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- Buring, Niels (author) master thesis 2017
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Geraedts, Rob P. (author), van der Voordt, Theo (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)Building owners and other stakeholders can adopt different strategies to cope with vacancy, such as consolidation, rent reduction, selling the building, renovation, transfor-mation and conversion to adapted reuse, or demolish and build a new building. This paper dis-cusses a new developed tool to cope with vacancy by adaptive reuse. It presents...conference paper 2017
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- Oosterwaal, L.M. (author) master thesis 2016
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Moritz, M. (author)GOAL – The goal of this research is to examine the possibility of a decision support model concerning intervention strategies of vacant office buildings in Amsterdam. This quick scan results in the best future function and intervention for a specific vacant office building. This DSM is based on the market, the location and the building analyses...master thesis 2016
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Zwarteveen, B.C. (author)This thesis and design explores the dissonance of the 17th century heritage object of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The research explains the theme of dissonant heritage together with an excerpt of the South African national history in part one. Part two explains the changes of the Castle over time, as military landscape, as object in a...master thesis 2016
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Ma, V. (author)In this project, the Garden City idea with the motto “Light, Air, Space” is to be preserved and enhanced to adapt to current needs. The aim is to create a safe and vibrant community for young people by transforming the courtyard and the streets while restoring and modifying the existing building blocks. To tackle with the existing social...master thesis 2016
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Brojerdyan, M. (author)The supply and demand of the Dutch office market is not in balance. 15,7% of all the offices are vacant. The most vacancy can be found in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a big city with a large population and a large group of immigrants. There is a shortage of different types of housing, which means that transformation of vacant offices into housing...master thesis 2016
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Monteiro, C. (author)The location is the Binnengasthuis-area; a zone within the UNESCO World Heritage site of Amsterdam and a campus of the University of Amsterdam. This master thesis examines the influences of the existing building on a transformation design. Why does a certain intervention based on social activities work well with one building but is not relevant...master thesis 2016
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Klievink, A.J. (author), Bharosa, N. (author), Tan, Y. (author)The scale of society's evolving challenges gradually surpasses the capacity of the public sector to address them. Coping with these challenges requires budget-short governments to look for innovative ways to transform and improve their operations and service provisioning models. While in many cases transformation starts from the inside-out ...journal article 2015
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Polhuijs, P. (author)This project is a design proposal for the Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam. Sports is one function distinctly missing in the eastern part of Amsterdam and which could uniquely make use of the large volumes of the building. Double curved panels made by a flexible mould will be used to create a new roof shell structure, to transform the Van...master thesis 2015
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Paclt, J. (author)Informed Transformations looks into revamp of Marconi Towers in Rotterdam in light of Information Age, as Tofflers describe it. Information processing though IT resonates with todays rhizomatic distribution of power, insfluence, data and space as well. Everchanging socio-economic context can be treated by a meta-design that binds input of...master thesis 2015
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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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Liao, C. (author)The Eilandenbuurt Post-war flats designed by J.H.Van den Broek are unique in its street form and is and early experiment for Dutch modernism dwellings. Yet today it suffers from low occupancy. In this project I finds the solution through three actions: vary, adapt, engage to change the heritage from repetitive functional dwellings into variant...master thesis 2015
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Paik, I. (author)The theme of the studio ‘At Home in the City’ is focusing on contemporary and future urban architecture on the scale of both dwelling and the city. Van der Kunbuurt is one of the suggested location that was needed to be transformed. At least half of the current 50’s apartments should be kept that can accommodate the contemporary dwellers.master thesis 2015
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Van der Gaag, E.J. (author)A new dynamic equilibrium between flood prevention, ecology, energy supply and recreation. This is amplified with the transformation of a nuclear plant into a centre of landscape connection. The nuclear plant is located on the Rheinschanzinsel along the Rhine together with a retention polder build for floods. It will be shut down in 2019,...master thesis 2015
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Van Markus, D.J. (author)The main theme of the studio is about creating a public interior; creating space by architectonic elements. The Mahlerplein is an problematic area because it shows no relation with its direct surroundings. For the studio of the Architecture of the Interior it means that the Mahlerplein should become an interior space, which means that certain...master thesis 2014
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Van Zeist, F. (author)This research consists of 3 parts/scales, combined in a single methodology: 1. The regeneration and redevelopment of (structurally) vacant office buildings, preparing a base ‘support’ building for 2. A customized housing solution, answering the diverse requirements households have regarding their living conditions by giving them the opportunity...master thesis 2014
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Kusnadi, J.A.M. (author)The transformation the Prinses Julianakazerne in The Hague. Due to its function the barrack has always been closed off to the public. Now the building has become vacant, this graduation project shows how the barrack is opened up to the public. It is transformed into a health & vitality centre as a new meeting point of the neighbourhood.master thesis 2014
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Veldhuis, Y.C. (author)The building task of the future in the Netherlands is to transform existing buildings such as vacant office buildings, monuments and industrial terrain. Because of the floor space and the story height of such an industrial building, it is common to put multiple functions in the new design, but an important problem when doing that, is the...master thesis 2014