Accommodation of spiritual spatial experience in a modern urban fabric

The entirety of built environment exists in a state of flux and adaptation under the effect of a mutual relation between society and its spatial outcomes. Since human beings’ existence cannot be separated from space and its man-made forms, built environment can alter people through embedded biases. And these biases are mostly manifested by...

Highway as New Urban Center: The future transport hub

This project is the final part of my master in architecture at the Technical University Delft. Unused building space close to highway locations, future mobility trends and the existing ‘A12 zone’ location were the key elements for me to start a design process in which I tried to use existing engineering solutions and existing and future mobility...

Integrated Integrative Infrastructure: The local dimension of metropolitan mobility systems in São Paulo: An exploration of the planning and design of sustainable nodes of mobility and their impact on local spatial qualities

Research: (1) Exploring the role of infrastructure in transforming the metropolitan region of São Paulo into a sustainable metropolitan environment by utilizing the existing infrastructure as a backbone for future economic, environmental and social development. (2) Exploring the opportunity of infrastructure as a key strategy for the inclusion...

Critical success and fail factors of electric busses in public transport: A review on existing European electric bus projects

Mobility as Justice

This thesis examines the several ways in which the urban space of Bucharest together with its most popular elements of spatial production and the logic of the city’s mobility systems affect social and spatial inequality. Thus, the issue of inequality was used as an over-arching theme and as a way to give aim and purpose to the whole research...

Bangkok Synergy: A synergetic spatial vision to preserve Bangkok heritage, integrated with rapid mass transit system

For decades, city plans of Bangkok have been the prerogative of a few influential interest groups. Interests of the middle to upper class and more powerful groups have been protects and carelessly neglected the needs and interests of the lower- income majority or other vulnerable groups, particularly those who live in unprofitable areas. The...

Child Friendly Cities: The Case of Wroclaw in Poland

Like many other cities in Europe, Wroc?aw in Poland aims to improve the livability of children by implementing sustainable urban mobility measures, but fails to be successful. Due to an ongoing outflow of families from the city to the periphery and region, a vicious circle of an ongoing increase in car use has occured which increasingly...

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...

Barcelona: Energy + Urban Form

Contemporary cities, established largely around stable supplies of materials and plentiful access to energy sources, will be seriously affected by sudden changes in supply - particularly if technology cannot cater for consumption demands. This thesis explores energy consumption and energy dependency, framed in terms of urban density, using the...

Exploring potentials of the socialist city: In search for relevance of the socialist urban structures in the future of sustainable city. The case of Kaunas, Lithuania

Improving the Connection: Transforming the Metropolitan station area of Hollands Spoor

The ongoing development of traffic congestion throughout The Netherlands has been part of Dutch policy for a long time now, with no actual results in decreasing this mobility issue. The Hague, as part of the Randstad where traffic congestion plays a large role, is an important connection on all levels. With investments in Central Station,...

Empowering Lines

Empowering Lines shows the implementation and impact of a brt (bus rapid transit system) in the Ghanian city of Kumasi.

Haarlemmermeer|Mobility & Infrastructure: A new system for making the co-existence of infrastructure, agriculture and inhabitance possible

The project proposes a new system for making the co-existence of agriculture (and green in general) and the infrastructure possible. This infrastrucutre of mobility connects the Schiphol region of the Netherlands within itself via a network of several different means of transportation. In this region, the dominant elements of the architectural...

Metropolitan informal mobility

A research and design package development of the informal mobility in Bangkok to promote multi modality

Transforming a mobility node in the city of Zwolle

When it comes to user-friendliness and the relations to the city centre, a lot of station areas need improvement. The aim of this graduation project was to transform the station area of Zwolle into an inviting, user-friendly and well-connected part of the city. The result is a design (based on research) that shows the potential for the inviting,...

The airport as a new urban node toward a strategic and sustainable development

Thesis how to develop the area around the airport of Rotterdam into a new urban node.