BIM Legal: Proposal for defining legal spaces for apartment rights in the Dutch cadastre using the IFC data model

In this thesis, a proof of concept is developed that describes a complete data processing chain for registering new apartment rights in 3D. This chain starts by defining and adding legal space to Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) Building Information Model (BIM) models. Once the IFC BIMs are enriched with legal space, the 3D parcels are...

The House of Music: Landscape and music

The graduation project is about the design of a new concert hall in the City of London, called the House of Music. The concert hall has been conceived as an extension of the landscape of lakes, gardens, terraces and ruins which develop in the heart of the Barbican.

Web-based visualization of 3D cadastre

<br/>Many countries in the world are extending their cadastral visualization systems in the third dimension. The reason of this, stems from the increasing complexity of contemporary cities, the growing 3D approach in other fields (including 3D spatial data acquisition, spatial data processing and visualization) which made 3D cadastre...

Hotspring for Parkstad: Synergy between a datacenter and hotspring in the Sibelco quarry

With the shift towards a digital economy, the demand for ICT-capacity is growing fast. The fundamental node of this infrastructure is the datacenter. With the idea of the ´smart city´ as a future perspective, the question rises how the physical manifestation of the data center should be in the built environment. But, as important, how it could...