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Lachtara, Damian (author)The departure from coal in Poland results in the process of decommissioning the underground coal mines. These, based in the region of Upper Silesia, recently undergo a paradigm shift ‘from mining coal to mining water’, as the discharge of the groundwaters is crucial for underground security. <br/><br/>Rather than an obstacle, the discharged...master thesis 2022
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Nods, Pien (author)The following research discusses the changing nature of public space and how ownership has become an inevitable part of it. The aim of this research has been to discuss the complexity of the grey area between privately owned public space and public space, as well as the emerging issues related to POPS within the City of London. In which my...master thesis 2022
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Kilius, Martynas (author)The architecture of Tbilisi, specifically, the domestic vernacular dwellings mostly found in the old town, have seen various transformations over time initiated by different actors, usually by inhabitants themselves. This could be seen as non-architectural architecture or the architecture after architecture. Be it a rotten railing of the...master thesis 2022
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Parlar, Yasemin (author)In a fast moving metropolitan city like London, urban pockets that alter the rhythm and synchrony of life can be described as heterotopias. Cemeteries are such sites that slow down and collect time. They sediment memories of the lived past and the potential future and are therefore regarded as spaces of another realm that operate between the...master thesis 2022
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Akgiray, Serra (author)Waste is a natural process, a pervasive material, an invaluable resource; a crucial element in the way human society views, orders, and designs its spaces. The issue of waste is a modern urban invention and a controversial topic for both global culture and urban ecology, and stems from the consumptive habits of modern society and the throwaway...master thesis 2022
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Bondavalli, Lorenzo (author)Starting from the Lefebvrian notion of urban society as a society that can realise itself only when urban occupants collectively use their ‘right’ to shape it, this research explores the impact of alternative socio-spatial processes on the contemporary cityscapes. At the same time inspecting the everyday human condition in relation to the...master thesis 2022
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Ockers, Michiel (author)Public Matter aims for the unification of built form and public use. Within the context of London, extensive research has been conducted to understand a city’s ability and shortcomings in accommodating the public. This project speaks of a reciprocal relation between research and design, and form and use. Ultimately, a series of acts is proposed...master thesis 2022
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Narkiewicz, Magdalena Anna (author)In times when robustness and optimisation have become some of the guiding principles of design, it is clear that instant problem-solving solutions prove to be insufficient as long-term resilience strategies. In this context, ambiguity is seen as an alternative approach to answering the issues of adaptability and flexibility of delta conditions...master thesis 2022
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Kim, Hyungsoon (author)The project can be defined at the intersection of urban landscape, architecture and infrastructure as a resolution of not only social flows but also the systems and elements of the material flows, which once shaped London. It aims to formulate new social urban programs where the distinction between the site, the architectural edifice or the...master thesis 2022
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Vaarzon Morel, Isaac (author)The graduation project entails a linear megastructure of 1.5km, recycling the city’s landscape of industrial processes that are regarded in this project as cultivated first nature. The project is located on the border of two boroughs; Enfield and Waltham Forest. The megastructure is oriented perpendicular to the barriers that divide the site....master thesis 2021
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Herrewijnen, Wessel (author)Architectural Design Crossover Graduation Studio final design project. Research paper and graduation design looking into Temporary Intensities and crowd machines in the city of London, resulting in the design of a live music venue with a capacity of 3000 visitors. This design project aims to design this 'crowd machine' as being part of a 'crowd...master thesis 2021
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Kuijpers, Bart (author)As London is expanding in population and emerging as a financial global city, the pace of the city is rising. Factors as temporality and the notion of time as an experiential dimension is getting lost. A more sensory approach to urban architecture has the potential to incite people to reside in other measures of time to contrast the dense...master thesis 2021
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Wenda Andryani, Wenda (author)This graduation research studies the potentials of London derelicts and the interstitial spaces as the new driver of urban transformation. The study aims to reconnect the lost socio-spatial relationship of those spaces to the surrounding context. Here, leisure is utilized as the diagnostic tool to understand the overlooked spatial quality of...master thesis 2021
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Menger, Chiel (author)The graduation project ‘London Deviations’ aims to understand the ever-changing historic city with its multiple identities and experiences offered. With this it tries to find a way how one can design an idiosyncratic architecture that still fits in appropriately in the complexity of the contemporary metropolis. The city that was the case for...master thesis 2021
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Drašković, Sonja (author)Today we are facing an unpredictable future due to our climate change, which is causing an acceleration in sea-level rise and consequently flooding. Coastlines, docks, ports, deltas are at greater risk of flooding and damage, they are vulnerable to the escaping water and wetness, which leaves behind sorrow and grief. This thesis focuses on...master thesis 2021
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Lundheim, Marta (author)This thesis redefines craft as a social action anchored in play that intervenes in existing material and immaterial flows. A circular and sustainable architecture follows naturally from this definition. The architectural project operationalizes this new definition to rewild the old industrial site of the Lea Bridge Waterworks in London. The...master thesis 2021
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Boeva, Alexandra (author)Social life in a modern city is conditioned by long-established traditions, cultural codes, and patterns of human behavior. Such aspects will be individual for almost any city since their formation takes place over long periods. A similar activator of social life in London is the beer culture – a complex ritual chain that has lost one of the...master thesis 2021
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Ortiz Velasquez, Federico (author)The recent Colombian Peace Agreement between the government of Juan Manuel<br/>Santos and FARC-EP offers the opportunity to analyze the transitional justice<br/>model, that aims to address the past violent events and the future of the victims.<br/>The lack of involvement of architecture in the post-conflict dialogue on transitional justice,...master thesis 2020
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van Gameren, Robin (author)Genoa is, and always has been, a fragmented city. This condition originates on the one hand in its physical location and on the other in the nature of the genovese people. This results in an urban archipelago: a combination of smaller patches of city, functioning on their own, as independent systems. This, in combination with a distinct...master thesis 2019
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ZHOU, PENGCHENG (author)The Mental Island project is a new public realm which is proposed for the city of Genoa. As the contemporary city reveals a fluid system where everything is trapped in it. The Mental Island becomes the other side of the city for citizens to escape from the hybrid conditions. By mental isolation, the lodging units on the island offer a space for...master thesis 2018