An Approach for Indoor Path Computation among Obstacles that Considers User Dimension

People often transport objects within indoor environments, who need enough space for the motion. In such cases, the accessibility of indoor spaces relies on the dimensions, which includes a person and her/his operated objects. This paper proposes a new approach to avoid obstacles and compute indoor paths with respect to the user dimension. The...

Diversity in Neukölln: Maintaining or creating accessibility (for a diversity of social groups) in a gentrifying central neighbourhood in the case of Berlin

The project tries to anticipate on the gentrification issues in the case of Neukölln in Berlin. How to stimulate/maintain accessibility for a diversity of social groups in a central gentrifying area [in the case of Neukölln, Berlin] ? This is the main research question of the thesis. This resulted in a project that consists of a strategy for...

Stationshus: A Scandinavian influenced approach and design for a strategic multi-modal intervention in Rotterdam South

Rotterdam South the largest problematic neighbourhood in the Netherlands and deals with large social and spatial problems. With the development of a Stationshus a large intervention is made, that connects the area to the national Intercity railway network and that at the same time forms a new centre for Rotterdam South, that connects the...

Meeting the Hague south west at the border

This graduation project focuses on improving the public space and pedestrian connections between the different neighbourhoods surrounding the station area of the Hague Moerwijk. In the present situation the station area of the Hague Moerwijk is not well accessible or visible from its surroundings and the existing qualities of the area are...

Road to Scheveningen Haven

This project is a combination of urban design, strategic urban planning and water protection in the coastal urban area of Scheveningen Haven. It focuses on tourism development, water defence, accessibility and spatial quality. Hence, the main goal of this project is to design Scheveningen Haven as a safe, accessible, attractive and lively...

van hoofdDORP tot hoofdSTAD

The main objective of this graduation project is developing a regeneration plan for the downtown area of Hoofddorp to improve the connection between railway station and town centre for pedestrians. The design will be developed on three levels, which are connected to three urban planning themes: - Urban regeneration; - Route between railway...

Private residential domains in the Netherlands: A research on the causes and effects of an increase of private neighbourhoods in urban areas

The number of enclosed residential domains (ERDs) in the Netherlands has seen a remarkable increase over the past twenty years. Roughly half of these projects are located in urban areas. This raises the question what the impact of large scale privatisation is on the city. Knowledge regarding the Dutch case is scarce. In particular, the relation...

Going High Speed: Urban railway development by the advent of a new high speed rail

Abstract – ‘As one station planner stated, the list of cities that are relevant in Europe nowadays equals the list of cities included in the HST network; this may not be entirely true in fact, but it is increasingly the way things are perceived, which makes it a reality in effect.’ (Trip, 2007). The high speed train links main city centers from...

Degrees of sustainable location of railway stations: Integrating space syntax and node place value model on railway sations in the province of North Holland's strategic plan for 2010-2040

Mobility on rails is acknowledged to be one of the most sustainable means of transportation between cities and towns. Therefore, a railway station’s location in a built environment and its degree of accessibility is essential to reach as many travellers as possible. Even though there exist several writings on network cities and TOD principles...

Studying land-use distribution and mixed-use patterns in relation to density, accessibility and urban form

Mixed use development, one of the “mantras in contemporary planning” is a multi-criterion and multi-scalar concept which has various definitions. For this research mixed-use is defined as functional mixed-use and our main interest is to understand the spatial conditions needed to increase the diversity of uses (mix) by combining compatible...

Transformation of the Nijmegen Railway Area: Into a highly integrated domain

Within Dutch cities the railway area has become a prominent area. It has become an intermediate area between the historical city centre and the expansion neighbourhoods. Even though the railway station has a strong position within the city, the large railway body generally creates a spatial, physical and social barrier between differen parts of...

Implementing a supportive public space network in Shenzhen new CBD

Public space should be a node for social integration (Jacobs, J. 1961/1969; Carmona, M. 2003). The proposed project will search for a new model for organization of its public spaces exploring possible functional and physical integration, towards forming a cohesive public space network, that is to say, a network to be able to support the new mix...

Micro scale spatial relationships in urban studies: The relationship between private and public space and its impact on street life

Research on urban environment by means of space syntax theory and methods tends to focus on macro scale spatial conditions. However, micro scale conditions should not be neglected. In research on street life and dispersal of crime in urban areas, it became inevitable to pay attention to the interdependence between the macro as well as the micro...