Reclaimed Houses

Portico 2.0: Redefining the portico typology into near-zero energy family dwellings

This project aimed to provide a solution for renovating existing 'portiekflats' and at the same time changing them into family dwellings, which are lacking in the city centre of the Dutch cities.

A self-sufficient group of dune houses

The potentials of a rooftop greenhouse for an existing mixed-use building towards energy neutrality

The importance of technology in the current architecture practice cannot be denied, as that hasn’t been possible for more than a century. Technology is ever developing and also in the current architectural practice new developments have to be implemented in buildings. In order to keep grip as an architect, of all the technology in buildings,...

Efficiency - Facade PLUS - to form an urban Benchmark

Intension In this graduation project I will make a redevelopment of the Q-Port building to a Hotel and Congress Centre: On the one hand, my project focuses on the refurbishment of an office façade into an energy producing façade. This renew has an ecological, social and economic importance. These three aspects reflect my sustainable approach. On...

Design for Life: From Built Environment to Living Environment

Design for Life underlines the key-role of the architect in contributing to life. Life meaning both the functioning of life systems as well as the quality of life. It shows that, even though architects tend to mainly focus on practical and technical solutions, contributing to the quality of life is evenly essential for it creates the opportunity...

Energy-Greenbelt: Transformation of empty office buildings to housing with the use of greenhouses in the air-field

This report studies about the transformation of empty office area to housing area by integrating greenhouse into the air field of the dwelling. There are some cases integrating greenhouse into the house due to the contribution of energy saving aspect. Making low-energy consumption area is indispensable consideration in the project. One plot in...

Future Highway Dwellings

This paper will discuss what kind of technical solutions can be integrated into a building to be able to create livable dwellings or living areas nearby or next to a highway. With the growing population, cities tend to grow as well. As they grow, city parts and neighborhoods will be build closer and closer to the already existing infrastructures...

Multi?scale allotment gardening in Q-Port

The goal of this project has been to test if urban farming can help in empty office redevelopment; if it can have an added social, architectural and functional value. The main test object was the existing Q-Port-building in the west of Amsterdam (50% empty at the moment). During the process, architectural aspects like space, form, composition,...

Building the future with FRP composites

This paper focuses on the state-of-the-art research that has been done on fibre-reinforced polymer composites that are used to design a rapidly constructed building with an all-in-one skin. The past few hundred years, buildings have only been made from a small selection of materials. Mankind’s search for new building materials has produced many...

Smart Wind Designing

A research on finding a method to integrate the wind engineering process to the design process. Wind engineering is seen to be a rigid and slow process of CFD modeling and wind tunnel testing. New frames of work and data analysis make it possible to integrate this process in the, much faster, design process. Proof of this integration is given in...

Dirty cities, fresh schools

Schools have developed into institutions with more functions besides solely education. This poses new demands on school buildings. One of them is a good accessibility by car. Therefore, schools could benefit from being placed along roads with big capacities. The obvious counterpart is the risk of health. Above everything else, children should be...

Living Roads

This master thesis studies the struggles and opportunities of highways in dense populated areas. It comes up with technological solutions for the derived challenges and presents them in an integrated solution.

Solar Material

Solar material: Sun + Sand = Glass. Sintering silica constituents of desert sand together using the heat from concentrated solar radiation creates a glass-like material, the production of which is extremely sustainable. Research has been conducted into the material properties and subsequently on its potential as a (structural) building material....

Dijk/Gebouw: Architectuur als kustverdediging

Framework The chosen graduation studio Architectural Engineering at the faculty of Architecture at the TU Delft focuses on the connection between architecture and engineering. The personal fascination with coastal defence structures turned out to be a great starting point due to the given location of Scheveningen. Research during the first...

Public Hammam, Aït Benhaddou, Morocco

Design of a public bathhouse for Aït Benhaddou. The bathhouse is heated by concentrated solar panels.

Drijvende verbinding voor Scheveningen-Haven

Wind Driven Architecture