Hybrid Working, Quality Living: Transformation of densification for live-work mixed-use neighborhood in post-pandemic office districts: Beukenhorst, Hoofddorp

“Hybrid Working, Quality Living” seizes the opportunity of the surging hybrid remote working trend to promote work style and lifestyle changes in office districts and beyond. Remote working has been developing but has never been applied on such a global scale before. Since the end of 2019, it has brought our attention back to several long...

Human Well-being and Ecological Potential for Public Space in dense Urban Environments

Urban environments in the Netherlands are under a lot of pressure. Deca<br/>des of urbanization, emitting greenhouse gasses and diminishing ecology <br/>have created far going consequences for our living environments. Cities <br/>are experiencing increasing heatwaves, heavier and more frequent rain<br/>fall, social problems are getting more and...

Exchanging urban knowledge: Japan X Netherlands

One of the many challenges facing the Netherlands is the government’s<br/>goal of building one million homes by 2030, as a solution to the housing<br/>deficiency that’s plaguing the Netherlands. The intended method is to densify current urban areas rather than continuously expand outward into green areas to keep the natural environment open for...

Rethinking Rooftops: Exploration of the potential and (re)development of Rotterdam’s flat roofs to contribute to a sustainable and resilient city in the future

Rotterdam’s almost untapped roofscape offers an exceptional chance to solve large urban, and environmental problems cities are facing nowadays. Take for instance, climate change, energy transition, loss of biodiversity, and the shortage of public places. Therefore we should rethink flat roofs, and expose their potential. In many different ways,...

Community Capital: Aiding low income communities in asserting their place in the urban space of Rotterdam

The place of urban low-income populations is increasingly coming under threat in the modern and globalized city - as urban centers are becoming more prominent and attractive parts of society and economy, and the addressal of poverty more socially prominent, questions and actions taken in this context increase the pressures on these vulnerable...

Welkom: Towards sustainable urban development for a socio-economically mixed neighbourhood and liveable Spangen, Tussendijken and Bospolder

Improved liveability in the neighbourhoods Spangen, Tussendijken and Bospolder is desirable. A more socio-economically diverse population partly contributes to this. Gentrification makes wealthier residents move into the neighbourhoods in a short period of time. Yet, it causes a decrease in affordable housing and a chance of the disappearing of...

Softening the harder ground: Researching the potential of new street profiles to include a 50% green surface.

The Netherlands is facing urbanisation and densification, and the domination of car use in our mobility system. Both challenges result in built structures and hard surfaces claiming the public space and leaving less space for green and other functions, resulting in the imbalance in public space demand. Within public spaces the green has a low...

Borderscapes: On the Activation of Border Space to Enable Interaction and Accommodate Inclusive Mobility

This thesis reflects on the exclusion of refugees and other migrants from mobility in border space. The research suggests that, while society is becoming increasingly mobile, refugees and other ‘undesired movers’ are excluded from the otherwise unrestricted possibilities to move that have been established across national borders. Following the...

Embrace urban growth, avoid urban sprawl

In Europe there is a growing concern about the development of future urban form, especially deconcentrating of urban land use in the form of urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is synonymous with unplanned incremental urban development, characterized by a low density mix of land uses on the urban fringe. On 7th Environment Action Programme to 2020 ...

Narrative infrastructure and functional heritage: the renovation of the New Dutch Waterline around Utrecht

The New Dutch Waterline (NDW) was built to defend Holland. It comprised of a system of waterworks for inundating and military elements for troops. This study will focus on the part around Utrecht of the New Dutch Waterline, one which is in urban fringe and faces urbanization.The main research question is whether it is possible to transform the...

Delhi; Great city...Terrible Place...: Liberating the potential of autonomous technology, to create a liveable public realm and an equitable mobility system in Delhi

The motivation for this project, comes through personal experience of being raised in the city of Delhi. The city which ones was known for its plush gardens, old markets and famous public squares. The economic liberation of 1992 and unprecedented growth made Delhi victim of its own success. The lack of vision on part of understanding migration...

From isolated to integrated: The research on improvement of connectivity in Railway Station Area (RSA) in Chinese high-density city centers by applying Dutch experience to Shanghai Station area

The relationship between the city and railway development is fascinating. In Europe, railway stations were originally placed at urban periphery. Step by step, as the urban dense core area expands outwards, the railway station areas were pulled in and now absorbed by the urban fabric. Because of large-scale and special facility form, Railway...

Joint Approach to Revitalise Kaunas City Centre. Exploring possibilities of Economic and Social Regeneration in the Context of Post-Socialist City Centre

The graduation project is called “Joint Approach to Revitalise Kaunas City Centre”. The study case is Kaunas, second biggest city in Lithuania and fourth biggest in the Baltic States. In the project it is aimed to create an active, liveable city centre and structure clear urban development framework. In order to do that a Masterplan parallel...

A tale of two cities: Balancing use and exchange value in fragmented London through global and local integration

This project explores the fragmentation of the global city of London. Current urban development practices are being compared to historic urban structures, such as the high streets, in order to explore the potential for a stronger integration between global and local. The outcomes of the research are used to propose a manifesto for the integrated...