Paris 2024: A cyclist's reinterpretation of movement at the Olympic Games

The current project represents the creation of space for a new paradigm in Olympic sports: the introduction of virtual cycling, enabled through the latest technologies in indoor cycling and offering the capacity to connect athletes from all over the world. On an architectural level, it challenges the white elephant phenomena, concept used to...

A Computational Method to Generate One-story Floor Plans for Nursing Homes Based on Daylight Hour Potential and Shortest Path of Circulations

Design of elderly care buildings like nursing homes usually looks for balances between the livability for residents and the circulation efficiency for staffs and workers. Losing the balance between these two has the potential of either dissatisfying residents, uncomfortable living experiences, or causing low efficiency in operations, which might...

Exploring the Effects of Void Decks on Urban Ventilation in Singapore: A Computational Design & Simulation Approach for Wind Microclimate-Informed Urban Planning

Rising temperatures due to climate change and the increased Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect both have a major impact on Singapore’s outdoor comfort. Research has reported an average UHI in Singapore of 4°C, which can even exceed 7°C at some times of the day. (Acero & Ruefenacht, 2017) Increasing convective surface heat transfer from the human...

Computational Design Analysis of Height Scenarios in Residential High-rise under BENG 2020

In the Netherlands, the building sector accounts for more than one third of the total primary energy consumption. In response, new regulations, BENG 2020, are implemented and applied to all new constructions as of the 1st of July 2020. Regarding the high-rise typology that is known for its extensive energy consumption, those regulations present...

Computed Density: Inner city housing using computational design and robotic fabrication

The current demand for living in cities necessitates architectural designers to reflect on how this densification is to be done. Based on analysis of a current densification project in Rotterdam (Rotta Nova) different problems with current densification designs are formulated. From these problems an alternative design for inner city dwellings is...

StructuralComponents 6: An early-stage design tool for flexible topologies of mid-rise concrete buildings

The development of computational tools to aid with early-stage design of buildings is an emerging topic of great value. Developing a good conceptual design for a building is important because it can save a great amount of time and resources over the entire building process. This report discusses the project StructuralComponents 6, a continuation...

Re[Mod]: reuse plastic & robotic modification

It is known that the global impact of solid waste is becoming more worrying day by day; however, the application of reused materials in the built environment is not yet fully embraced. In particular, plastic composites are now fundamental for the global world economy but the organization of their end life needs to be improved. <br/>Therefore,...

Thin glass composites: based on a structural efficiency increasing design strategy

The research focuses on the combined use of thin glass and a 3D printed spacer pattern. The goal is to design a possible solution to use thin glass in architecture.<br/>In the first part of the thesis background research on thin glass, additive manufacturing, adhesive bonding and structural geometry is conducted. This has lead to results to...

Cinema Urban Space

Parametric architectural design of cinema-space as an urban generator in Scheveningen harbor (The Hague). The project focuses on media facade as a responsive design element and as an interactive environment. Visual connection to the city and the surroundings as well as urban screen is implemented as a flexible, urbanic growing-on site,...

Visual Analytics for Generative Design Exploration: An interactive 3D data envirionment for a computational design system facilitating the performance-driven design process of a nearly Zero-Energy sports hall

Improvement of design performances requires exploration of a larger amount of analyzed design solutions in the early design phase. Computational design systems use parametric modeling, building performance simulations and genetic algorithms to iterate through a large amount of design alternatives, converging towards optimal design solutions....

Structural consolidation of historic monuments by interlocking cast glass components: A computational analysis of interlocking cast glass brickwork

The search for a transparent, reversible, and reusable consolidation system for monuments led to the ambition to test possible cast glass interlocking brick designs using numerical calculations. The focus of this research is hence the design, simulation and evaluation of a possible cast glass interlocking geometry using Finite Element Analysis ...

Shading design workflow for architectural designers

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

New North Xiaguan: City Communication Center Design

The theme of Hyperbody this year is focused on Climatic Ecology. Based on this theme, I chose one site in Beijing, China to do my experiment. The site is surrounded by various land uses of neighborhoods and different kinds of users. Meanwhile, because of the existing traffic situation, the neighborhoods are separated from each other. These...

Merwehaven New Ferry Station

The Hyperbody graduation studio is set to be an endeavor to integrate research with the final design product. The “computational” nature of the whole process serves as both an opportunity and challenge to develop a design methodology out of analyzing the complexity of current social and climatic context and using these presets as “intrigues” to...

An Inside to Outside approach: Focussing on parametric pattern generation for spatial organization, satisfying experiential demands

Identification and application of suitable computational methods to effectively handle complexity issues in architectural design process. The associated research questions are: - How can perceptual demands for an exhibition be satisfied using parametric - pattern based approach? - How can such experential demands be addressed together with other...

An Art Museum Hub for Den Haag

In this project I tried to establish a relationship between the art centers existing at the area with the art museum at the site. I tried to the deal with the museum as an art museum hub which attracts tourists and the people by means of routing and the transparency provided in the building. By this interaction between the people and the museum...

Reinforcement Toolbox: A Parametric Reinforcement Modelling Tool for Curved Surface Structures

Recent years have witnessed the realization of multiple concrete curved surface structures. The often complex geometry of these structures led to new challenges in the final design and production phase: design of the reinforcement is one of these challenges. Current reinforcement modelling software is not capable of properly dealing with NURBS...