Do we still need office buildings?: Four explorative scenarios for Dutch offices in 2050

This study explores the use and demand for offices in the Netherlands in 2050. Employees and employers have not found a balance in hybrid working, resulting in significant hidden vacancy. This refers to office space that is leased but not utilized, leading to ineffective office management. Real estate managers lack a guide to formulate a future...

Left Alone: Spatial and programmatic interventions countering urban loneliness in Linkeroever

People are feeling more and more lonely, especially in cities. This has negative effects on mental and physical well-being as well as on the economy. Feeling lonely is not just caused by internal factors like genetics and social skills, as many people think. The environment we live in contributes 52% to the feeling of loneliness. This...

Horst Radio: Towards a futureproof Binckhorst with a human touch

This is a graduation project within the Public Building studio, where multiplicity and human scale is researched in the typology of a music venue. Hereby the theme of the studio, “Music Marvel - Music &amp; Popular Culture Re-Wired”, is explored and experimented with.<br/><br/>The Binckhorst, in The Hague, is on the brink of change. The formal...

Building SimpliCity: Bringing affordable housing back to the people

The housing shortage in the Netherlands and the high contribution of the construction sector towards climate change demands a different approach towards affordable housing. A combination of the concept of a 'housing cooperative' and the implementation of 'low-tech principles' on all scales of the design tries to bring back affordable housing...

Art Institute Frans: A research on the atmosphere of Maastricht, applied to the design of

A research on the atmosphere of Maastricht, applied to the design of Art Institute Frans

Arising From the Ruin: Turning an abandoned industrial mega-structure into a village in Belgrade, Serbia.

How to deal with the abundance of abandoned mega-structures in a city and where do these structures fit in modern society? <br/><br/>Rather than repelling or demolishing, this project deals with the structure of the abandoned factory of Belgrade by redefining its relationship to the human scale. The use of the age-old approach of roman and...

Typologies:: Small communities for big encounters

Anonymity in cities and a lack of architectural identity are some of the social-architectural challenges of our time, with profound consequences for urban life. Not only does architecture have a major impact on how we experience cities and buildings, it also has an impact on our health, wellbeing and behavior. The aim of this research is to find...

Rediscovering the shopping centre: Historical analysis of the shopping centre typology and its succes in the Netherlands 1950 - 1975

The ‘shopping centre’ undergoes significant changes due to new social demands and requirements of people. Where large American shopping malls face a consumerist crisis, neighbourhood shopping centres are on the rise in the Netherlands. A combination of complex urban planning concepts, and key building characteristic such as the ‘human scale’, ...

Corporations and cities: Designer’s intentions and user perceptions of the interaction between corporate office building and the city

The city area is dense with business activities, public amenities, transport hubs and high-skilled people. Corporations prefer to be located in the city area to gain benefits from the location. However, annoyance occurs because of the real estate decisions of organisations as they neglect urban planning and context and results in inefficient,...

Open and Closed: A public space in Rotterdam at the border condition

In the coming 20 years, the city centre of Rotterdam will face a new wave of constructions, with the goal of densify the area with new 50.000 dwellings before the 2040, converting the city centre towards a more residential and international character. This up-coming densification of Rotterdam, led by the high-rise strategy developed by the...

Aerodynamic drag determination of a full-scale cyclist mannequin from largescale PTV measurements

Large-scale Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurements are cond ucted in the wake of a fu ll-scale cyclist model in time-trial position at freestream velocities between 12.5 and 15 m/ s, corresponding to Reynolds numbers of the order of 5×105. Lagrangian particle tracking is employed to determine the velocity and static pressure statistics...

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...