Mix to the Max or Max to the Mix?: Research by design into how spatial qualities and characteristics shape the future of mixed-use business parks in the Province of South-Holland

The Province of South-Holland is one of the fastest-growing regions of the Netherlands. The metropolitan provides employment opportunities, has an (inter) national mobility network, and houses densely urbanised landscapes. Because of these benefits, the population keeps increasing. This reflects the need for an addition of 200.000 dwellings in...

Re-living the Concrete City: Existing Korean apartment into the Open Building principle

Korea had a history of wooden architecture for about 2,000 years before modernization. However, after the Korean War, the concept of modernist concrete high-rise apartments was radically introduced to solve the severe housing problem. In US, Charles Jencks declared the death of Modern Architecture, but it was a huge success in Korea. Apartments...

Aan Tafel!: Redesigning North-West Europe's food system for zero-carbon food-print

North-western European countries play an important role in the global food system, by providing 80 percent of the whole European production. The current production system is focused on profit, has a yearly emission of 1250 megatons of CO₂ equivalent in North-western Europe and produces pollutants in the soil, water, and air. This results in an...

Juxtaposition of realities in transformation areas: Case NDSM Amsterdam

The shortage of housing stock and the deindustrialization of cities have rendered many areas prone to severe transformations. Many sites across the<br/>country have been characterized as transformation areas. In an effort to battle the housing crisis, urban redevelopment processes have been initiated or are under examination for a plethora of...

BIO-LOOP ZH2050: A trigger strategy towards a circular economy based on the bio-based plastic industry in the region of Port of Rotterdam

Nowadays, circular economy is of growing importance in the social, economic, and environmental fields. The realisation happens on different scales. First steps towards a circular economy have already been taken, but it will take time before a circular world is reached. Also, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the bio-based concept...

UrbanScraps: A local steel cycle for maritime manufacturing in South-Holland by 2050

Mankind is exhausting natural resources. Therefore, the need to transform the linear material flows towards circular chains is increasing. Steel is a material that is produced and used globally and has high potentials for recycling. However, in the maritime sector, steel is currently barely recycled, let alone reused in a more direct way....

A redefined Energy Landscape in the Post-Petrol Era: Phases of transition towards a circular sustainable future for the Port of Rotterdam region

The importance of the energy transition is an emergent issue on a global scale. The United Nations, the European Union, the Dutch National government and the Province of South-Holland all have set clear and urgent goals. But still, it seems very hard to find the right strategy to tackle this challenge, together with a desired circular economy...

Carnival in imagination: Architectural replication in Ex Fiera of Trieste

A transferable and replicable architectural mode in the context of Trieste, based on the site of Ex Fiera of Trieste, helps to recreate the local urban memory.

The Porosity of the Purgatory: Tools for an alternative development of East Naples

Among the many cities that lost their status of capital with the Italian unification, Naples is the one that struggled the most to reconcile with its past. With the cholera outbreak of 1874 the criticalities of centuries of uncontrolled urban development under foreign kings rose to the fore of the public opinion of the Kingdom of Italy. Yet, for...

NY Wonderland: A Reconstruction Project in Midtown, New York

New York has developed rapidly in only several centuries, becoming a super metropolis today. The city is growing more densified. Less land can be used for public used. However, more and more people flooding into this city call for space to contain more activities. How and where can public spaces be integrated in the future city, considering the...

Developing Strategies: Planning cities affected by Coastal Erosion

In the United Kingdom spatial challenges are formed due to a significant erosion rate, especially on the southeast coastline, where the soil has a weak resistance to erosion (Masselink &amp; Russell, 2013; Hurst et al, 2016). This erosion causes the soil to be washed away until no soil remains (Dornbush et al, 2006). Ecology, society and urban...

Juxtaposition of notions: Adaptable housing through circular transformation

The city block of Bijlmerplein is a significant example of created identity through different notions. In the context 70s and 80s heritage, Bijlmerplein demonstrates ideological interplay between different ideas and ways of design of built environment in the one neighborhood. It was designed as a remediation and a response to failed modernist...

Adaptive Resilience: The added value to a changing world: Flood risk adaptation strategy for overcoming socio-spatial vulnerabilities in Bandung region

Presently, the urban and natural systems in the world are trying to balance between coping with the extreme climate conditions and the expanding development. The urgency of accommodating these changes calls for flexible and adaptive response, which can sustain the risks and enhance the performance of the systems. This graduation thesis studies...

Looking for alternatives in the city of the slopes: Housing as a process to reduce socio-spatial segregation in Lima, Peru

Like many other Latin American cities, Lima experienced explosive population growth during the last century. Its population went from 600 thousand people in 1940 to nearly 9.5 million people nowadays. Former agriculture fields between the coast and the beginning of the Andes mountains were quickly filled with urban developments. Neither the...