Model validation for bird strike crashworthiness

Bird strike simulations require accurate information about the nonlinear material properties of the bird and structure, dynamic changes in contact between bird and structure, and large displacements and rotations of the structural elements. The soft-body nature of birds allows it to flow fluidly upon impact, making accurate simulation validation...

The Legal Dilemma for Environmental Democracy: Application of Blue Engineering

Compliance through deterrence is the major criteria for the implementation of environmental laws. The study conducted by Jerry and Amy, (2023), showed that this compliance through deterrence was implemented only to not allow the violator to have an economic advantage over the non-violator. The data obtained in the study, indicated that...

Collaborate to accelerate: Exploring the empirical perspective on accelerating the initiation phase of inner-city redevelopment projects: from Industrial to mixed work-residential areas

The Dutch housing market is currently dealing with a significant dwelling deficit, which results in the need to accelerate the development of large quantities of dwellings in the urban areas. This thesis studies the redevelopment of inner-city industrial sites into mixed work-residential areas, especially focussing on the collaboration process...

Reinventing the Craftsmanship: Transforming Indonesia’s urban kampungs into sustainable and circular neighbourhoods

The main focus of this graduation project is on the transformation of the building industry within the self-built environment of slums towards a local, circular economy. To do this, it influences the building process, as well as the building materials and its production cycle. The currently highly polluting building industry has an influence on...

Forgotten Heritage: Transforming the Klein Vaticaan into Dementia Care

This thesis focuses on the Klein Vaticaan area of Zutphen. The Klein Vaticaan was part of the Roman Catholic community within Zutphen, and consisted of an ensemble of buildings located in the neighborhood of the Nieuwstad. The Klein Vaticaan grew significantly throughout the years; at its peak it was roughly the whole eastern part of the...

Making a High Density, Mixed-Use Neighborhood Energy Neutral: With new urban building blocks and using renewable resources, in Western Europe

This paper describes a set of guideline that will help architects, planners and policy makers in developing high-density, mixed-use neighbor-hoods that are energy neutral by firstly reducing the initial demand, com-bining functions to reuse and recycle waste streams and thirdly to use on-site renewable energy sources to meet the remaining demand...

Model-Based Governance of Phosphate Market Imbalances: Mixing and Matching Model Building Blocks

Phosphorus is essential for all life on this planet. It is needed to provide for high productivity yields in modern agriculture: a key part of the Green Revolution that took place in the twentieth century. There is no substitute for phosphate rock and phosphate fertilizer in their agricultural role. Both the markets for phosphate rock and...

Greenhouse transitionzone

The Airey building blocks in Amsterdam currently don’t meet regulations set for 2020 that state that buildings should operate in an energy neutral manner. The goal of this research is to establish whether addition of greenhouses can improve indoor thermal comfort and reduce total energy use in such a way that they contribute to energy neutrality...

Werken aan de Wielewaalstraat: Transformation and activation of the organic urbanism on Rotterdam South

The principles of organic urbanism, originally applied by J.H. van den Broek in his plans on Rotterdam South, prove to be characteristic locations to propose strategic interventions for municipality and housing corporations to improve neighbourhoods and city districts. In this graduation report, an extensive historical research towards Rotterdam...

Active IJburg: The closed building block revised

Within the research on designed appropriation we concluded that certain aspects or design elements could “trigger” inhabitants to appropriate or actually restrain this. Combining some elements worked better than other, but overall it could be said that renting a property does not encourage possible appropriation. If appropriation has to take...

Stage & decor

An intervention on urban and architectural scale, set as stage and decor, facilitating collective life within the Lijnbaan area.