Rethinking the Territory of Concepción Chile: A resilient and strategic planning for a vulnerable urban coastal system

This research aims to re-envision the city, understanding it as a living system where change creates growth and renewal, and where uncertainty is our new normal. The continuous struggle between cities and nature, forces human settlements to look for stability and safety, trying to control the dynamics and flows of underlying landscapes. In Chile...

Towards Resilient Delta: Integration of natural dynamics as water safety and climate adaptation measures within the urbanised delta city of Dordrecht

As the landscape of the south western river delta in the Netherlands is increasingly urbanised, the processes of urbanisation and the dynamics of nature can no longer go in their separate ways. Measures for water safety, that over the course of recent history has been diverting, regulating, and controlling natural dynamics away from the urban...

Shaping the Outside Space through Play Narrative

After the Second World War, play has been used as a tool to reconstruct the image of the city of Amsterdam. Even though nowadays urban areas present similar derelict sites, the causes and needs are different. The negative effects of gentrification and suburbanization require a play related strategy with emphasis on sustainable aspects. As a...

Manipulator control by energy dissipation

In this research we investigate a class of systems which can only be controlled by dissipating energy. As an example, we investigate the control of a robotic manipulator without motors, but merely dissipative elements such as brakes and dampers. The energy source of the manipulator is the potential (gravitational) energy of the package which it...