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Jalali, M. (author)
Concerning demographic change by the end of the century the demand on keeping old generation satisfy of their home environment has generally increased. The home which elderly lives in is a home for 365 days and they need to enjoy it in every moment of their 3rd life stage. When people get older they are not more able to be active as they were...
master thesis 2017
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de Ronde, L. (author)
master thesis 2017
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Bogerd, L. (author)
Addis Ababa is undergoing rapid and radical changes due to population growth and urbanisation. This forces the government to respond to the cities needs, for now mainly on infrastructure and housing. Also Addis Ketema, an inner city neighbourhood known for its commerce and market, is under pressure of development. These changes have proven to be...
master thesis 2015
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Van Santen, G. (author)
Research and Design Project: Independent Living for Elderly with a need for Care in a Protected Environment within the Binnengasthuis area in downtown Amsterdam.
master thesis 2015
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Hoevenaars, B. (author)
In the metropolitan region of Addis Ababa the population is expected to grow from four to ten million in the next decade. This growth of population means that a large number of houses has to be produced to keep up with the growth of the city and at the same time deal with the current housing shortage. Around ten years ago the Ethiopian...
master thesis 2015
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Nijhof, L.J.E. (author)
The theme of this graduation project is in general on the topic of housing in historic inner cities and in particular on a qualitative housing project within the borders of the vibrant UvA Binnenstadscampus. The design location is situated in the Binnengasthuis area in the bufferzone of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Amsterdam and looks for...
master thesis 2015
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Brinks, F. (author)
Within the context of increasing vacancy in both offices as institutional buildings, transforming the monumental buildings of the Binnengasthuis area into a housing purpose is a relevant assignment as the housing demand in Amsterdam will always maintain. As housing requires a small scale appropriate to live in, this arises a conflict with the...
master thesis 2015
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Wijburg, V.E. (author)
This master thesis examines the influence of the existing building on a transformation design. Why does a certain transformation work well with the one building but is useless in the other? Is this perhaps the influence of some of the characteristics of the existing building? Gaining insight in this process can also help with the early...
master thesis 2015
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Morosetti, L. (author)
Application and adaptation of the monastic typology to contemporary collective housing.
master thesis 2015
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Evangelou, K. (author)
The goal of the graduation project, is to test to what extend the Solid concept is applicable to historic buildings and how is this allowed. My design proposal is concentrated in a specific design context in the Binnenstadscampus, the Klinisch Ziekenhuis, which through my research proved to bring most of those inherent features which confer...
master thesis 2015
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Kwant, A.B. (author)
This graduation project is about the transformation of a vacant office building into flexible housing, making use of the potentials the existing construction offers. This has been achieved by the following points: 1 Using the column structure of the office building. 2 Make vertical shafts for the building services in the corridor. 3 Make...
master thesis 2015
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Mota, N.J.A. (author)
One decade ago in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, more than 80% of its four million inhabitants lived in the so-called kebele houses, which are the local variant of a well-known urban figure, the slum. In order to cope with the housing backlog sparked by the need to replace the dilapidated kebele houses, to accommodate the city’s...
conference paper 2015
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Van Haaren, W. (author)
master thesis 2014
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Mota, N.J.A. (author)
This dissertation examines architectural operations developed from the 1950s through the 1980s that challenged modernity’s “anxiety of contamination” and that have negotiated the boundaries between the realm of the individual and the social, the expert and the mass men, the local and the universal, modernity and the vernacular. The central...
doctoral thesis 2014
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Van Tatenhove, A.K.R. (author)
In this graduation a strategy is developed for the Vogelbuurt area in Rotterdam-Zuid, with which the private owners in that neighbourhood can transform their dwellings, for example by merging their home with a neighbouring one.
master thesis 2014
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Overtoom, M.E. (author)
Houses were among the first structures that were built, and remain the most common type of building today. The design of housing has been the subject of architecture, while from a psychological point of view the meaning of home has been a major subject of research. These two different viewpoints are combined in this research to provide a tool...
master thesis 2013
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Graaff, P.D. (author)
Over weinig wijken is zo uitvoerig gedacht en geschreven als over Pendrecht in Rotterdam Zuid. Met de oorlog nog vers in het geheugen werd getracht een open en democratische samenleving te bouwen en de massamaatschappij tegen te gaan. Het is echter diezelfde wijk die 50 jaar later tot 1-na-slechtste wijk van Nederland wordt bestempeld. Wie de...
master thesis 2012
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Visco, F. (author)
This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...
master thesis 2011
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Buzzoni, G. (author)
The main goal of the design is to find a way to enhance the quality of the experience of the city through the design of living spaces. These are themselves developed according to how the space is perceived and experienced, and not with a mere functional approach.
master thesis 2011
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Dekker, K. (author)
A sustainable housing project in Kumasi, the second largest city of Ghana. Part of the neighbourhood and their 'compound' houses are tranformed. The area is as an example project to show that fast growing and developing of a neighbourhood(in a developing country) also can happen in a sustainable and concious way.
master thesis 2011
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