Waste Management Center

Due to Free Trade Agreement and location at USA – MEX border there is an overload of urban and toxic wastes which are very poorly managed or dumped illegaly. New position towards urban waste management encourages united El Paso – Juarez strategy and merges different types of waste management - sorting (recycling), Waste-to-Energy (WTE), reuse...

Dutch Design Dock

Redevelopment of the vacant Van Gendthallen in Amsterdam to the Dutch Design Dock by using reclaimed materials from waste flows of the city itself.

Van Gendthallen, A Welcoming Building

Fairtransport Thuishaven: De tolerantie voor verandering in monumenten

Fairtransport Wharf: the tolerance for change in listed monuments. Defining the tolerance for change in listed monuments with the redevelopment of a 17th-century Warehouse in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Listed monuments are buildings we ought to preserve. However, more and more monuments lose their functions and become vacant. So in order to...

Grandstand Design for Disassembly

This work contains the technical report about the research in how to design and construct a demountable grandstand. The design itself is a modular structure which can be demounted and transported to different locations and to be reused multiple times. With the modular design any event organiser can decide what arrangement and capacity the...

Rethinking The Unwanted: Implementing local waste materials from the Merwe-Vierhavens in the construction of its new mosque

The project highlights the value of industrial waste materials, especially within the context of harbour areas in transformation. The design is made for a mosque with the main structure being realised out of columns of stacked oildrums. The project shows how materials that are considered abundant and worthless can result in an architecture of a...

Reduce and Reuse

De hoofdvraag voor het afstudeerproject is hoe een bestaand kantoorgebouw getransformeerd kan worden naar woningen met klimaat adaptieve methoden? Om een antwoord op deze vraag te kunnen geven is het onderzoek gericht op klimaat adaptieve methoden welke toepasbaar zijn binnen de architectonische opgave binnen Nederland. Het onderzoeksdoel was om...

Fever in Rotterdam: Timmerhuis

As we have seen so far, the phenomenon of extrastatecraft[2] has been reconfiguring the “urban software” in the national scale of the Netherlands, affecting simultaneously multiple municipal cores with geopolitically background of high importance. In that sense, Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis is subjected to the described reformations that have been...

Reclaiming Istanbul: Reviving the Public Sphere Through Infrastructure

Since the introduction of the coffee houses, Istanbul gained an important element to form a public sphere. These places enhanced the forming of a public opinion which is a crucial aspect of a democratic society. In the Ottoman empire these places were even seen as a nest for the opposition. Nowadays public spaces are threatened by a...

Armamentarium, Delft - Arts, Crafts and Science Laboratory: "From the isolated enclave to the intimate place of social life and creativity/history and innovation"

The current assignment constitutes a concentrating documentation of the research, analysis and re-design implemented within the R-MIT Graduation Studio [Research on Restoration, Modification, Intervention and Transformation] at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, during the academic period of 2013-2014. The specific theme of the current studio...

Possible future role for architects and developers in reuse

Since the economic crisis in 2008 there is a common impression that things are about to change. No more large scale newly built neighbourhoods, growth is no longer a keyword. More transformation, reuse and redevelopment within the existing city boundaries is. New building assignments like increasing number of 1- and 2 person households and...

Converted Industrial Buildings: Where Past and Present Live in Formal Unity

This thesis deals with design guidelines, as defined in the field of architectural conservation, by focusing on the problem of the conversion of industrial buildings. It is generally agreed that the best way to secure the future life of industrial heritage is through their adaptive reuse. The former function of ‘production’ for these buildings...

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