How IOT solutions can help policymakers monitor heat and air quality in urban areas as a part of their smart city strategy?

Cities are the centres of communication, commerce, and culture. Although, more than 80% of global GDP is generated in urban districts, the cities consume two-thirds of global resources and produce more than 70% of global CO2 emissions. Rising population, escalating urban pollution, the effects of climate change urge cities to search for...

Transit Hub Provençals: An exploration of new urban networks and advanced infrastructure

Provençals Transit hub is situated in Barcelona’s 22@ district, one of the last parts of the Cerda grid within the city center, being transformed to a more contemporary urban tissue. The project primarily deals with the new mobility model. Advanced infrastructure networks and nodes within this system will be the base and footprint for the design...

Legacy strategies for future Olympic host cities

Research consists of an intensive literature study of five preceding summer Olympic Games and an in-depth case study of the London 2012 Olympics. In all cases the legacy-planning during the process is analysed and evaluated by making use of a strategic model. In the end the lessons learned from preceding Games and London are converted into...

Barcelona: Energy + Urban Form

Contemporary cities, established largely around stable supplies of materials and plentiful access to energy sources, will be seriously affected by sudden changes in supply - particularly if technology cannot cater for consumption demands. This thesis explores energy consumption and energy dependency, framed in terms of urban density, using the...

Constructing the in?between metropolitan landscapes: An open space strategy for the Barcelona Metropolitan Region

The thesis attempts to understand the processes of metropolization occurred during the last decades in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region in terms of change of scale, new functions and physical transformations of the urban landscape. The dispersed and fragmented landscapes of expansion are analyzed to understand which are the elements of conflict...

Diagonaal op de Diagonal

Ontwerp voor een woongebouw in Barcelona

Montjuïc, her-bergt de stad

Graduation project on rethinking the position of the mountain Montjuïc in Barcelona. Project rethinks what the mountain means to Barcelona as a citypark and how to reemphasize this. And develops a plan for reconnecting the entrance to the Montjuïc from the city centre and harbour front. With the development of a hotel, the Parador + as a meeting...