Towards a healthier young generation: A strategy for the municipality of Rotterdam to stimulate VMBO students to make healthy dietary choices through design interventions

We live in a world where our plates are filled with convenience and our choices are influenced by an environment full of temptation. The current food system places immense pressure on planetary boundaries and affects people’s health. <br/><br/>A large portion of the Dutch population does not stick to healthy diet guidelines, including the...

Ambidextrous Port: Logistic Hub for Goods and People

The thesis aims to investigate the different flows of logistics particularly goods and people through urban mobility strategies and utilizing inland waterways to improve the efficiency of logistic lifecycles. The project also speculates about the ever-changing logistic infrastructures such as a terminal, warehouse and distribution center. The...

Red Cross Social Center: Migration of social adaptation to climate change

The climate is changing and to deal with this climate change, adaptations have to be made to the way we live. This research focusses on a particular site in Rotterdam Zuid in terms of climate change. The research question is the following: How can both- social and hard infrastructure contribute to the creation of a climate proof, resilient...

Towards the Empowerment of the Deprived

This thesis is aiming for proposing spatio-functional interventions, which facilitates the promotion of the socio-economic status of the deprived neighborhoods of Rotterdam South. According to the literature review and analysis in spatial, social and economical aspect, some patterns are proposed which are aiming for multi-scale and multi-layer...

Regenerating Rotterdam South: Improving socio-economic diversity and spatial quality in problem areas dealing with selective migration

Olympic aftermath: Olympic Games as a catalyst for urban regeneration in Rotterdam

This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the MSc program in Urbanism at the faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. It aims at making a strategy to use the Olympic Games as a catalyst for urban regeneration in Rotterdam. Although the Games in itself are a short-term event, the impact on the host city and...