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Kupzik, Robert (author)
The neighborhood of Morgenstond is accounted as one of the 50 problem neighborhoods in the Netherlands. The social development is similar to many post-war urban plannings outside of city centers. After the moving out of the first very homogenic young family population in the course of a suburbanization trend in the late 60s’ and 70s’, the...
master thesis 2020
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Vos, Linda (author)
The Netherlands has a strong tradition of blueprint planning in spatial design. Since the financial crisis of 2008, a shift has been made to more organic approaches to development. Currently, a paradigm is evolving which is able to deal with complex challenges that the built environment faces today: a shortage of housing and a transition to...
master thesis 2020
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Tsagkalou, Anna (author)
A big part of the schools in Greece fails to align with the regulations suggested by The School Building Organization in Greece, regarding their energy performance as well as the thermal and daylight comfort they offer. This study aims to inform the retrofit process of these schools, by proposing guidelines concerning the most impactful...
master thesis 2020
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van der Straten, Guido (author)
Shell structures have been regularly used in the past for creating huge spanning structures, with the use of minimal material. Even though this method saves a lot of material, the labor cost of constructing these structures is high, due to the amount of work on the building site. By prefabricating these structures, a huge amount of labor and...
master thesis 2018
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Kounaki, Stamatia (author)
The refurbishment of the Dutch post- war residential building stock provides a great potential for energy and CO2 emissions savings, since a large number of buildings were built before 1975 and under low or no energy standards. However, their refurbishment and especially zero-on-the-meter, is too expensive and it is not possible to find the...
master thesis 2019
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Heijne, Nick (author)
The building industry is responsible for a large amount of CO2 emissions. With an estimated 11.7 GT in 2020, the building industry emitted 36% of the worldwide CO2 emissions (Bertin et al., 2022). This results in the need to efficiently use the current material supply. A way to achieve this is by transitioning from a linear economy to a circular...
master thesis 2023
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Emmelot, Jesse (author)
As of 2020, the Netherlands experiences a housing shortage of around 300,000. To respond to the projected demand, around 80,000 houses should be built every year towards 2030. At the same time, the Dutch government has had ambitions and plans towards a circular economy by 2050. Their plans were released in 2016, after which...
master thesis 2021
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Tsionis, Ioannis (author)
This research focuses on aircraft noise exposed urban spaces around Amsterdam Schiphol airport. In particular, a case site in Rijsenhout is studied, where a representation of the noise wave propagation due to refraction is performed. Subsequently, a series of landscape configurations regarding geometry are gradually tested through acoustic...
master thesis 2020
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Cendón Cunqueiro, M. Qiao-Ling (author)
Current issues such as climate change or scarcity of resources, among others, make general business market and in this case, Lidl supermarket Netherlands continue searching and improving its commercial operations and services around circular economy principles (CE). However, CE carries several social limitations that this thesis is planned to...
master thesis 2020
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GIASSIA, GEORGINA (author)
Dense urbanization increases the demand on the building sector who is responsible, on the one hand for producing large amounts of landfilled glass waste, and on the other for consuming the earth’s natural resources and release additional CO2 emissions, for the manufacture of new architectural glass. These unfavorable conditions together with the...
master thesis 2022
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Passoni, Alessandro (author)
A growing trend is present nowadays towards the renovation of football stadiums with the main objectives of enhancing the capacity of the venues and of mproving the user experience of the spectators. The stadium design process requires to blend multiple components together, while evaluating different performances and complying with several...
master thesis 2020
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Soman, Aditya Pravin (author)
The Constructing industry around the world is growing exponentially. In the Netherlands itself there is a need of constructing 1 million affordable new homes by 2030. Such a massive demand for new buildings has given rise to a need for a solution for mass customization of architectural configurations. Simple repetition or a badly configured...
master thesis 2021
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Anil, Eren gozde (author)
As the global population rise, climate conditions get more and more unpredictable, natural resources deplete; cities need to take action in order to sustain healthy living conditions as well as to ensure food safety. Currently, cities are solely dependent on external sources and suburban areas for natural resources and food as well as waste...
master thesis 2022
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Jayapathma Herath Mudiyanselage Herath, Nayanthara (author)
The following report is an explanation to the process of identifying a relevant thesis topic, the literature research, design methodology and validation of the design task at hand. The literature research expands on the construction industry, PET as a single use waste material, Additive manufacturing, Fused Deposition modeling and the design of...
master thesis 2020
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van Nimwegen, Bart (author)
Historical monuments are one of the best-preserved memories of our past as human species. Despite this, the conservation of these monuments is slowly being put under pressure by rapid economic development and the desire to make as much profit as possible. This development has raised awareness through the world of conservation about the...
master thesis 2020
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Palacio Villa, Santiago (author)
In the current geopolitical climate, where Arctic nations are at the brink of conflict in their pursuit for influence and resources, mining has acquired a political character, establishing a delicate equilibrium between resource claims and the protection of the territory. This equilibrium is manifested in the Svalbard Free Zone, where all...
master thesis 2020
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Luijten, Christianne (author)
New building technologies are developing rapidly, the use of sensors and actuation with it. These technological developments provide opportunities for buildings to react to their environment in real time. Hence, reducing the energy demand of the built environment which is critical in addressing the issue of climate change. However, there is a...
master thesis 2021
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Rhea Ishani, Rhea Ishani (author)
The building industry is material intensive and is responsible for approximately 40% of the total waste generated across the European Union. It operates on a ‘take-make-dispose’ model due to which key issues such as resource scarcity, waste generation, and environmental pressure occur. The circular economy has been attributed to the need to...
master thesis 2022
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Osak, Marcin Osak (author)
In recent years, microproduction has been gaining more and more attention. Microproduction is form of contemporary craftmanship which is focused on the local production and global connectivity. Changing consumer trends and the emergence of new technologies, in particular additive manufacturing, are starting to shape the new production economy...
master thesis 2021
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Chauhan, Pragya (author)
The building industry accounts for almost 40% of the total carbon emissions that are directly responsible for climate change. So far, we have been following a linear economy model which follows a concept of “take-make-use-dispose” and causes a significantly large burden on the natural environment. For this reason, transition to a circular...
master thesis 2022
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