Adaptive Re-use of Industrial Heritage in Dutch Post-industrial Urban Area Development: The relation of the adaptive reuse and the added value in regards to the economic, social, and environmental sustainability

Urbanization, modernization, and the growth of the population put severe pressure on the current Dutch building stock. Inner-city developments in Dutch cities are limiteddue to the high density of the urban fabric. Therefore, the focus of urban transformation gradually moved from the inner-city developments to the periphery of the city. These...

Cultivating Communality: A collective garden for the informal settlement of Kaluđerica

The informal settlement of Kaluđerica (RS) is characterised by a lack of public space, yet, with an abundance of 'residual spaces'. Spaces that are left vacant due to the irregular development of the settlement. The project entails a proposal for a collective garden for one of these residual spaces: to bring people together over the possibility...

Recommendations for Improvement of the Building Design by Evaluating the Indoor Environmental Quality of the Pilot Floating House Project in Macabebe, the Philippines: floating house, the Philippines

This thesis aims to provide passive design recommendations to improve the design quality of low income houses in the Philippines, by evaluating the indoor environmental quality of the pilot floating house project. The pilot project is the result of researches carried out by Pieter Ham and Joran Van Schaik to find a solution for the housing...

Patterned Grid-shell: Designing a method to analyze and compare grid-shells influenced by traditional lattice patterns of north Asia

This thesis aims to explore various possibilities in grid-structures by introducing atypical line geometries and examine its feasibility in a built environment. The proposition is derived from the larger purpose of adapting native design characteristics in modern built environment. Focusing on the Asian context, one of the essential...

Iconic projects as catalysts for brownfield redevelopments: The developers’ perspective towards the conditions of iconic projects that incite brownfield redevelopments

Urbanisation is a global trend that continues to occur as the percentage will rise up for 55% to 68% in 2050 (United Nations, 2018). This movement of society towards the urban environment is clearly evident in the Netherlands too, particularly in the country’s four major cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague. Due to its increasing...

Circular urban area development; Myth or reality?: A research into the factors and management of circular urban area development in Dutch practice

Context: As a result of the human behavior of the past century, in which linear approaches were used, we’re facing environmental challenges due to global warming. Since the awareness of climate change, planning departments are focusing on sustainable development in which the social, economic and environmental dimensions are combined. In the...

Implementing Circular Business Models in Real Estate Development Firms: An explorative study

The efforts to embed a Circular Economy (CE) within every organization in the Netherlands have taken both, scholars and practitioners, to look into the design of Circular Business Models (CBMs) that allow to make this transition possible; one of the Dutch industries taking this approach is the real estate development sector. Different business...

Energiezuinige kantoorgebouwen: Een onderzoek naar het empirische bewijs van de bereidheid om te betalen voor energiezuinige kantoorgebouwen in de Randstad

This research concerns the economics of energy-efficient buildings: by merging auction theory and hedonic regression analyses, the price premium paid in the Netherlands for energy-efficient office buildings is investigated. The importance of the transition to an energy-efficient built environment is underlined by the increasing Dutch and...

The Value of Cultural Heritage: Measurement of the indirect economic added value of the adaptive re-use of cultural heritage

Because of the loss of function, the vacancy levels of cultural heritage are rising. This leads to all kind of (societal) problems. Meanwhile, the value of cultural heritage is difficult to qualify and quantify in terms of economic benefits, which makes it hard to define the added value of cultural heritage and the value created by the adaptive...