A generative spatial adaptation model for constrained-based housing transformations

This research develops a spatial transformation model to work as a tool to address all possible layouts that can be expected when a building is changed. This tool provides tangible answers to the different spatial configuration possibilities of an apartment that can exist within one building design. It combines existing knowledge about the...

A Building system for the future: Architectural Engineering Graduation Studio

In face of climate change, a large challenge was posed to the construction section as the European Union introduced requirements to reduce CO2 emissions; these must be reduced by 40% before 2030, and all member states have to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. At the time of writing, the construction industry in the Netherlands is respon¬sible...

An Envelope - for an extension at Proteus Eretes: circular, carbon sequestering approach towards zero embodied carbon

Building sector is responsible for 39% of global carbon emissions, which makes it a main actor for climate change due to its high greenhouse gas emissions. Further, it is estimated that this 39% is total of 11% Embodied Carbon emissions (mainly the carbon emissions during construction processes and material production processes) and 28%...

A Framework for Growth: Urban Architecture for Nature and Well-Being

1/2 Footprint 2/1 Comfort: A resident-perspective on circularity

The project 1/2 Footprint 2/1 Comfort takes a user-perspective on circularity. A group that is mostly unknown with this environmental topic, but nevertheless an important link in the chain of circularity, With the circular solution of a Modular infill system, residents are invited to not only design, but also asssemble, disassemble and...

A building like a forest: Future proof adaptable timber housing by growing and shrinking

Due to the great housing shortage, many people continue to live in houses that no longer suit them. Looking at future housing demand by taking adaptability as a starting point to create a suitable home for the future generation. Growing and shrinking houses in order to adapt the house to the people instead of the other way around. To do this, a...

Universal Modular Building

This project has been about taking a first step towards developing a radically innovative circular building system, with the double goal of vastly reducing climatic impact of building construction, as well as strongly reducing costs to aid the current housing crisis. The first step in this project has been research into the reusability of...

Reassess of the transition zones: Providing places in the Lodewijk van Deysselbuurt that enable the residents to appropriate, modify and participate in their built environment

This graduation arises from the urgent need to revitalize a problematic post-war neighbourhood in Amsterdam-West. There is a lack of places for residents to connect with each other and with their built environment. The zones between the private and public domain, the transition zones of the ‘General Expansion Plan’ aren’t enabling or encouraging...

Portable dwellings for temporarily unused areas

The current building environment has a lack of adaptability, which means that buildings are often demolished and rebuilt. In almost all cases, biological and technical materials are mixed by using glues, adhesives or wet seals, therefore materials can hardly be reused, if at all.<br/><br/>After demolishing, there are not always instantly new...

FabField: a new approach to building services design

FabField is a building system that borrows most of its basic principles from more evolved and flexible industries, making use of digital fabrication methods (CNC milling) to produce all components that constitute a building. However, not all aspects have been fully thought of in the system: the integration of building services for FabField is...

A neighbourhood for a better sense of home: Adaptable dwellings & social cohesion in Amsterdam Nieuw-West

Problems are overcome by transforming the dwellings and giving the option to add modules to the dwellings. This ensures many different target groups can live in the community. People don’t seek a suitable dwelling, but instead find a community in which they can live and the dwellings is adapted to them. Moreover, users can implement a...