Re-build: Circular transformation of the Palace of Justice in Arnhem

Office buildings in the Netherlands are problematic. These buildings are often monofunctional and of low architectural value resulting in an average lifespan of only 30 years! The tradition of demolition and new construction of mediocre buildings is harmful for public space and a waste of money, time, and moreover, building materials. <br/>This...

Home Again: How to facilitate circularity in the production process of social housing

Ecotourism in the Equatorial Andes: Research & Design for the development of an ecotouristic project proposal for a site on the north-western slopes of El Corazón

This graduation project takes a look at how Ecotourism could be developed at a site in El Corazón; an inactive volcano 50km south of Quito, Ecuador. The research was mainly concerned with a strategic problem orientation and was used to define the program for the project. It also was aimed at answering the following question: How can the...

Material Flow Analysis for a Circular Economy Development: A Material Stock Quantification Method of Urban Civil Infrastructures with a Case Study of PVC in an Amsterdam Neighbourhood

Massive material flows that are mostly originating from the lithosphere are entering the cities, adding to and shaping the stock of the built environment. Due to concerns with material resource scarcity and the finiteness of virgin materials, resources will have to be measured and tracked. As a result of insufficient data on (average) civil...

Una reunión educativa con el bambu (An educational meeting with Bamboo)

The thesis is a research driven design study of a multiple floor/"high-rise" building with a structure of Laminated Guadua bamboo in Guayaquil Ecuador. Dealing with earthquakes, context, structure and sustainability issues. The Thesis is strongly oriented to structure, the industry and the state of the industry itself but always driven by...

RE:prediction

This project is about adapting existing office buildings into building-plots for dwellings. All plots can accommodate an independent house, in order to allow for infinite changes. Meaning that they could be demolished without affecting other houses. This project is a revival of ‘Supports’, a concept introduced by John Habraken in 1961. Steward...

exPIERience

Redesign of the Pier van Scheveningen.

River DNA

A new dynamic equilibrium between flood prevention, ecology, energy supply and recreation. This is amplified with the transformation of a nuclear plant into a centre of landscape connection. The nuclear plant is located on the Rheinschanzinsel along the Rhine together with a retention polder build for floods. It will be shut down in 2019,...

E-Synergy, local collaboration in Agriport

Sustainable energy brings us not only advantages, but some problems as well. This research is an exploration to the problem on our energy infrastructure and comes with a proposal of solving this problem with architecture.

Circularity; the reuse of an office building

This graduation project addresses two problems, the high vacancy rate of office buildings in the Netherlands, and the linear approach of take-make-use-dispose, which results in the depletion of natural resources. In this project, an office building is transformed for other multiple functions with the old materials of the building in...

Systems Integration Projects: Research into the opportunities and risks of systems integration projects

A Visual Life Cycle Analysis - for architects and policymakers

The impact of urbanizing 400 million people in China in 20 years - a comparative analysis of common structural materials with bamboo as a promising alternative for (semi) high-rise developments. Transport, End of Life scenarios and Lifespan are essential factors in a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The Building Energy Use itself is becoming less...

Design of a Climate Adaptive Façade System using Bamboo for Urban India

Indoor climate and human comfort is attaining increasing interest in large urbanized areas. While for the user this is mainly as a result of increasing operational costs associated with the devices for heating and cooling, the bigger concern for environmentally conscious engineers and designers lies in reducing the emission of green house gases....

Transformation with the sun

This research document is the result of an investigation on the subject of the use of the sun in the transformation of an existing building. The report is written as an informative document. The study has a generic character, which means that the research will be useful for others who are dealing with a transformation of existing buildings in a...