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From Shady Heritage towards an Architecture of Frictional Empathy

Tideman, Saskia (author)

Following an in-depth investigation into contemporary heritage practice, the project intervenes on the Parc Chanot which hosted Marseille’s two colonial exhibitions. The design seeks to resurface taboo histories to enable history to be learned from. Through this project, I have queried the role of architects as curators of history and sought to...

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Een jongerenhospice als onderdeel van een groter zorgcluster: Een onderzoek naar een passende omgeving voor jongeren met een levensbedreigende of terminale ziekte en hun naasten

Plomp, Maarten (author)

Voor u ligt een onderzoek dat uitgevoerd is als onderdeel van de afstudeerstudio ExploreLab20 aan de faculteit Bouwkunde in Delft. In dit academische verslag is getracht om meer inzicht te bieden in een jongerenhospice en in de situatie van jongeren met een levensbedreigende ziekte. Het verslag dient tevens als een bron van informatie voor het...

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Undividing Lahore: The Temple of Dialogue

Haq, Badar (author)

The city of Lahore (Pakistan) is suffering from a severe environmental crisis. Water related issues such as droughts, floods and waterborne diseases have interrupted the accessibility of citizens to basic amenities. At the TU Delft, I have been approaching these issues in the Explore Lab Studio for my Master’s graduation. In my approach as a...

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Architecture as a worldview: a refuge for the minds

Levet, Cyriac (author)

The essay and the design project are an attempt to re-explore the fundamental purpose of architecture as mediating interactions between the human self and the external world. From the intuitive perception of an environment to the establishment of an artificial system of proportion and order, the hypothesis considers the design of buildings as a...

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Tokyo Technics

Boer, Nick (author)

The contemporary networked world is unimaginable without technology and is now widely embraced for its potency to enrich our physical and digital experiences. The unprecedented growth of cities and populations in line with technological advancement has developed a blind trust that it now also equals progress for civilization. But because the...

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Reflections of the Bossche Stadsdelta: Amplifying the experience of the Bossche Stadsdelta in a non-traditional design process

Ebskamp, Merle (author)

As an architect we experiment. Architectural experimentation is the process of generating design ideas and making design decisions. The traditional tools, drawing and modelling, have proven to be fruitful. However, when zooming in on the essence of experimentation, one may wonder if drawing and modelling are the only possible tools to support...

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Anecdote: sensory experience

Jongerius, Chinouk (author)

Almost every minute of the day, the individual has to deal with impulses / influences / triggers from society. Received through its sensory organs and processed by its personal perception based on its genotype and phenotype. As time progresses, events take place. Some are personal, small scale events while others have a wider impact and become...

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Design for Revolution

van de Bovekamp, Eveline (author)

The way people have different views on how people should love, value, consume,<br/>produce, believe and every other aspect of life is something which is still not<br/>accepted by the majority of society. The idea of these different views, described<br/>as parallel truths, scare most people that feel the comfort of the truths of the<br/>Dominant...

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Healing Oncology: The impact of the physical medical environment on the wellbeing of cancer patients and their relatives

van Benten, Ties (author)

Our hospitals will start to get larger and larger as the number of people on this earth will rise. Due to medical solutions our stays in these hospitals will get shorter as we can cure ourselves from diseases. But as we are getting older, we will spend more time in the hospital. The paradox of healing from diseases and becoming more and more...

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Hide and Peek at the Station: Rethinking informativity to serve life-value in Helsinki Central Station

Peippo, Tuomas (author)

As labor increasingly takes place solely in the confines of a laptop screen, the office as a building type seems almost redundant. At the same time the profitability of data collected of consumption puts conventional understandings of value production under question. How does information become valuable, and how should we think of value to begin...

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DEMO DOMAIN; for of and by the local people of Europe: Revitalising European Democracies by the re-introduction of Public Sphere in local society.

Baggerman, Sandra (author)

The binding factor of the European Union's diverse nations is their practice of democracy. However, recently the EU has been dealing with the rising power of populism, increasing polarization and strong bubble forming; all leading to a weakening practice of local, national and union scale democracies. An important factor in this is the lacking...

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The Workers Madinat: Housing for migrant workers in Oman

Scheffer, Ramona (author)

Isolated and separated from the Omani population, thou- sands of low-skilled migrant workers from mainly South Asia live in labour camps across the country. In-dispensa- ble for the national economic growth and the construc- tion business the workers make up an impor-tant part of the Omani population, yet they are often housed in in- appropriate...

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Customized Collective Housing: Towards Participatory Design of Dwellings

Wysocki, Jakub (author)

Residents typically have a negligible impact on their living units spatial layout in mass housing projects. Building industry lacks tools for users to create space tailored to their needs. The purpose of this work is facilitate co-creation by providing a pre-configured and engineered set of spatial units corresponding to human activities, in...

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Place-identity of the Holland Coast

Collens, Florentine (author)

The Dutch coast is facing many changes shortly to keep up with the increase in tourism, wind farms, housing, and sea-level rise. To preserve the coastal place-identity under these changes, it is important to research what elements constitute the place-identity of the Holland Coast. Place-Identity, in this paper, is defned as a combination of...

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What Futur for Post-War Housing ?

Fougerouse, Manon (author)

This question might sound very broad: What future for the architecture? What future for the people living in it? What is Post-War housing? What political and social thought is behind it? What kind of place does it hold in the city? Who designed it? Who are its inhabitants? Moreover, what kind of problem is it subject to think it needs a new...

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The future of countryside living: Integrating the transition towards nature inclusive agriculture with the development of new countryside homes

Wijnants, Mees (author)

A decades long process of replacing biodiverse landscapes with agricultural monocultures has led to a significant drop in biodiversity in the Netherlands. The current agricultural landscape offers limited habitats for animals and insects and lacks resilience to cope with the effects of climate change. A strong departure from the current system...

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Temporal Empathy: A case study in the old coal storage

Vooren, Tom (author)

Buildings, spaces, objects - architectural things, everything is of a temporal nature, but this can be hard to grasp. However, we are capable of understanding time as a part of architecture. Not just as a concept, but as something that manifests itself as intrinsic characteristics in the architecture we create and experience.<br/><br/>Temporal...

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Creating an experience based learning system: Implementing experience in our learning process and exploring the role of architecture in it

Boots, Jeroen (author)

The main objective of this research was to explore the possibilities of adding experience to our learning process and how to create architecture for this new type of learning. This new type of learning is called Trias Discere. Trias Discere is a combination of broad knowledge, deep knowledge, and experience. The research has been done by asking...

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Earth and Vernacularity: Reviving vernacular architecture in Iceland with rammed earth construction

Gunnarsdóttir, Sunnefa (author)

The growing interest in rammed earth construction globally has yet to reach the Icelandic building industry which lags behind in sustainable construction methods. Despite the rich history of earth construction with local turf, standardized practices and imported materials dominate the building practice today. Earth is a readily available...

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Between the Museum as City and City as Museum

Bastiaans, Stephan (author)

Despite the museum playing a central role in society as public centre of collective memory, artefacts are dogmatically presented in highly introverted "white cubes". In response, the<i> Leiden Civic Museum</i> relies on a strong relationship between "content" and "context" in order to both reassure its collection of societal relevance, as well...

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