Exploring the Digital Evolution: Case Study of Bagnoregio’s Historical Significance and Media Impact

In line with the rapidly growing role of social media in shaping public perceptions of and attitudes towards heritage sites, this study is timely to scrutinize the influence of social media on how people perceive historical heritage with a special emphasis on Bagnoregio, Italy. Through investigating the interaction between modern values and...

Tip & Top in Virtual Reality: The integration of virtual materiality and interactive storytelling in a historical VR pop-up book experience

This project focuses on translating a historical pop-up book into a meaningful virtual experience. The project is in collaboration with the National Library (KB) of the Netherlands, which has a special collection of historical pop-up books. The KB will be moving their collections to an external location, making the books inaccessible. These...

Moluccan Territories: Rethinking the Cultural Heritage of Moluccan Neighbourhoods in the Netherlands

This research and design project explores the use of the Pattern Language method to transform Moluccan neighbourhoods in the Netherlands into inclusive areas while enhancing their cultural heritage. The study focuses on the Moluccan neighbourhood in Barneveld for renovation and the Lloydkade in Rotterdam as a site for creating new places of...

VisuaLayered: Combined Visual Analysis of MA-XRF and RIS Data

In this work, we present VisuaLayered, the implementation of a combined analysis workflow for pigment identification. VisuaLayered is an integrated, interactive system that focuses on the combined visual analysis of Macro X-Ray Fluorescence (MA-XRF) and Reflectance Imaging Spectroscopy (RIS) data.<br/><br/>Analysing paintings for pigment...

Zwolle: The redevelopment of a fortified city

Demolition or renovation has always been a matter of debate in the built environment, especially in densely populated cities with little room for new construction. In the past, people often opted for the former, demolition, but today people are increasingly realizing what has already been lost over the years. Many old fortified cities have also...

Collective memory as a design tool for sense of place in the adaptive reuse of vacant heritage: The former department store V&D Leiden as case study

A more inclusive perspective on heritage management regarding sustainable development becomes an important aspect in understanding and reflecting on heritage buildings or sites. The cultural significance they convey, such as attributes and values attached to them, are not only represented by physical assets, but are also reflected in people’s...

Developing a framework for the assessment of current and future flood risk in Venice, Italy

Flooding has been a serious risk to the old-town of Venice, its residents and cultural heritage and continues to be a challenge in future. Despite this existence-defining condition, limited scientific knowledge on flood hazard and flood damage modelling of the old-town of Venice is available to support decisions to mitigate existing and future...

The Maassilo towards a machine for exchange of culture: Working as a link between users, local and international culture

Between 1850 and 1900, the city of Rotterdam transformed into an international harbour city. In the twentieth century, the harbour rapidly grew larger to being the largest harbour in the world for over forty years. The first part of the Maassilo was built in the beginning of the twentieth century. As the harbour grew larger, the Maassilo...

Towards sustainable urban waterfronts in the Middle East: assessing the role of cultural heritage in the redevelopment of Port Sultan Qaboos in Oman

When looking at a country like Oman that is abundant in its historical and cultural heritage, it is apparent that these aspects have a huge role in shaping this country’s identity, and remains to this day engraved in different parts of its built environment. However, the values and opportunities of cultural heritage are increasingly overlooked...

The Value of Cultural Heritage: Measurement of the indirect economic added value of the adaptive re-use of cultural heritage

Because of the loss of function, the vacancy levels of cultural heritage are rising. This leads to all kind of (societal) problems. Meanwhile, the value of cultural heritage is difficult to qualify and quantify in terms of economic benefits, which makes it hard to define the added value of cultural heritage and the value created by the adaptive...

Cultural Heritage Counts for Parrano: Study on the use of cultural heritage for redevelopment of vacant farmhouses in Central Italy

Decision Modelling Adaptive Re-use of Religious Heritage

Because of increased secularization and decreased parish revenues, obsolete churches are being sold. Adaptive re-use could preserve the cultural heritage these buildings represent, while having many further benefits. Decision modelling helps view these problems with every actor and their viewpoints in context and in relation with one another and...

Museo Passangrahan: Designing for the Cultural Heritage of Bonaire

In 2014, the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management Foundation (NAAM) was commissioned by the Bonairean government (OLB) to realize a permanent museum exhibition on the ground floor of the Passanggrahan building. The exhibition is to be based on the (historic) city center of Kralendijk. Being that the realization of this...

Predicting the Mechanical Properties of Animal Glue Thin Films

This report shows that animal glue from porcine skins can be used to make thin films with reproducible properties. It shows that the tensile strength of the film relates linearly to the bloom strength, while the stiffness remains constant for temperatures lower than the glass transition temperature. The report continues to show how Differential...

3D Reconstruction of Niniveh: A casestudy on the Bas-reliefs of the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib with monocular images

Parts of the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib (700 BC), which were located in Nineveh (Iraq), are now destroyed by the ongoing conflict in Iraq and Syria. The palace rooms used to be decorated with numerous Assyrian reliefs. Luckily, digital pictures of the site are available thanks to an Italian expedition in 2002. The goal of this research is...

A Collective Binnengasthuis area

Master thesis of the studio Heritage & Housing, location Binnengasthuisarea in Amsterdam.

Strategy Evaluation for High Quality Crowd Annotations in Cultural Heritage

Digitised Cultural Heritage Objects like pictures, video and audio are hard to retrieve without metadata like annotations describing what is depicted or the events which take place. Unfortunately the creation of this metadata is quite a slow and lengthy process, especially when this needs to be done in a qualitative manner. So the question...