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Brinks, F. (author)Within the context of increasing vacancy in both offices as institutional buildings, transforming the monumental buildings of the Binnengasthuis area into a housing purpose is a relevant assignment as the housing demand in Amsterdam will always maintain. As housing requires a small scale appropriate to live in, this arises a conflict with the...master thesis 2015
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Wijburg, V.E. (author)This master thesis examines the influence of the existing building on a transformation design. Why does a certain transformation work well with the one building but is useless in the other? Is this perhaps the influence of some of the characteristics of the existing building? Gaining insight in this process can also help with the early...master thesis 2015
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Morosetti, L. (author)Application and adaptation of the monastic typology to contemporary collective housing.master thesis 2015
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Evangelou, K. (author)The goal of the graduation project, is to test to what extend the Solid concept is applicable to historic buildings and how is this allowed. My design proposal is concentrated in a specific design context in the Binnenstadscampus, the Klinisch Ziekenhuis, which through my research proved to bring most of those inherent features which confer...master thesis 2015
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Kwant, A.B. (author)This graduation project is about the transformation of a vacant office building into flexible housing, making use of the potentials the existing construction offers. This has been achieved by the following points: 1 Using the column structure of the office building. 2 Make vertical shafts for the building services in the corridor. 3 Make...master thesis 2015
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Deng, W. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed...report 2015
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Mota, N.J.A. (author)One decade ago in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, more than 80% of its four million inhabitants lived in the so-called kebele houses, which are the local variant of a well-known urban figure, the slum. In order to cope with the housing backlog sparked by the need to replace the dilapidated kebele houses, to accommodate the city’s...conference paper 2015
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Abramczyk, M.J. (author)The subject of the project ("Personality and Anonymity: Dwelling in Public dominated City Environment") is a subset of Studio's theme ("At Home in the City"). The project denotes the primary trait of home as its personality (understood as dwelling's susceptibility to semiotic changes imposed by its user). Consequently, one of project's main...master thesis 2015
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Ploeger, H.D. (author), De Wolff, H.W. (author)Once abolished by the French, being a product of feudalism, reintroduced by the Dutch after the downfall of Napoleon’s empire. Heralded by both liberals and socialists after 1900 as a tool for governments to prevent land speculation and to implement spatial policies. A century later despised by many, considered to be a governmental cash cow. The...conference paper 2014
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Van der Veen, A.C. (author)At this point in time, 3D-printing techniques in general, but especially applied for the building industry, still are in a phase of early experiments. One of the experimental attempts is to print a full-scale, three-story high, house in Amsterdam, using an up scaled version of a FDM-printer that is able to print blocks of 1.8 x 1.8 x 3.0 meters...master thesis 2014
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Janse, H.C. (author), Van der Flier, C.L. (author)Haiti was struck by a heavy earthquake in 2010 and international aid poured into the country. News reports in 2011 were not very positive about the results of post-disaster reconstruction: “The relief efforts are only putting Haiti on lifesupport instead of evolving into the next stage of development”. One of the non-governmental organisations ...journal article 2014
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Sanders, F.C. (author)More and more residents’ groups in the Netherlands are undertaking collective initiatives for sustainable energy optimalisation. This is the result of growing environmental awareness, decreasing government intervention and increasing civil initiative. However, the contribution to the national move towards sus-tainability is, according to the...doctoral thesis 2014
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Mota, N.J.A. (author)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...doctoral thesis 2014
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Deng, W. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author)This paper reviews the housing policy of China from 1949-2013. It examines the housing tenure change, policy instruments, and impacts social structures in different time periods. After the welfare period of 1949-77, the dual provision period of 1978-1998, and the market dominant period of 1999-2011, China’s housing policy was again reformed...conference paper 2014
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Van Tatenhove, A.K.R. (author)In this graduation a strategy is developed for the Vogelbuurt area in Rotterdam-Zuid, with which the private owners in that neighbourhood can transform their dwellings, for example by merging their home with a neighbouring one.master thesis 2014
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Mlecnik, E. (author)Buildings account for 40% of EU final energy demand and policy developments like the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive are stimulating the innovation development for nearly zero-energy housing. However, businesses switching to innovative products for highly energy-efficient houses is a process that is poorly understood. To accelerate...conference paper 2014
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Doling, J. (author), Elsinga, M.G. (author), Ronald, R. (author)This book provides an overview of the effects of home ownership, a housing sector that has grown rapidly in recent years in many countries, not least because this is normally encouraged by governments. The first part of the subtitle, ‘Getting in’, refers to processes in the development of the homeownership stock including problems of access,...book 2014
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Haffner, M.E.A. (author), Dol, C.P. (author), Heylen, K. (author)Combating poverty and social exclusion is a core policy issue in the European Union (EU). The Statis-tics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database facilitates analyses of the extent of poverty and social exclusion. One of the indicators built from the database is the at-risk-of-poverty indicator. Applied to households, it indicates...report 2014
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Faraj, Y. (author)This research examines the land delivery system and development within the housing sector in Suleimany city to achieve the objective of providing affordable housing for the low-income households. The Kurdistan Region is a federated region in Iraq that has experienced very strong socio-economic growth in the last ten years coupled with a strong...master thesis 2014