Feasibility study of a new harbour on the island of St. Eustatius

The temporary citizen: and the spatial implications of the next mode of energy in Vlissingen

With a new scale of operating and constructing large offshore wind farms, harbours and adjacent cities are facing a transition. This transition will include an increase of work migration and temporary citizens within the area. The construction of a wind farm from the port of Vlissingen-Oost will result in a comings and goings of all kind of high...

Bridging Rotterdam: A bridge is more

Old harbour, new possibilities

In this graduation project a design for the Merwe-Vierhavens (Rotterdam) is made, based on the subsoil characteristics. An interactive subsoil potential map shows all the information and tools, which are used in the masterplan. The design for the harbour also protects the residents from floods.

Numerical modelling of wave penetration in ports

Wave climates in ports can determine the efficiency of port operations to a large extent, so good predictions of them are important. This thesis therefore focusses on the modelling of wave penetration in ports, using several numerical models as well as a physical model. The goal is to compare numerical wave models for the use of wave penetration...

The Wharf Bath

Merwe4 Waterfront Park: The transformation of a post-industrial landscape in the city of Rotterdam

The harbour of Rotterdam will be transformed into a public waterfront, with an integrated dike to prevent flooding. As program urban agriculture will be introduced behind this dikefront. The masterplan is a small intervention which evokes further developments in the area.

A Bypass Friendly Harbour

The objective of this study is to determine for which conditions the bypass capacity is optimized in combination with a limited influence on the navigational function of the harbour. The bypass capacity is defined as the capacity to bypass the sediment around the harbour under the presence of the defined driving forces (i.e. waves and/or tide)....

Gateway to Tallinn. An architectural representation of genius loci

HYBRID BUILDINGS: "De overkant", IJ-Harbour Amsterdam

A new urban plan for Amsterdam and Amsterdam North. A new marina that will work as a great catalyst for Amsterdam North. My own intervention is a hybrid building; hotel, dwelling, shopping, restaurant, cafe, offices.

The analysis of model measurements concerning the behaviour of moored ships in long waves

When designing a new port it is important to predict the operation efficiency of the port. In this respect, it is desirable to predict the possible downtime of a new port in an early phase of the design process. Downtime depends strongly on the moored ship motions. In the past decades several numerical models were developed to predict the...

Masterplan Puerto America

At the start of 1999, Alkyon developed in co-operation with Tebodin and Delta Marine Consultants b.v. a masterplan for a new harbour in Venezuela named Puerto America. This was carried out in order of the Government of the state Zulia. The development of the harbour entails 4 phases: 2002, 2005, 2015 and after 2015. On the basis of his...

Service port for Beira harbour, Mozambique

This study for a service port in Beira Harbour can be divided into three different parts. These parts will be discussed below in the sequence in which they have been carried out. The first part consists of the preparations for the journey to Beira and the actual site investigation. In Beira a site investigation had been carried out to obtain all...

Return periods of water levels and significant wave heights and wave periods at the Outer Anchorage Chittagong, Bangladesh

Bangladesh has two ports catering to international shipping, i.e. Clalna and Chittagong. Chittagong is the countries main import harbour; industrial activities, needing deep water, are also mainly located in Chittagong. The development of the ports is greatly hampered by the limited depth of the entrances. The problem is aggravated by the trend...