Berlin's Kitchenlab

The Berlin’s Kitchenlab bridges the gap between highly specialised culinary education and the community. As a school that acts like a social catalyst for its surroundings. The building is located in Otto Park in Alt Moabit, an upcoming area, surrounded by food venues at the end of a public axis. The building consists of a central street with a...

Bring Linpan back to life: Revival of the Linpan community, Sichuan, China, in a modern context through adaptation and appreciation of its circularity

Linpan is a unique traditional rural landscape, mainly found on the plains of western Sichuan, China. It is known for its traditional agricultural practices, characterized by a harmonious coexistence between people and nature. The traditional architecture, festivals, lifestyles and the interdependence between human and nature can definitely be...

Liquid cultures: continuity and change in New Town fringe villages: Reinterpreting notion of ‘traditional society’ in conservation future(s) of rural communties and their settlements, on the example of Shan Pui Tsuen in Yuen Long, Hong Kong

Hong Kong is known for its skyline and urban context, interpreted through colonial history. However, its past, present and future are entangled with that of almost 700 villages scattered across the New Territory land and preceding the current Hong Kong population. With recent proposals to further develop the currently ‘rural’ northwest of Hong...

Making visible | Visible making: providing agency for dissipated residents

This thesis explores the potential of difference and disruption as a productive ground for approaching gentrification in London. Multiple forces are driving the process of gentrification, the focus lies on the aspect of postmodern consumerism. A cultural change in which the individual, through a variety of choices, can meticulously stage their...

On the decomposition of visual sets using Transformers

Transformers can generate predictions auto-regressively by conditioning each sequence element on the previous ones, or can produce output sequences in parallel. While research has mostly explored upon this difference on tasks that are sequential in nature, we study this contrast on visual set prediction tasks, to analyze the core behaviour of...

Synergising Architecture: Integrating Food System Processes with Urban Functions Towards Liveable and Sustainable Agri-Food Business Parks in Westland

Food has played an important role in shaping our metropolitan regions, such as Westland in South Holland, The Netherlands. The industrialisation and globalisation of agriculture in Westland has prioritised economy and efficiency, creating issues of liveability and sustainability. The market-driven expansion of the agri-food industry has...

Impact of Biased Search Results on User Engagement in Web Search

Search engines play an important role in the provision of information. Recently, researchers have raised their concerns about the potential of search engine providers trying to shift the opinion of their users by manipulating search results. But search results might also be manipulated for financial gain. If an increase in User Engagement (UE)...

Multi-AL: Robust Active learning for Multi-label Classifier

Multi-label learning is becoming more and moreimportant as real-world data often contains multi-ple labels. The dataset used for learning such aclassifier is of great importance. Acquiring a cor-rectly labelled dataset is however a difficult task.Active learning is a method which can, given anoisy dataset, identify important instances for...

Minimally-Interactive Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Set and Multiset Operations Between Multiple Parties

In our increasingly digital society, we are making a growing amount of data available to computers, networks and third parties. As a consequence, our sensitive data is in danger of getting exposed. The field of multi-party computation attempts to mitigate this by studying protocols that enable parties to perform their operations digitally,...

A Study of Performance and Security Across the Virtualization Spectrum

Virtualization is the fundamental technology that enabled the widespread adoption of cloud computing. With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the cloud computing paradigm, strong isolation guarantees and low performance overhead from isolation platforms are paramount. An ideal isolation platform offers both: an infallible isolation boundary...

Corporations and cities: Designer’s intentions and user perceptions of the interaction between corporate office building and the city

The city area is dense with business activities, public amenities, transport hubs and high-skilled people. Corporations prefer to be located in the city area to gain benefits from the location. However, annoyance occurs because of the real estate decisions of organisations as they neglect urban planning and context and results in inefficient,...

Training Neural Networks with Discrete Optimization Solvers

Recent work has shown potential in using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers to optimize certain aspects of neural networks (NN). However little research has gone into training NNs with MIP solvers. State of the art methods to train NNs are typically gradient-based and require significant amounts of data, computation on GPUs and extensive...

3D Concrete Printing: The influence of printing process parameters on the mechanical properties, numerical modelling, and the exploration of sustainable printable solutions for humanitarian problems

Concrete is one of the most widely applied construction materials worldwide. Although traditional construction processes are optimized in terms of efficiency, costs and material use, the main disadvantages are still related to the use of formwork, labour and limited freedom of shapes in architectural design. The future of concrete structures...

Scalable multi-platform medical system in a distributed environment

This report describes the implementation of a distributed system for an initially standalone application that is to be used in the medical sector. This new system aims to provide scalability and reliability.