Absorbing Splinters: Revalorising identities within the ever-growing fragmented urban landscape of London.

Rapid and uncontrolled urban growth has resulted in fragmented cityscapes, leading to the loss of a sense of place in cities like London. The relentless march of modernization and compulsive development has given rise to illegible spaces, where once-distinctive landmarks are being replaced by generic high-rise buildings and shopping malls. This...

Legible Grasping with Teleoperated Learning from Demonstration

State-of-the-art object grasping with 7-DOF robotic manipulators requires joint configuration planning methods in order to provide position control of the end-effector. These motion planners are able to calculate a motion plan to execute a safe grasp, while taking environmental constraints into account. In human-robot...

Empowering smart city residents through legibility: A Digital Tool to Discover Smart City Projects

The role that smart technologies play and the data they generate is becoming central in cities; cities are adopting technologies as a new way of governance and making policies based on data. Increasingly, governments and companies implement data-driven strategies, and the number of sensors in the public space is increasing. This translates into...

Introducing legibility as a bridge between urban design and perception

The graduation project is about finding a way to make legibility applicable in urban design. Information on legibility is converted into (applicable) practical bits of information: patterns. The applicability of the patterns are tested with a design in a context.

Een stad om in te verblijven: Het verbeteren van de verblijfskwaliteit van de binnenstad van Rotterdam

Cauliflower Revisited: The regeneration of cauliflower neighbourhoods using an environment -behaviour approach

This graduation research uses an environment-behaviour approach to regenerate cauliflower neighbourhoods (bloemkoolwijken). This was applied to Kesteren (part of compostie cauliflower neighbourhood the Haagse Beemden, Breda). The theoretical framework focusses on aspect such as: liveability, public space, environment-behaviour, spatial cognition...

Kanaleneiland: Improving the liveability by redesigning the 'Stempel'

The modernistic 'Stempelbouw' design for Kanaleneiland-Noord is the cause for many liveability problems nowadays. CIAM's ideology for the seperation of space and the emphasis on light, air and space can be traced back in this neighbourhood and result in a design which is too spacious, where people are barely able to regulate their privacy and...