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Reuse of industrial Heritage the Sphinx factory in Maastricht

van Zeijl, K. (author)

master thesis 2017

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Learning by doing: Waldorf school in Arnhem

Galjee, K. (author)

master thesis 2016

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The Water Institute

Huang, J. (author)

The design assignment is to design a water institute to use Amsterdam, an international port where talented scholars could gather, to deal with water related issues, especially ones happen in Ijsselmeer. The Water Institute is an educational facility which focus on the sustainable use and management of water resources to support health and...

master thesis 2016

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PackCity

Hui, C.H. (author)

The project started with the fascination of pop-up activities with space “PACK and PICK”. With this individual fascination, there are questions keep challenging my own fascination through out the process of the project. First of all, there is the main research question of the inefficient use over time in one day in the “FIXED” architecture, can...

master thesis 2016

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From Infrastructure to Flowscape: The Houtribdijk as an operative landscape structure

Shao, S. (author)

The theme of the landscape architecture graduation lab is “Flowscape”. It states the landscape infrastructure is not only a technical structure but also a carrier of natural and urban processes. It is proposed to solve the environmental problems and adapt to the surroundings as well as providing the appropriate environmental conditions for the...

master thesis 2016

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Greenwich Works

Groskaufmanis, M. (author)

The project is a spatial product intended to accommodate 900 households of flexible workers. It combines the domestic and productive environments in a single housing complex, serviced 24 hours a day. More information in the brochure.

master thesis 2016

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International Institute of Boundary Water

Van Hall, P.C. (author)

My graduation project focuses on providing a water management institute within a conceptual, better alternative for the unsustainable water management in twin cities Ciudad Juarez (Mexico) and El Paso (USA) which are divided by the Rio Grande. The Rio Grande is the main source of water for both twin cities and the rest of the region along the...

master thesis 2016

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Ruin Prosthesis, using new crafts to rehabilitate the ruin of castle Schaesberg

Schreuder, T.W. (author)

This graduation project aims to integrate digital techniques within the practice ruin renovation. From studying ruin renovation projects and theory, this project argues that the use of digital capture and fabrication has the potential to be the tool to make that joint in a more specific, more customized and more elegant way than before. To...

master thesis 2016

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Ruinophilia

Demir, B. (author)

Ruins and residues of the past have held a moral, emotional, and aesthetic fascination throughout history. In the region of IBA parkstad Limburg there is a lack of cultural identity. The former meaning and significance is disappeared. The aim of this paper is to research the qualities and identity of significant layers in time, which are the...

master thesis 2016

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The Private, The Public and The Common: What Spaces Do?

Paicu, I.L. (author)

Frequently compelled by their knowledge and governance legislations, architects act as agents of expertise and impose top down solutions, in the form of fixed typologies, to bottom up and often temporary problems. Together with the fact that, in a fast paced, open source and migrating society, we still rely on the public-private dichotomy,...

master thesis 2016

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Wood for all - the environmental and atmospheric value of all-wood architecture

Bergkamp, A. (author)

In Kerkrade, one of the municipalities of Parkstad Limburg, the population shrinkage is particularly manifest. In an attempt to balance the housing market, HEEMwonen, a local social housing association demolishes a part of her building stock. Among other places, this has already happened in Heilust, a residential area in Kerkrade-West. The...

master thesis 2016

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The Health Factory

Scholten, E. (author)

The Health Factory is a health complex with sports facilities, healthy food options and a medical center that focusses on serving workers in the neighborhood. More than a third of all U.S. residents are obese, and this number has been increasing over the past three decades. Americans eat unhealthy and do not get enough exercise. Although there...

master thesis 2016

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Refurbishing vacant offices with EWF into architectural attractive, low energy, comfortable and durable working environments

Swier, P.A. (author)

My graduation project was split up into a generic exploration which resulted in a research paper and a specific design in which I have tested the results of the generic part. I explored the potential of applying the Earth, Wind and Fire (EWF) concept on vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. In order to find a specific solution that I could...

master thesis 2016

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Hangar of the Future

Kok, J.M. (author)

Design of the hangar of the Future at Schiphol oost.

master thesis 2016

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Calexico-Mexicali Central Station

Van Toorenburg, A.P. (author)

The Thesis and architectural Design is part of the studio's attempt to rethink and reorganise the US-Mexico border region. We found that although the region has a lot of potential, hostile politics and problems of mobility result in a region which is unable to deal with its problems, and the potential remains untapped. In absence of the border...

master thesis 2015

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Digital Wayfinding / Blades: A research & design project for a modular architectural lighting system applied for adaptive wayfinding in a park environment and on to buildings of architectural heritage.

Verkerk, T.J. (author)

The project researches the implementation and integration of media technologies for communication purposes in architectural and natural environments. These technologies give designers new tools to create spaces which can be more responsive, functional and communicative and adapt in realtime. By creating a network of light landscapes, shapes and...

master thesis 2015

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Food Hub / Food Valley

Sawaki, R. (author)

An Agricultural Complex tying together U.S and Mexico and allowing to create a new type of land of producton.

master thesis 2015

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Architecture of the Contemporary Barricade

Grace, C.L. (author)

master thesis 2015

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Open up the semi-public space: A plea for a work & live dwellings in Amsterdam

Leferink, N.W. (author)

In this graduation project the main assignment will be the task if the design of the dwellings can be designed mainly for single household low-rise high density dwellings in the city center of Amsterdam. The design should be an effective solution towards the costs resulting in a qualitative design with simple detailing, effective and...

master thesis 2015

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EventHUB: A self-sustaining and relocatable pavilion for events

Dijkstra, A.M. (author)

For the design of the EventHUB a research was done on the possibilities for renewable onsite power production for temporary outdoor events. The research concluded that flexible PV cells were an interesting possibility and were here for used as starting point for the architectural design. During the design process the integration of the PV cells...

master thesis 2015