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Philanthropie?: Rethinking social housing through principles of commoning

Kologlu, Tolga (author)

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Growing Residency: Towards a multi-species design practice in architecture based on affordances

Gruber, Philipp (author)

The research of the thesis explores to what extent a multi-species design practice in architecture based on affordances informed by the act of human and non-human space-making in abandoned ruins helps to achieve a symbiotic relation between architecture and biodiversity. For this purpose, a theoretical framework triangulating affordances, multi...

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Architectural Pipeline - Pipeline Architecture: An experiment into the role of topological graphs in the early stages of architectural design in the era of machine learning

Ali, Tarique (author)

The realm of architectural design and conceptualization, despite witnessing advancements in design complexity facilitated by technological tools and fabrication techniques, appears to have experienced limited transformative change over time in the way we begin our design process. But is there an alternative way to look at architecture ? Perhaps...

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The Rhythmic Escape: Environmental Features in Landscape Ecology

Rasmussen, Tobine (author)

The Rhythmic escape propose a retreat in Rotterdam based on environmental features in nature that is of significance in rituals held in nature by people living with nature.

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Enter 'space' to test the AI: Responsive Architecture: The home to come

Slezák, Samuel (author)

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology progressively integrates into daily life and domestic environments, it instigates a pressing inquiry: What new spatial implications can arise from the integration of artificially intelligent technologies within homes, and what role can these AI technologies play in reinforcing social interaction among...

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100 Years of Summer: A ski area brownfield as a testing ground to explore ways of how humans and nonhumans can thrive in a warming alpine landscape, together.

Zech, Valentin (author)

100 Years of Summer: A ski area brownfield as a testing ground to explore ways of how humans and nonhumans can thrive in a warming alpine landscape, together.<br/>This project started with a romantic fascination for the mountain landscape in my home country, and with wondering what would happen to all the infrastructure in ski areas once there...

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Reassembling the archipelago of workshops: Retrieving productive narratives in Euboea island

Giagkou, Andreas (author)

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Arctic Symphony

Flatin, Simon (author)

"Arctic Symphony" is an exploration into the intersection of architecture, music, dance, and the temporal dimensions of the Arctic landscape. This project, originally started as a graduation project, transcends traditional architecture by embracing the ever-changing dynamics of the Arctic environment and human interaction.<br/><br/>At the core...

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School of architecture as a responsive machine

Demetriou, Katerina (author)

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The Line of Dissent: An architectural-political vision for an open European Union

Stoschek, Dominik (author)

At the EU Parliament in Brussels, deliberation and decision-making processes are stuck in an ever-turning hamster wheel designed to reach unanimous compromises. The architecture of the so-called Consensusland provides spatial settings exclusively designed for the purpose of reaching compromises and not offering room where discussions and...

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Designing Deaf Schools

Coolen, Julia (author)

The deaf and hard-of-hearing live in world that, from an architectural standpoint, is designed for hearing people. Which causes a set of challenges for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.These problems have major effects at schools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. These schools are mainly located in buildings that happened to be empty or that already...

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A space for sex work: An intersectional feminist approach to brothels in the context of decriminalisation

Feria Prados, Irene (author)

This project deals with spaces for a historically neglected collective: sex workers. It aims to destigmatize the practice by representing the workers and the material conditions that determine their safety and well-being every day, of which architecture is part.<br/>Articulated from an intersectional feminist point of view, the research...

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Sense of safety in Dutch river landscapes

Heesakkers, Valerie (author)

In July 2021, heavy floods hit the Dutch province Limburg after days of rainfall in south-west Germany, the Ardennes and southern Limburg. Rivers like the Geul, the Roer and the Maas couldn’t discharge the large amounts of water. Many parts of these regions flooded, and approximately 50.000 people have been evacuated from their homes (Task Force...

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Assemblage of repression: Exploring voids and traces caused by repression by using assemblage theory

Condon, Artemy (author)

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Towards an Architecture Activist Practice: A Position of Design in the Climate Catastrophe

Vogler, Frieder (author)

Scientists observe changes in the registers of our earth, rising Co² levels, changes in methane concentration, acidification of the oceans, and the degradation of soil. These changes in the registers of our earth proliferate environmental catastrophes that destabilize intricate webs of life. The human in the Anthropocene, and with it its...

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Reconstruction of the Notre Dame de Paris: as a moment for reinterpretation

van Duijne, Bas (author)

Architectural graduation project containing a research and design for the Notre Dame of Paris. The research focusses on reinterpreting the Notre Dame of Paris based on seven interviews. The interviews are bundled in a set of narrative drawings that approach the building and its environment as intangible domain containing rather the social...

student report 2023

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The Anthropotekton: The Tectonics of Subjectivity and the Methodology of the Accident

Gallego Mauleon, Miguel (author)

Locating many of the contemporary architect’s flaws and shortcomings in its own process of becoming-subject, the Manual of the Anthropotekton aims at activating and situating the architectural student, practitioner, and educator in the position to launch an affirmative deconstruction of their own individuating Ego. This is accomplished through...

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PUBLIC | TRANSPORTATION: A research into the double role of the station. How can stations become an integral part of the city?

Koelmans, Robin (author)

Public transportation is on the rise due to increasing ecological concerns, a more efficient use of space and an improved city-planning featuring transport oriented development (TOD). As a result, new modalities emerge and stations are getting busier which can lead to a narrow design focus on the nodal function of the station, neglecting other...

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Reviving Memory: through displacement, slowness and repetition: Contemporary Ommelanderhuis

Bosch, Sjoerd (author)

This project focuses on the architect’s attitude performing in non-urban landscapes. As a case study the landscape of the Reitdiep river in Groningen (NL) has been intensely researched. Here, a strong interaction between myself and the physical landscape has been informing the design process. Through defining characteristics of the landscapes by...

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A Living Lab for Flow: An architectural meta exploration on the optimal mental state for well-being

Shenoy, Rohan (author)

This Master's thesis project is conceived in two parts. <br/><br/>The first part is the research project and is titled &lt;&lt;The Art of Acquiring Flow&gt;&gt; where the study assesses an architect’s ability to experience ‘design flow’, during the ideation phase, based on the type of design tool utilized. In order to test the hypothesis, I...

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