Design as a Mediating Instrument

Urban design, involved at the end of 1960's is regarded as a phenomenon of Postmodernism and a critique for the modernist architecture and urban planning. People of different backgrounds have different concerns and perceptions on the physical urban environment, thus have different images of the city. These images create diversity in urban spaces...

Identifying Lost Space

The relationship between planning, economics and society in Berlin, Germany

Emerging Neighbourhoods: Or why piece-by-piece urbanism leads to flexible and diverse city development

The development of flexible neighbourhoods, by using research from complexity theory and analysis of historical neighbourhoods.

My immigrant neighbour. Social interaction and public spaces in multicultural neighbourhoods

Research about how can public spaces facilitate interaction between people with different cultural backgrounds. The study area is Tetuán district in Madrid, Spain.

The Hubway: A new mobility system in a future urban environment

DIEMIGO A delegation of three TU Delft faculties, Industrial Design Engineering (IO), Architecture (BK) and Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EWI) join in a project called DIEMIGO (stands for De Integratie van Electische Mobiliteit In de Gebouwde Omgeving). They have the aim to research and design the integration of...

The Cooperative Enclave

This graduation project deals with the notion that living and working is changing. The goal of the project is to implement a living and working enclave in a historic industrial heritage building. The project location is in Arnhem on the former KEMA testing terrain. While the project deals with new forms of living and communal aspects, it also...

Entrepôt: Opportunity in Airport-Driven Urban Development

Airport cities (Guller-Guller, 2013) are introduced along the way the airport grows. The tendency of airport transformation into airport city is showed as a strategic planning to modify the condition of the airport and chase business opportunity. However, because of the relationship to airport and aviation activity, development of terminal...

A design in the light of the relation between climate change adaptation and recreational development in the IJsselmeer region

All the way to border design