Grid resilience enhancement by implementing Smart Microgrids

The electrical power industry is undergoing rapid transformation, and Smart Grids technologies can facilitate the growing penetration of renewable energies, as well as the necessity of providing flexibility to variable generation. Furthermore, their widespread installation results in a modernization of the electric grid, opening up new operation...

Agent-Based Modelling of an Airport’s Ground Surface Movement Operation: Understanding the principles and mechanisms of decentralised control

Decentralised air traffic control shifts decision making to a local level, allowing decentralised controllers to focus on solving local conflicts. Since decentralised controllers have accurate local information at their disposal, they can adapt quicker and more efficiently to changing conditions. Consequently, it is suggested that the dynamics...

Condominium 3.0: Reinventing Addis Ababa’s Mass Housing Projects for the City and it’s Low-Income Dwellers

The project is a part of the Global Dwelling studio in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The focus of the studio is on Affordable Housing for the Global Urban South. This project looks to continue with the current method of affordable housing in Addis Ababa in the form of mass housing condominiums. These developments are appearing in huge numbers across...

Food Island: Creating a Resilient Food System for the AMA

Governments and private and non-profit organisations from international to local levels have acknowledged the idea that more sustainable systems are required to reduce our ecological footprint (WWF, 2016, Jonkhoff, 2012). The food system is a very important aspect within our lives, socially as well as economically but it is also one of the most...

Rethinking the Absorption Capacity of Urban Space: How to better organise migration in the city?

This thesis project examined theories and practices of migration in Dutch urban space and observed that two tensions can be recognised. First, there is the tension between the dynamic nature of migration – migration as ongoing flow - and the rigid institutional and governmental practices offered as solutions. Second, a tension can be noticed...

A (New) Future for Miami Beach

A landscape architecture graduation work, dealing with drastic change in an urban area facing the risk of a major disruption, which calls for adaptive solutions for resilience. From adaptability theory two forces are derived that guide an analysis towards a solution for an urban environment challenged by sea level rise; the revolt, the force...

Resilience and Synchronization Behaviour within Mean Field Models

The study of the dynamics of large, complex networks is generally very hard. Analytical solutions are rarely available and numerical solutions require immense computation times. Recently, Gao et al. [1]have proposed a new theoretical approach to analyse the average behaviour of complex networks. In this research we discuss the derivation of the...

Estimating the Vulnerability of Ship Distributed System Topologies

All ships rely on many on board systems to reliably complete their missions (e.g. transporting containers, laying pipes or protecting the seas). However, for many of these ships, the detailed design of these systems is put off until the later stages of the design. For most ships, this will create no problems. However, for those complex vessels...

Multiplied ground: A new lens for the northeast edge of San Francisco

Climate change is a global issue that influences worldwide. Its impacts are expected to be particularly severe in coastal cities, which are the center of discussion addressing this phenomenon. While it is impossible to ever fully eliminate risks from flooding, there are many measures available to manage and adapt to those risks. The Embarcadero,...

Variable Vulnerability: A comparative understanding of different socioeconomic systems - San Francisco Bay region

In this graduation project, I have tried to focus on the aspects of socio-economic development and resilience to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay region. The comparison is between two cases namely East Palo Alto and Foster City which has a variable difference in their socio–economic the system in terms of the communities that it hosts and...

Flood safety in delta cities: Development of a comprehensive risk-based model to support decision making on measures against pluvial, riverine and coastal flooding in urban area, with the application to Hoboken, New Jersey

Flood safety in low-lying delta regions has been a challenge of all ages. Societies worldwide have been trying to protect themselves against flood hazards for centuries. Floods in vulnerable urban regions are often caused by heavy rainfall, high river flow, extreme sea levels, or combinations of those three. Currently, there is a lack of tools...

Working Waterfront Newtown Creek - Adaptive multi-layer flood protection on brownfield opportunity areas

For 400 years New York has a turbulent interaction with its surrounding waters. It embraced, tamed, neglected and rediscovered the waterfront which made its greatness possible. Hurricane Sandy brought in a new complexity for New York and its relationship with the waterfront. The storm reminded the city where it is located and paid a high price...