Explicit design for real estate education: The management game

In positioning the design school versus the business school, the management game as an educational module in the last semester of the architectural bachelor in Delft is illustrative for the possible synthesis between real estate and architecture. The explicit approach of design, as applied in Delft and many other institutes for architecture, and...

Institute of Poldering: Meadow Under Construction

Booklet of the elective course AR0048 2014/2015 ‘Landscape Architecture ON site - being part of Oerol’, an elective course of the MSc2 - Chair of Landscape Architecture at the TU Delft.

The influence of end-user perception on the economic feasibility of sustainable building skin renovations

Considering the small addition in the housing supply of newly built dwellings, meeting sustainable goals in the Netherlands will have to come from the existing housing supply. TU Delft’s Solar Decathlon 2014 design focuses on achieving a zero energy renovation that is both sustainable as well as attractive for inhabitants of the most frequent...

The theory of Chris van Leeuwen: Some important elements

Chris van Leeuwen (1920-2005) was a lecturer and later Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology from 1970 until his retirement in 1987. His work not only formed the basis for thinking on sustainable built environments at the Faculty of Architecture, but also formed the basis for national policies...

The Armamentarium: A reflection of Delft. A creative mix of functions within valuable interior spaces

RMIT graduation project. Academic year 2013/2014. An intervention for the Armamentarium, a state monument.

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Life Cycle Costs of Dutch school buildings

There is a gap between investment and operating costs of public school buildings in the Netherlands. This gap is caused by separated responsibility for the financing of the accommodation for the primary and secondary schools. Municipalities finance the initial costs of construction of these schools and school boards are responsible for the...

Real Estate development between stagnation and modernisation: The uncertain real estate market

After a historical peak in 2001 the Dutch non-residential real estate market is characterized by growing vacancy, discontinuity of building construction and uncertainty about development opportunities. The recession in 2008/2009 -and again in 2011/2012- strengthens the uncertainties about the future. Nevertheless the real estate market was in...

The Workplace Game: Exploring end users' new behaviour

This paper describes the Workplace Game and its development. Changing the workplace layout alone appears to be insufficient to change office user behaviour. Through prototyping the game was designed as a tool to stimulate discussion and provide new and concrete insights into the behavioural consequences of innovative offices. As a communication...

De contour vastgesteld: Monumenten, digitale contouren en de basisregistraties

Alle monumenten worden voorzien van een digitale contour. De TUD/het OTB heeft onderzoek gedaan naar de betekenis van de digitale contour. Gelet op diverse bestuurlijk-juridische ontwikkelingen (ontwikkeling van het stelsel van basisregistraties met bijbehorende wetgeving en invoering van de wet kenbaarheid publiekrechtelijke beperkingen (wkpb))...