of this graduate course setting allows the students to examine urban space as architectural space and architectural space as urban space. Through an experimental design method, developed during the 2018 national research project Stad van de Toekomst,1 the studio is founded on the interest in the intervention in the built environment and its immediate effect on architecture and urban design. The global framework of the Stad van de Toekomst project is directly projected on Amsterdam Sloterdijk Station and Boston South Station areas, compressed and applied to this ten-week graduate course. Taken from a wider angle, the project is motivated by urgent social as well as local tasks in the urban areas, varying from housing demand, social inclusiveness, new economy, climate adaptation, and the like, taking into account the transitions in energy, mobility, circularity, and digitization. This echoes through in the central question of the Stad van de Toekomst project: How can we design and develop a transformation area in an integral way into an attractive and future-proof urban environment? In addition particularly, the project is motivated by the major system transitions impacting on societal tasks effectively desiring progressive urbanization in the first place.","architecture; urban design; Amsterdam; Boston; design studio; infrastructure; mobility; landscape architecture; public space; hybridization","en","book","TU Delft OPEN Publishing","978-94-6366-291-8","","","","","","","","","Theory, Territories & Transitions","","",""
"uuid:95ebaa1b-34ba-4f8f-af3c-31acd41b76e5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:95ebaa1b-34ba-4f8f-af3c-31acd41b76e5","Introduction: Continuously changing urban conditions","Cavallo, R. (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions); Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design); Kuijper, J.A. (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions)","Cavallo, Roberto (editor); Harteveld, Maurice (editor); Kuijper, Joran (editor); Hoogkamer, Sanne (editor)","2020","","architecture; urban design; urbanization; Amsterdam; Boston; design studio; infrastructure; mobility; public space; landscape architecture","en","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN Publishing","","","","","","","","","","Theory, Territories & Transitions","","",""
"uuid:e51dd3a3-86f9-4204-b523-6429bbe4ca73","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e51dd3a3-86f9-4204-b523-6429bbe4ca73","Towards an Architecture Operating as a Bio-Cyber-Physical System","Pillan, Margherita (Politecnico di Milano); Pavlovic, Milica (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven); Bier, H.H. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)","","2020","Today’s physical-digital continuum challenges designers and architects to envision architecture as a Bio-Cyber-Physical System that is operating as part of a larger ecosystem while addressing societal challenges with a broader understanding of sustainability in mind. This paper identifies current conditions, challenges and opportunities, while proposing an intercultural dialog toward achieving a better future. The purpose is to enlighten and explore the threshold where the physical interlaces the domain of immaterial flows of information as well as identify some of the digital and material design aspects shaping the multiple facets of bio-cyber-physical-systems in order to propose some possible solutions for current design challenges.","architecture; Bio-Cyber-physical System","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:ce286771-e839-4b42-afb4-ef56447e250b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ce286771-e839-4b42-afb4-ef56447e250b","Design of a community centre for the settlement Zandspruit, Johannesburg","Stevens, Denise (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering)","Smit, Mo (mentor); Bilow, Marcel (mentor); Wamelink, Hans (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","This design focuses on the upliftment of the community in the settlement Zandspruit, which is located on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. This is done by creating a community centre with a large program of requirements.
Important is the creation of an innovative building structure, that the community members should be able to build by themselves. Furthermore the circularity of materials is a point of focus. By using a wide variety of materials, inspiration of what could be done with the materials, is given to the members of the settlement. Because of the location and the context the centre is placed in, passive climate design was very important. All the functions placed within the community centre will help tackle a lot of the problems settlements face, and eventually help a lot of community members to find a job and move to a better place.","community; circularity; waste material; settlement; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","-26.061694, 27.909806"
"uuid:33717c18-99b2-43d1-8273-4eabb2638fed","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:33717c18-99b2-43d1-8273-4eabb2638fed","The continuation of historical value is enduring: Spirit of culture value is the regenerative power of heritage architecture","Zhu, Mingke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Meijers, W.L.E.C. (mentor); Warries, G.Y. (graduation committee); van Emstede, C.I.C. (graduation committee); Marx, M.C. (graduation committee); Koopman, F.W.A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","In this thesis, it describes that spirit is the regenerative power in heritage design, and explained how it was inherited from past and still remain alive nowadays. A certain kind of method will be approached to help with the research on this topic. Since heritage design is the re-design based on the existing building, historical research places an important role during the architectural research. It shows the memory of the site. However, besides historical value and age value, other values such as use value, newness value and rarity value should also be considered in the value assessment, which makes decisions between demolishing, reserving or redesigning more convincing. Furthermore, the value assessment encourages architects reflect on history and find strategies for new design fit for the nowadays and look to the future. The value assessment can help find out the spirit of the heritage and the spirits of the can help to bring building into new life.","architecture; cultural value; Heritage & Architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","Acciona, 2018 SUSTAINABLE BUILDING MATERIALS, Retrieved Spetember 17, 2019 from https://www.activesustainability.com/construction-and-urban-development/sustainable-building-materials/https://www.activesustainability.com/construction-and-urban-development/sustainable-building-materials/ Fermacell, 2019 Special solutions Underfloor heating, Retrieved October 15, 2019 fromhttps://www.fermacell.nl/nl/vloersystemen HNS Aluminium, . 2018, The weight of double and triple glass unit, Retrieved Nov. 23, 2019 from https://www.hnsaluminium.co.uk/the-weight-of-double-and-triple-glass-units/ ,Petzet, M. Heilmeyer, F. (2012) Reduce, reuse, recycle Roof Megastore, 2017 The Mega Guide to Polycarbonate, Retrieved Nov. 23, 2019 from https://www.roofingmegastore.co.uk/blog/polycarbonate-guide.html Roof Online, 2019 Quick Reference: Weight of Roofing Materials, Retrieved Nov. 23, 2019 from https://roofonline.com/weight-of-roofing-materials Stopka, M. 2019 5 of the world's most eco-friendly building materials Retrieved Spetember 17, 2019 from https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/most-eco-friendly-building-materials-world-bamboo-cork-sheep-wool-reclaimed-metal-wood/526982/","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","",""
"uuid:98a6e403-b16e-4420-ad65-e62f6d7260a5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98a6e403-b16e-4420-ad65-e62f6d7260a5","Rumor has it","Yu, Hao (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Riedijk, M. (mentor); Frausto, S.E. (mentor); Corbett, H.P.S. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The contribution explores the new agenda of architectural means in contemporary context. Today, in the era of Post-truth, when all the information we learn circulates with uncertainty and doubtful truth, all these online knowledges we perceive are like rumors. As architects, we develop techniques to simulate architectural design throughout history and the advancement has eroded our idea of built and not-built nowadays. When the influence of architectural means is not limited in its own profession in this Post-truth era. Can we, architects, interfere people’s understanding of a place by deliberately creating or exaggerating certain aspect of a something, in this case, the Chinatown of Gibraltar. Across Europe there’re anxiety about motives, underhand tactics, and cultural transformations. The image of Gibraltar – which remains vague, mysterious, exotic in most minds – is thus ideal to generate rumors. The spatial influence of the new type of Chinatown interfered in smaller scales, on personal level. Across the world, the Chinese investment today are not only on Chinese stuffs, they also produce authentic products. To design an effective architectural rumor, the method is analogy to the ordinary way of designing architecture. The design brief, the objective of all the Chinatown rumors, is to suggest the Chinatown in Gibraltar either directly or implicitly, the site and program are chosen on media where we learn about Gibraltar, and the reference can increase reliability of the rumors. The Chinatown rumor disseminated in Europe might be on websites and stories about Brexit and cultural transformation to increase exposure. The Chinatown rumor disseminated in Gibraltar might be on local forums with exclusive stories. The same method can apply to various websites with different stories, identities to affect different audience. The reaction of the rumors embodies new agenda of architectural means.","rumor; media; architecture; contemporary","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","The Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Design","Beyond the Rock","36.140800, -5.353600"
"uuid:e951d656-0a24-4904-b329-0fddbc4845d6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e951d656-0a24-4904-b329-0fddbc4845d6","Designing for the women of the Begijnhof in Amsterdam: Understanding the architectural settings and the needs of the Beguinages of the Begijnhof in Amsterdam, during the Middle Ages, Reformation and contemporary period","Al Zamily, Baeda (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Novas Ferradas, M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the origin, history, and the architectural setting of the Begijnhof in Amsterdam throughout significant periods of change, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and the contemporary era. The combination of these aspects depicts the architectural setting of the Begijnhof that support the needs of the female inhabitants, the Beguinages. This research has been conducted by literature study and a case study of the Begijnhof in building plans (archival research). The results show the architectural settings of the Begijnhof are translated for the needs: independence, safety, religion, work and reputation. These aspects influence and enhance each other. The architectural settings are translations of these needs, most of them are outside the domestic sphere, in the courtyard and its attributes. When designing for the Beguinages, it turns out it is important to design holistically, socially oriented and slow paced.","Begijnhof; Amsterdam; History; Beguinages; Middle Ages; architecture; reformation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Begijnhof","52.369612890235544, 4.890121372767168"
"uuid:9b1e5c40-0c1a-449d-8752-3c68e780619e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b1e5c40-0c1a-449d-8752-3c68e780619e","Space Modders: Learning from the Game Commune & the Binck Twins Case Study: Learning emancipatory practices of space modification through videogames and their introduction to the built environment","Kypriotakis-Weijers, Alex (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van de Pas, Roel (mentor); Jennen, Pierre (mentor); Kousoulas, Stavros (mentor); van der Meel, Hubert (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The research attempts to investigate the workings and potentialities of videogames as a medium for participatory design and practices of commoning in architecture. The analysis begins with exploring videogames as non-normative experiences and the effects of those experiences on the players which lead to the emergence of the game commune; a force that is affecting they way games are being made. These phenomena are becoming more than individual and collective interactions as they are capable to generate highly innovative and unique virtualities in digital spaces. If architecture, as it is itself a mean of generating virtualities, adopts the commoning practices similar to those of the game commune, it could lead to a more inclusive and opensource building tradition. By combining the commoning practices of the game commune and maker spaces together, the design of spaces where emancipatory spatial practices can be pedagogically exercised is a necessity in areas where crafting and manufacturing is being deterritorialized along with its workers and communities. Furthermore, the alienation of people from tools, materials and processes (technical and social) perpetuates a cycle of consumption that is detached from broader social and environmental consequences. The design segment of this graduation project takes the Binck Twins building in the area of Binckhorst in the Hague as a case study in an attempt to apply the research findings and conclusions in the built environment.","videogames; architecture; identity; tools; participatory design; play; maker space; Binckhorst; Open-source","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","52.064471, 4.340700"
"uuid:9391c840-69c5-4fba-8753-1236912eaf87","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9391c840-69c5-4fba-8753-1236912eaf87","Ehituskunst Special issue: Jan Verwijnen: Creative Thought and Urban Change","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Lehtovuori, Panu (Tampere University)","","2020","This special issue of Ehituskunst brings to the surface some of the rich and diverse research material that architect and pro- fessor Jan Verwijnen left to EKA Tallinn's architecture faculty when he passed away in 2005. The project does not intend to be a collection of personal memories but rather hopes to engage some key figures of Verwij- nen's professional network to reflect upon his work, specifically on the ideas and projects which emerged in the time he was most active in Finland and Estonia. By reconsidering the debates Verwijnen was engaged in, several authors will discuss how ideas and projects of that period have been further developed, con- firmed, falsified or recontextualised – ultima- tely bringing to the fore the relevance of these ideas for architectural discourse and practice today. The special issue was put together by Panu Lehtovuori and Klaske Havik.","architecture; creative thought; urban change; Tallinn; Helsinki","en","contribution to periodical","","","","","","ISBN 978-9949-594-92-4","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:5bd469bc-4e26-4f29-94f5-36f5aa973c9d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5bd469bc-4e26-4f29-94f5-36f5aa973c9d","Reading Caroline Rabourdin’s Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Gabrielsson, Catharina; Jobst, Marko; Frichot, Helene","","2020","Sense in Translation: Essays on the Bilingual Body presents a series of thematically related essays on the subject of language, translation and the body. It weaves together ideas derived from phenomenology, science and linguistics with the author’s own experience as a bilingual writer and architect. Rabourdin’s engagement with the writings of Michel Butor, Caroline Bergvall and Louis Wolfson anchors the inquiry in concrete examples of literary practice, allowing for the notion of ‘essay as an experiment’ to suggest novel readings of these works while illuminating a complex set of relationships between embodiment and language.","translation; architecture; critical theory","en","review","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:b27070f0-5540-4600-a909-d371bbcd9369","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b27070f0-5540-4600-a909-d371bbcd9369","CRAFT: Public Condenser","von Claer, Oscar (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kuitenbrouwer, Paul (mentor); de Vries, Nathalie (mentor); Koskamp, Gilbert (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The specific study of multi functionality within the realm of public architecture is a niche which has had to invent itself relatively recently to cope with increases in both demands and limitations of available space. I consider this discipline to have more potential than simply forcing functions together under the same roof. The Public Condenser offers a research platform into the investigation of what makes a cohabitation of functions into a ‘single’ project. This investigation has the aim to demonstrate that non-complimentary functions can co-habitate together if the element of multiplicity is showcased. In doing so, the aim is to not only challenge the idea of a multi-functional building, but also use such an approach on other projects which could benefit from being a part of a whole rather than systematically kept apart. The single-use building is an increasingly unlikely scenario in an architectural context where rising demand requires increasingly complex solutions to meet rapidly changing contexts.","Public building; BRICK; architecture; multi functionality","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Public Condenser",""
"uuid:c83b7c92-fc9e-46c3-b14f-299deff45602","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c83b7c92-fc9e-46c3-b14f-299deff45602","Benefit of the common - housing for the urban families","Kaniuk, Marta (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kupers, T.W. (mentor); Adema, F. (mentor); van der Putt, P.S. (mentor); Luoma, Tuuli (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The Netherlands is facing the problem of shortage of suitable housing. Predictions warn about the need of additional million houses for 2030. The rising number of immigrants arriving to the dutch capital city forced the municipality of Amsterdam to prepare a vision for Havenstad 2050 - a development of industrial areas for the residential purposes. A big challenge and responsibility lies in the urban planning that would prepare the area towards the new function in the city. Hence the proposition of the urban plan for Minervahaven was one of the first confrontations with the area. High density that characterised it raised the question: how to organise the life of inhabitants in a way that the density wouldn’t be experienced? The research of Robin Dunbar, british anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist, about the diversed relationships in groups of different numbers became my main inspiration and focus of interests for the graduation project. It influenced the organisation of the building and the decision to cluster people in communities of certain sizes to stimulate certain relationships by encounters between tenants. The final design is an attempt to find an answer for the lack of suitable family housing in the city and decreasing feeling of creating a community.","Dwelling; Co-housing; Amsterdam; community; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Dwelling","","52.399702, 4.870955"
"uuid:0dd1d9ab-e7bf-4c6c-bda4-a9fdf37e857c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0dd1d9ab-e7bf-4c6c-bda4-a9fdf37e857c","Talent Hub Den Haag Zuid West","Kupzik, Robert (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Bultstra, Henk (mentor); Fokkinga, Jelke (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The neighborhood of Morgenstond is accounted as one of the 50 problem neighborhoods in the Netherlands. The social development is similar to many post-war urban plannings outside of city centers. After the moving out of the first very homogenic young family population in the course of a suburbanization trend in the late 60s’ and 70s’, the district lived through a process of urban decay. Spatial aspects as a vast amount of unused green space, the generic public realm and a mostly monofunctional structure are influencing the attractivity of the district. Multiculturalism but also relatively high unemployment, poverty and low education are lived reality in Morgenstond. The social structure is characterized by low social cohesion, low life satisfaction and minor engagement with the immediate surrounding. These conditions result into a passive lifestyle of inhabitants, which feel worthless, lonely and depressed. They don’t see the necessity to engage with the public life. Plans for gentrification and densification with new social classes could increase social segregation and frustration in the existing social environment. The new vision of the municipality ‘bestemming Zuidwest gebiedverkenning’ is aiming for an intense densification of the neighborhood with new dwellings and with this ‘diversify’ Zuid-West economically. Without any interventions for social cohesion in this process, social tensions will intensify. One answer addressing these problems is creating a new identity through empowerment of the inhabitants. Empowerment, which is created through a deep inner motivation and a new self-confidence, can build bridges and form a base for a resilient social structure. I believe that the ‘public condenser’ for Morgenstond is a chance to contribute to the establishment of a diverse and stabile society and functions as incubator for empowerment.","Public building; Public space; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Design","",""
"uuid:0e744232-be26-40cb-aec9-75e75cf6aa7a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e744232-be26-40cb-aec9-75e75cf6aa7a","Architecture Nose: Towards multisensory architecture, an exploration of the sense of smell","Billottet, Camille (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Kousoulas, S. (mentor); van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor); Holst, Sjap (graduation committee); Kleinhans, R.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Smells are everywhere around us. They are within ourselves and around us, they impact us in our mother’s womb and throughout our entire lives, until death. But while sight and touch prevail in the contemporary approach of design and architecture, the olfactive dimension of our built environment is often forgotten.
This thesis aims at exploring the interactions between the space outside of the body and the body itself, studying how smells matter from the scale of the molecule to the urban planning. What are the potentials of this somewhat neglected sense and how could it be used by designers and architects? How do smells affect architecture and the humans inhabiting it?
During the research, we focused on both a theoretical and an experimental approach, studying the alterations of materials, construction techniques, spaces but also bodies and minds. The research was conducted through different experimentations that helped the -exhaustive- understanding of the affects of smells on architecture. Interviews with different professionals in the landscaping, research or perfumery fields, such as perfumer Fredrik Dalman (from Maison Mona Di Orio), and the analysis of theories of affects with the texts of Deleuze and Guattari, Malgrave, Massumi, Grosz and others lead to the study of the affects of smells on humans.","smell; senses; architecture; multisensory; scent; lyon","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:f4d2de7b-d41d-43d5-8fb1-ac752b2861f5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f4d2de7b-d41d-43d5-8fb1-ac752b2861f5","The Live-Work Factory: Exploration of a live-work typology for the 21st century city of New York","Siritip, N. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Caso, O. (mentor); Lafeber, J.W. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","This project is a part of the Complex Projects Graduation Studio, ""New York Midtown"", it explores the possibility of introducing a new workplace typology within an industrial waterfront of Clinton piers as a way to respond to the changing landscape of work of the 21st century New York and the revitalization of the waterfront in the previously industrialized zone.","new york; mixed use; housing; office building; Workplace; Live-work design; Waterfront development; heritage; Complex Projects; architecture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:88bc4dcd-5a92-4c31-9689-6d9aecb0ca50","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88bc4dcd-5a92-4c31-9689-6d9aecb0ca50","NYC INNOVATION LAB: Center for Technology, Augmented Reality and Digital Experiences","Voutsa, A.E. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smidihen, H. (mentor); Koskamp, G. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","New York is one of the most important Global Metropolises. Due to the increasing urbanization and the congestion of people and businesses, the city’s urban environment and particularly, public space needs to reinvent itself to address the modern challenges and remain an important element of the urban fabric. Towards this direction, public space should firstly, become more flexible, to embrace the fast change of the urban living in the context of the global metropolis. Secondly, it should become smarter, to deal with the huge amount of people and information, and find ways to use them in profitable ways to improve the quality of life in the urban environment. Thirdly, it should become more human-centered, in the sense that it should focus on the user, identifying his needs and expectations for the public life. Following these guidelines, this thesis proposes an “Innovation Lab” as the prominent future public space of Global Metropolises. The ambition is the creation of an inclusive collective space, a global meeting point where people from all parts of the city, or even the world would be able to find common ground in an engaging space that will boost their innovation and creativity, as well as interaction with others. The medium to succeed in this goal would be technology. Whereas the majority of people blame technology for the isolation of people and the decrease of public interaction, the truth is that isolation in public space is an old phenomenon. It started already since the invention of typography and generally the invention of personal ways for one to be entertained and educated by himself in public without the need to physically interact with another. In reality, technology is the primary means of socializing and communication when it is being used appropriately and is already incorporated in all aspects of everyday life. Besides, New York is the world’s biggest tech hub for 2019 and Transitional Yards is its new base, consisting of an environment where technology can flourish. When it comes to my thesis, technology is applied in three ways; The Innovation Lab is hosting a tech-related program where people can get informed about new technologies and experience them applied in space. Besides, the implementation of sensors optimizes the organization and experience of the building, offering atmosphere control, personalized experiences, energy, and cost savings. Furthermore, smart technology is also applied to the curation of experience since from the beginning of the experience of a visitor (online check for events, book tickets), to how someone enters the building (face control), to the experience of space and program (augmented experiences) to the exit (leave feedback, upload comments), everything is automated for optimal results. The final project is a building complex of the total 69.000 m2, comprised of an office tower (52.750 m2), a public expo building (15.652 m2), and a connecting large multi-form and multi-purpose venue (600 m2). The final volumetric composition resides in the city’s identity where the different urban elements ex. the tower, the New York townhouse, and the monuments are all placed irregularly next to one another, forming a playful skyline. The more private functions are located in the tower (private offices), while in the lower volumes and hence closer to the human scale the public functions are being placed. The materials chosen for this project are playing with transparency and translucency, aiming to create an atmospheric and pleasant environment where innovation and creation can flourish.","Augmented Reality; digital experience; public space design; architecture; global metropolis; Complex Projects","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","40.749633"
"uuid:50278987-b15d-4c5a-b275-d0f2954ee4b6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:50278987-b15d-4c5a-b275-d0f2954ee4b6","Building Craft Centre: Revitalizing Neighborhood by Appropriating the Existing Structure of Former Leonidas Factory","Rutkūnaitė, Gabija (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); Lafeber, J.W. (graduation committee); van Meerbeek, E. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The street is a complex socio-physical network that reveals various layers of life in a city: its historical setting, planning, political and economic situation, and cultural mentality. Studying such complexities of social life is important in order to understand the constantly changing identity of space. In the face of globalization, cities are being transformed into similar prototypes of each other and architecture has experienced placeness and loss of identity. Analysis of the context is relevant for the “localization” of new design interventions and it could help to avoid universal design solutions.","Craft; Context; Appropriation; architecture; factory; Streetscapes; public domesticity; Anderlecht; Brussels; socio-physical","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","50.834732, 4.321644"
"uuid:98412ccb-7552-4071-99dc-c4a9b1d87a8a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98412ccb-7552-4071-99dc-c4a9b1d87a8a","The post war neighborhood: a green and active city","Kortman, Anne Sophie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Dooren, E.J.G.C. (mentor); Holst, J.P.G. (mentor); Wagenaar, C. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","","Health; Transformation; Urbanism; architecture; Post-war neighbourhood; Sustainabilty","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:7ae61c0f-634f-4dfd-a147-67c95eb89cc7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7ae61c0f-634f-4dfd-a147-67c95eb89cc7","100-Step-City","Zhang, Xinyuan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Parravicini, M. (mentor); Bilow, M. (mentor); Nase, I. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Based on the new lifestyle, the homebodies, with the related topic such as homebody economy, homebody design, homebody fashion, the project mainly focus on how to provide a multifunction and inter-disciplinary scenario for this group of people. It also investigates the identity of a residential construction shifting from a pure private property to a mixed-use social design, as well as completing the goal of energy balance.","homebody; architecture; mixed-use; energy mapping; timber structures","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:a0d3db3a-2ec4-4b74-9155-cc318f587820","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a0d3db3a-2ec4-4b74-9155-cc318f587820","Collective memory in Architecture: Craft School in Anderlecht, Brussels","Wachoński, Damian (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor); Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor); Hachez, A.A.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The studio theme is spolia/bricolage, which means re-using old materials or ideas (spolia) and working spontaneously with what is found at hand (bricolage). The research leading to the collective memory and its architectural application was about Alvaro Siza’s way of working with context, local community and ‘as-found’ elements on the site. The collective memory – especially as described by Aldo Rossi – is something that architects has to find on site and interpret through his culture and knowledge to provide the architectural design settled in the context. This way of approaching to the given place allows better understanding of local way of living, the needs and architectural solutions responding to it. On another hand, it deals very much with the identity crisis in modern cities, which are dominated by placeless architecture, which was promoted by modernism. All those issues raised in the projects are also the concern of the studio, which focuses on medium-sized areas, which problems need to be understood in detail, so they are too small for tools of urbanism to provide the accurate solutions.
The idea of memory is an important part of the approach, allowing to find cultural importance of certain elements in space. The site is located in Anderlecht district and plot for the intervention is a collage of everything both in form and function. Traditional row-houses, post-industrial buildings, modernist housing block and 16-storey high slab social housing in one place together with a park and a lot of undefined space occupied by ruins or outdoor storages. The place, however, has a certain history of the Senne river, which once flew through Brussels and at some point in time was covered and left traces within the whole city or industrial character of the neighbourhood which is still visible and now is the topic of many projects which consider bringing back the character of productive metropolis to Brussels. Nevertheless, the plot is complicated in its present state and challenges students to think between the urban and architectural scale in order to improve the spatial quality on the site by using tools and precision, which would not be accessible on an only urban scale.
Since the post-war modernist times, architects regularly raised the critical concern on the technology dominance, standardization and commodification of the architecture. Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre wrote the theory of Critical Regionalism, which was later cited and expanded by Kenneth Frampton. Previously mentioned Aldo Rossi and Christine Boyer wrote about collective memory where they criticised and tried to refer to the context made by modernist architecture in cities. As it appeared, post-modernism with its contextual movement also did not solve the problems of disappearing identity within modern cities.
Today, the effects of globalization are much more visible than back in the 1970s and therefore the role of an architect is also about understanding different issues appearing in various areas of one’s work. Moreover, in the time of rapid development of technology, changing societal habits, architecture also has to keep that pace. It is an architect’s role to keep up with the innovative research methodologies and knowledge to provide a better response to the dynamic environment of constant change. Important thing is that the theory does not promote coming back to vernacular roots, but creates a room for interpretation of these values in a critical way. The problems outlined by mentioned architects, philosophers and sociologists can still be found as an important issues of modern architecture which has to deal with the fast-growing of the cities, sustainability issues and therefore the development of technology – especially in the time when international submissions for architects are not exceptions, but in most cases everydayness. This pace of growing demands and shrinking deadlines makes it difficult for proper studying of context and ends up in standardized structures optimized to meet all demands. The most common concern cited in mentioned works is placeless architecture, which cuts off itself from the context.
Studying those phenomena, reasons why they appear and how are the possible solutions to them can give me a proper awareness for my professional future as an architect to implement this knowledge during the real projects.","collective memory; architecture; craft school; identity; regionalism; Spolia; bricolage","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","50.835008, 4.323628"
"uuid:7a438b6a-32a7-4eae-ac78-b981a2679c9f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7a438b6a-32a7-4eae-ac78-b981a2679c9f","Penn Globe & The High Line Effect: The social and economic effect of public space on its surrounding neighborhoods in Midtown Manhattan.","van der Staaij, E.T. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Smidihen, H. (mentor); Koskamp, G. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Between 2009 and 2019 New York’s High Line was repurposed from an old train track into an elevated park, designed by Diller Scofido + Renfro, after it was saved from demolition through a community initiative, led by Robert Hammond and Joshua David. The High Line spans a highly heterogeneous area (socially as well as architecturally). The park is by many considered as beautifully designed, yet also controversial. The construction led to several major unintended consequences, defined as The High Line Effect: (1) Real estate boom: over 50 projects, worth $2 billion have been developed since the construction of the High Line in 2009 began, most of them extremely exclusive, leading to the phenomenon of super-gentrification, but also resulting in $65 million tax revenue annually for the City of New York. (2) The High Line is used by a heterogeneous user group in different ways, but overflooded by tourists (about 8 million a year) while it was meant to serve the local community. The High Line has been copied all over the world with similar consequences and research shows that not only High Lines but public space in general can produce similar effects.
The design of Penn Globe, a 40.000m² hybrid of a market, gallery and apartments, located in a pedestrianized area, examines the social and economic effect of public space on its surroundings, by not simply copying the High Line but by creating a public point in a currently mono-functional residential social housing neighborhood: Penn South. The ambition is to instigate redevelopment in the area by tying it back together locally while opening it up 'globally' to the rest of Midtown Manhattan. By integrating public space better programmatically and spatially into its urban logic, negative consequences of The High Line Effect can be minimized and a more balanced amount of social and economic value can be created.","architecture; complex projects; public space; public building; New York City; Midtown Manhattan; Market; Housing; Gallery","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","NY Midtown Graduation Studio","40.747817, -73.998556"
"uuid:ee8c4d2e-2c63-4f11-8124-4d67fbffd859","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee8c4d2e-2c63-4f11-8124-4d67fbffd859","The Privatisation of a National Project: The settlements along the trans-Israel Highway since 1977","Schwake, G. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)","Hein, C.M. (promotor); van Bergeijk, H.D. (copromotor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The settlements along the Trans-Israel Highway illustrate the privatisation of the national settlement enterprise. To understand this process, this dissertation focuses on the settlement production mechanism, which consists of the reciprocal interests of the government and various private groups to develop and domesticate the border area between the State of Israel and the occupied West-Bank - the Green-Line. Centring on the spatial privileges the state granted to diverse spatial agents, this dissertation examines the manner in which different favoured groups were given the power to colonise, plan, develop and market space as a means to enhance the state’s power over it. Investigating the gradual transformation of this production mechanism, this dissertation explores the increasing privatisation of the local economy and culture, as well as how this was manifested in the built environment. Examining the modifications in the architectural and urban products this mechanism produced, this dissertation analyses the materialisation of the privatised national settlement project and how it transformed together with the changing political and economic interests.","history; architecture; urbanism; privatisation; housing; conflict; frontiers; Israel/Palestine","en","doctoral thesis","A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment","978-94-6366-304-5","","","","A+BE I Architecture and the Built Environment No 14 (2020)","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:63d77a93-bec7-4ffb-8d64-f6064c92ecb7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:63d77a93-bec7-4ffb-8d64-f6064c92ecb7","Between the Museum as City and City as Museum","Bastiaans, Stephan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor); van Dooren, E.J.G.C. (graduation committee); van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Despite the museum playing a central role in society as public centre of collective memory, artefacts are dogmatically presented in highly introverted ""white cubes"". In response, the Leiden Civic Museum relies on a strong relationship between ""content"" and ""context"" in order to both reassure its collection of societal relevance, as well as to offer visitors a more stimulating museum experience.","museum; architecture; design; white cube; leiden","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","52.1589, 4.4904"
"uuid:548c6de8-8f1b-4db8-8268-b98179119c92","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:548c6de8-8f1b-4db8-8268-b98179119c92","Pioneers in Dutch Architecture: The role of women in post-war housing innovations in the Netherlands","Tummers-Mueller, L.C. (University of Twente); Novas, María (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics; TU Delft Teachers of Practice / A)","","2021","This article approaches post-war housing innovation in the Netherlands from a feminist perspective, shedding light on the hitherto unkown roles played by women architects. It introduces the work of Dutch women architects, some of it acknowledged at the time of its creation, some completely unknown. First, Augustine Schreuder-Gratama, one of the first female students in Delft in the 1920s, and the Women Advisory Committee (VAC) for social housing ―specifically their role as model homes exhibitions developers in the context of housing industrialisation in the 1950s, in which other organizations have been considered pioneer. Then work of Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel from the democratization period including the second feminist wave in the 1970s and 1980s is presented. Amongst others, she proposed a ‘non-hierarchical dwelling’ based on feminist critique of the nuclear family home. Finally, the article presents the work of Ineke Hulshof in the 1990s and early 21st century ―against a background of neo-liberalism she developed projects for affordable, sustainable housing and new architectural tools to design and co-create with residents’ groups. To conclude, this article argues that their contribution to the evolution of architecture in the Netherlands is underestimated and their role in housing innovation should be better articulated as part of the architectural records.","housing innovations; gender; architecture; Netherlands","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:4c76c144-534d-4be3-a233-f31457abe340","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4c76c144-534d-4be3-a233-f31457abe340","In the Minds of People: Port-City Perspectives, The Case of Rotterdam","Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design)","","2021","Following the geographical ‘Any-Port Model’, urban design has stipulated and enforced the disunion of port and city over the recent decades. In conjunction with other disciplines, the emphasis has laid at dislocation of production activities in favor of logistic-productive dynamics. At the same time, professional focus was on the urban areas where most citizens are. While this practice has led to redevelopment of abandoned harbor areas too, foremost the approach stimulated stronger physical boundaries between lived city and the remaining and new harbor areas. This article describes the application of the dominant model in Rotterdam over the recent decades, on the base of literature review, and, it confronts this with the concepts of Rotterdam which are in the minds of professionals-in-training, through method of ‘mental mapping’. On the one hand, mainly harbor areas are memorized when respondents are asked to draw the port-city of Rotterdam, even though its efficient port infrastructure makes public space in these areas rare, and most harbors are located behind inaccessible borders. On the other hand, civic areas, which have a refined network of public spaces and are places for daily life, reveal also all kinds of tangible and intangible signs and symbols related to characteristics of the port-city when memorized; even more. Various elements, linked to water-land or the flows of goods, people, and ideas, dominate the minds of the people when they think of Rotterdam in general. These outcomes reconfirm the unique unity of port and city and provide a way to find an alternative or supplementary model accepting the complex nature of port-cities.","Public space; public space; Public Space; image of the city; mental map; Port-cities; Rotterdam; architecture; urban design; environmental psychology; Human geography; Cultural anthropology; urban development","en","journal article","","","","","","Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Port City Cultures, Values, or Maritime Mindsets, Part 2: Studying and Shaping Cultures in Port City Territories / Main Section","","","","","Urban Design","","",""
"uuid:9df1b8e0-7e8f-41aa-a2ae-a2d18f6663ad","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9df1b8e0-7e8f-41aa-a2ae-a2d18f6663ad","The Port-City Portrayed in its Public Spaces: Introducing Micro Biographies of Places","Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design)","","2021","This article aims to extent the notion of port-cities and counter the mainstream narrative that port and city, in cases like Rotterdam, have become disunited by reviewing its public spaces in their unique port-city characteristics. These characteristics can be found by systematic approaching and describing public spaces as biographies of place, along the lines of geosemiotical methods, including topological and typological dimensions. The article underlines that port-cities have unique spatial networks of public spaces, including unique kinds of public spaces, each having unique properties, and physical settings and attributes, activities and concepts or meanings affirming differences in the experienced. Following the multi-scalar approach and by introducing micro-narratives, this article introduces an integrated perspective on port-cities, thus stipulating the union of port and city. The emphasis lies at the observation that the port-city is one in everyday space, which is omnipresent.","Public space; public space; Public Space; Port-cities; Rotterdam; architecture; urban design; public art; morphology; typology; topography; semiology; semiotics; ornaments; symbolic meaning","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Urban Design","","",""
"uuid:c7e7228e-378f-4637-8ad1-e39efedf07a4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c7e7228e-378f-4637-8ad1-e39efedf07a4","Stories for Architectural Imagination","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Sioli, A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2021","This essay focuses on imagination as a crucial source of innovation and makes a plea for an approach to architectural education that enables imaginative thinking about new spatial and temporal realities. It starts by foregrounding the strong connections between imagination, stories, and language. It then proposes the reading, telling, writing, and making of stories as four approaches in introducing exercises of literary imagination within architectural education that touch upon such themes as meaning, empathy, temporality, and the poetics of making. The contribution unpacks these approaches in a twofold way, pairing an academic grounding of each theme with a short narrative piece describing a pedagogical example. By means of this sequence of thematic explorations and examples, we aim to tangibly illustrate the power embedded in stories for future architects’ education.","2010+; architecture; design; pedagogy","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:cce2b8a3-6c57-45ac-acd7-8d7a126fb731","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cce2b8a3-6c57-45ac-acd7-8d7a126fb731","How to Speak?: A conversation with Alberto Pérez-Gómez about the necessity of Language to Understand and Practice Architecture","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Niculae, Lorin (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism); Pérez-Gómez, Alberto (McGill University)","","2021","Elaborating on a host of historical and theoretical references, in this conversation Alberto Pérez-Gómez suggests a course of action for the development of the architectural discipline; opposing the banality of scientism and rationalism, and recognizing instead the need for a degree of obscurity and ambiguity as essential to the full exercise of our humanity in relation to what we build and inhabit. Metaphors, myths, stories and poems, he notes, are not only useful instruments to represent architecture’s aesthetics and purpose, but elemental human practices that define who we are and how we know. Tense between different polarities, the conversation explores architecture as a way to find sense and meaning by relying on timeless wisdom in the face of the many distractions and distortions that characterize our time.","architecture; language; human action; myth; linguistic imagination","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:238e2260-db8b-4d1f-b5f7-4298ba05e59b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:238e2260-db8b-4d1f-b5f7-4298ba05e59b","Narrative Methods for Writing Urban Places","Havik, K.M. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Niculae, Lorin (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Proosten, Mark (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule)","","2021","This fifth issue of the Writingplace Journal examines different narrative methods, understood as procedures, techniques or ways of relating or recounting events, and how they can be used to appraise and imagine the city. The editorial process of the issue has been developed within the context of the EU-funded COST Action ‘Writing Urban Places’, a multidisciplinary network of researchers who are interested in developing new narratives for the European city. By recognizing the value of urban narratives – stories rich in information regarding citizens’ sociospatial practices, perceptions, hopes and ambitions – the network seeks to foster and preserve the democratic, and therefore inclusive, nature of the modern European city.","writingplace; narrative methods; COST Action Writing urban PLaces; architecture; literature","en","contribution to periodical","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:9a09187e-c43e-4e75-af12-aab75a9f3c70","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9a09187e-c43e-4e75-af12-aab75a9f3c70","New Urban Front: Interiorizing the Maas river in Rotterdam","Türkcan, Okan Fehmi Saban Fred (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","van Zalingen, J.M. (mentor); Holst, J.P.G. (graduation committee); Smidihen, H. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","New Urban Front investigates how waterfront densification can contribute to interiorizing the Maas river in Rotterdam. In the past decade, the post-industrialization of Rotterdam's docks has created a new urban front: the Maas. However, this waterfront lacks character and scale, while water and city lost their programmatic relation after industry migrated out of the city. A mixed-use high density transversal typology is proposed at the Linker Veerdam, the historic crossing of the Maas river, to heal this schism and place water back at the center of urban memory. A sectional base, large floating plinth, and towers connect water and city with a programmatic cut and add urban scale to the river. Urban program is loaded onto the river by introduction of a boat-in cinema, a Maaspodium opening towards the water, and multiple pools and piers. This creates a multi-layered and multi-scale relation between water and city. By doing so, New Urban Front contributes to interiorizing the Maas river and convert it into the central public space of Rotterdam.","architecture; waterfront; development; densification; urban memory","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","","51.901898, 4.481112"
"uuid:52c9bf9c-e4d2-4899-833f-4629d2eca135","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:52c9bf9c-e4d2-4899-833f-4629d2eca135","Starters in the city: a lively and vibrant live-work environment in the future metropolitan area of Rotterdam","Dijk, Tijmen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kupers, T.W. (mentor); Adema, F. (graduation committee); van der Putt, P.S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","There is an urgent need for affordable housing solutions in the Netherlands before 2030. However, the focus should not only be on producing new dwellings, but rather on creating homes and neighbourhoods that meet the needs of the future population. In Dutch cities there is a change in the residential culture and there is a large lack of affordable and suitable homes in the Dutch urban region (Randstad). At this moment most of the dutch citizens simply do not have the income to buy a new expensive house or apartment and social housing is only accessible for the citizens with lower incomes.","dutch; housing; starters; rotterdam; shortage; architecture; dwelling; live; work","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:4c9638a1-8a28-46e6-b382-1f0acd2cf11e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4c9638a1-8a28-46e6-b382-1f0acd2cf11e","Bewijsvoering van Duurzaamheid in Architectuur: Een Wicked Problem","Aben, Lennart (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)","Klijn, O. (mentor); van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee); van den Ham, E.R. (graduation committee); Mulder, A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Sustainability is trending. With large numbers, architects are part of the movement that is in search of a more sustainable world. An important part of this search is the urge to prove sustainability. Currently available methods to prove sustainability in architecture play into this demand. However, practice shows that these methods are not always well received as professionals experience issues and inconsistencies with them. How is it, that proving sustainability is so difficult, that even these great corporations cannot deliver a method to unequivocally prove sustainability? This questions is researched in this study. Professionals in the world of (Dutch) sustainable architecture are interviewed. Analysis of these interviews showed that the problem of proving sustainability is such an immensely complex and extensive one, that it can – and should – be approached as a Wicked Problem. Theory on Wicked Problems and results from the interviews are combined to explain the difficulties one faces when attempting to prove sustainability in architecture. Literature on strategies to approach Wicked Problems is discussed, to give an understanding on how problems of this size can be tackled. This gives a better understanding of why proving sustainability cannot be done with one general method, but rather needs a multitude of methods or approaches as every project is unique and therefore actually needs a tailor-made method of proof. Several approaches on how to think about proving sustainability are mentioned that might pique the interest of the architect.","proving sustainability; measuring methods; wicked problem; architecture","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.086570, 5.077590"
"uuid:e689ca0e-fa0e-4d85-8820-e03d8041478a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e689ca0e-fa0e-4d85-8820-e03d8041478a","Space for the Displaced","Hols, Margot (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Zeinstra, J.S. (mentor); Parravicini, M. (mentor); Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","","centre of asylum; inclusivity; nature inclusive; architecture; Independent Group","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Independent Group",""
"uuid:8cf10ce8-8d1c-49fa-a10e-3a64faaf8386","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8cf10ce8-8d1c-49fa-a10e-3a64faaf8386","Daylight and archtitecture: The role of daylight in modernist architecture","Formsma, Annebel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Edens, J.C. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","In this history thesis, the role and use of daylight within modernist architecture is explained. Daylight differs not only throughout the day, but also in lattitude. This causes a different approach to the organization and shaping of a building, which is dependent on geography, culture and climate. On the basis of a comparative study, the modernist architecture of two areas with a different latitude, namely Scandinavia and the Mediteranean, is examined in order to gain insight into how natural light is utilized in modernist architecture in Northern Europe and Southern Europe during the twentieth century.","AR2A011; daylight; modernism; latitude; architecture","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:332a4b0d-f2b5-41dd-afb1-e2c41b51afa2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:332a4b0d-f2b5-41dd-afb1-e2c41b51afa2","The Rise of Barrier-free Architecture: An analysis of the architectural response to the evolution on of building codes and regulations following the Disability Rights Movement in the United States of America (1950s-1990s)","Lund, Alexia Marie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Broekhuizen, A. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The building regulations that shape today’s standards of modern architecture have a remarkable historic background that may often be overlooked. What some young architects may perceive as guidelines that are constraining to the design process, are in fact the result of decades of activism for a more inclusive built environment. While architecture may not be often associated with the political realm, its crucial role in the fight for disability rights is undeniable. Following the chronology of the Disability Rights Movement, this thesis explores the key political, architectural, and academic events that played a part in the journey towards the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. In exploring and reiterating their direct correlation, this analysis will focus on understanding the architectural response to the Disability Rights Movement and its resulting impact in the American school system.","AR2A011; barrier-free; civil rights; architecture; American education","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:f6628715-09d0-4dc6-a495-96cd09258f7b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f6628715-09d0-4dc6-a495-96cd09258f7b","The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks","Omastka, Agnieszka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Korthals Altes, E. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The dissertation The Relationship between Christo’s Artworks investigates and discusses the couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s artistic work, who created large-scale projects that use their existing surroundings — architectural or natural. The thesis begins by examining the historical context, which briefly explains the project’s essential aspects and provides revlevant information about them. The selected and representative works are then subjected to a visual analysis that allows for a better understanding of the projects from an artistic perspective, highlighting aspects such as the relationship with the environment.
The work then shows the artists’ approach to the art they created. This passage allows for a better understanding of the works created and the reason / no reason for their existence. As a result of the analysis and extensive research, conclusions have been formulated.","Christo; Jeanne-Claude; artwork; architecture; landscape; art installation","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:154e703a-378c-401f-9b67-2cb4b68ecb2c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:154e703a-378c-401f-9b67-2cb4b68ecb2c","Being church in 2021: An architectural research of 21th century church typologies reconnecting to society","van de Kamp, Jan Bart (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Teunissen, M.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Research about church architecture in the past few centuries mainly focussed on reuse. In the past few years, the focus of a lot of church communities has shifted towards reconnecting with society. Architectural research about this topic in church context is still lacking. This is an opportunity for more research, since the physical built environment can highly influence the way of reconnecting is done. In this thesis, several topics are researched, including a reflection in chapter one on what the original biblical architecture of the christian story means for church architecture today. Chapter two shows how architecture and underlying values and intentions are interconnected. It also offers a historical framework to compare modern day design perspectives with the past and it shows how the focus in the current church has shifted more towards connecting with society. The last chapter examines several architectural church projects that try to reconnect with society in several ways. Architectural themes that influence this are evaluated, including a gradation in private and public, inviting outside space, flexibility, creating beauty, connecting 'normal' life aspects with 'religious' aspects, informality, creating room for silence and reflection, building highly sustainable and allow for both small and large scale gatherings. This research is not a comprehensive overview, but can be used as a starting point for more interaction and conversation between theologians, church communities and architects.","AR2A011; architecture; theology; reconnecting to society; church typology","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:6ff0fb59-72ec-4b19-a8e3-5fee51f677a9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ff0fb59-72ec-4b19-a8e3-5fee51f677a9","Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity","Louwerens, Cornee (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Clarke, Nicholas (mentor); Warries, G.Y. (graduation committee); Spoormans, L.G.K. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the project site Hoptille, located in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam-Southeast. It answers the design question: “How to transform the current neighbourhood in such a way that both insiders and outsiders would live in Hoptille by a neutral or positive choice?”. This transformation balances the interests of insiders and outsiders resulting in image enhancement in combination with the preservation of identity. Finally, densification has been taken into account regarding the topical question of 1 million homes by 2030.","Stigma; Charisma; Identity; Densification; insiders; outsiders; 1 million homes; Hoptille; H-buurt; Bijlmermeer; Amsterdam South-east; Amsterdam; Almere Haven; New Heritage; preservation of identity; image enhancement; demountable; characteristics; orientation; circulation; postmodern; architecture; 80s; negative; low-rise; mid-rise; posters; ghetto; safety; energy neutral; Bijlmer; Residential; transformation; social problems; ethnic background; poverty","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","New Heritage","52.309433, 4.954407"
"uuid:41174e93-2890-4215-901b-9567ff7e4685","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:41174e93-2890-4215-901b-9567ff7e4685","Places of non-resistance: An explorative study to the incorporation of (non)-resistance in the architectural design process to foster urban densification","van Blokland, Maarten (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kuijper, J.A. (mentor); Parravicini, M. (graduation committee); Heurkens, E.W.T.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Dutch cities are both expanding and densifying, corresponding to a global
trend in which people increasingly tend to live in cities. Urban densification
implicates the development of new buildings and redevelopment of part of the
existing building stock, to meet the aims of future cities and their populations.
These alterations to intensively used urban spaces will evoke resistance from
involved stakeholders. As such, this research aims to identify strategies to design buildings without resistance, by studying resistance throughout all phases of a building process and determining the power of architects in coping with these resistances. These strategies enable architects to design and develop buildings of non-resistance. Firstly, the most recurring definition of resistance is that it is an action that is executed against an opposition. The effect of resistance, in the degree of intention, visibility and recognition, varies. This study distinguishes between overt resistance, in which intention and recognition are clearly delineated, and everyday resistance, which cannot be clearly defined, which is often invisible, and not well articulated. The elaboration of resistance in the built environment is shaped by means of a focus group and several expert interviews. Outcomes are that resistance is inseparably linked to the built environment and shapes projects. The interviewee faced both overt resistance and everyday resistance. The strategy that interviewee applied, in response to resistance, can be divided into two categories. Intended strategy, where certain emerging resistances are solved from experience, protocols and premeditation and Emergent strategy, where mostly from an ad-hoc situation is responded to.
Intended strategies for an architect to deal with resistance is mainly focused
on existing, overt resistances. Where everyday resistance is often forgotten.
Where a solution is often sought reactively. This research makes a proposal
to deal with this everyday resistance. Whereby the strategy goes from mostly
emergent to intended. And thus can be anticipated in advance. The proposed
strategy looks for needs and values in the neighborhood. This is done by
making an inventory of specific values of individuals and turning them into
general values. These values are then a starting point to base design decisions
on. It is up to the designer to give his own interpretation. When these values
are adhered to, people may disagree about the elaboration of these values,
but (if all goes well) the result will be in line with the original value of the
environment.The goal with this strategy is to design a building that has as little resistance as possible. Also called a building of ‘non-resistance’. The proposed strategy is explored, further defined and used in a case study of Rotterdam.","resistance; built environment; densification; design strategy; architecture; non-resistance","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","City of the Future","51.915671,4.480960"
"uuid:febbb321-b0aa-4ad1-8f8c-a03e8959d042","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:febbb321-b0aa-4ad1-8f8c-a03e8959d042","Together, Self-reliant: Unfolding the possibilities","Jager, Coen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Jurgenhake, B.M. (mentor); van Deudekom, A.B.J. (mentor); Berkers, M.F. (graduation committee); Welle Donker, F.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","This research is about the meaning of self-reliant living and what the physical environment can bring to improve this, with as main research question;
In what ways can architecture encourage elderly to become more self-reliant. The research is conducted through fieldwork observations and interviews in care home 't Kampje in Loenen aan de Vecht, as well as through literature and case studies. The anthropological research led to a conclusion that many people living in care facilities show passive behavior and are not as self-reliant as they used to be. Many of them don’t interact as much with each other and barely do something for each other. The goal of this research is to find out what it means to be self-reliant and how a person can remain like that with the help of architectural tools.
Self-reliance is about realising an acceptable level of functioning in the important areas of daily life. If necessary, by organising the right help at the moment that a decline in the performance level threatens or occurs that cannot be prevented or remedied by oneself. These important areas of life are called; ‘life domains’.
Both healthcare institutes GGD and Vilans use these domains to value their clients degree of self-reliance- and direction. The domains differ in some areas, as the domains of the GGD are used for anyone in the Netherlands, and the domains from Vilans are more tailored for elderly. The 10 domains that Vilans describe are; daytime activities, living conditions, physical functioning, mental functioning, cognitive functioning, housekeeping, general daily, social network, mobility, and the financial situation.
Each domain has certain conditions for a person to be called fully self-reliant. Most of these conditions indicate a need for independence and a safe- and healthy living environment. Architecture alone can not provide all the answers for self-reliant living, the living environment around the building plays an equal role in the degree of self-reliance for
a person. The extracted design tools for each domain show correlations between each other. Such as having places for gardening, the promotion of natural movement, the need for a diverse aged target group, homes that are compact and life-cycle proof, close proximity of shops, public transport- and other amenities, and the need for a social environment. These are the main architectural / urban strategies that can encourage elderly to become more self-reliant. These have to do mainly with being- and remaining healthy in a physical way, a mental way, and a social way.
The question of how to meaningfully reconnect the existing building fabric to the city should be answered on multiple scales. First, it is important to understand how the city came into being and how it relates to ‘De Molenpoort’. The shopping center, as it manifests itself currently, seems to fit into the debate, raised by Marc Augé, of ‘place and non-place’. The characteristics of a non-place are present in shopping center but also in the streets around it – the main function of the inner city of Nijmegen has become shopping and therefore mainly hosts the anonymous movement that can be associated with this function. The city is therefore in need of true anthropological places.
In order to come to a true community place, firstly, people who are related in some way should be able to assemble there to communicate. In order to find a program that supports this, the needs of society are reassessed. Herein the concept of recreation has taken on a central position in this research. The performance of art provides the possibility for people to connect and express their unique individuality.
Secondly, the singular and uniqueness of the existing building should be highlighted. This is done by taking on the attitude of the bricoleur and pruning away the things that are not needed. It is sought to look at the existing spatial and material elements in a new way, and make them come to their full potential. Lastly, it is sought to preserve the memory of ‘De Molenpoort’. In this inspiration was found in the book on Adhocism by Jencks and Silver.
One of the most characteristic elements of the existing shopping center is its gigantic and heavy parking deck. The drawing of a demolotion plan, made the amount of removed concrete clear. It is decided therefore, to radically reuse the concrete by tactically cutting it in rectangular pieces. The façade is a product of change, a recreation, but is by definition not static. The panels invite appropriation by the citizens and consequently record the stories that take place around it. It becomes more than just a building by, for example, bringing what happens inside, into the city by hosting works of art.
In the decades to come, Venice, once again, has found itself in a difficult situation. Like has been done in the past, drastic measures are required to deal with the current and upcoming difficulties threatening the survival of Venice. These difficulties range from over-tourism to sea-level rise and the subsiding of the city. Acting like the Magistrato alle Acque acted in the past, extreme visions where laid out as possible solutions to these threats.
A workshop week with focus on interdisciplinary design formed the basis for two extreme visions which are laid out in this report. With the aim of answering the main research question: How do flood defense systems influence the spatial aspects of the territory in the context of a high dynamic landscape in the Anthropocene?
The plan for the Perfect Lagoon is one of these, which has focuses on tackling all of the current and upcoming problems were the emphasis lies on preserving and perfecting the lagoon using the building with nature philosophy, while also saving the city from drowning. Preservation is done by solving the sediment budget problems. Due to the constantly eroding system, salt marshes and land is slowly disappearing.
In this plan, drastic actions will be taken to counteract the constant erosion as well as the effect that sea level rise will have on this unique estuary. Drastic measures like redirecting rivers and re-purposing the MOSE contribute towards this goal.
After preservation comes restoration as one of the goals is to restore and increase ecological value, restoration of salt marshes and removal of negative influences like pollution.
As a second vision, the plan of the Symbiotic System deals with the same problems but here the emphasis lies on interconnectedness of Veneto. More attention is paid to mass tourism. The plan aims to turn Venice into a modern interconnected metropolitan area. The city and the lagoon will be treated as two separated system where the focus lies completely on the city of Venice. The lagoon will be left to its own devices in order to find a new, still unknown, equilibrium.
These visions are then further worked out and explained, and for both visions, technical design are made to, step-by-step, bring these visions closer to reality. From these visions along with their technical design we can conclude that flood defence systems have a major influence in the spacial aspects of the territory. Not only in its primary function, but more importantly in the secondary functions. Both primary and secondary functions can be used to create a paradigm shift for the territory. Using the multidisciplinary approach, an integral design can be made for the flood defence, in which the opportunities in a territory can be maximized.","climate change; Venice; sea level rise; multidisciplinary project; MDP; architecture; civil engineering; hydraulic engineering; interdisciplinary approach; coastal engineering; hydraulic structures; river engineering; Construction Management & Engineering; landscape architecture","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Multidisciplinary Project",""
"uuid:30e7f8da-36fc-449c-b5e3-90bef8573004","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:30e7f8da-36fc-449c-b5e3-90bef8573004","Architectural Approaches to Housing Customization: Introducing the Inhabitant-Driven Customization Approach and the MyChanges Tool","Eloy, Sara (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)); Vermaas, P.E. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology)","","2022","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 by architects that safeguard architectural rules. As a first implementation of the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach, the MyChanges tool is presented. The authors assess whether the approach avoids the customization paradox by a qualitative stakeholder evaluation of the MyChanges tool and by a comparison of the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach with existing approaches to housing customization. Design/methodology/approach: MyChanges is a shape grammar-based design tool developed to enable inhabitants of the Álvaro Siza Vieira Malagueira housing complex to customize their houses in accordance with the architectural language of the complex. In this study, the authors qualitatively evaluated MyChanges with architects and other professional stakeholders. MyChanges is used in this paper to assess if the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach avoids the paradox of customization. The initial reception of MyChanges produced diverging outcomes, suggesting that Inhabitant-Driven Customization is also unable to avoid the customization paradox. For analyzing this possibility further, this paper describes the main existing approaches to housing customization, including the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach, formulates nine conditions for these approaches, and provides a qualitative comparative assessment of the approaches. Findings: The customization paradox is demonstrated in the outcomes of the interviews with professional stakeholders on the MyChanges customization tool for the Malagueira housing complex. An argument is given that makes plausible that the Inhabitant-Driven Customization approach avoids the customization paradox by creating a co-design process in which inhabitants and architects alternately shape customization. Originality/value: The originality of this paper lies in the introduction and discussion of the paradox of customization in housing. The paper identifies the conditions advanced in architecture for assessing housing customization approaches. Additionally, the authors propose a new customization approach and a design tool that to a large extent fulfills those conditions and avoids the customization paradox.","customization; housing; MyChanges; shape grammar; customization conditions; architecture","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Ethics & Philosophy of Technology","","",""
"uuid:ec62604b-2800-4757-93d4-16d474d5af0d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ec62604b-2800-4757-93d4-16d474d5af0d","Autonomous Houses and Architecture of Cybernetics in the 1970s: Towards Limits and Undeveloped Potentials of the Sustainable","Medici, P. (TU Delft Teachers of Practice / AE+T; TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions)","","2022","In 1969, English researcher Gordon Pask published an article named “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics”, defining a theoretical framework concerning a cybernetic theory of architecture. Throughout the 1970s, the Cambridge Research Group designed the Autonomous House, a self-sufficient dwelling in terms of energy and food. Part of the Cambridge group approach relates to cybernetics. However, the group did not regard several aspects of cybernetics described in the theoretical framework of Pask. Through a literature review primarily focused on 1970s architectural magazines, this paper analyses which cybernetic aspects were not regarded in the Cambridge Autonomous House and other similar houses as case studies. Through an innovative analytical method, it demonstrates that some limitations of the house design, such as the main focus on costs and technologies, could have been reduced if aspects of cybernetics had been more incorporated. Using cybernetics as a lens represents a method which can be beneficial also in analysing today’s examples of sustainable and autonomous architecture.","autonomous house; cybernetics; architecture; sustainability; sustainable architecture","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Teachers of Practice / AE+T","","",""
"uuid:49a137f9-135b-4bfe-bb01-420867e668b6","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:49a137f9-135b-4bfe-bb01-420867e668b6","Book Review: Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición","Martinez-Millana, Elena (TU Delft Space & Type)","","2022","Pasados-presentes para un contexto afectivo: Catálogo de la exposición. Conjuntos empáticos. Serie: Inéditos. Madrid, España, Fundación Montemadrid 2021. ISBN: 978-84-09-30740-1","Covid-19; architecture; domesticity; pandemic","es","review","","","","","","","","","","","Space & Type","","",""
"uuid:2a8fd727-d8ed-4a7f-b6e8-62a58c4f3efa","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2a8fd727-d8ed-4a7f-b6e8-62a58c4f3efa","Between City and Palace: The Palais des Beaux-Arts","Ronner, E.I. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Hachez, Aurélie","","2022","","architecture; city; palace; brussels; museum; palais; beaux-arts","en","journal article","","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2023-07-01","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:6703cba1-3146-4ed5-b3d5-2db95f8c2b65","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6703cba1-3146-4ed5-b3d5-2db95f8c2b65","Wondrous darkness: mediating the real and the imaginative in rendering","Ronner, E.I. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2022","","kanal; brussels; renderings; transformation; architecture","en","book chapter","Atelier KANAL","","","","","Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.","","2023-07-01","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:4c2e79f7-9190-42b1-a516-84b232ed682d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4c2e79f7-9190-42b1-a516-84b232ed682d","Ananke's Sway: Architectures of Synaptic Passages","Kousoulas, Stavros (TU Delft Theory, Territories & Transitions)","Lushetich, Natasha (editor); Campbell, Iain (editor); Smith, Dominic (editor)","2022","Philosopher Gilbert Simondon claims that what one perceives is neither outlines nor shapes, but thresholds of intensity. Therefore, Simondon points out that sensation is nothing but intensive and differential; it is the ‘seizure of a direction, not of an object.’ However, the issue is how one can examine the sensation of a direction that does not address the present but rather that which is yet to come. To do so, one can approach it as an issue of synapses. A synapse is a junction, an almost imperceptible gap through which an impulse of intensity passes by. As such, synapses manage to capture both the passage of an intensity (as a synaptic moment) and the formation of an extensity (as a synaptic location). In other words, synapses can be understood as constraints and for this reason, as information; after all, information is nothing but the reduction of potentials.
In this paper, I will examine how architecture, in its technicities, operates as a synapse: how it allows for both the formation of an extensive space as well as for the very possibility of intuiting a space yet to come, and consequently, a subject yet to individuate. To do so, I will focus on how architectural technicities allow for a certain degree of indeterminacy due to their metastability and auto-normativity. With the help of goddess Ananke and her spindle, architecture will be understood as an intensive exercise on the indeterminate, on a figure that is not yet figured out, but does so on the basis of synaptic passages.
Economically, there is a national shift from service sector to IT sector. It is expected that Lebanon will grow further in the IT sector due to its national and regional competitive advantage. The same trend is seen in globally, where digitalization is becoming more and more apparent in our daily lives. This new way of living influences the library typology, where printed and non-printed information can be found. The way we learn is evolving due to this fast paced growth of technology. Conventional learning is teacher- centered. This type of learning typically refers to learning situations where the teacher is the main source for learning. This is also visible in conventional libraries, where the buildings are book centered. With the rise of technology however, there is new trend of learning which shifts from teacher-centered to student-centered learning. This means that the subject learns through different sources of knowledge, due to the accessibility of it through technology. In contemporary library buildings, this shift is visible where the building’s main element is not only books. In other words, typology is becoming less book centered and more user-centered. The library is not only a collection but an experience where multiple types of information come together. How can these different media be interwoven and work together to create an optimal library experience? In most contemporary buildings, these two types of information are quite segregated in the building. But how can these two ways of information be interwoven and work together to create an optimal library experience?
The research question for this project is: What role can a public learning space play in the reconstruction of Beirut and how can it spatially facilitate the local and global digitalization of information?
46 refugee settlements resulted from the imperative need to house this population. Housing units ranging from unauthorized self-housing and almost slums to prefabricated wooden parapets, to single-family buildings, to organized apartment buildings influenced by the modernist movement, emerged. Nowadays, these morphological and typological forms have survived and constitute a considerable part of the city.
To synthetically provide information, show relations between the different forms of housing rehabilitation, and answer the question of how the refugee housing rehabilitation in Athens and Piraeus was realized and how it evolved historically this paper will analyze the urban footprint of these settlements by examining plans, maps, photographs, and through textual secondary sources, the criteria and policies that shaped them, giving an overview of the extent and influence of these areas to the contemporary image of the city. The focus will be sharpened on the architectural scale, by examining housing typologies, including self-housing and social housing, through archival material and photography. The housing typologies, which emerged will be divided into categories and analyzed based on one representative example for each of them. These will be illustrated with consideration of the actors and policies involved in the creation of the housing, the location and organization of the settlements, within which the typologies are to be found, their architectural characteristics, their transformation throughout history, and the situation encountered today.
The thesis will shed light on the origins, historic development, and transformation of these settlements throughout their 100-year long history and argue on the arising topics, mainly the involvement of the state in contrast to the lezzes faire, the influence of the settlements on the city’s urban structure, the architectural characteristics of the housing, the subsequent decline of the social housing sector in the city and the notion of sociability and neighborhood ties. The qualities and faults of these spaces and the policies that created them will be assessed. The thesis will argue for the significance of these parts of the urban fabric for the collective historic memory and their preservation and adaptation, as well as an interpretation of their qualities as a countermodel to prevailing housing developments.","Social Housing; refugee housing; Greece; Athens; urban planning; architecture; arbitrary housing; housing typology","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:20f2a566-1fc0-4058-88b4-665d32ac2039","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:20f2a566-1fc0-4058-88b4-665d32ac2039","Scheveningen: from a fishing village to the seaside resort","Andruszkiewicz, Paweł (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Yerli, D. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","This history thesis aims to answer the question of how the development of modern tourism has affected the identity of Scheveningen at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The study is based on the analysis of predefined components of the identity of a place, based on research in the field of sociology, modern tourism and identity, as well as archival materials on Scheveningen. These sources include photo albums, illustrations, texts, newspapers and maps.
Based on the theories and definitions from the field of sociology and environmental psychology, in particular on the triadic interpretation based on J.G. Bennet’s systematics in the context of place, place identity and phenomenology by David Seamon (2012), the components of place identity are determined at the first place. Thus, the analysis of the Scheveningen identity is focused on three main areas, defined in the main theoretical and methodological axis of the thesis. Firstly, the identity of Scheveningen is explored at the level of community life. This section covers topics such as notion of community, the clash of local customs and European lifestyle, as well as focal points of social interactions. Secondly, the thesis explores the physical environment of Scheveningen. The issues of both the urban layout and transitions in the architecture are presented. At the end, the aspect of hidden meanings and contexts in Scheveningen environment, considered as a factor between the physical and social layers, is thoroughly examined.
The conclusion of the thesis explains exactly what changes took place on the three main levels of the Scheveningen identity, caused by the development of modern toursim at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The former is a result of the latent dependency of economic progress on the perpetual obsolescence of space, as is argued in the theory paper entitled Territories in Obsolescence. And the latter is a controversion that scientific progress and technocentric accident are two sides of the same coin, as the philosopher Paul Virilio argued in his University of Disaster. The theory provides a critical understanding of the scientific experiment and introduces the counter notions of accident and disaster.
The project is centred on the need to contain scientific progress architecturally inside micro-regions of concentrated knowledge production and satisfy the territorial concerns of the Big Science that—more often than not—take on an infrastructural scale. It addresses these themes in Trieste—a territory of contested history and sovereignty once envisioned as the city of science and knowledge.
The project concerns the conception and the design of Anatoli Bugorski Independent Research Institute for Scientific Failures which inhabits a post-industrial landscape of the former cement quarries that allow for sustaining such an institution. That is both materially and conceptually by providing the underground territory for experimentation and the primary structural material. The project speculates reversing re-naturalisation processes and excavating the underground spaces by employing the room and pillar dogmatic mining method superimposed upon the critically unstable conditions of the Karstic terrain. Here, the notions of accident and disaster materialise within the post-industrial landscape.","territory; obsolescence; post-industrial landscape; accident; failure; architecture; research institute","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Borders and Territories","",""
"uuid:27085fd4-654a-4748-92d0-61563fe6040c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:27085fd4-654a-4748-92d0-61563fe6040c","Building massing generation using GAN trained on Dutch 3D city models","Veselý, Ondrej (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Agugiaro, G. (mentor); Cavallo, R. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Despite being relatively novel, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have already been appropriated for application to several problems within the field of architectural and urban generative design. However, the preceding GAN based models for building massing generation make use of only simplified and two dimensional representation of the built environment.
This work improves upon the existing deep-learning-based methods for generation of building massings and building group layouts, by fusing high accuracy three-dimensional building models with site context derived from cadastral and topographic data, sourced from openly available datasets in the Netherlands. Pix2pixGAN implementation in PyTorch, trained on existing massing data encoded into images as heightmaps, is used to generate building massing geometry. Two methods for geometry extraction from heightmaps are introduced, voxelization and vectorization. The goal for the model is to maximize similarity of morphological traits of configurations generated by the model to the ground truth training data. The effects of multiple proposed training configurations on the resulting massings generated by the model are evaluated, together with visual assessment, using their Spacematrix mappings.
Three distinct models with specific goals are presented - parcel infill model, street block infill model, and urban fabric infill model. All three models show a capability to learn spatial traits of existing building configurations and transfer them into new situations not encountered in the training data, which is confirmed by the distribution of Spacematrix mapping of the generated results being similar to the distributions of the ground truth data.
The proposed methodology represents a novel approach to generating building massing configurations by autonomously inferring the rules of their composition from existing urban areas. The resulting models could be used to provide initial states in optimization-driven design approaches, or as smart massing suggestion engines, assisting architects and city planners during the early building design process.","Generative Adversarial Network; Generative Design; architecture; massing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Geomatics","",""
"uuid:b8ba1072-f315-46b3-a785-af57bdd8bb9e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b8ba1072-f315-46b3-a785-af57bdd8bb9e","Multi-generational Co-living for Care: A Socially Inclusive and Caring Environment to Maximize Independence for Elderly","van Os, Rens (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Jurgenhake, B.M. (mentor); van Deudekom, A.B.J. (graduation committee); van Andel, F.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","This study and design explores the possibilities and opportunities of multi-generational co-living for elderly in need of care, within an ageing society like The Netherlands. Younger and older generations are proven to have mutual benefits with each other; mentally, socially and therefore physically as well. Co-living of elderly together with other age groups like families with children, students and adults could be a concept that can show the enrichment these different groups have on each other. This is achieved by creating a partly shared/collective and partly private built environment, where architectural design is used to stimulate social interaction, sharing, caring and doing activities together. In this way, the elderly will be included in society, a big desire they wish to become reality.","elderly housing; multi-generational; architecture; Designing for care","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Design for Care in an Inclusive Environment","51.962540, 4.491617"
"uuid:9bfabede-d468-483c-bffc-68b37d0d2e9f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9bfabede-d468-483c-bffc-68b37d0d2e9f","ICSS: The International Community ‘Space’ Station: Publicness and formation of a resilient and sustainable community in a space habitat","Velev, Ivan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Vrachliotis, Georg (graduation committee); van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor); van der Meel, H.L. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","The goal of this thesis is to propose a design for an orbital space station that incubates the future space civilization and is the base for space regulations and governance. A place that is democratizing access to space and resources, and allows for any interested individual to join and contribute to the world at large and their personal wellbeing. The goal is to design a place where a closely knitted community of makers, scientists, and artists is cultivated. They will be the decision-makers and the actors in space exploration.
To learn how to do that, initially, the thesis embarks on the research of some community aspects on Earth and the way public space contributes to their cultivation in our cities. Specifically, the focus of the study is to observe and analyze the function that Het Park in Rotterdam serves to people. It is a look into the congenital and human side of living in an industrialized world and the values this brings to the community. In space, that natural side will inevitably be different or non-existing and to maintain the values that nature and the park bring to our lives we need to develop a translated alternative. The goal is to add a playful and authentic element to a potentially very machine and virtual future in space.
After an introduction to the direction in which we have been heading since the industrial revolution, the research examines 4 major values taken from the park- social value, health, freedom, and engagement, to understand the importance of addressing the natural and human qualities. Those values are analyzed through park visits and sketches of people utilizing their environment and adapting it with simple means. Conclusively, the research highlights the importance of the presence of the public park in people’s lives even if we forget it or do not notice it on a daily basis and it shows how such a place can strengthen the community and make people more caring and more respectful (Cohen, et. all 2006). It identifies which are the key elements that play a role in the value that the park brings to the citizens. Thus they can be taken and appropriated to the space environment and the space station design. This research is a continuation of a previous essay by the author - “Cohousing in ‘Space’ and Time”.","space; architecture; space architecture; public; community; social; space station; living together; affordance","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","",""
"uuid:83de0b75-eb26-4aea-b7c9-0e2706a3cbd5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:83de0b75-eb26-4aea-b7c9-0e2706a3cbd5","Second Chances: Dwellings: Social and Material Reintegration","Hoezen, Midas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Klijn, O. (mentor); Kockelkorn, A.M. (graduation committee); Adema, F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","How can collective housing design encourage social inclusion? From an ecological perspective, the housing of socially disadvantaged and transformation of post-war mass housing is explored. Socially disadvantaged people such as the formerly homeless have often difficulties integrating into a new living environment and need a more stable environment. This project aims to provide spaces of interaction as well as seclusion. Productive and collective spaces like a car maintenance shop, a multistory café, urban farming and a canteen allow the residents to come into both formal and informal contact with each other and the neighbourhood. A carefully crafted circulation space as well as differentiation in dwelling typologies allows for chance meetings between a heterogeneous group of residents.","dwelling; ecology; inclusion; architecture; transformation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Advanced Dwelling: Ecology of Inclusion","51.925790,4.460756"
"uuid:9f88f639-c356-4b93-a98d-331fa9999878","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9f88f639-c356-4b93-a98d-331fa9999878","Architectural Photovoltaic Application","Haghighi, Z. (TU Delft Climate Design and Sustainability)","van den Dobbelsteen, A.A.J.F. (promotor); Klein, T. (promotor); Konstantinou, T. (copromotor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Today, photovoltaic technology is one of the fastest-growing fields of technology and is becoming the lowest-cost option for electricity generation in the greatest part of the world. Based on IEA projection, the number of households relying on solar PV grows from today’s 25 million to more than 100 million by 2030. Based on this projection, we must use all surfaces on and around buildings of an entire city to absorb solar radiation and transform it into usable electricity (or useful heat). However, current attempts to harness these potentials within the built environment leaves much to be desired. It is readily apparent that the current roof-top installation approach is neither aesthetically appealing nor technically efficient and consequently not sustainable, long-term, and reliable. Back in the 1990s, the Integration approach was introduced to address these issues. However, the introduction of this solution has neither increased popularity nor helped with untapping the solar energy potentials within the built environment.
The fundamental problem addressed in this dissertation is the lack of appropriate guidance and well-structured knowledge about the approaches and considerations which should be deliberated in the design and decision-making process for deploying PV technology in architecture. The overarching goal of this research is to promote the use of PV technology in the built environment while being thoughtful of the symbiotic and functional relationship between the technology and the urban fabric. Specifically, it aims to support the decision-making process required for the adoption and development of photovoltaic products in the built environment.
This thesis builds upon the interrelations between the concept of Integration, design decisions, and technological decisions. As the starting point, we looked into ‘integration’ as an alternative approach to the existing addition or attachment of PV into buildings. To do so, we explored given definitions and requirements outlined for the concept of Integration within the context of the application of PV in building architecture. In existing literature, integration is described as the solution for wider adoption and acceptability of PV in the built environment and defined as situation where PV module replaces a building material in a building. However, our findings show that integration does not presume photovoltaic products to be used as part of the construction material and serve a secondary or tertiary function. Furthermore, it highlights under the definition of Integration, the PV system can still be part of the architecture and remain a building service and perform a singular function as a renewable energy generator.
In the next step, we looked into how architects have used PV technologies in buildings. We shortlisted 30 projects and categorised them based on those design decisions that made them different from one another. We highlighted that these projects could be categorised based on decisions made on (i) visibility of PV system in the building architecture, (ii) mounting strategy and structural connection of PV panels and building, (iii) the customisation level of PV module, (iv) the building fabric used, and (v) the role of PV in the building system.
Subsequently, 30 architects were interviewed to study their experiences and perceptions about the architectural application of photovoltaic. In this study, we approached two groups of architects: one with experience of using PV technologies and the other with no relevant experience. Based on the input received, we witnessed three types of motivations for using PV technologies in architecture projects: the first type was related to external incentives that drive the project (e.g., NZEB), the second type was rooted in the architect’s interest in environmental-friendly and climate-responsive technologies in buildings, and the final one is a communicative gesture in which PV technologies was used as a symbol of sustainability mandated by the project owner. The findings also shed light on the differences in opinions between architects who had already applied PV technology and those who had not. Unlike those with experience working with PV technology in their previous projects, who believed that working with this technology is not complex and problematic, the group with no experience believed that working with PV technology is challenging. Furthermore, a common opinion between the two groups was the need for more versatility in colour, transparency, size, and reflectivity of module products.
In the following step, we looked into the existing PV technologies and explored their its various features and potential in architectural application. The findings highlight that the first-generation technologies (c-Si) are the most advanced and can perform better for building applications. However, the physical flexibility of this technology for customisation on the cell level remains limited. In the second-generation technologies, higher temperature tolerance is an advantage for them to be compatible in situations where double-sided ventilation is not possible. Even though most of the second-generation technologies are already lightweight and flexible, and although it they have some level of transparency in contrast to the first generation, their automated production lines make customisation of size and shape fairly difficult. The third-generation technologies received more attention because they offer lower production costs, reduced environmental impact, and a relatively higher efficiency compared to the first and second generations. This makes them an interesting option for architectural application, even though their limited service life expectancy remains an important disadvantage. Aside from the criteria mentioned for comparing these alternatives, many other factors are involved in finding the most suitable PV technology for a certain application. The architects interviewed highlighted these criteria. So, we looked into advanced decision-making methods to see if such methods can be applied in the selection process of PV technology. Through the development of a pilot tool on multi-criteria decision making method, analytic hierarchy process, and test within a concept development project, we concluded that such a method can be very helpful in finding the most suitable technology for a certain application.
In the final stage, we worked on development of new concepts for the application of PV technology in buildings as based on several reports reviewed and on results of interviews, it became apparent that existing PV products cannot fulfil current market demands and consequently the sustainability targets. We then examined the R&D processes of these projects, which showed that despite the differences in scope, objective, and nature of the concepts, several similarities could be articulated into a generalised concept development process. According to this analysis, the R&D process before the commercialisation phase can be divided into 7 steps, namely (i) scoping and definition (ii) exploration (iii) concept development (iv) proof of concept (v) optimisation (vi) application design development (vii) prototyping.
Overall, the findings of this research can be summarized in three recommendations: first, integration in this context as perceived and defined in the standards and manuals cannot be seen as a comprehensive approach to include all the architectural styles and approaches to use PV technologies in buildings. Therefore, rethinking its definition and requirements is essential. Secondly, suppose we want PV technology to become a default building service, we need to leave it to architects to accommodate it within the design concept as they wish, and the PV industry should not try to impose this technology on architecture. And lastly, we need to develop a new discipline around the design and engineering of energy-producing buildings. We need to train and equip future practitioners with insight, know-hows, and tools to use the ultimate solar energy potentials to produce energy, store, and utilize the generated energy on-site.
These cautionary, and still relevant, words by Rayner Banham in his book 'Theory and Design in the First Machine Age' are very telling of the key challenge of dealing with the implications of technology in our cities. [...]","city; future; education; engineering; graduation lab; built environment; architecture; urban design; data","en","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN","","","","","","","","","","Urban Design","","",""
"uuid:b7d90b23-00c0-4707-8876-df19efd9dc89","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b7d90b23-00c0-4707-8876-df19efd9dc89","Cities of the Future: On Nature and the Grammar of Design","Cannatella, D. (TU Delft Urban Data Science)","Cavallo, Roberto (editor); Kuijper, Joran (editor); Harteveld, Maurice (editor); Carreiro Matias, Marcelo (editor); Ulkü, Mesut (editor); Drašković, Sonja (editor)","2023","In his book, 'The sense of style', the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues that the categories of grammar reflect the four building blocks of thought: time, space, causality, and matter. Coincidentally, these building blocks are the same ones that dictate the grammar of spatial design. In them being absolute categories, they describe well the way architects, designers, planners and landscape architects perceive, investigate and intervene in the reality around them.","city; future; education; engineering; graduation lab; built environment; architecture; urban design; landscape architecture","en","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN","","","","","","","","","","Urban Data Science","","",""
"uuid:bad96320-666c-4fc9-8804-2ec0d5cf41ab","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bad96320-666c-4fc9-8804-2ec0d5cf41ab","Cities of the Future: A Mobile and Sustainable Society","Vleugel, J (TU Delft Transport and Planning)","Cavallo, Roberto (editor); Kuijper, Joran (editor); Harteveld, Maurice (editor); Carreiro Matias, Marcelo (editor); Ulkü, Mesut (editor); Drašković, Sonja (editor)","2023","My research career started with a publication about externalities of mass motorization. Academic researchers are producing an endless stream of paper. Unfortunately, only a few of these publications have practical relevance. Even if they do, their recommendations are frequently butchered, mitigated or ignored in the political arena. Such experience can even turn a born optimist into a pessimist.","city; future; education; engineering; graduation lab; built environment; architecture; urban design; sustainability","en","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN","","","","","","","","","","Transport and Planning","","",""
"uuid:d096c509-b7ed-4d26-8221-e84967184359","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d096c509-b7ed-4d26-8221-e84967184359","Cities of the Future: Societal by Nature","Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design)","Cavallo, Roberto (editor); Kuijper, Joran (editor); Harteveld, Maurice (editor); Carreiro Matias, Marcelo (editor); Ulkü, Mesut (editor); Drašković, Sonja (editor)","2023","","city of the future; urban design; Urban Design; multidisciplinary; interdisciplinary; public space; architecture; mobility; infrstructure; transport planning; social science; Humanism; Modernism; transitions; Inclusive city","en","book chapter","TU Delft OPEN Publishing","","","","","","","","","","Urban Design","","",""
"uuid:0078e179-a180-440d-984f-b9e0485100e3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0078e179-a180-440d-984f-b9e0485100e3","The Dodecahedron and the Basket of Fruit: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence","Corbo, S. (TU Delft Space & Type)","","2023","Starting from the late 1980s, the advent of digital design—the possibility to ideate, develop, and generate projects via computers—has progressively pushed the disciplinary discourse to rethink architecture’s role in society, as well as its formal manifestations. The contemporary evolution of digital architecture has taken different directions, which are sometimes contradictory and ambiguous in their intents. This paper especially focuses attention on one of those directions—the opportunities that artificial intelligence can offer in the future production and communication of architecture. Recent episodes are analysed and contextualised within the historical antinomy between two diverging worldviews that, since the fifteenth century until the end of the twentieth century, have informed the architectural discourse. These worldviews can be exemplified in the dichotomy between the dodecahedron and the basket of fruit.","artificial intelligence; digital culture; architecture; form; process","en","journal article","","","","","","","","","","","Space & Type","","",""
"uuid:2e0af0b6-9200-4a74-adcb-72d962130fa7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2e0af0b6-9200-4a74-adcb-72d962130fa7","Special Issue Writing Urban Places: New Narratives of the European City","Sioli, A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","Havik, K.M. (editor); Oliveira, Susana (editor); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (editor); Dale, H.E. (editor)","2023","The special issue Writing Urban Places: New Narratives on the European City, marks the culmination of an international research network that delved into the intricate interplay between communities, urban spaces and narratives. At its core, this endeavour introduced an inventive approach aimed at deepening our comprehension of urban communities, their dynamics and their rootedness, all through the lens of narrative methodologies. This collection gives an account of the dynamics of this network of academics, which consists of over 175 individuals from 35 different European countries and a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. As such, the issue offers a conclusion to the Writing Urban Places COST Action while also, hopefully, providing a springboard for further reflections and discussions on urban narratives, and the role these could play in spatial developments in the European city.","narrative; architecture; writing urban places; european city; urban studies","en","contribution to periodical","","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:257f68ca-ad6d-482f-b8f8-8185151fa3fc","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:257f68ca-ad6d-482f-b8f8-8185151fa3fc","Celebrating HERstories in architecture and planning on International Women’s Day","Newton, C.E.L. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)","","2023","At the dawn of International Women’s Day, I want to highlight the importance of feminist solidarity and the need to amplify the voices of these women who have been at the forefront of local organisations and planning in their communities. Too often, these women have been overlooked in the writing of (planning and design) history. By celebrating their contributions, we honour their work and challenge dominant narratives that perpetuate the erasure of women’s experiences and perspectives.","architecture; planning; women's studies; women in design and planning; feminism; international women's day","en","report","carolinewton.com","","","","","","","","","","Spatial Planning and Strategy","","",""
"uuid:59fb0859-1345-440e-9c9b-edb538f86d9b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:59fb0859-1345-440e-9c9b-edb538f86d9b","One and Many Details: Considering the Contingencies of Building as Empirical Evidence for Architectural Pedagogy","Crevels, Eric (TU Delft Situated Architecture); Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","","2023","The study of built objects has always played a key role in the education of the architect. At the earliest stages of training most of us sat in front of buildings and drew them, trying to capture their overall features and minute details. What appears simple is, in fact, an extremely meaningful exercise. It presumes that drawing an existing object allows us to understand what decisions were made in its conception, granted that evidence of those decisions is actually there, congealed as empirical evidence and available for further use.
As students advance in their studies, this close attention to objects and the decisions that define them gives way to more complex reflections. Final year students seldom sit in front of buildings and draw them. Their fascination with societal issues and formal innovation seems to leave little room to ponder on the apparently simple ways in which materials come together. Likewise, interest in the built as a source of knowledge appears to wane among faculty who inclined towards fashionable forms of scholarship outsource technological research and education to engineers and other pragmatists.
While architectural education’s turn towards the humanities offers new and exciting possibilities, the relegation of the built to a mere problem-solving role is not without its consequences. Among them, perhaps the most unfortunate outcome of assuming construction as applied, externally produced knowledge, is that it robs us of rare and precious insight that is ingrained in the built.
Looking for that insight, we will describe how a design studio can use construction as a means for students to produce and develop their own architectural knowledge. Our description will be favored by an outline of the supporting theory, the epistemology we used to operate it, and the methodology employed to teach the course.
Throughout a ten-week period, we accompanied a group of sixteen master’s students in their process of exploration, evaluation and discovery of four details from existing buildings. Our goal, and the challenge we presented to the group, was to obtain from these details a theory and a new design.","collective tacit knowledge; embedded knowledge; architecture; craft; design process; material culture; pedagogy","en","report","TACK Publishing Platform","","","","","","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:98963f87-ecf0-40dd-b0be-7aed36cd6390","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98963f87-ecf0-40dd-b0be-7aed36cd6390","Reading Sites, Building Stories","Reinders, L.G.A.J. (TU Delft Situated Architecture)","Augustiniok, Nadin (editor)","2023","Doing architecture is an act of bricolage. New things take shape out of the existing. The architect makes do with the materials at hand. Accidents happen, incidents occur, circumstances meet. The site-specific nature of the architectural project opens up questions on how to work with materials at hand and as found, and how to capture, approach and unlock their meanings and stories. This paper explores acts of reading, narrating and translating sites as fi elds of architectural exploration. It grows out of an ongoing educational and research program, developed in the Chair of Urban Architecture at Delft University of Technology, which engages with the real stuff and site-specific elements of the city. Architecture is approached from a sustainable understanding of structures and materials, that in a sense are continuously ‘on the move’, transforming from one project, meaning or purpose to another. In the paper, work from three graduation studios is used to reflect on ways of acting upon the materials and conditions of a site and how to ‘read’ cultural, historical and political forces at work. The potentials of sites are exploited through the exhibitions of visual media, working from section drawings and material samples to moving pictures and sequential stories. The paper argues for stretching and thickening the architectural project. To stretch means to improvise and experiment; a willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries, to see through spatial scales and to involve notions of past, present and future. To thicken requires time and care; to look careful, be non-judgemental, and embrace ambiguity and contradiction. The architecture of bricolage, we argue, refers to acts of interpretation, adaptation, re-use and juxtaposition. The existing materials are input for design thinking, as resources and components. They refer to physical elements of a site, as well as to neighborhood structures, social spaces, political and economic developments. To bricks and buildings as well as stories and histories.
Sites are found, stories to be told. The paper offers three episodes of fieldwork, that each touches upon a specific feature of the as-found as architectural discourse. ‘Spolia’ introduces the collector and the practice of re-purposing and re-use: to transplant existing pieces into new structures. ‘Bricolage’ offers architecture as a science of the concrete and specific; to make do, and use what is at hand. ‘Gleaning’ concerns acts of reading and reaping; the glaneurs harvest the field by collecting left-overs. In three episodes the paper explores an architecture that acts upon the existing and grows out of the specifics of a place and time. The paper is a collaboration between practicing architects and an anthropologist, and is inspired by practical needs and academic reflection.","architecture; bricolage; gleaning; glaneurs and glaneuses; anthropology; urban architecture","en","conference paper","Hasselt University","","","","","The organization of this international colloquium was made possible through the generous fi nancial support of the DIOS Incentive Fund (UHasselt), the Doctoral School of Behavioral Sciences and Humanities (UHasselt), and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), as well as the invaluable practical assistance provided by the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of UHasselt and the Flanders Architecture Institute. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all our esteemed colleagues whose dedicated efforts contributed to the seamless execution of this event. This colloquium is organized as an extension of the exhibition As Found: Experiments in Preservation by the Flanders Architecture Institute. Curated by Sofie De Caigny, Hulya Ertas and Bie Plevoets, the exhibition is on show at De Singel, Antwerp, from 6 September 2023 to 17 March 2024. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, available in English (ISBN: 9789492567321) and Dutch (ISBN: 9789492567338).","","","","","Situated Architecture","","",""
"uuid:b9fca67e-86c4-4d0f-89f8-44ed6853dcb5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b9fca67e-86c4-4d0f-89f8-44ed6853dcb5","Advanced Composites Inspired by Biological Structures and Functions in Nature: Architecture Design, Strengthening Mechanisms, and Mechanical-Functional Responses","Dai, Hanqing (Fudan University); Dai, Wenqing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Zhang, Wanlu (Fudan University); Zhang, Kouchi (TU Delft Electronic Components, Technology and Materials); Guo, Ruiqian (Fudan University)","","2023","The natural design and coupling of biological structures are the root of realizing the high strength, toughness, and unique functional properties of biomaterials. Advanced architecture design is applied to many materials, including metal materials, inorganic nonmetallic materials, polymer materials, and so on. To improve the performance of advanced materials, the designed architecture can be enhanced by bionics of biological structure, optimization of structural parameters, and coupling of multiple types of structures. Herein, the progress of structural materials is reviewed, the strengthening mechanisms of different types of structures are highlighted, and the impact of architecture design on the performance of advanced materials is discussed. Architecture design can improve the properties of materials at the micro level, such as mechanical, electrical, and thermal conductivity. The synergistic effect of structure makes traditional materials move toward advanced functional materials, thus enriching the macroproperties of materials. Finally, the challenges and opportunities of structural innovation of advanced materials in improving material properties are discussed.","architecture; bionics; composites; structure properties","en","review","","","","","","","","","","","Electronic Components, Technology and Materials","","",""
"uuid:1a9ca2b7-1139-4efd-9f0c-86291101ef2b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1a9ca2b7-1139-4efd-9f0c-86291101ef2b","The Journey of Your Life","Cruz Ballardo, Fabiola (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Frausto, S.E. (mentor); Groothuijse, B. (mentor); Riedijk, M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The ideal wedding is a social construct that has changed through history according to the needs of society. By changing the wedding from a product to a process, this contribution aims to transform the whole wedding experience into a more efficient, technological, and sustainable event. The project is located at the spectacular Calanques National Park, one hour drive from the city of Marseille. The Quarry garden is a wedding venue composed of a series of pavilions and garden spaces that provide all the stages of getting ready. The certification “Perfect Match” certifies ceremonial processes, events, and public functions that are situated in forgotten landscapes for their protection and locational rejuvenation after its completion. The Journey of your Life is a full- service experience that offers all the stages and services of the wedding in one place and one day; allowing a more practical, less-stressful and more affordable experience. By 2040, the construct of the ideal wedding is an experience and ceremonial process rather than a final product. The paths and stages of getting ready are more valuable in a society that is more environmentally conscious and that prefers the symbolism of marriage with the least footprint possible.","wedding; architecture; landscape","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","The Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Design","",""
"uuid:869d4487-8a65-4d94-a356-c8ae4e96c08c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:869d4487-8a65-4d94-a356-c8ae4e96c08c","Finding meaning in the profane: How libraries can evoke spiritual experiences","Hagen, Anouk (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Tanovic, S. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Religion is in decline and spirituality starts to take on a more prominent role instead. Although there are abundant religious spaces, this shift did not cause a development in architecture yet. Libraries have similar qualities to religious spaces, like the sense of community and the feeling of retreat, so it is interesting to research how this typology can support spirituality. The Ets Haim library is the oldest Jewish library in the world and was founded to rediscover the Jewish identity of converted Jews who fled Spain and Portugal. This study aims to dissect the palimpsest of this library for a better understanding of the physical representation of spirituality by answering the question: How does Ets Haim Library support the notion of spirituality? There has been ample of research that addresses the impact of architecture on a transcending experience. Elements like urban context, light, geometry, materials and symbolism stand out as main influences, but it must be mentioned that spirituality is a subjective concept and it cannot be confined to a list of elements or a design manual. After a comprehensive analysis, it became clear that the Ets Haim supports spirituality by immaterial values like history, community and knowledge and material elements like geometry, light, colour and above that the book as a symbol.","AR2A011; spirituality; library; Ets Haim; architecture","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:287c6ae9-83e3-4341-8c8d-d948356450ad","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:287c6ae9-83e3-4341-8c8d-d948356450ad","Capturing the atmosphere: Sep Ruf's architecture of reconstruction as a reflection of social change in post-war Munich","Englmann, Elena (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Sennema, Hilde (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Sep Ruf (1908-1982) was one of the most significant architects of German post-war modernism and played a key role in the rebuilding of several cities after World War II, particularly Munich. Along with other German modernist architects and supporters of the New Building movement, Ruf sought to initiate an intellectual renewal of architecture as a foundation for the city’s reconstruction, aiming to counter the neoclassical architecture of the Third Reich with a style characterised by lightness, asymmetry, and transparency. The fluent transition between exterior and interior spaces, the considerate embedding in the existing urban context, and the combination of traditional and modern architectural elements are essential principles of Ruf’s post-war philosophy, leading to the development of a new formal language and architectural expression that captured the “spirit’s atmosphere” and reflected the changing social values of Munich’s post-war society.
This thesis analyses three case studies of Ruf‘s work during the first phase of post-war modernism from 1945 to 1963. It provides a historical and architectural analysis, as well as a socio-societal analysis based on local newspaper articles from the era, demonstrating how Ruf‘s architecture responded to various social challenges after World War II and encouraged public debates about evolving social values in the public, private, and religious domains. The construction of Munich’s first high-rise apartment building Theresienstraße (1950-51) was a low-cost social housing project, which offered high-quality living conditions to all social classes. The transparent facades and publicly accessible courtyards of the Neue Maxburg (1952-58) were emblematic of a new social and legal democratisation and stand for Munich’s reintegration into the European and international world community. The modern formal language of the church of St. Johann von Capistran (1957-60), built in the course of the Eucharistic World Congress in Munich, was a precursor of the liturgical reformation of the 1960s. Overall, this paper highlights Sep Ruf’s contribution to the development of post-war modernism and the broader social and cultural changes of the time in Munich.","AR2A011; post-war architecture; Sep Ruf; Munich; Germany; reconstruction; architecture","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011","48.1374300, 11.5754900"
"uuid:98fd40bf-5f84-41f6-ada2-823252b887fb","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:98fd40bf-5f84-41f6-ada2-823252b887fb","Exploring the Use of Color in Architecture: An Analysis of Luis Barragan and Le Corbusier’s Design Approaches and Their Influence on Educational Spaces","Han, Jing (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Tanovic, S. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This paper studies the color application in architecture during the 20th century by Le Corbusier and Luis Barragan through a thorough analysis of case studies such as Cité Frugès, Unité d’Habitation, Casa Gilardi, and the Chapel for the Capuchinas, as well as relevant literature reviews. It then explores how color affects users’ perception of a space from a psychological aspect through Goethe’s color theory (1810) and the Ecological Valence Theory (2010). Factors that affect how people perceive color are also discussed. Finally, the paper focuses on the application of color in educational settings and discusses the impact of color. This paper aims to analyze and draw inspiration from Le Corbusier and Luis Barragan’s color application approaches to apply them in educational spaces and emphasize the importance of color in educational settings.","AR2A011; architecture; color psychology; color in education space","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:1d7fc475-38e5-461b-adfd-1015e657cfd2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1d7fc475-38e5-461b-adfd-1015e657cfd2","‘We came to this land to build and be built’: How architecture influenced the formation of national identity of Israel and vice versa","Lewandowska, Julka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Hanna, J.M.K. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Aliyah, the great Jewish migration resulting from popularization of Zionism, brought end to the Jewish diaspora in the form, in which it was known before. The massive migration brought large numbers of new settlers to the area of Palestine with the aim of (re)creating their country – Israel. A new country required new infrastructure, architecture and a new national identity which would unify Jews after 2000 years of diaspora. This paper aims to examinate the interrelations of the last two; architecture and national identity as well as the other, main factors influencing the development of architecture in Israel.
The research is set up around six preselected architects of European background. Each couple represents a different era-style in Israeli architecture. For each of the architects a few buildings will be selected and analyzed for: relations to the architect’s background experiences, upbringing and their period of education, influences from the preexisting architecture of Palestine, adaptation to the local climate new to the European architect, and finally, the State defined laws and trends as a means of building national identity. The paper includes also a discussion regarding the development of Palestinian architecture in context of the Israeli influence.
The analysis is conducted using primary sources, mainly building photographs, but also drawings, diagrams, postcards, street signs and literary sources. Simultaneously, an investigation regarding what role these aforementioned factors played in the process of building the national identity of Israel is supported also by secondary sources – books, articles and journal publications.
The main results suggest high dependence of the Israeli built environment on the State defined laws and trends. A less intense dependence is found in the context of the rest of the factors. As a consequence, however, the built environment and national identity in context of architecture seem to be mainly influenced by the State defined laws and trends and the architecture of Palestine, as the various, individual backgrounds of architects cannot create a uniform identity, while the continuous references towards the Palestinian architecture can.","AR2A011; Jewish immigration to Palestine; architecture; national identity; Israel; Palestine; Jewish-European architects; Zionism in architecture","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:684ea950-ff50-4825-8973-9489f64eabce","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:684ea950-ff50-4825-8973-9489f64eabce","Architectures of Water: Lost and (re)found","Venneman, Dévi (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)","2023","Water and the relationship we have with it are disloca- ted in the contemporary context of the city. Present-day structures of society represent water as a human made commodity, whilst it will always be an elusive element of nature, the human body and the environment. How can we redesign city water into practices that reconnect us to the element and its natural and social qualities?
A litterature study sets out the extent of meanings and underlaying structures of water in the city. The typo- logy of the 19th century bathhouse is used to elaborate on the way architecture has shaped use and culture.
Three contemporary case studies expand on architecture that supports a richer relationship with water.
Water moves through a multitude of spheres, we have physical, emotional and imaginative interactions with it. The idea of a sublime nature or a nature we have control over is a lie, in the context of the city water is more a product of culture than it is of nature. A more hybrid mentality that encorporates the differnt spheres would lead to a more sustainable view of city water. Wa- ter in the city is a common good, it’s part of society and the individual and should therefore be accessible and understandable. Architecture is not the solution to the disconnect, but has the responsibility to touch upon the different spheres and is in the first instance about trans- parency and accesibility.","architecture; water; bathhouse; city; public; relationship; experiential","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","Heterogeneous City","51.509373, 0.002697"
"uuid:b1b8748f-9f00-4720-bcb0-c0c7d7ac95fe","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b1b8748f-9f00-4720-bcb0-c0c7d7ac95fe","Changing Minds: Towards Water-Based Architecture and Public Space for the Future Urban Archipelago","Hein, C.M. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics); Harteveld, Maurice (TU Delft Urban Design); De Martino, P. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics); Hanna, J.M.K. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics); Tabakovic, M. (TU Delft Urban Design); Donkor, C.E. (TU Delft History, Form & Aesthetics)","","2023","This blog contribution supports the Urban Archipelago expo at Nieuwe Instituut (NI) in Rotterdam, designed to consist of four elements: a map, a view, a model, and a series of films that depicted a future of living with water, as well as a booklet that documented student work. The expo has been part of the Water Cities Rotterdam, which opened with the work of Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ) on 13 May 2023.","port-cities; public space; Public Space; urban design; water and the city; Urban Design; architecture; urban history; Urban History; water management; Water levels; Water governance; Water safety; coastal flood; Climate change adaptation and mitigation; Weather impact; people; urban culture; urban society","en","report","","","","","","","","","","","History, Form & Aesthetics","","",""
"uuid:62f5364f-be31-4dd5-8617-540dad294cfe","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:62f5364f-be31-4dd5-8617-540dad294cfe","creating social value through adaptive reuse: a study into social sustainability in adaptive reuse","Mellink, Max (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Remøy, H.T. (mentor); de Jong, P. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","While urban development is essential to keep our cities alive, existing buildings and structures are essential for communities to thrive. Moreover, this development needs to minimise construction waste and pollution, which means that it is illogical to demolish existing buildings that contain valuable resources. However, transformation is often more expensive than new construction. Additionally, in academic literature a hiatus exists regarding the social side of
sustainable development. Therefore, this research sheds light on the effectivity and costs of social sustainable measures in architecture to facilitate their implementation by answering the following research question: “How is social sustainability included in the practice of adaptive reuse architecture and how does it impact the costs?“
The results show several social sustainability benefits regarding adaptive reuse. However, the results confirm a hesitance amongst practitioners regarding its execution as well, thanks to unpredictable costs and a lack of expertise. Therefore, evidence suggests reducing uncertainty, by means of minimising change in favour of social sustainability. In turn, social sustainability and adaptive reuse issue several economic benefits that promote their further integration in development of the built environment, but are in need of further research.","Adaptive reuse; architecture; social sustainability; costs; transformation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Management in the Built Environment","",""
"uuid:8d66e7a7-7db0-4024-9816-e32c4c71bf47","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8d66e7a7-7db0-4024-9816-e32c4c71bf47","Get a Room!: Sex & the Commons in Berlin","Besteman, Chantal (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Witteman, S.M. (mentor); Warries, G.Y. (graduation committee); Corbo, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This architectural project focused on designing a public building that challenges societal norms surrounding sex, desire, and gender. The goal is to create a space for open dialogue and exploration of diverse sexualities and boundaries, fostering understanding and respect. By acting as mediators between different perspectives, public buildings can drive social change and improve social life.
The project is situated in Berlin's Friedrichshain district, known for its contrasting attitudes towards sexuality. The Public Condenser aims to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and sexual preferences, creating an inclusive environment for discussion. The multifunctional design accommodates various needs, promoting dialogue and addressing the importance of these topics.
Internally, the Public Condenser includes spaces that facilitate the exploration of sexuality on three levels: the body, the brain, and relationships. These spaces encompass a bathhouse, a dance/sports hall, an interactive gallery, an auditorium, a library, rooms for therapy, and workshop areas. The design emphasizes sensory experiences to create transformative encounters.
The design process involved extensive research, utilizing the ""research by design"" methodology. Case studies, interviews with residents and professionals, and visits to sex-positive clubs and cultural events informed the project. The design proposals integrate feedback and insights from potential user-groups and sexuality professionals.
By establishing a physical space for open dialogue and exploration of sexuality, the Public Condenser project aims to disrupt normative coding of sex, desire, and gender. It seeks to drive social change and foster an inclusive society. The study highlights the crucial role of architecture in shaping experiences and challenging societal perceptions. The project in Friedrichshain serves as a model for future architectural interventions promoting sexual education and understanding in contemporary societies.
Despite being a daily presence for the city's inhabitants, the connection between the people and the river has been lost over time due to infrastructure and urbanization. This project aims to relink the people of Budapest to the river, fostering a deeper spiritual awareness, and appreciation for the river as a living, breathing embodiment of Budapest's past, present, and future.
Just as human bodies embody the imprints of traumatic experiences, so does the river retain the memory of the place. By viewing the river as a body of water, like the human body, the river keeps the score of the city, as a repository of collective history.
Religion is understood not only as the institutionalized systems of beliefs that operate in the world today, but also with the origin of the word. Its etymology, derived from the Latin ""religare,"" meaning ""to put together what has previously been separated,"" captures the essence of this project's objective, throughout all scales.
The program consists of a museum and a chapel: the first being a place for the muses, a place of revelation and (re)discovery; the latter as a sanctuary of contemplation. Their purpose is to reveal, to show again, the river's significance from different perspectives.
The museum is situated perpendicular on the riverbank of Óbudai Island, revealing the river flowing alongside the city against a backdrop of the mountains. The chapel, located on the tip of Margaret Island, reveals the diverging river as part of the horizon and the sky. The route from one to the other acts as a filter of the river, alternating between moments of covering and revealing, sharp and subtle contrasts. From the flowing river to the majestic mountains, from the vibrant cityscape to the expansive horizon and vast skies, the journey offers a series of panoramic scenes.
This design proposal aims to be meaningful for the collective of Budapest in re-evaluating our relationship with the nature from which our city originated. Its essence is religious, in the linking of the islands, of two buildings, of materials, and of the humans with the landscape. The project reveals the outward landscape of the city, abstracting it in the architecture; allowing the human to empathize with it, and with our inner selves and place on this earth.","architecture; religion; religious architecture; Budapest; museum; chapel; landscape; river; Danube; Hungary","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Methods and Analysis | Positions in Practice","","47.538910, 19.052982"
"uuid:35af2950-82ae-41cb-9c87-bccea55d4bc5","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:35af2950-82ae-41cb-9c87-bccea55d4bc5","Urban Fabrications: Tensile Tectonics of Labor","Klimi, Myrto (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Geerts, F. (mentor); Rommens, O.R.G. (mentor); Koskamp, G. (mentor); Hoogenboom, J.J.J.G. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Filtering and differentiation at borders shape the composition and multiplicity of living labor, as well as the formation of often exploitative labor regimes. The relation between migration and the garments and textile Industry in the area of Istanbul, the center of textile and garments production and simultaneously a destination and hub for migration is exemplary of this condition. Transnational economic, labor and migration policies are reflected in the spatial manifestation of the textile and garments sector in the area of Istanbul. This leads to a heterogeneity of practices in the organization of the production system with main suppliers, subcontractors, retailers, home based worker’s networks and logistics, creating dense industry clusters extending deep into residential areas converting them into assembly lines, turning neighborhoods into machines. While technology is advancing rapidly labor conditions have remained problematic and outdated production models account for overproduction and waste.
Architecture can address these socio political and economic issues and these in turn shape architecture therefore it is worth it to make an experiment and let the systems networks and methods of garment production contaminate architecture: How is architecture transformed by using and reshuffling networks and production processes of the garment industry? What does a hybridization of these production processes and systems uncover about them? Which parameters can be manipulated for architecture to act as an agent in improving labor conditions and production processes?
This context sets the frame for discussing issues such as transitions in labor and production models, genericness, mass customization, flexibility, high-tech versus low-tech sparking a debate on how we fabricate architecture.
This overheard finding is the spark of this thesis. While unsuccessfully searching for a singular translation of Boden, I started to discover more and more dimensions, relations, associations with the term. Thus, the question arose: Can we solve the multi-dimensional issues Boden faces in Berlin by exploring its stratified character, its layers of meaning? How can Boden in the city become tangible, meaningful, a resource - Bodenschatz - again? Can Boden itself become an ally for the city’s human and non-human inhabitants to solve the Bodenfrage issues?
The resulting proposal, Bodenschatz, is a multi-layered exploration of dimensions comprised in Berlin’s Boden. This is approached by science fiction: taking into account the status quo of science and research, it is reimagining urban futures as a fictional prototype of cyber-socio-ecological cohabitation on Berlin’s Boden. Its main vector is not analysis but action towards re-taking socio-ecological urban agency in Berlin. Architecture becomes a vehicle to spatialise this, the missing link to fill in the gaps between science and fiction. Without romanticism or fatalism, the project is a comment on the current state of affairs - and how the city of the future could be imagined by the means of today.","science fiction; soil; soil remediation; financialisation; land ownership; blockchain; sonic research; ecology; technology; cohabitation; machine design; Socio-ecological symbiosis; architecture; prototype; Berlin; Germany; urban; Neukölln","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","52.483969, 13.459683"
"uuid:20014caa-0086-4d2d-8ac6-0f7bd9e290b1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:20014caa-0086-4d2d-8ac6-0f7bd9e290b1","Participatory Churches: A Participation Approach to Preserve the Social Function of Religious Heritage: The Case of St. Dominicus Church Utrecht","Bouma, Johan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Ridder, A.C. (mentor); Mulder, K.B. (graduation committee); Nevzgodin, I. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This paper explores different participation methods that could be applied in redeveloping religious heritage. Due to secularisation, religious buildings are threatened with vacancy. Churches in particular are difficult to redevelop due to their ecclesiastical and social values. Active community involvement assists in overcoming the gap in designer and user interests. In this study, the St. Dominicus church is used as a case study in which a simulated participation workshop with actors is conducted. The initial goal of the simulated workshop was to determine a suitable program for a community centre inside the existing church building. Various methods were employed during the simulated workshop, structured by three participation phases identified by analysing case studies. Individual brainstorming, cognitive mapping, and a consensus design assignment were applied for research inquiry and design input. Two months after the initial workshop, the preliminary design was reviewed through individual semi-structured interviews. The individual brainstorming together with the cognitive mapping proved to be effective in determining general program possibilities, gapping the requirement of communication skills and time. After the review of the preliminary design, all participants expressed a sense of ownership of the design, thus these methods could easily be applied in other cases to boost social belonging and community values. Future research recommends a larger sample group and the mixing of age groups in the consensus design assignment, which could result in more conflicting interests regarding the community centre’s program.","participatory design; participatory methods; religious heritage; brainstorming; cognitive mapping; consensus design; architecture; heritage; church","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","",""
"uuid:d96dc42f-8779-4f5b-94db-df0e969c1f3f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d96dc42f-8779-4f5b-94db-df0e969c1f3f","A Women's House for Droixhe: Exploring Human-Centric Architecture as a Catalyst for Social Connection, Urban Revitalization, and Women Empowerment","van Rijn, Inès (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Ronner, E.I. (mentor); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor); Lafeber, J.W. (mentor); Stalker, S. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This project delves into the transformative potential of human-centric architecture as a catalyst for social connection, urban revitalization, and empowerment in the neighborhood of Droixhe in Liège, Belgium. Drawing inspiration from the collective Les Amis de L'Étang, comprising 15 social organizations, the research explores the concealed narratives behind facades and the daily lives of the communities residing in the neighborhood. Uncovering a pressing need for suitable spaces and housing tailored to the requirements of marginalized women and poorly represented social organizations within the modernistic ensemble of Droixhe, the site specific project proposes a women's house as a multi-functional complex, re-interpreting the role of the public, communal and domestic space. Aiming to promote social safety and empowerment for women, the project at the same time revitalizes and enhances the neighborhood through its public functions, with it's community kitchen as main urban connector. By transcending conventional design paradigms and activating curiosity through architecture, this proposal seeks to invigorate Droixhe, forging a vibrant, inclusive living environment that empowers its inhabitants.","architecture; urban; women's house; human-centric design; modernism; feminism; community kitchen","en","master thesis","","","","","","https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HFnqiBlxOs research video - collaboration with graduation student Jonas Althuis","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","50.645097, 5.604539"
"uuid:44140383-0cef-49c6-b9b5-9336cc40ceac","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44140383-0cef-49c6-b9b5-9336cc40ceac","Architecture as a language that can bridge cultures: on understanding the city through type, elements and systems","van Vliet, Basia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urban Architecture (OLD))","Ronner, E.I. (mentor); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor); Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor); Stalker, S. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","The goal of this research is to create a new understanding of the individuality of the city of Liége, by constructing a “logic of architecture”, a logic rooted in place, through a personal (dynamic) understanding of the site and its people & positioned within architectural theory, presenting a new interpretation. Hence, the design acts as a testsite for the research: testing, validating and showcasing the newfound “logic of architecture”, which is a product of the research process. The research strives to define three key elements (window, entrance, structure) within their autonomous reading as well as the part they play in the social ecology of Bressoux, thereby creating ground for the elements to propose design solutions based on the way they invite human life into their consciousness. Researching construction of the city over time through ordinary elements that give meaning to the city.