Discovering the Significance of Housing Neighbourhoods by Assessing Their Attributes With a Digital Tool

Much of the building stock subjected to the upcoming European Renovation Wave is neither listed as heritage nor considered valuable architecture. This also applies to Dutch housing built between 1965 and 1985, more than 30% of the Dutch housing stock, for which there is no consensus on their cultural significance. Their successful renovation...

TU Delft Aula Conservation Management Plan

A Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for governing, managing, maintaining and eventual changes of the Aula Building at the Delft University of Technology, aimed at optimizing the balance between the value as a listed national monument and the value for daily use of the building.<br/>The CMP provides advice to all parties concerned, based on...

Web of attributes: analysing residents’ appreciation of a Dutch neighbourhood from a new heritage perspective

In the last century, the concept of what can be heritage has expanded in definition, opening to everyday architecture and living environments. More recently, the group of stakeholders to be involved in heritage assessment and management has slowly grown, with authorities acknowledging that heritage significance lies in the representation and...

Towards Value-Based Healthcare: Research to the design for an IT architecture to enable value-based healthcare in the Netherlands

The sustainability of the Dutch healthcare system is under severe pressure with increasing expenditure, more demand for care and a shortage of healthcare professionals. In the current healthcare system, providers are rewarded for increasing volume, but not for adding value, which only exacerbates the situation. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a...

Education for Adaptive Reuse The TU Delft Heritage and Architecture Experience

The Section for Heritage and Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology specializes in architectural education for adaptive reuse of heritage buildings, with a specific focus on the built heritage of the 20th century. Our approach combines architectural design and technological...

Flagships of the Dutch Welfare State in Transformation: A Transformation Framework for Balancing Sustainability and Cultural Values in Energy-Efficient Renovation of Postwar Walk-Up Apartment Buildings

Increasing energy efficiency of the housing stock is one of the largest challenges in the built environment today. In line with the international Paris-Climate-Change-Conference 2015, Dutch municipalities and housing associations have embraced the ambition to achieve carbon neutrality for their social housing stock by 2050. However, most deep...

Emergent Urban Interface

By means of 'Design by Emergence' an oblique interface is proposed, feathering out the edge between the vertical Marconi Towers the horizontal city of Rotterdam. <br/><br/>Design by Emergence is a rule-based design approach where the designer designs (interaction) rules for building configuration simulations, shape grammars and building...

Anne Lacaton: Visiting Professor 2016-2017/ Chair of Heritage & Architecture

Anne Lacaton has been a visiting professor at the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment during the Fall Semester 2016-2017, hosted by the Chair of Heritage &amp; Design. In the professional field of Heritage &amp; Design the starting point for design is not just a functional brief and a blank sheet of paper but the challenge...

WAYS to study and research urban, architectural and technical design

This methodological book describes eight forms of study and research as they relate to design: 1) naming and describing; 2) design research and typology; 3) evaluating; 4) modelling; 5) programming and optimising; 6) technical study; 7) design study; 8) study by design. It includes the views, design related research projects and research methods...