"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates"
"uuid:69dd2b87-59f1-460b-a18a-21c783ccbf1c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:69dd2b87-59f1-460b-a18a-21c783ccbf1c","Densification for Social Integration: A study on the potential symbiosis between densification and social integration, social mix and social cohesion in post-war neighbourhoods with Den Haag Zuidwest as a case study","van Driesum, Joost (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Qu, L. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This project investigates the potential for social integration, social mix, and social cohesion by densification in post-war neighbourhoods with Den Haag Zuidwest as a case study location. The current status of housing and public spaces in post-war neighbourhoods results in challenges regarding social segregation and social dissolution that are at the moment mostly tackled by the regeneration of entire neighbourhoods with little consideration of the existing population. Additionally, a pressing need for additional housing and densification within city borders with limited available urban space. The project looks for an approach that prioritizes the residents’ interests over systematic demolition and gentrification.
Densification of post-war neighbourhoods has the potential to help achieve social goals by increasing physical and psychological connections between a neighbourhood and the rest of the city, increasing population diversity, and improving social cohesion. Densification can shift the city's focus to currently deprived post-war neighbourhoods which can result in the enhancement of public spaces.
These social goals can be achieved through densification with a set of specific design principles that focus on; better and differentiated physical connectivity to enhance social integration and social mix, spaces for diversity and inclusivity for more social mix and social cohesion, and a more distinct character and composition in the neighbourhood to contribute to social integration and social cohesion. Additionally, densification can provide financial incentives for the renovation of the existing building stock and improvements in the public space.
Current visions and structure plans for Zuidwest and similar post-war neighbourhoods suggest a variety of improvements in the social realm, but they fail to present clear guidelines on how to achieve these goals with spatial interventions. These plans are often vaguely described and do not present specific concrete rules and guidelines which results in a slackening of these plans during implementation, failing to have solved the problems at the end of large-scale interventions.
This project aims to do things differently by starting with a problem statement and a vision for the improvement of the situation in Den Haag Zuidwest. Thereafter, this research provides an elaborated structure plan for Zuidwest as a whole, which proposes improved connectivity and differentiation and an exploration of the potential for densification. Then, where most plans tend to stop, the research presents a design for an exemplary more zoomed-in location with an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity and character and composition in combination with the aforementioned structure plan. To be able to translate the findings from this research and design approach for a specific location within Zuidwest, a set of rules is derived from the design that can be applied in the design of other locations in Zuidwest. Additionally, indications for phasing, stakeholder involvement and financial feasibility are given.
Lastly, a short note of the possibility for transferability to similar post-war neighbourhoods with similar problems is explored to increase this research's relevance.
To conclude, this project explores how spatial design and densification can improve social integration, social mix, and social cohesion in post-war neighbourhoods most of which are lacking. The research focuses on the potential symbiotic relationship between densification and these social goals. In the hope of advocating for more in-depth redevelopment visions and plans for derived post-war neighbourhoods.","Densification; Social mix; Social cohesion; Social integration; Post-war neighbourhood; Den Haag Zuidwest","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.048071, 4.282957"
"uuid:b8cbe2f6-d241-4b0b-84cc-c00a2c7758b4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b8cbe2f6-d241-4b0b-84cc-c00a2c7758b4","In the middle of Delfland: The cultural landscape where agriculture and recreation coexist","Jansen op de Haar, Carmen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Aalbers, K.P.M. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This graduation project explores the implementation of integrated and sustainable land use planning as a crucial strategy for transforming the BPL MD region into a thriving and biodiverse area that benefits both humans and nature. By emphasizing landscape identity, water storage, the livability of meadow birds, and balancing recreational activities, this project proposes a comprehensive design that ensures the long-term health and well-being of both the environment and communities. A new perspective on the open polder landscapes in the metropolitan region of Rotterdam and The Hague in 2070 is created. Creating three zones, with local food and recreation on the outskirts and a nature center at the heart. These zones create water buffers, improve diverse recreation opportunities, and provide quiet zones for meadow birds. This new design for the BPL MD could be used as inspiration for the future of this region. In addition, this research provides new insights into combining climate change and cultural heritage in such a historically significant location.","Urbanisation; Climate change; Ecology; Recreation; Agriculture; Polder landscape; Midden Delfland","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:3fe4c07b-5f75-4cba-a388-6071d09a1ace","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3fe4c07b-5f75-4cba-a388-6071d09a1ace","NEW MANNAHATTA 2100: Re-interpreting the Urban Patterns in Manhattan island, NYC","Lakoumenta, Maria (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Iuorio, Luca (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","New York City is one of the most densely populated megacities in the world and specifically Manhattan one of the metropolitan areas with a constantly rocketing population growth. The delirious urbanization is mainly the result of mass migration both internal and international thus forming a society of diverse economic and cultural backgrounds. As climate change emerges, Manhattan constitutes one of the areas with great flood vulnerability due to coastal flooding and storm surge. According to IPCC statistics, New York will experience a sea level rise of about one meter by 2100.
The metropolitan area itself is the epicenter of patterns, from the Grid to the skyscraper. External forces such as the impending housing crisis, social segregation and the emergent flood risk will reconfigure the pattern image of the city in the future. The region has been altered extensively during the years by significant drivers which turned the primitive green paradise into an artificial world of skyscrapers. Natural elements of the past have been covered due to the increasing demand of building industry forming a compact environment. The Grid offered the fast and effective organization of the metropolitan area, however it did not take into account in a great extent the natural landscape.
The graduation thesis explores the possibilities of the Grid into the mitigation of Flood vulnerability while bolstering the Social Inclusion in an aim to reconfigure the pattern image of the city in the future through the unraveling of important elements of Palimpsest Landscape. The flood adaptation of the Grid will question the impact on housing densification strategies for the future of the island. The identity as well as the resilience of the metropolitan area will be reinforced and people will come closer to nature.
On the other hand, population growth also influences the economy. The urban qualities create a wished business climate, which is attractive to companies to settle. Currently, the province has some strong economic sectors. However, the economy should shift towards a more circular economy by 2050 which asks space for industry to develop and retain disruptive businesses nearby living environments. This research specifies business ecosystems with a focus on construction materials.
This socio-economic structure results in scarcity of land where the spatial pressure is high. The result is a tension between space for working and living. Innovative approaches to how to use space in a multifunctional way could shape the future of these companies. An underexposed opportunity to realise this multifunctionality is mixed-use strategies at business parks.
However, when creating these environments, liveability needs to be ensured. Nowadays, business parks are inaccessible for pedestrians, have a nuisance due to externalities of the industry, forbid buildings within the zones designated by environmental regulations, and do not provide a wide range of public spaces to meet each other. That is why mixed-use is not yet assigned as a possibility in these transition zones between disruptive businesses and living environments.
Therefore, this report research which spatial qualities and characteristics shape future possibilities for mixed-use strategies in business ecosystems that focus on construction materials. By developing scenarios, the balance between providing a liveable environment and facilitating the circular economy in the Province of South-Holland by 2050 can be investigated.
Through interviews, literature, observations at specific locations, examples of projects, and research by design these future scenarios will come about.
The aim is to realise a strategic framework with guidelines that describes the different compositions of mixed-use possibilities and the role of the business parks in the circular economy on the regional scale. This divides the business ecosystem into places that can be mixed with dwellings and business parks that should remain for the circular economy.
In addition, this report uses example projects to indicate how this can be shaped. The focus lies in explaining how the business ecosystems of construction materials work in the province and at these specific locations. In addition, it creates insight into how to emphasise the urban qualities surrounding the business parks while suggesting site-specific opportunities for a balanced mixed-use area. These conclusions reflect on several scales so that the mixed-use not only affects the neighbourhood but also contributes to the city and even regional scale. The main takeaway message can be found in the infrastructure. By separating different forms of transportation spaces comes available that can be used to transform into another function.
This design is then translated towards a policy recommendation as well, which can be implemented by the Province of South-Holland. These policies are focused on regulating infrastructure, densification and spaces for industries while stimulating knowledge exchange and education.
The project centres around the shared framework of space in response to the uncertainties that we are faced with. Though these uncertainties impact various processes and elements within complex systems, the spatial conditions of a location play a crucial role in determining the functioning of the systems that are embedded within it. Recognizing the significance of (the alteration of) space offers an opportunity to address processes on different layers and promote resilience in a holistic manner.
By categorizing areas based on potentials and vulnerabilities, and employing different scenarios, the research identifies suitable locations for densification and develops strategies for improving connectivity, efficiency, modularity, redundancy, and diversity in urban environments. The multiscalar approach involves diverse and phased developments to answer to the pressure on space. By designing with higher densities with resilience as a starting point, urban environments can benefit from the transformation and the negative effects of climate change and densification can be mitigated.","resilience; densification; Gelderland; morphology; multi-scalar approach; scenarios","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","51.958871,6.295906"
"uuid:27fa9934-f1ca-4497-bb02-fb5a63e9d941","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:27fa9934-f1ca-4497-bb02-fb5a63e9d941","Re-imagining Periphery: On Identifying Development Opportunity of North Anhui through Place-based Circular Transition","SHEN, Fran (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Dabrowski, M.M. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","North Anhui 6 cities locate at the periphery of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) in the eastern part of China. Even though YRD are the country’s most developed region, north Anhui are the most underdeveloped area according to Human Development Index in the region with only 1/5 of the core area’s GDP per capita. Large population outflow and high take-up of primary industry are two key features of the area. All 6 cities are secondary cities (non-capital prefecture-city), with similar GDP total amount and different development momentum. The 6 cities’ geographical location also lays in the middle ground of two urban agglomeration, Xuzhou urban agglomeration and Greater Shanghai Metropolitan Area, giving them opportunities to exploit the development opportunities offered by both.
Currently, the Yangtze River Delta is facing the urgency to transit its current industrial landscape into a carbon-neutral circular economy. A new industrial value chain is about to be implemented throughout the region which can be a chance for the north Anhui area.
The project thus raises the research question: how and to what extend can circular transition help develop peripheral area. By combining Stan Allen’s infrastructural urbanism and Jo Williams’ three pillars of circular development, the project proposes the concept of place-based circular transition which guide the strategy setting towards agro-industrial synergy, regenerative agriculture and distributive justice through designing hard, soft and organizational infrastructures. The project is thus not only a proposition of new way of looking at region development equality, but also discusses a missing yet important spatial aspect of circular transition.","ntegrated regional development; place-based approach; Circular Transition; urban agglomeration","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","","33.30474686,116.62697333"
"uuid:12f2ad69-388a-4be0-b666-23f12b87c6e1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:12f2ad69-388a-4be0-b666-23f12b87c6e1","Weaving our energyscapes: Using hydrogen to store renewable energy in a network composed of existing threads","Gu, Yingxing (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Wu, Xinyi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Goiati, Isamu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Garritsen, Merel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Balz, Verena Elisabeth (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This project aims to address the challenges posed by the transition to renewable energy sources. This will cause an unstable and unreliable energy flow, which does not correspond with the current energy use patterns of society. Different elements of the current energy network are analysed. They have a big role in the transition towards a completely renewable energy system. The proposed solution involves the utilisation of hydrogen as a means to store and transport renewable energy. In order to achieve this, consumption and production patterns in North-western Europe are analysed in relation to existing energy infrastructure that is suitable for carrying hydrogen. With a combination of different data sources and a created algorithm a model is created that is able to generate clusters. These clusters resulted in a continental framework containing 3 typologies of energy landscapes. A centralized, decentralized and a resilient zone; inbetween. These landscapes are characterised by their population, proximity and current land use against societal challenges such as justice, resilience, polarisation, and reliability. Self-made algorithms are used to transcribe the landscapes into a collection of physical energy elements that will be needed in areas. These measurements are visualized to propose what the future “energyscapes” could look like. The project suggests implementations on different scales for the new paradigm in the energy transition where hydrogen contributes to a just and reliable energy system.","hydrogen; Energy Storage; Renewable energy; Decentralization; Infrastructure","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis",""
"uuid:6712c4bb-a77d-493f-9104-86ba6fb43203","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6712c4bb-a77d-493f-9104-86ba6fb43203","Reviving rivers: Regenerative decontamination design for industries in the N.W.E DELTA region","CHEN, JINGYI (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Hulst, Jorian (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); van Lun, Lieke (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Lurling, Niek (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Nouwens, Wouter (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Balz, Verena Elisabeth (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Although the industrial release of pollutant substances into North West European river delta has been decreasing over the last decades, The Netherlands still has one of the worst water qualities in Europe. In this strategic regional design we aim to improve the quality, quantity and distribution of water through the concept of sustainable land use. Industrial waste, waste water and increasing demand for land are the main pressures on our river water system. Considering the future risk of flood and drought there is also a big insecurity about our water quantity. There will be a need for more space and fair use of our water system. The goal is to restore the water quality in the North West European river delta and secure a sufficient water quantity for future use, flood protection and a fair distribution of the water available. In this report research by design is used to develop a spatial vision and spatial strategy that will create spatial water justice and with that a healthy river landscape. There are three themes related to spatial water justice: water quantity, quality and distribution. To meet sufficient standards for these three themes there are three important concepts: a circular industrial water system, decontamination and room for the rivers. All of them deal with the broader concept of sustainable land use. Sustainable land use is the fair and balanced distribution of land and environmental resources. This report shows a regenerative decontamination design for the North West European river delta. It is the development of a catalog of interventions that can be used in the whole river basin. Many small changes make a big difference in an interconnected system like a river basin. Every small intervention that will help clean the water, adds to the whole system and changes the whole system into a healthy and just river landscape. Together with this catalog there is a manual where the interventions are connected to spatial qualities of a specific location. The catalog and manual have been implemented for the case of South - Holland / Rivierenland. This example shows how we assure a sufficient water quality, quantity and fair distribution of water in a long-term perspective in the North West European Delta region.","Spatial water justice; Decontamination; Circular water system; Sustainable land use; Flood prevention","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis","51.99740522, 4.68689896"
"uuid:1c2a0977-0a70-47ab-886e-a16e4693acf3","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1c2a0977-0a70-47ab-886e-a16e4693acf3","From Pasture to Pathway: Proposing green corridors for a just transition towards sustainable, nature based, dairy farming in North-West Europe","Coppens, Amber (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Frencken, Maartje (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Satria Agung Permana, Satria (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Sivakumar, Harini (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); Zeeman, Marin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Balz, Verena Elisabeth (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Nature is declining rapidly. Recent research connected the natural decline with the intensive and monocultural way of dairy agriculture that is happening in North-Western Europe. As a result farmers are forced to stop and are left without a vision for their future. A change in the practice of dairy farming is necessary to reach the goals of the European Green Deal, but the current regulations fail to arch the missing link for providing a just transition. This report aims to bridge this gap by providing bottom-up interventions and a clear top-down vision and answer the question: “How can the goals of the European Green Deal be achieved in a fair way to facilitate the transition towards sustainable dairy farming in the non-urban area in N-W Europe?”
The studies in this report discusses a multiscalar strategy that focuses on farmers cooperating, upscaling of regenerative farming practices, crop-livestock rotation and localizing waste and resource loops. This transformation of the farming practice is grounded by the government establishing policies and defining green corridors and natural structures that connect natura 2000 areas. This will set the ground for farmers to join the provided pattern game. In the strategy a pilot project, De Kooi, will be used to convince farmers the transition is beneficial.
Considering the profession's vast environmental, social, and economic impacts, a balance between preserving nature and progressive dairy farming techniques is established by providing farmers with a vision for their future while giving biodiversity space to thrive.","missing link; dairy farming; regenerative practices; cooperation; nitrogen crisis; green corridors; biodiversity","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","AR2U086 R&D Studio – Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis",""
"uuid:cb6640da-f9e6-4e49-9894-bd0ef81b8107","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb6640da-f9e6-4e49-9894-bd0ef81b8107","Building Individuals: Rethinking Urban Design in light of the Digital Transition","Hollander, Kevin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Harteveld, Maurice (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Vrachliotis, Georg (mentor); Gramsbergen, E.H. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Our world is going through several transitions at the time of writing. One of them is the digital transition. The digital transition changes the way we interact with each other, it gives us new ways to learn, new ways to work. It changes how society functions on a global scale. The digital transition makes people more individualised. It means lack of consensus and uncertainty. This will inevitably also change the role of the urban designer and architect. How we can design for such an individualised ever-changing society? This thesis explores how the digital transition affects both the design process and the design itself. Approaching the changes brought forth by the digital transition from the perspective of the individual. It uses storytelling to give shape to individuals that all have very different needs, but are able to design together through the use of pattern language. It shows how co-design must play a much larger role within our design process. As for the design itself, it breaks the notion of having an end product as design. Design becomes a perpetual cycle that gets adapted by its different individual users over time. Within this cycle, the urban designer, or architect, has the role of mediator, a person who is able to bring forth creative solutions and someone who speculates on future changes that might occur in the design.","urban design; digital transition; societal change; pattern language; storytelling; co-design; individualisation; design method; digitalisation; transition design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","City of the Future","52.34367882215745, 4.862028761279086"
"uuid:afb17c00-4de3-420a-aeca-bf60bcd580ce","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:afb17c00-4de3-420a-aeca-bf60bcd580ce","Regenerating Moerwijk: Constructing a framework for regeneration to improve community life and the public realm in Moerwijk","Taal, Jamie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Qu, L. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This graduation project searches for a framework for regeneration that integrates several core themes to bring about more social interaction in a post-war neighborhood like Moerwijk while at the same time densifying it. The result of the research is a constructed pattern language. The pattern language forms the basis of the framework for regeneration. These different research methods aim at finding spatial conditions for strengthening social interaction at the neighborhood level. The practical implications of the pattern language are ultimately tested in local design.","social interaction; community; urbanity; densification; public realm; public space; Post-war neighbourhood","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","52.050511, 4.299206"
"uuid:d574d86f-b1fb-431e-b6e6-9e9c06e6b176","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d574d86f-b1fb-431e-b6e6-9e9c06e6b176","City around the corner: Strategic design interventions to alter the urban rhythm in the peri-urban areas of Rotterdam","Brouwer, Juliette (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Wandl, Alex (mentor); Verheul, W.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","In the current era of global warming and urbanisation, it has become imperative to change the urban rhythm. Our current mobility habits make human and nature unhappy and unhealthy. This problem is apparent in sub-urban neighbourhoods, that often experience low connectivity and low local vitality. The 15-minute city is a model that puts focus on vicinity in the city. In the 15-Minute city, all urban facilities needed to live, learn and thrive are within a 15-minute reach by foot or bicycle from home.
In my graduation project, I research how the neighbourhoods in the periphery of Rotterdam could be designed for slow traffic and local activity. I do this by implementing a certain concept, the 15-Minute City, in a multitude of environments, the peripheral neighbourhoods of Rotterdam, which results in an understanding of the stretch of the concept and the meaning for the city. Key themes are accessibility, density and diversity. Through scenario construction, two future 15-minute cities are explored, resulting in a design strategy for the future urban rhythm of peri-urban areas.
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 industrial sites. Former port piers start to transform into residential and mixed-use areas. Many of the locations though,
house active manufacturing facilities that are forced to be relocated without appropriate planning. Is there a way to diversify our cities while permitting
new forms of co-existence between new and existing functions? What are the transformations of the urban fabric that could facilitate this?
Usually, those areas are dealt with a tabula rasa mentality, not respecting the communities and the productive landscapes that are embedded within. This often results to fancy but uniform, new residential areas that fail to meet the identity of the place that was already there. The active displacement of
the communities leads to phenomena of gentrification and raises questions about diversity and social inclusivity. At the same time, the lack of a cohesive
approach results in a fragmentary urban fabric. Spatial discontinuities come along with concerns about the liveability and resiliency of the desired urban
growth.
Through research by design, the thesis will try to provide a new perspective for the future, where working and living environments could harmoniously co-exist. Interventions and proposals suggested will be built upon the basis of co-creation with existing communities. An interscalar approach will be sought, ranging from the city scale to the neighborhood level and the public space within.","transformation area; mixed-use (re)development; place identity; working communities; urban manufacturing; pattern language","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","52.401600, 4.895600"
"uuid:02272256-832f-4826-af5f-cf8788df6f69","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:02272256-832f-4826-af5f-cf8788df6f69","FleetFlow: Circularity into every stage of the ship’s lifecycle","van Balken, Kim (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); SONG, Jinlai (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); van Oorschot, Timo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment); xu, ziqi (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Dabrowski, M.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","With the growing world population and concerns about resource scarcity, environmental pressures, and social challenges more and more industries have a growing interest in transitioning towards a circular economy.
In South Holland, specifically in the port of Rotterdam, the ship manufacturing sector requires fundamental change. Circularity is currently hardly integrated into the ship manufacturing sector, as the lifecycle of most ships follows a linear path. The cycle starts with raw metals being extracted from the earth, ending with scrap steel being poorly recycled for other sectors in Asia. Because of the lack of a global regulatory framework, and the growing capacity and capability pressures on the ship recycling business in Europe, the business will not be able to process the increasing number of ships to be recycled in the future.
To generate a spatial vision and strategy to solve these issues, which helps transition to a more circular ship manufacturing sector, this research uses evidence-based design. Several methods are used including literature research, data analysis, site analysis, and research by design.
This is done to work towards the final goal: integrating spatial, technological, and regulatory solutions into the ship manufacturing business of South Holland, to build circularity into every stage of the ship’s lifecycle. Essential in reaching this goal, is safeguarding the ship manufacturing sector, which is in a vulnerable position, in symbiosis with resilience, innovation, collaboration, and transparency.
In the end, the province of South Holland will be a world-leading example demonstrating more circular ship manufacturing in the port of Rotterdam. Spatially, this will result in a better port-city relationship, where ship manufacturing is embedded and mixed with other activities where possible, creating a synergy between different stakeholders. In addition, flows are connected by sustainable water transport.
By transitioning to a more circular ship manufacturing sector, the port of Rotterdam can contribute to the mitigation of the negative effects of climate change and resource scarcity. Additionally, the port of Rotterdam and its shipbuilding sector is of great international importance, which means the implementation of circularity can stimulate change and benefit people from the local to the global scale.
This project proposes a vision for the cultural and economic adaptation of the province of South–Holland in a scenario of a three-metre sea-level rise in 2100. Exploring the historical Dutch approach to water management, the project believes that adaptability can be achieved through a cultural shift in that approach. A shift is realised using education and stakeholder strategies from fighting the water to opening the dikes and adapting to it. Through research by design and vice versa, a new delta landscape was shaped, strengthening the existing potential of the area. The potentials lay in environmental, economic, and cultural aspects of the area. The future environment is not only adaptive but also a desirable living environment for humans and non-humans.
The result of this project is a better understanding of how a more circular economy approach can be an adaptation tool to the irremediable consequences of sea-level rise in delta landscapes, using the South Holland region as a case study. By exploring the consequences and further adaptation to this new scenario spatially, this project is an example and a trigger for other delta landscapes to explore the different challenges that they will face, presenting a possible and desirable future.
In the post-petrol era of 2050, the region of Zuid Holland will embody a dynamic and adaptive energy landscape. This new energy landscape will become more resilient and autonomous. The landscape will consist of an interdependent and just network of actors and relies entirely on renewable energy sources.
In the future, the port of Rotterdam will be an important node on the global and regional scale. The futural port will be the core of the decentralized energy network in the region, consisting of several energy nodes that connect autonomous and self-sufficient energy regions. Besides, these nodes are serving as hubs for energy storage, raising awareness, education and other social activities. The port and the energy network will be opened up to the public to establish a new cultural relation between use and production of energy. Pernis-Botlek will be the strategic location where this comes together. The development strategy will reveal how individuals from all origins and walks of life will be included and can adapt to this change. Since, not only public actors have high interest to make this transition happen, private actors and citizens that have to change their business models and daily activities have to be considered. Therefore, the strategy also reveals how different stakeholders can work collaboratively and what actions are needed to combat the energy transition together. This will be shown with casestudies in Brielle, Delft and Westland. To maintain the economic importance in the energy sector of the port on a global scale, an invert of energy flow will be purposed, , from the import of Petrol to the export of hydrogen.
With this information the following research question is formulated “How can the PZH synergize the circular bio-based industry and organic agriculture in order to improve the quality of life in a just way?”.
To answer this question an analysis was done of the current building sector, the bio-based building industry, the urbanisation strategies, and the landuse in the Province of South Holland. Out of the analysis, the potentials were concluded and a vision for 2050 was created. The implementation of the vision was elaborated by four different illustrative strategies and locations. Each of the them focuses on the implementation of one specific layer of the vision.
By transitioning the building sector into a circular bio-based building sector the Province of South Holland will have more biodiversity zones, an environmentally friendly and faster way of building, increased access to organic food for everyone, an increase in the health of inhabitants, and new job opportunities.
In short, by transitioning to the bio-based building material industry, Butterfly Effect will be created.
It is true that densification is one of the core in contemporary society, giving essence in urbanity. It has been always the intriguing topic in urbanism which dominates and imposes the prevailing theories and manifests at that ages. Yet, what constituted the density in apartment complexes in Seoul is the logic of capitalism, where the quantity of floor area of verticality decides everything in speculating the gainable maximum profits. Importantly, the challenges inherent in apartment lie at its scale of complex (block), not at the building itself, as Grands Ensemble, where the characteristics of enlargement and internalization execute the exclusivity and polarization between spaces. While the more than half of Seoul’s citizens are living in apartments, the ongoing phenomenon of producing apartment complex would continue to proliferate, as the desire to live in luxurious and enclosed community will not disappear.
This graduation project aims to explore the new role of apartment complexes in relation to urban fabric, and to open the discussion for envisioning integrated and dynamic living environment. Therefore, it seeks the new definition of ‘Apartment Urbanism’ in Seoul, where the density is represented not only by form, but also by its function and overarching relationships that operate simultaneously. Borrowing the lens of ‘depth structure’, the orienting concept in implementing design strategies as territorial, scalable and institutional depths, this project argues that the despite the rationale in area-based approach characterized by rigid zoning system, the relation-based approach using patterns delivers the possibility to embrace all interacting and conflicting forces as a cohesive language. Conditioned at different settings of private and public properties, it proposes a model that is more adjustable to the context and adaptive to process, ultimately shaping the synergetic relationship between spaces and people.","Apartment Urbanism; depth structure; pattern language; generative interface; synergetic co-presence; Seoul","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","European Master in Urbanism (EMU)","","37.532600, 127.024612"
"uuid:8456c72c-5732-4fe7-8bd0-b0e689bb1467","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8456c72c-5732-4fe7-8bd0-b0e689bb1467","The Porosity of the Purgatory: Tools for an alternative development of East Naples","Corvi, Enrico (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft European Master of Urbanism)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Dabrowski, M.M. (graduation committee); Pellegrini, Paola (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","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 the following decades until nowadays, institutions and politicians failed in providing an integrated vision for the city that could give it a new inclusive identity. Instead, lack of dialogue, path dependency among stakeholders and scarce involvement of communities served the interests of a weak entrepreneurial class and extremized the social problems of the old capital.
King Ferdinando II and Francesco II of Bourbon, the last royals of Naples, saw in the geographical position of the South of Italy the protection of their power: as they liked to say, the peninsula was confining with the salty water of the Mediterranean Sea toward south and the Holy water of the Vatican state up north (Astarita, 2006). This image not only reflected the attitude of the monarchs in international affairs, but it also reveals the two major constraints that have hampered the Neapolitan urban development: a problematic relationship with the sea and the unwillingness to open to a diverse liberal society.
What had grown in between these two limits, was what Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis would have referred to as the Porous city (Benjamin, Lacis, 1925). When the two visited Naples in 1925 found an obstinately antimodern city where the people had the same consistence of the stone that constituted its walls and that, in its rejection of dichotomies, was a distant alternative to the rational northern European cities which the authors were so used to. According to their description, the urban environment of the Parthenopean city was extremely promiscuous: families from different social extractions used to share the same ancient buildings and attend the same squares, where a crowded market poured into the street in a continuous swarm of praises and trades, that could only be broken open by the sudden passage of a religious procession.
Since then, this image lived a life of its own, having a profound impact on the imaginary of urbanists and planners across the world and reoccurring in different forms in the speeches and texts of researchers over the last seventy years. Most notably, the Italian duo Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò reinterpreted this concept in their work for the city of Antwerp in 2009 (Secchi, Viganò, 2009). The two urbanists, in fact, would later explain how the theme of porosity does not only concern the material quality of the buildings but rather more the different ways through which different city users appropriate the space. As such, porosity allows for diversity in the urban environment maximizing social and economic interaction (Tallen, 2008), thus enabling kinship network, the system of formal and informal relationships that make up a community to be active and thriving.
But what is left of the porosity of Naples? Since the end of the XIX century, having by then lost the role of capital, the city had to go under a much-needed process of reinvention and even if originally Naples had to be a maritime city, the foreign rulers, especially during the two centuries before the Italian unification, never developed the full potentiality of the port (Di Mauro, 2006). Under the new regime instead, the Neapolitan elite class rediscovered the sea in its potential for the industrial development. Following logic of economic efficiency and rationality led to new patterns of expansion and consumption of land (Ascher, 2001) and the insalubrious territories, once considered the limit to urban expansion, became the desirable location for the new Industrial city. The old walls of the city where gradually demolished and the city began its expansion towards east in the Borgo Loreto, the marshy delta of the Sebeto river and the, at the time separate, town of San Giovanni a Teduccio. These Bad lands (Secchi, 2006) were necessary for the current socio-economical functioning of the city, not only, because they hosted the construction of warehouses and fabrics, but especially, because they accommodated the rural immigrants that would have constituted the human capital of the new economy. For many, these transitional cities have been constituting the access to the urban social network and economy and they retained this function even when the deindustrialization took over the initial motivation of their existence. The lack of access to facilities, poor housing conditions, low property value and population decline transformed these lands into enclaves for the low-income classes and those who are excluded by the society (Grahame Shane, 2005). Conversely, the Neapolitan upper and middle classes steadily fled the historical centre to pursue a new lifestyle on the hills up west and restructured the city to serve their interests. Nowadays Naples has partially lost its porosity and presents many visible and invisible barriers, whether are they segregating infrastructures, low quality urban and housing environment, monofunctional districts, differences in the social status and political representation.
Since the 70s attempt to convert the city’s economy to the tertiary sector, Naples’ development has been driven by the alleged will of answering to the many crises of the city without ultimately being successful (Galasso, 1987). This is, in some measure, due to the fact that the city’s institutions are still partially tied to their conception of the “Holy water” that manifests itself in a in a scarce attitude towards change that results in institutional inertia (De Martino, 2020). Emblematic in these regards are the not fulfilled promises of the at the time just elected new mayor of the city Luigi de Magistris toward the Islamic community in Eastern Naples. This rapidly growing community had been promised in 2011 the construction of the first Mosque of city and an Islamic cemetery. Only after 10 years, at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, in August 2020, the municipality granted the concession for the use of a land to bury the dead (il Mattino, 2020).
The genealogy of the Eastern Naples returns the image of a bad land that has never been given the proper tools for development and whose communities have never been involved in the decision making. Nowadays as then, it is a Purgatory, a city of perennial transition, of goods and people: the established Neapolitan population that aspires to move to other parts of the city or the immigrants arriving from overseas.
In this work, I explore how can the study of the porosity of the urban environment set the bases for a community-based design approach. After having delved into the study of the context of the East Coast of Naples, I focus on the Case Nuove and Mercato del Ferro areas, the first districts to be built outside the former walls of the city in the old Borgo Loreto, and their relationship with the Mercato, the historical neighbourhood grown behind the city walls. The two are institutionally one administrative entity and share an increasing lack of porosity that manifests itself in visible and invisible barriers, problematic social issues, and low quality of the urban environment. Taking this case as example, I will define a design process and stakeholders engagement strategy through which to answer the question: Through what means can Eastern Naples provide a spatially just alternative for its citizens?
which entails the problems concerning social inequalities that go together with
spatial injustices in our cities along with the issues related to climate change
and the idea that mobility should become a right for every citizen. These social
discrepancies are visible in the slums of the global south but also in the European
peripheries. The causes of these social discrepancies are the consequences
of the neoliberalization of planning and the fi nancialization of housing. In this
context, more and more people are unable to exert their right to the city.
Moreover, due to urbanization and the complex processes present in our cities,
peripheries can no longer be defi ned as the “outer edge of a city”. Peripherality has
become a multifaceted issue that is present in our cities.
This thesis aims to develop a strategic framework for the peripheries of the
Metropolitan City of Milan. The latter will be done by understanding where
the peripheral conditions appear in the Metropolitan City of Milan and who
are excluded. Moreover, it seeks to understand why those peripheral conditions
appear by looking at the processes of peripheralization. The idea is that
those aspects will contribute to forming a strategic framework that can be more
inclusive.
In the wider context, this thesis wants to add to the discourse how the different
kinds of peripheral conditions infl uence each other and foster the exclusion of
people.","Peripheries; New Urban Question","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Cities","","45.46427, 9.18951"
"uuid:eef549ee-df0c-4f4a-9cc9-759598c8f40d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:eef549ee-df0c-4f4a-9cc9-759598c8f40d","Reterritorializing Zuidoost: Towards sustainable, livable and just assemblages in Amsterdam Zuidoost","Ramaiah Perumalsamy, Ganesh Babu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Dabrowski, M.M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","If we denounce neoliberal ideology and the capitalist order of today’s cities as value generating machines, what would the new order be? An integral part of Amsterdam’s emergence as a just city was the interaction between radical resident movements and national housing policy that was designed to solve the housing shortage through massive investments in social housing in the 70s and 80s.
However, since the early 90s, rising neoliberalism, changing national economic and housing policies have created segregation and segmentation of the housing stock and people. Existing short-sighted trends in urban development processes that are fragmented pose a threat towards a just city, as seen evidently in Amsterdam Zuidoost district which consistently ranks poorly in social, economic and spatial dimensions of well being. The city is currently in the process of building a large stock of new housing within the existing city(densification), while also transitioning to a different socio-technical regime in terms of energy, economic logic (circular economy) and climate adaptation.
Therefore, it is crucial to adopt an integrated approach towards urban development at this juncture taking into consideration the socio-economic and ecological urgencies of Amsterdam Zuidoost. One that enables vulnerable populations to be a part of the process leading to a just distribution of its resultant benefits and burdens.
The aim of this research project is three fold. First is to understand the historicity of urban development processes that led to the current socio-economic, ecological and spatial realities of Amsterdam Zuidoost from a complex systems perspective towards creating a strategic spatial framework.
Second is to evolve a set of patterns that lead to livable communities and sustainable neighborhoods that are spatially just. Third is to evolve an integrated approach towards urban development by operationalising the patterns amongst the complex interrelations between socio-economic, ecological and spatial dimensions of Amsterdam Zuidoost that is co produced by local stakeholders.","Amsterdam; Sustainability; Livability; Spatial Justice; Pattern Language; Integrated Approach; Urban Development","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.308349, 4.956610"
"uuid:8179a510-9dde-4515-9d1a-2c60ee6c59b7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8179a510-9dde-4515-9d1a-2c60ee6c59b7","A Socially Cohesive Overtoomse Veld: A research project on how the monofunctional post-war neighborhood Overtoomse Veld can be transformed into a more socially cohesive mixed-use area","Jeronimus, Roos (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Qu, L. (mentor); Mlecnik, E. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Amsterdam is a rapidly growing city with a high demand for new homes. Research indicates different initiatives and processes over the last years to densify the city and enhance the liveability in its neighborhoods. However, time has shown the injustice accompanying these proposals and the situation in several neighborhoods worsened over the last years. Overtoomse Veld is one of these neighborhoods and will function as a precedent in this project for other post-war neighborhoods. The expansion of Amsterdam’s center, the development of more owner-occupied housing, and the attraction of high-income knowledge workers and according amenities, have amounted to an environment which lacks many opportunities for social cohesion in the neighborhood and segregation and gentrification occur more often in the city. This project aims to find possibilities and potentials for future program and densification of the city & its neighborhoods, which stimulates social cohesion between current and new residents. By making use of two different scenarios, it is investigated how different densities can be achieved, but simultaneously social cohesion in neighborhoods can be stimulated. Therefore, the project offers a perspective on how to deal with the issue of densification by catering the social aspect in the process.","Social Cohesion; Densification; Mixed-use development; Amsterdam; Pattern language; Urban regeneration","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","52.364342, 4.840338"
"uuid:746a805c-d68f-4bcc-b4dc-0ce61b8a6b7d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:746a805c-d68f-4bcc-b4dc-0ce61b8a6b7d","Life after fences: Negotiating low-income gated communities in Bogotá","Ruiz Carvajal, Federico (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","de Carvalho Filho, L.M. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Low-income gated communities have become increasingly popular in Bogotá, despite the contradiction that lies at their core: that life in a self-sufficient and closed type of housing is an unsustainable endeavour for a population that cannot pay for a privatised life. To navigate through this paradox, residents constantly negotiate those regulations that keep communities closed (which they cherish as source of order and tranquillity) with their own experience and needs. This negotiation derives into actions of “overflow” that challenge the planned space and, under current conditions, are destined to remain unrecognised by formal institutions.
This research explores the ways in which these actions can be translated into and enhanced through a spatial and regulatory “framework for negotiation.” The goal is to create the conditions for the growth of open living environments through actions that prioritize horizontal interaction and spatial flexibility. In this scenario, residents become the main agents of production of social, political, and economic complexity of their neighbourhoods.","gated communities; Bogota; social housing; negotiation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","","4.625421188680341, -74.20951521487935"
"uuid:9b6e4f89-2e0e-465c-b39c-5eef3a21b49a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b6e4f89-2e0e-465c-b39c-5eef3a21b49a","Rethinking Urban Domestic Gardens: Aligning Urban Domestic Gardens to concrete urban demands","Rouwette, Patrick (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism; Veldacademie)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Piccinini, D. (mentor); Fitskie, A.H. (mentor); van Ees, C.H.E. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Aligning the urban environment to concrete urban processes, increasing the liveability, is one of the major challenges urban planners are facing. Adapting the built-environment to cope with soil sealing, climate change, the densification of cities with the ‘compact city’ concept and other urban demands, constantly pressure the quality of urban environment. Being part of the Dutch building culture for centuries, urban domestic gardens have played a significant (spatial) role in Dutch cities, taking up a significant part of the urban environment, and providing a private outdoor space for residents. The ongoing urban processes can or will affect the role urban domestic gardens play and how they are being used or implemented into the urban environment. For this research, the neighbourhood the Tarwewijk in Rotterdam has been used to investigate and explore how urban domestic gardens can contribute to a more liveable urban environment through a sustainable urban regeneration, in response to concrete urban demands. The research shows that rethinking the implementation of urban domestic gardens leads to an increase of the liveability in the Tarwewijk, by using specific, transferable values to improve the quality of the public spaces and buildings. Transferring the values related to eating, learning, working, playing and meeting from the social environment, and greening, cooling and infiltrating from the physical environment into public spaces increase the accessibility to values of gardens, without the need to provide urban domestic gardens to every single household, taking up valuable space in existing cities. It also shows that the regeneration of urban domestic gardens to semi-private shared gardens serve as a mechanism for the densification and diversification of the built environment, improving urban structures and physical forms, with related social processes and liveability.","urban domestic gardens; urban fabric; urban regeneration; public space design; private gardens","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","",""
"uuid:e4d19b75-437f-4638-8c4c-d11b6fe1ba46","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e4d19b75-437f-4638-8c4c-d11b6fe1ba46","London's Paradox: Global Inclusion and Local Exclusion: The conflics between social and economic space within contemporary London","Smink, Rebecca (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Qu, L. (mentor); Meijs, Maarten (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Using Stratford as a case study, this research aims to address the lack of consideration for creating affordances of coexistence between local and global communities within areas subject to large scale regeneration projects. This process of chance in favour of attracting more affluent residents can lead to the complete displacement of local communities to less favourable neighbourhoods, differentially affecting segregation levels of vulnerable local residents. Stratford is an area in East London, which has primarily been shaped by the forces of the first industrial revolution, but is ongoing major structural transformations that are accelerating the processes of deindustrialization, economic restructuring to a tertiary economy and gentrification; as a result traditional working class groups are driven out the area. Simultaneously, there is little comprehensive national design guidance; as a consequence the local government struggles to develop a design framework that can mitigate challenges related to these issues. Therefore, the aim of the research is to explore reconfiguration scenarios of a neighbourhood in Stratford with regards to creating affordances that both can integrate local and global communities. In doing so, the research explores and tries to understand the role of design as well. Before exploring the reconfiguration scenarios, the research starts with a dma (density, mix and access) analysis of Stratford area in order to understand its socio-spatial structure. Based on the analysis, three key areas were identified: the detached high street, the combined high street and the connected high street. Each high street typology has completely different dma values and therefore have difference performances and capacity for change. The analysis concludes with the fact that the detached high street has the most potential for development. Therefore, the design analysis reflects on how different strategies can create the affordance of coexistence located on the detached high street and its surroundings. The following three scenarios were developed: soft strategy, high street strategy and the super strategy. Each strategy will be reflected on how they change the dma values as well as their capacity to implement different development schemes and qualities. By means of design exploration, it became clear that choosing more obvious solutions such as soft strategies and corridor development completely neglects the social infrastructure surrounding the detached high street, as well as lack the capacity to allow the implementation of different development schemes (especially schemes that work as a buffer against gentrification). As a result, these strategies can have unwanted consequences such as the exclusion of local people in certain areas. The super mix strategy, however, has the potential to create an environment affording the coexistence of the global and local, but will be difficult to implement because it requires the development of more extensive types of schemes, thus requiring both inducements and regulation, partnerships with government and non-profit actors. Notwithstanding the thesis has showed there is great potential for development that includes both the local and the global, and therefore hopes to inspire London’s governmental and private actors to invest their time and effort in creating a regulatory environment that could allow strategies such as the super strategy.","Stratford; Global; Local; Urban regeneration; Density","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","51.542276, 0.002361"
"uuid:16214b4a-5437-4def-8d92-6c781d0a87c9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:16214b4a-5437-4def-8d92-6c781d0a87c9","The Digitalisation of Bentham's Panopticon","Maurer, Patrick (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Bracken, G. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Has the pandemic transformed our working environment into a digital panopticon, and how close is this idea to the one of Bentham's panopticon described in Foucault's book ""Discipline and Punish, the birth of the prison""?
This research paper compares the modern smart-working environment and the digitalization of our social interaction with the prison designed by Bentham. Even if most of the similarities can be found on the conceptual level, analyzing and reflecting on analogies in the spatial correspondences became increasingly relevant.","Panopticon; Pandemic; Foucault; Bentham; Disciplinary Projects; Surveillance; Social dilemma; Society","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR1U121",""
"uuid:ecdb0899-a6c9-46ca-b9c7-37d105c3419a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ecdb0899-a6c9-46ca-b9c7-37d105c3419a","Make Compact Work: Patterns of densification and intensification of functions in live work environments: Zaanstad, Metropolitan region Amsterdam","Stuyt, Mae-Ling (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Qu, L. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","What is the future of urban industrial land? This is a challenge urban design and planning field has only just started to undertake. Currently, the differentiation between the urban core as the front stage zone for human residence and entertainment versus the rural periphery as the backstage zone for production, logistics and energy harvesting is becoming more distinct. The restructuring of urban economies away from manufacturing and toward services has resulted in divided labour markets that generate few moderate income jobs and has generated new demand for urban living. This is putting pressure on the diversity and the social inclusiveness of cities. Even though industries have become cleaner and safer due to new technological developments, for many cities and planners adopting compact city strategies and urban revitalisation is associated with mixed-use of commercial and residential redevelopment only. By not including industries, current development is contributing to industrial suburban sprawl. Often, the housing demand is met by the transformation of former industrial land into residential areas or mixed-use environments. As increasing housing demands in cities drive up land prices, businesses have difficulty finding affordable work spaces. This way suitable industrial land in cities remains unaddressed and becomes increasingly scarce. Finding out what roles industries should have in the city is a new challenge relevant in many metropolitan areas. Manufacturing and services are interrelated and for each to thrive, both need to be present. At present, there is not enough knowledge on how to incorporate industries in dense urban environments in a socially acceptable, liveable and sustainable way. The perception of industry needs to change in the minds of people, especially of those involved in urban development, for it to regain its role as a good productive member of the city. As the Zaantreek is the oldest industrial region in the World, it has a long tradition of living in close proximity to industries. It has even become part of the identity of the region. As a result there is a strong cultural and societal acceptance of industries. At the same time the municipality of Zaanstad has no expansion options left because of the surrounding natural reserves and nuisance contours of Schiphol and the Western Harbour of Amsterdam. Therefore, it is an ideal location to investigate how urban industrial integration in cities can be combined with other functions to achieve densification and create qualitative live work environments. In this thesis, spatial qualities or patterns of live work environments are explored and developed. Scenarios are developed for Zaanstad in terms of future economic trends and densification possibilities to eventually assess the adaptive capacity of the design. The designs are developed by applying the patterns on location in the framework of the scenarios. In this way, patterns are developed that contribute to better spatial organisation and transitions of functions and create qualitative live work environments. All together, the use of patterns to steer urban design and as a strategic planning method is reflected upon.","Pattern language; Strategic planing; Densification; Mixed-use development; Live-work environments; Urban industrial integration; Compact City; Liveability; Metropolitan region of Amsterdam","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","52.450889, 4.819642"
"uuid:cb109771-d367-42e2-bab0-702a9ccfc921","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb109771-d367-42e2-bab0-702a9ccfc921","Planning for Uncertainty: Adaptation Strategies for Agricultural Self-Reliance in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada","MacDonald-Nelson, James (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft European Master of Urbanism)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Nijhuis, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Despite relatively progressive policies put forth by the Canadian government to tackle the challenge of climate mitigation, cities and regions across the country are only beginning to address the equally important task of adaptation. This conversation typically focuses on the spatial adaptability of shorelines, dense urban environments, and the enhancement of green spaces. While these measures are undoubtedly important to implement, there is a lack of public awareness regarding how our region’s food systems and the agricultural landscapes that sit on edge of cities across Canada, must also adapt.
Agriculture is a key part of the Canadian economy, both in the export of products grown domestically and the importation of products from the United States, Mexico, and Asia. This reliance on imported food is a standard part of the food supply chain in Canada. However, with a changing climate affecting places like California (where a lot of fresh produce is imported from) and global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, these supply chains are becoming more vulnerable to unexpected disruptions. This, in turn, threatens the food security of all Canadians. This thesis explores the adaptive potential of the local and regional food system in Canada’s only urbanized delta region, the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. As with all delta regions around the world, this low-lying metropolitan region will increasingly face many challenges related to flooding, ongoing urbanization, and the unpredictability of extreme natural disasters that threaten communities and food production. The Lower Mainland is one of the most agriculturally dynamic regions in Canada and is unique as a considerable amount of arable and cultivated land is integrated closely with the urban fabric of the territory. However, with decreasing self-reliance in regional food production and an over-reliance on cheap imported products, the Lower Mainland is at a crossroads when it comes to the future of its food system. The intent of the design proposal is to find ways in which to rebalance regional food cultivation by expanding how and where production takes place. Integrating agriculture tightly within communities and using it as a catalyst for new public spaces, urban development, and agri-tech innovation along a key regional corridor will serve as the basis for the design exploration.
The objective of this thesis is therefore to demonstrate how the spatial and functional organization our food systems can, and must, adapt given the uncertainty of our collective future. Vulnerable supply chains, unexpected disasters and shifts in the global economy significantly risk our ability to adequately feed people. If we take this issue seriously and begin planning for an uncertain future by first addressing what makes us most vulnerable, we can begin to adapt and build the capacity to face these challenges with confidence.
ineffective to reduce segregation or to mitigate its negative externalities.
The project aims to adress the gap of knowledge as to how governance, social and spatial constructs interrelate with regards to segregation processes and its effects on society. It explores possibilities to create a shift towards a more comprehensive way of planning that incorporates a better understanding of these
processes, through a multi-scalar, complementary approach of strategic policy and design interventions. These interventions are tested in the Järva area in North-West Stockholm to investigate the potential for more socially sustainable development.
A multi-dimensional lens is proposed to grasp the interrelations in segregation processes and to better account for its implications in future development; viewing segregation as a historic process through a wider socio-cultural lens, forming a complementary dynamic and static perspective.","socio-spatial segregation; social sustainability; multi-level governance; spatial justice; migration; Stockholm","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","59.400157, 17.918651"
"uuid:03fcaf38-077a-44e2-8ace-7bfe05dd74b2","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:03fcaf38-077a-44e2-8ace-7bfe05dd74b2","Arrival City Hamburg: Multi-dimensional opportunity structures for migrant integration in German cities","Laub, L. (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Zonneveld, W.A.M. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Ordonhas Viseu Cardoso, R. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Integration as one of the major paths to social cohesion is a task of urban development and restructuring (Glick Schiller & Çaǧlar, 2009). A growing number of scholars refer to the importance of urban opportunities that facilitate integration processes via the empowerment, interaction and participation of social groups (Glick Schiller & Çaǧlar, 2009; R. Kloosterman, 2010; Kurtenbach, 2013; Räuchle & Schmiz, 2018). Arrival cities, viewed as the key intersection between migration, integration and urban development, are the subject of this study. Borrowing theories, methods and interventions from different disciplines, this project designs opportunity structures for migrant integration within the intersection of space and the legal-political, socio-economic and cultural-religious dimensions of integration. Following an introduction on arrival cities, this project examines how opportunity structures facilitate the integration process in Hamburg and how a strategic design approach can generate new opportunity structures. By viewing migrants as place-makers, this project is driven by a positive view on arrival neighbourhoods and migrants’ self-organization.","Migration; Ethnic concentration; Arrival city","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","53.554688, 10.012027"
"uuid:ac166564-2a6c-4003-b63f-f2a32ce9c0ff","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ac166564-2a6c-4003-b63f-f2a32ce9c0ff","Looking for alternatives in the city of the slopes: Housing as a process to reduce socio-spatial segregation in Lima, Peru","Muñoz Unceta, Pablo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft European Master of Urbanism)","Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Dabrowski, M.M. (graduation committee); Sabaté Bel, Joaquín (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","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 public sector nor the private housing market provided decent living conditions in the city for all these newcomers. 34% of the city’s land was developed informally (Municipality of Lima, 2013a) and 70% of the houses were to some degree self-built. The process of urban development and, specifically, the control of the space through land ownership, generated a segregated city. The urban poor usually accessed low-cost land or housing in areas exposed to high levels of risk, with accessibility problems or lack of basic infrastructure.
The current process of urban development, along with a quantitative understanding of housing in policy, continues reproducing socio-spatial segregation today. Buying a plot to land traffickers on the steep slopes of the periphery is the primary way for the low-income population to access a place to live in the city.
This graduation project has two main goals. On the one hand, it tries to understand the relations between housing, urban development and socio-spatial segregation in Lima. On the other, it explores the potential of housing (understood as a process) to develop alternative models of urban development and reduce socio-spatial segregation, in search of a more just city.","Lima; Urban morphology; Spatial Justice; Socio-spatial segregation; Housing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","European Master in Urbanism (EMU)","European Master in Urbanism (EMU)","-12.034715, -76.904641"
"uuid:4978929e-237b-45f5-888e-55f1675be78f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4978929e-237b-45f5-888e-55f1675be78f","Spatial Development in a Post-Capitalistic Economy: A Contingency Plan for Leipzig and its Region","Einert, Max (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Read, S.A. (mentor); Hausleitner, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This research and design thesis addresses the transition towards a post-capitalistic economy and explores a corresponding spatial development perspective for Leipzig (Germany) and its hinterland. The starting point of this project is the theoretical assumption that there is a mutual relation between spatial and economic development.
From there, it builds up the hypothesis that current neoliberal capitalism will fail and explores a spatial strategy, which prepares Leipzig and its hinterland for this event. At its base is the establishment of a self-sufficient regional agriculture and the spatial decentralization of the region. Sketching post-capitalistic socio-economic relations, in which the common good and not individual profits are the goal, the project explores the transformation of various example places in Leipzig and the region. In the end, this thesis promotes a new form of spatial organization, in which the city and its hinterland form one socio-economic and political unit.
The result is a city composed by clusters of enclaves separated by functions thus, car dependent and in detriment of the public space. Under this condition this thesis research will focus on possible spatial strategies to modify public spaces with the aim to allow for and facilitate social interactions in areas that are dominated by gated communities. Using as a starting point the understanding that public spaces mediate between the private spaces, thus having an important role in the confronting process of socio-spatial fragmentation and that the promotion of public spaces can address the imbalance manifested by the privatization of public spaces (Madanipour, 1999).