A comparative study of point clouds semantic segmentation using three different neural networks on the railway station dataset

Point cloud data have rich semantic representations and can benefit various applications towards a digital twin. However, they are unordered and anisotropically distributed, thus being unsuitable for a typical Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to handle. With the advance of deep learning, several neural networks claim to have solved the...

Living with dementia: An elderly home in the centre of Rotterdam

Elderly suffering from dementia go through a difficult and confusing time from the moment they start to show symptoms of dementia. During this time, the process of dementia can only be slowed down. It has the looks of it that there isn’t anything more that can be done, but to make them feel as comfortable as possible for the time being. Although...

Serving the New Housing Producers

A research on the role of the architect within projects developed through Collective Private Commission (Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap) in the Netherlands. Input from participants, which is obtained through a workshop and interviews, is used for the design of a dwelling block. This design then forms a hypothesis of what is possible...

United Nations Environmental council

Design for a new council building on the plot of the United Nations Headquarters.

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...

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P5 graduation presentation & posters

Is physical adaptability efficacious?: A research to reveal office users’ preferences for adaptable office space

Motivated by the increasingly noticeable amount of structural vacant office buildings, this thesis contributes to the existing literature of user’s preference to prevent structural vacancy. However, this thesis tries to shed light on the effects of different indicators (flexibility and partitionability) that influence the (physical) adaptability...

Dublin towards complementary advantage: Rowlagh for tomorrow!

With renewed urban expansion focused on alternative ‘greenfield’ growth centres within Dublin, the research question seek to find if it is possible to consider the re-activation (urban recycling) of existing areas such as Rowlagh. Through an endogenous approach informing the critical design tasks, consider the regeneration and re-activation of...

Sevenaer, een ontmoeting tussen mens en dier

Landgoed Sevenaer is gelegen midden in de stad Zevenaar. Het landgoed heeft circa 55 hectare grond en meerdere bijgebouwen. Vroeger verpachtte landgoederen grond aan boerderij, landgoed Sevenaer is echter zelf een boerderij. De ligging van een landgoed met boerderij midden in het centrum van Zevenaar, maakt het geheel uniek. In het ontwerp...

Wel of niet verouderd? Over de beoordeling van bedrijventerrein op basis van diverse ambities

Ongeveer een derde deel van de bedrijventerreinen in Nederland wordt beoordeeld als verouderd. Deze beoordeling vindt meestal plaats op basis van gemeentelijke ambities. Binnen dit onderzoek ligt de focus op het beoordelen van bedrijventerreinen op basis van de ambitie van ondernemers. Hierdoor wordt duidelijk hoe ondernemers bedrijventerreinen...

Design of a new Faculty of Architecture - Investigation and design of Media Facades

Graduation Project [G.J. Smit] for both Architecture & Building Technology. [architecture] : design of a new Faculty of Architecture [building technology] : investigation and design of Media Facades

Urbanism on Track: Application of tracking technologies in urbanism

Tracking technologies such as GPS, mobile phone tracking, video and RFID monitoring are rapidly becoming part of daily life. Technological progress offers huge possibilities for studying human activity patterns in time and space in new ways. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) held an international expert meeting in early 2007 to...

Street-level desires, Discovering the city on foot: Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre

Pedestrian mobility and the regeneration of the European city centre. Cities can be chaotic and confusing places at the best of times – even for local people! Spatial Metro, a project largely funded by the EU, aims to make city visits more enjoyable for pedestrians by making cities easier to navigate, easier to walk around and easier to...

Naar een Cyclisch Iteratief Ontwerpproces en Ontwerpomgeving