Schiekade towers: A high rise in Rotterdam

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...

Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk: A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam

Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The thesis examines whether and how spatial planning...

Mutualist Urbanism: Achieving mutualism between urban development and strengthening biodiversity through nature-inclusive urban planning and design: the case of het Zomerhofkwartier in Rotterdam

Biodiversity in the Netherlands has been under alarming pressure for many years. Historical drivers of biodiversity loss have been agriculture and urbanization, through causing environmental pressure, loss of natural habitat and fragmentation of habitat for numerous species and ecosystems (PBL, 2014). Pressure on...