Deep Generative Design: A Deep Learning Framework for Optimized Spatial Truss Structures with Stock Constraints

Energy use, CO2 emissions, and waste production are all significant causes of environmental issues. The building sector is a major contributor to these problems, specifically the manufacturing of (structural) steel elements. Application of reuse and/or remanufacturing, as done in a circular economy, will reduce these effects. Therefore, these...

Campus Village Delft: Improved Quality of Student Dwellings

There is an urgent need to address the shortage of student housing in Delft. However, the current design approach for student housing often fails to prioritize the creation of high-quality private spaces as well as social connections between individual housing units. While addressing the pressing need for more student housing, it is essential to...

Childhood Myopia and Light Exposure in School Environments

Myopia is an eye disease that begins to develop at a young age, approximately between the ages of six and nine years. Children these ages spend a large amount of time inside school buildings. Two case studies have been studied to see what can be improved in school building design to get more light inside. Light measurements have been done to see...

Three Dimensional Cladding with bio-based materials: A parametric design following the seamless tiling concept

The development of three-dimensional cladding in architecture has witnessed significant advancements, particularly from the computer-driven design era, which started to enable the creation of intricate and elaborate shapes. However, examining various case studies has revealed the considerable environmental impacts of the materials typically...

Phase Change Materials Trombe Walls: Exploring the potential application of PCMs in a modular design for thermal and daylight comfort

The rise in average surface temperature has intensified the need to explore new<br/>methods to address climate change. Housing sector is one of the leading contributors to the total energy consumption. As a solution, there has been a growing emphasis on the application of passive strategies in buildings that leverage local climatic conditions....

Wood-LOM: Using laminated object manufacturing to reimagine the use of wood

This study investigates the feasibility of manufacturing wooden elements using Layer Object Manufacturing (LOM) technology to replace steel nodes in the built environment. LOM offers significant advantages in allowing the designer to dictate the grain direction of each layer of material and optimize the cutting process, potentially reducing the...

Remanufacturing as a strategy for a circular built environment: An investigation into the potential of remanufacturing of disassembled façade elements of De Satelliet. DNB Complex

The building industry is material intensive and is responsible for approximately 40% of the total waste generated across the European Union. It operates on a ‘take-make-dispose’ model due to which key issues such as resource scarcity, waste generation, and environmental pressure occur. The circular economy has been attributed to the need to...

Multi-Objective optimisation in grid-shell design: Structural, Fabrication and Sustainability trade-offs in grid-shells at early-stage design

The following work focuses on giving an appreciation of gridshell performances at an early stage of design. It has per goal to implement a tool that will orient the user toward a set of possible “best performing” designs. The aspects of interest in this trade-off exploration are the global warming potential, time of fabrication and construction,...

Building Design Approaches and Performance Under Predicted Climate Conditions

The building environment has high energy consumption and carbon emission which contributes to the rapid climate change. The changing climate condition not only impacts the natural environment but also our habitation. To improve the building performance in both energy and indoor comfort, performance-based design is commonly applied in...

The structural design of earthen structures with robotic shotearth fabrication

In the near future, pressure on sustainability requirements in building structures will increase further as governments around the world are forced to tackle climate change issues. The construction industry is one of the most resource intensive and wasteful sectors in the world and is estimated to keep growing at a fast pace due to growing...

Bio Cyber Physical Architecture: Use of Computational methods in Ecological buildings and Landscapes

The world around us is rapidly changing and evolving. In a new report by the World green structure committee, the building and development industry are liable for 38.8% of all CO2 emissions internationally, with operational outflows (from energy used to warmth, cool and light structures) representing 28%. Our designed structures depend upon many...

Make Some Noise Schiphol: A study on a parametric architectural strategy for the design of aircraft noise abatement landscape elements within cities

This research focuses on aircraft noise exposed urban spaces around Amsterdam Schiphol airport. In particular, a case site in Rijsenhout is studied, where a representation of the noise wave propagation due to refraction is performed. Subsequently, a series of landscape configurations regarding geometry are gradually tested through acoustic...

Shape optimisation of residential mid-rise buildings for reduction of energy demand in temperate climate

Shape has long been an important parameter in improving the internal comfort of buildings and reducing energy demand. This can be seen from historical vernacular architectural typologies, like igloos, which have minimal thermal loss surface to provide a comfortable internal climate.  Using a shape factor to reduce the...

Ultra thin composite panel: A research on the durability and stiffness of a composite panel of (thin) glass and recycled PET

The research of this thesis focuses on the stiffness and the durability of a composite panel that consists of thin glass as outer layers and a 3D printed core element from recycled PET. Thin Alumino-silicate glass, mostly used in computers, tablets and smartphones, is known for its lightweight, flexibility, durability, high bending strength and...

StructuralComponents 5.0: Super element based tool for early design collaboration applied to mid-rise buildings

This paper presents the development of a feasibility analysis tool for the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry called StructuralComponents 5.0. It is the fifth paper in a series of developments starting with Breider (2008), which discussed modelling and analysing 2D tall buildings with an emphasis on quick generation and...