"uuid","repository link","title","author","contributor","publication year","abstract","subject topic","language","publication type","publisher","isbn","issn","patent","patent status","bibliographic note","access restriction","embargo date","faculty","department","research group","programme","project","coordinates"
"uuid:8ef3270f-7c99-487e-aedd-928c97308a5e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8ef3270f-7c99-487e-aedd-928c97308a5e","Exploring cross-cultural design through a concept on value exchange: How redefining public space can create socio-economic space","van Diemen, Bram (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering; TU Delft Human-Centered Design)","van Dijk, M.B. (mentor); van Heur, R.J.H.G. (graduation committee); Okoth, L.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2024","This graduation project takes place in Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with Design without Borders Africa (Dwb).
The aim of the project is threefold:
Create social impact in the domain of value exchange in the public space of Kampala,
Apply the Vision in Product design (ViP) method for the first time in the designer’s career and
Evaluate the responsibility of the designer in relation to a cross-cultural design project.
After establishing the ViP domain as ‘value exchange in the public space’ and performing two deconstructions (one by the designer and one by Dwb) extensive research is performed.
It focuses on a time 10 years ahead (2034) and collects 215 factors (statements about the domain): 161 from literature, and 54 from interviews with 35 vendors in Kampala. The factors are clustered into 16 driving forces of the future context.
With the driving forces a framework is constructed of 12 cells, the directions the future context can move into. The axes of the framework reveal the root of the problems around street vending.
(1*) the organization of public space: Kampala’s public space receives meaning from many, misaligned origins. Government planning is not consistent with the use of space.
(*2) socio-economic uncertainty: the sheer numbers of people combined with a lack of jobs creates uncertainty to which people react in different ways. These reactions create their motive to participate in value exchange.
3 cells are chosen to formulate a vision statement. We want to decrease discrimination, provide stability for hustlers and steer investments to where they are needed. Three goals which correspond to the main stakeholders: vendors, clients and the local authority (KCCA). The lost in translation between them must be addressed to enable any social transformation. Integration of vendors must become the goal rather than expulsion. To achieve this we want to reveal the value of value exchange: showing vendors’ contribution in terms of convenience, urban life and economic potential.
With individual and group ideation the concept is developed. It consists of a stall and street design assigning space to vendors in pedestrian zones. Vendors are given fixed categories, streets are replanned and vendors are made the guardians and cleaners of the street. Placement of spots is used to regulate traffic flow and decongest the city. The concept couples this reorganization of public space to the other axis of socio-economic insecurity, by turning street vending from a last resort into a first step up the formal ladder. Vendors can only rent a stall for six months during which they are educated, build a network and are helped in saving money – after the 6 months they are ready to start a full business. The financial and organizational aspects of the concept are also thought out.
Elaborate testing is performed with vendors and authorities. Most of the feedback is worked into the concept. Recommendations for further development include directions for stall design and a road map for taking the concept to a pilot level.
The reflection results in 6 design principles guiding western designers doing projects in radically different contexts.
The thesis focuses on the field between architecture and urbanism, on the domain between public and private. It is an attempt to bring an interactive notion to ‘street’ and its role in the design of urban areas and smaller architecture projects. It aims to reinforce the quality of open space within and between the built structures and the existing corridors by blurring the borders of inside and outside.","Street study; Fragmentation; urbanity; Ordinary interactions; Collective Memory; Urban Architecture; Bressoux; public space","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","50.644245, 5.605708"
"uuid:89231e65-19f8-453b-bbdc-e8bed5d5952e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:89231e65-19f8-453b-bbdc-e8bed5d5952e","Optimizing district heating networks: Exploring the solution space: Transporting geothermal energy to consumers in Delft","Piket, Martijn (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)","Heijnen, P.W. (mentor); Warnier, Martijn (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Society is facing a huge challenge in switching the energy sectors dependence on fossil fuels into an energy sector using mostly renewable energy sources. The switch towards using more sustainable energy sources is known as the energy transition. The goal of the energy transition is to lower the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the energy sector. Lowering the GHG emissions helps society limit the global warming caused by GHG [3]. 17.5 % of the global energy usage comes from the energy use in buildings [50]. It is thus very important that the energy use in buildings transitions towards using more sustainable energy sources. One of the renewable energy sources that is ought promising in the energy transition for energy use in buildings is geothermal energy [3]. Geothermal energy is energy that is captured in reservoirs of hot water in the earth’s crust. The hot water captured in the hot water pockets is pumped to the surface, to use it in spatial heating. The return pipe returns the cooled water to the geothermal well, where it can heat up again over a certain period of time [63] [23].
In some cases, geothermal energy is applied using a district heating network. A district heating network is an example of a system that provides heating and/or cooling capacities to a group of buildings [65]. A district heating network is a network of pipelines that transport the hot water from the geothermal well to the buildings in the district. A geothermal well in combination with a district heating network is developed in Delft [27]. The district heating network will deliver energy to the TU Delft campus, two neighborhoods in Delft and industry at the Schieweg in Delft [28].
Besides the district heating network in Delft, it is expected that district heating networks will be applied more often to accelerate the energy transition. Yun-Chao and Chen (2012) concluded that most optimization techniques optimize the whole system with its components. Less optimization techniques are applied to the sole components. Besides the fact that most optimization methods optimize the system as a whole, most optimization objectives only include optimizing the cost of the system. Also, effective optimization techniques are required as optimizing large graphs may be computationally time consuming [36]. In literature there are also clear signals that state that the trade-off between thermal comfort, and efficiency with respect to cost has to be tackled [53]. In this research, optimizing district heating networks for cost is compared to optimizing district heating to maximize thermal comfort or efficiency.
In this research two models are developed: a model that calculates the cost of the district heating network, and a model that calculates the thermal losses of the district heating network. Both models are applied to a district heating networks that is developed in a street network. Furthermore, multiple heuristics are applied to come up with better district heating networks. The optimization technique is tested on 100 small, randomly generated district heating networks. After that, the district heating network in Delft is optimized. The differences in cost, efficiency, etc. will be evaluated. Besides, the performances of the district heating networks are evaluated by introducing energy deficits under different conditions.
Optimizing the district heating networks for cost led to a very consistent result: When compared to their individual starting point, the district heating networks became cheaper and more efficient. A moderate-strong correlation is found between the the increase in efficiency and the decrease in cost while optimizing the district heating networks. In contrast to that, the networks that maximize efficiency are much more expensive than their cost optimized alternative, while the increase in efficiency is in most cases moderate. However, there are rare cases where the efficiency is increased much at a moderate increase in cost. This phenomenon is also found in Delft. Given the result that the efficient district heating network also performed much better than the cheapest alternative during energy deficits, in this research it is shown that choosing an objective function has a very large impact on the characteristics of the network. Therefore it is shown that for future district heating network optimization, it is important to trade off cost against efficiency.","District Heating Network; Optimization; Graph theory; Heuristics; street network; Pipeline networks","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM)","",""
"uuid:efd2cbee-d047-428b-9ec4-f85cb90540d4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:efd2cbee-d047-428b-9ec4-f85cb90540d4","Urban Nodes: weaving community connections through interconnected hubs","Dardzińska, Weronika (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Alkan, A.S. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); van der Meij, A.M.R. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","This research aims to uncover the hidden/overlooked potential of high streets, which will contribute to enhancing their quality and highlighting the significant role these streets play in the formation and creation of community spaces in the city. The design aims to use the opportunities of different spots along the shopping streets that are important places for communities as a catalyst for change in the streets themselves. By identifying and connecting ""hot spots,"" where a prominent presence of people is observed, and introducing new places, an interconnected system is formed, strengthening the overall fabric of the high street. Furthermore, through the strategic placement of a diverse range of functions within the existing building of the former shopping center and a newly designed structure, the project seeks to attract various actors and activate the new hot spots inside out. This research and design endeavor strives to unlock the latent potential of high streets, fostering vibrant and inclusive community spaces that promote engagement, interaction, and a sense of belonging.","high streets; diversity; destination; liminal spaces; hot spots; transition spaces; thresholds","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.372840, -0.099711"
"uuid:705c94ce-484b-481b-9c78-90e6d5ab282e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:705c94ce-484b-481b-9c78-90e6d5ab282e","To Redefine, Not Reinforce: A Spatial Decision Support System with Generative Design Model for Exploring Optimal Improvements to Existing Street Networks for Enhancing Equity of Accessibility","Chen, Wen-Yu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)","Verma, T. (mentor); Nourian, Pirouz (mentor); Goncalves, J. E. (graduation committee); Bai, N. (graduation committee); Nelson, R.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution); Universiteit Leiden (degree granting institution)","2023","Transport decision-making determines people’s level of accessibility and deeply influences an individual’s access to social and economic opportunities and the quality of life. Socially vulnerable populations are highly dependent on yet often more likely to have less access to transport services and experience lower accessibility. This creates and reinforces social and spatial inequalities by trapping people in disconnected neighborhoods and segregated areas that continue to be deprived of access to opportunities. This research aims to develop a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) to explore how re-purposing existing streets for walking and biking could influence the accessibility of vulnerable neighborhoods to support decision-making in enhancing equity of accessibility.
In the SDSS, equity of accessibility is formulated as a generative design (GD) problem, named the Street Allocation Decision Problem (SADP), a single-objective optimization problem that searches for generated designs with the maximum weighted improvement in accessibility per unit of its cost. A GD model is built to solve SADP. Lastly, an operational framework is developed to guide prospective users in tuning and operating the SDSS for their specific context, problem, and objective.
The SDSS is tested on a toy problem, a 0.09km2 area in The Hague, The Netherlands. The toy problem is small in scale, easy and fast to implement and useful for initial testing of the model. Preliminary results have demonstrated the feasibility of the model. This is the first and humble attempt at developing an SDSS for enhancing equity of accessibility with a GD model. However, there are shortcomings in methodology and result quality, which compromise the practicality of the model and the interpretability of results. Although, only a proof of concept at the moment, the SDSS is a valuable starting point due to its advantages, such as transparency, modularity, humane-ness, and flexibility. This SDSS is built to involve decision-makers in the design process, which could serve as a useful learning experience for questioning and understanding what is the problem, what is considered equitable, and what are possible solutions. The SDSS has the potential to facilitate learning during transport decision-making in experimental settings or as explorative aids in early design stages.","Equity; Accessibility; Generative design; Spatial decision support system; Network design problem; Network optimization; Street allocation decision problem; Just city","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Industrial Ecology","",""
"uuid:857658d4-9134-4935-9c28-fef907d9ace1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:857658d4-9134-4935-9c28-fef907d9ace1","Floor count from street view imagery using learning-based façade parsing","Dobson, Daniel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Arroyo Ohori, G.A.K. (mentor); Ibrahimli, N. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2023","Street view imagery (SVI) is one of the largest (growing) resources in urban analytics. A global close-up of the urban environment, if you will, which is rich in (untapped) information such as floor count. Floor count is useful in many applications, from improving energy consumption calculations to creation of 3D city models without elevation data. So far, efforts to extract floor count from SVI are mainly approached as a classification problem with the use of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Limitations of this approach include the need of large (manually annotated) datasets, and uncertainty how these models learn to count storeys. Therefore, we aim to develop a method that can be trained on available datasets and determine floor count in a more explainable manner.
In order to make the floor count determination method more transparent, we mimic the row-wise counting of storeys as humans do: by vertically parsing a column of windows (and occasional door). Façade parsing is a common computer vision task that we can solve with deep learning. In this work, we employ the Mask R-CNN framework, that is trained on publicly available datasets, for the detection and segmentation of windows and doors. Then, the vertical distribution of detected / segmented windows and doors is estimated by computing the kernel density estimation function. The floor count is extracted by finding the number of maxima in the function, as the maxima represent the dense areas of windows and doors on a horizontal axis (i.e. storeys). To improve the results, an automatic image rectification is added as pre-processing step that enforces the regularity and repetitive occurrence of windows and doors. The full pipeline thus consists of three stages: 1) automatic image rectification, 2) window and door detection/ segmentation with Mask RCNN, 3) floor count estimation via maxima finding on the kernel density estimation (KDE) function. In addition, a small ""wild"" dataset was created that contains a higher variability in floor count, image quality and architectural styles, which better reflect real world SVI than existing façade datasets.
The floor count performance of the full pipeline was evaluated on the Amsterdam Facade (subset), ECP, TRIMS and ""wild SVI"" datasets. Since floor count annotations were missing, these are manually added. For detection-based data, the best results are an accuracy of 83% and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.17. For normalised segmentation-based data, the best results are an accuracy of 80% and a MAE of 0.20. Considering the method is still at its infancy, the results are promising. With further improvements in the pipeline and addition of automatic façade acquisition, the approach can contribute in large scale extraction of floor count information from SVI. To encourage further development, the pipeline prototype, dataset and floor count annotations are open source and will be released on https://github.com/Dobberzoon/Facade2Floorcount.","Floor count; Street View Imagery; façade parsing; facade; Deep Learning; Kernel Density Estimation; floor counting; number of storeys; image rectification; automatic","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Geomatics","",""
"uuid:e57a9b03-cd56-4e99-8081-a4787faca337","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e57a9b03-cd56-4e99-8081-a4787faca337","Public Space Resiliency in Dar es Salaam: Investigating the qualities of public space resiliency in central Dar es Salaam to inform the strategic design of the Lower Msimbazi Redevelopment masterplan.","Dajani, Rakan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Forgaci, C. (mentor); Wreyford, Jess (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution); Wageningen University & Research (degree granting institution)","2022","A masterplan, commissioned by the Municipality of Dar es Salaam aims to redevelop the Lower Msimbazi River Basin with new urban development. In the context of rapid urbanisation and sustainable development, uncovering the relationship between public space and resiliency as mediated by urban form is essential to contribute to resilient master planning in developing environments and in this context, a more resilient public space in the redevelopment masterplan in Dar es Salaam. The research departs from an ongoing tension in master planning – how to assess and determine optimal qualities of urban form to enhance resiliency of public spaces. The research aims to define, spatially assess, and explore the relationships of factors influencing public space resiliency in central Dar es Salaam using a combination of a transdisciplinary literature review, geospatial quantitative analysis, ethnographic observations, and in-depth interviews. To inform a more resilient public space in the redevelopment masterplan, the research urges approaching resiliency in terms of ward-based identities and typologies. It recommends improving resiliency through the creation of space by enabling polycentricity, designing for wider conceptions of public space and strategically densifying through the creation of new urban forms. The research opens up possibilities for strategic interventions given further local investigation and site-specific acceptability by residents in Dar es Salaam.","public space; Resilience Assessment Tool; Space Syntax; street network; Urban form; Urban Development","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Metropolitan Analysis, Design and Engineering (MADE)","",""
"uuid:fd6af5cb-c8a7-4b54-8161-b34ede4cf2dd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fd6af5cb-c8a7-4b54-8161-b34ede4cf2dd","SliceNet: Street-to-Satellite Image Metric Localization using Local Feature Matching","de Vries Lentsch, Ted (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering)","Kooij, J.F.P. (mentor); Xia, Z. (mentor); Caesar, H.C. (graduation committee); Khademi, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","This work addresses visual localization for intelligent vehicles. The task of cross-view matching-based localization is to estimate the geo-location of a vehicle-mounted camera by matching the captured street view image with an overhead-view satellite map containing the vehicle's local surroundings. This local satellite view image can be obtained using any rough localization prior, e.g., from a global navigation satellite system or temporal filtering. Existing cross-view matching methods are global image descriptor-based and achieve considerably lower localization performance than structure-based methods with 3D maps. Whereas structure-based methods utilized global image descriptors in the past, recent structure-based work has shown that significantly better localization performance can be achieved using local image descriptors to find pixel-level correspondences between the query street view image and the 3D map. Hence, using local image descriptors may be the key to improving the localization performance of cross-view matching methods. However, the street and the satellite view do exhibit not only very different visual appearances but also have distinctive geometric configurations. As a result, finding correspondences between the two views is not a trivial task. We observe that the geometric relationship between the street and satellite view implies that every vertical line in the street view image has a corresponding azimuth direction in the satellite view image. Based on this prior, we devise a novel neural network architecture called SliceNet that extracts local image descriptors from both images and matches these to compute a dense spatial distribution for the camera's location. Specifically, the geometric prior is used as a weakly supervised signal to enable SliceNet to learn the correspondences between the two views. As an additional task, we also show that the extracted local image descriptors can be used to determine the heading of the camera. SliceNet outperforms global image descriptor-based cross-view matching methods and achieves state-of-the-art localization results on the VIGOR dataset. Notably, the proposed method reduces the median metric localization error by 21% and 4% compared to the state-of-the-art methods when generalizing, respectively, in the same area and across areas.","street-to-satellite image matching; cross-view matching; vehicle localization; SliceNet; street camera localization; visual localization; image metric localization; image matching; local feature matching; pose estimation","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Mechanical Engineering","",""
"uuid:b42b5c8b-a7dc-499f-80d2-b3aa763f5a9a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b42b5c8b-a7dc-499f-80d2-b3aa763f5a9a","Restaging the High Street: A strategy of regeneration for the high street by reactivating its interstices","Taremi, Peyvand (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Lierop, J.P.M. (mentor); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Cavallo, R. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","The “traditional” high street that was once a distinctive element in the city’s historic urban fabric, is now slowly declining. This decline is further intensified by the insensitive development of its nearby leftover lands and the lack of investment in the public realm. This research is meant to support a new interpretation for the contemporary high street in the basis of urban interstices and it aims to emphasize the importance of considering the high street and its community in the future city planning. For that reason, a number of urban and architectural placemaking interventions are studied, using a precedent analysis in order to explore possible urban regeneration strategies as an attempt to reconnect the high street to its surrounding urban fabric and functions. Eventually, through specific case of Shoreditch district, this paper seeks to establish the development capacity for the high street, in terms of the available development sites and their potential relationship with the existing infrastructure and services.","High Street; Urban interstices; Urban crack; Urban regeneration; Placemaking","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.507200, -0.127600"
"uuid:04913e4f-5702-4dee-a759-1d51a0e6e5df","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:04913e4f-5702-4dee-a759-1d51a0e6e5df","Reading the Nieuwe Binnenweg: A section of a city, a street and its social territory","Enneking, Guusje (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Milinović, S. (mentor); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (graduation committee); van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","This project tries to, inspired by the heavily quantified and confined ways of assessing ""liveability"" in policy documents, come up with a different way of reading the city. In this project, I aimed to explore this reading within the unit of the street, to see how focusing on a single street, a section of the city, could result in valuable broad insight into the neighborhood, the city and beyond. For the reading of this street, a socio-spatial approach was adopted, seeing space as a social product and focusing on how it is perceived and lived by its users in everyday socio-spatial practices. This is researched by walking and talking with ten individuals living and/or working on the this street. From this I tried to read the street through different eyes, the eyes of the people that are in a way experts of the street and see what lessons can be learned from this.","Socio-spatial approach; Walking Interviews; Liveability; Street life","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","51.913475, 4.461814"
"uuid:b3c9795b-c045-41d0-879f-aca1a1c2688e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b3c9795b-c045-41d0-879f-aca1a1c2688e","Building Biographies through Heritage Repurposing: Socio-spatial Research in Shipai Village under Rapid Urbanization","Xie, Shanshan (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Yerli, D. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","Chinese urban village has attracted much discussion as an urban phenomenon by sociologists and architects. It was transformed from a traditional village gathered by clans with blood ties to an urban enclave focusing on a land-profit economy. At the same time, with the migration of locals and outsiders, the collective memory has changed from a mono-cultural memory to a multicultural memory. And problems such as poor infrastructure, unspoken rules of space usage and social segregation in the urban village have become increasingly severe during urbanization. However, there is not enough research on the urban village to explore the causes of such social conflicts based on the spatial conflicts.
This article focuses on the Shipai village in Guangzhou and examed Lefebvre's theory of spatial production to explore the relationships between the changes in collective memory and spatial conflicts in Shipaii village. Based on the perspective of urban ethnography, the repurposing of heritage, such as the transformation of ancestral halls and streets, will be used as spatial outcomes to observe how people fix into the urbanization through morphological dynamics and the impact of collective memory on this transformation.
The critical questions are: What is the conflict in SV? What is the relationship between collective memory and spatial contradictions in Shipai Village? What are the processes and outcomes of spatial contradictions? I argued that the contradiction in SV is a group clash, where cultural diversity has resulted in an unshared collective memory.","AR2A011; Urban villages; collective memory; heritage repurpose; urban ethnography; ancestral halls; streets","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:686d73bd-33dd-42fe-807e-263ccc39ba10","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:686d73bd-33dd-42fe-807e-263ccc39ba10","From Streets-in-the-Sky to a Castle in the Air: Development and Decline of a Concept (1952-1980s)","Wong, Stephanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity)","Novas, María (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2022","After World War II, various architectural theories were proposed for urban development in order to tackle the societal issues and housing issues arising from the post-war trauma. ‘Streets-in-the-sky’, proposed by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1952, was one of the concepts that emerged in the post-war era and advocated the core values of human association and identity in the city. The Smithsons conceived the concept as a solution to the lack of public space on ground level due to the proliferation of automobiles, envisaging a vibrant uplifted public life. Hence, the notion gained critical acclaim in the early 1960s since it was also a response to the rigid urban planning of CIAM, prioritized community as a critical fragment in design and no long treated human as functioning machines. Nevertheless, the notion received increasingly negative feedback as more housing following this concept was built and gradually became viewed as a castle in the air. Scholars and the public no longer perceived the idea as a feasible design solution for the society. This thesis will deconstruct the concept through historical and socio-political lenses using three reference projects: Golden Lane Competition, Park Hill Estate and Robin Hood Gardens. The thesis investigates also the external and internal forces that turned ‘streets-in-the-sky’ into a castle in the air. The paper would be divided into three parts to understand the development and decline of the notion. What were the driving forces that fostered the formulation of ‘streets-in-the-sky’? How did architects implement this architectural theory into practical usage? What were the factors that led to negative public perception of the notion? Although the original ideas were not able to materialize as perfectly as expected in the 1960s, the urban values and historical values are inherited and engender an immense impact to later city development as vertical connection cores and elevated walkways re-appeared in metropolises in the recent decades.","AR2A011; streets-in-the-sky; Alison and Peter Smithson; social housing; uplifted public life; human association; identity","en","student report","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","AR2A011",""
"uuid:593e5c3e-bb25-41e8-a4ef-bec33a326e51","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:593e5c3e-bb25-41e8-a4ef-bec33a326e51","Softening the harder ground: Researching the potential of new street profiles to include a 50% green surface.","van den Brink, Ilse (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Urbanism)","Dijkstra, R.J. (mentor); Luiten, E.A.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The Netherlands is facing urbanisation and densification, and the domination of car use in our mobility system. Both challenges result in built structures and hard surfaces claiming the public space and leaving less space for green and other functions, resulting in the imbalance in public space demand. Within public spaces the green has a low ecological value and climate change challenges, such as Urban Heat Island Effect and water infiltrattion problems, are not addressed. Yet, we see a call for a mobility transition that is oriented to dominantly soft and shared modes of transport.
This thesis investigates how the mobility transition can be used to create green structures within movement spaces that cater to the urban ecological demand, using the region of Haaglanden as a case study. The urban ecological demand concerns three themes: ecology, social activities, and climate. Each of these themes are represented in the ecosystem services (such as water infiltration or food provision) that natural green and blue structures provide and from which we, as humans, derive direct and indirect benefits.
A strong regional green structure can be created through urban environments by making use of the existing mobility network. By moving the focus away from transportation by car to slow and shared transport and by creating linear green structures, the street is used to connect larger green patches within and around the urban fabric. To realise a regional green structure the street profiles need to change; more soft surfaces are to be applied by minimising the space reserved for car use. A Green Street Toolbox is developed as an instrument to obtain an integrated design where all urban ecological demands are considered by applying a systematic approach to the various considerations. Linking the tools of the instrument to the services they provide to the public space allows for this systematic approach.
By applying the toolbox in combination with new street profiles to the chosen design locations in The Hague, this thesis shows that an average result of softening almost 50% of the street surface is a reachable goal. All these softened surfaces provide ecosystem services to our urban environment, leaving us with healthier and higher quality public spaces.","Urban green; Mobility transitions; Street profile design; Urban ecology; Regional green networks; Slow mobility; Shared mobility services","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism","","52.0799838, 4.3113461"
"uuid:07d4d8fc-5d9e-41be-8a72-7dbb6c1bd886","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:07d4d8fc-5d9e-41be-8a72-7dbb6c1bd886","Mobility Hub in Feijenoord: Facilitating Urban Connections using the Idea of Street","Wei, Bin (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","van Bennekom, H.A. (mentor); van der Meel, H.L. (mentor); Mateljan, M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Street, as the fundamental infrastructure for circulation, access and connectivity,
is the crucial public space that supports economic, social and cultural activities.
Moreover, the identity and development of city would be influenced by the street. Since the street was taken as a unit of planning in the 16th century, it has been researched in different aspects to support a more efficient and colorful urban life.
Located in the south of Europe Cultural Capital - Rotterdam, the Feijenoord
district suffers from congested streets, lack of social events and urban disconnection. The streets are mainly for vehicles rather than pedestrian and social activities. As the city municipal pays more attention to the future development of Rotterdam South, the street becomes one of the most useful spatial tools to facilitate urban life and offer better urban connections.
Based on the problems above, this article addresses the relationships among social activities, street space and atmosphere. Further, several spatial modes of the street are given as options for the design project. Through the site research of Feijenoord, the Mobility Hub Project is proposed as the convergent zone to
integrate the district in terms of street.","Mobility Hub; Street; Train and Metro Station; Landscape Park; Social Acitvities; Street life; Urban living; Jungle; Rotterdam Zuid; Feijenoord; Feyenoord City; Convergent Zone","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects","Mobility Hub","51.900747, 4.512178"
"uuid:9b1c3d45-69de-4a30-8f0b-bc4ac098d984","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9b1c3d45-69de-4a30-8f0b-bc4ac098d984","The Interactional High Street: How can the architectural composition of the High Street be repositioned to increase its performance being a resilient and social public space?","van Knegsel, Teun van Knegsel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Cavallo, R. (mentor); Alkan, A.S. (graduation committee); Eckardt, H.F. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","London is the product of hundreds of big and smaller cities and villages that collided, merged and blended during the course of time. Each of these places used to have its own Highstreet, the commercial and social heart of the settlement. Contemporary London now has 600 former High streets; scattered all over London’s perimeters. These Highstreets are without doubt diverse, but do share common characteristics, contemporary challenges and opportunities. Exploring these facets we might discover a new canvas for the London urbanist and architect to draw on; impacting London throughout. Highstreets are divers and most certainly every single one is different from the others. But it is possible to distinguish types. The connected high street chains many historical settlements that now form London its outer boroughs and connects them which the center of the city. These high streets have a dual character being both mobile and social/commercial centers for the city its boroughs. However, as London has grown to become the metropole as we know it, mobility increases to impede the social functionality of the connected high street. Decreasing mobility does not seem a reasonable solution. Rather, the imperfect edges, transitional areas and left-over pockets that typify high streets like the Tottenham high street can be used to reposition the high street making it a interactional and social public space.","High Street; London; architecture; Urbanism; interaction; Open City","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Architectural Design Crossovers","","51.595300, -0.067895"
"uuid:55db22b7-690a-4d6e-9a29-350e0fa47864","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:55db22b7-690a-4d6e-9a29-350e0fa47864","Strategic Analysis for Wireless Connectivity via a Lighting Grid","Brouwer, Sascha (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering)","Keyson, D.V. (mentor); Kim, E.Y. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","One of the critical questions in the current era is how to provide broadband internet for all and second how to realise the digitally connected city of the future. The Covid-19 pandemic painfully exposed a crisis of internet access in many low-income and rural areas in the world. While many people in the Western world could easily shift to teleworking and online education, still 3.7 billion people worldwide do not have access to reliable and high-speed internet (United Nations, 2021). Terragraph, an intellectual property technology that emerged from the Facebook Connectivity group, aims to bridge this digital divide and has a mission to bring more people online to a faster internet. This thesis is executed at BrightSites, a technology venture within Signify. It is the result of almost six months of work covering multiple domains in the intelligent street lighting industry. The main research question of this thesis was to analyse the role of Gbit luminaires in the digitally connected city of the future. Gbit luminaires are innovative fixtures that can enable wireless connectivity on the outdoor lighting grid. These fixtures can provide fibre-like speeds due to the incorporation of mmWave radios that utilise Terragraphs' technology. One of the research outcomes is a theoretical framework that shows stakeholders value capture and value creation motivations. In this project context, value capture is defined as how a particular stakeholder wants to be rewarded for becoming part of the Gbit luminaire ecosystem. On the other hand, value creation is defined as how a specific stakeholder can deliver value and strengthen the Gbit luminaire ecosystem. The findings show that the Gbit luminaire is part of a conservative regulatory environment in an interdependent ecosystem. Furthermore, the framework sheds some new light on the gaps between BrightSites, market players and municipalities. In the Gbit luminaire ecosystem, the following gaps are perceived: 1. The value gap, 2. The knowledge gap, 3. The financial gap, and 4. The urgency gap. The opportunities for technology-driven organisations to solve gaps and prepare for the future lay in user-centred roadmaps. The type of roadmap developed in this project is a design roadmap, which is still limited in use but getting more attention in the literature and across industries. Design roadmaps differ from traditional technology or product roadmaps as it centres on end-user's values, rather than the technology portfolio and organisational goals. The design roadmap is developed from a European municipal decision-maker perspective while considering the shared desirability in the ecosystem. The main conclusion that can be drafted is that the product proposition should be perceived, developed and pitched from an ecosystem level. In addition, the author suggests that the (Gbit) luminaire should be positioned as a hosting solution rather than a wireless fibre extender. The main argument is that every stakeholder in the Gbit luminaire ecosystem should feel that a specific problem is solved since this is considered as the only way to succeed and achieve widespread deployment.","Intelligent Street Lighting; Ecosystem Mapping; Design Roadmapping","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Strategic Product Design","",""
"uuid:73e58561-2767-4b08-b819-ab42850cf2d7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:73e58561-2767-4b08-b819-ab42850cf2d7","Passages & Porosities: An interface for the creative community in Nijmegen","Wendt, Raphael (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor); Hachez, A.A.M. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor); Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor); Cattoor, B. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","","Passage; Porosity; Retail; street life; bricolage; Gentrification","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","Passages & Porosities","51.8443675"
"uuid:8e8347a6-fcc2-482e-9e72-4a45f31cfacd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8e8347a6-fcc2-482e-9e72-4a45f31cfacd","Made in the city of China: Street market as infrastructure to create conditions for inclusive urbanization","Li, Yigang (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Nijhuis, S. (mentor); de Carvalho Filho, L.M. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The thesis conducts spatial explorations through design and discusses the possibilities of using the street market as infrastructure to facilitate collective making and create conditions for inclusive urbanization through achieving supply justice. The street market is a spatial vehicle that can deliver the thesis goal. Supply justice as a development strategy can incubate and mobilize the collective networks carried by the street market to practice inclusive urbanization. The collective making and street market as two symbiotic urban networks are potent instruments in promoting supply justice. Together, they can trigger collective actions in the urbanization process and effectively address the challenge from the dominating supply companies. The thesis categorized four themes to explore the street market’s capacity and transferability as infrastructure for inclusive urbanization.","street market; inclusive urbanization; city of making","en","master thesis","","","","","","1. Hummel, Calla. “Disobedient markets: Street vendors, enforcement, and state intervention in collective action.” Comparative Political Studies 50, no. 11 (2017): 1524-1555. 2. Lee, Brandon H., Jeroen Struben, and Christopher B. Bingham. “Collective action and market formation: An integrative framework.” Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 242-266. 3. Tong, Xiao, and Jana M. Hawley. “Measuring customer based brand equity: Empirical evidence from the sportswear market in China.” Journal of product & brand management (2009). 4. Pang, Ching Lin, and Sara Sterling. “From Fake Market to a Strong Brand? The Silk Street Market in Beijing.” Built Environment 39, no. 2 (2013): 224- 235. 5. Hanser, Amy. “Street politics: Street vendors and urban governance in China.” China Q. (2016): 363. 6. Golini, Ruggero, Cindy Guerlain, Alexandra Lagorio, and Roberto Pinto. “An assessment framework to support collective decision making on urban freight transport.” Transport 33, no. 4 (2018): 890-901. 7. Barker, Joshua. “Negara Beling: Street-level authority in an Indonesian slum.” In State of Authority, pp. 47-72. Cornell University Press, 2018. 8. Duhau, Emilio. “Five. The Informal City: An Enduring Slum or a Progressive Habitat?.” In Cities From Scratch, pp. 150-169. Duke University Press, 2014. 9. De Bruin, Anne, and Ann Dupuis. “The dynamics of New Zealand’s largest street market; the Otara flea market.” International journal of sociology and social policy (2000). 10. Kinoshita, Hikaru. “The street market as an urban facility in Hong Kong.” In Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities, pp. 71-86. Springer, Dordrecht, 2001. 11. Dines, Nick. “The disputed place of ethnic diversity: an ethnography of the redevelopment of a street market in East London.” Regenerating London: governance, sustainability and community in a global city (2009): 254-272. 124","","","","","","European Master in Urbanism (EMU)","","36.069309, 120.317097"
"uuid:e4fdb0d7-e17e-4bca-a517-5a4346d1878b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e4fdb0d7-e17e-4bca-a517-5a4346d1878b","Wandering from the shopping street into the department store: Markthal V&D","Rietveldt, Patty (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Meijers, W.L.E.C. (mentor); Koopman, F.W.A. (mentor); Zijlstra, H. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","The shopping street of Alkmaar, the Laat, is in need of a new public function that creates a domain to stay. The vital location of the former department store offers a space directly into the cultural centre of the city, close by terraces, shops, or other amenities. The local culture of the city of Alkmaar has determined the new experience of the former department store. The former department store of Alkmaar is transformed by adding a public passage where markets shape the spatial experience and where local initiatives are situated in a shared food centre.","Shopping street; Vroom & Dreesmann; Public Domain; Alkmaar; Market hall; Architectural sequence; Passage","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2021-06-21","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","Markthal V&D","52.6299079,4.7483495"
"uuid:ebb67d29-4ab9-4c12-873c-c2bfc05d3b36","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ebb67d29-4ab9-4c12-873c-c2bfc05d3b36","Improving the Acoustic Absorption of Vertical Greening Systems","Bakker, Jesse (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architectural Engineering +Technology)","Lugten, M.C. (mentor); Ottele, M. (mentor); Tenpierik, M.J. (mentor); Pietsch, S. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Noise pollution is a growing health concern in cities, especially in busy streets with parallel reflective facades, known as urban street canyons. Here, high flows of vehicular traffic generate a broadband noise, with high noise levels in the low-frequency (LF) spectrum. In the canyons, noise decays slowly due to multiple reflections. To counter this, vertical greening systems (VGS) can be applied as multi-disciplinary solutions. Not only can these systems attenuate noise, they can also e.g. decrease the urban heat island effect and increase biodiversity. Yet, the shortcoming of VGSs is the lack of LF-absorption. Hence, the following research question was asked: “How can the acoustic absorption of vertical greening systems in urban street canyons be improved, especially for low-frequency noise?” Four concept designs were developed consecutively, and evaluated on the basis of design criteria. These criteria included specifications on acoustic absorption, manufacturability, and durability. The final design consisted of a living wall system (LWS) based on hydroponic rock wool, with a parallel array of Helmholtz resonators integrated in its structure. This array was added to increase the LF-absorption of the VGS below 250 Hz. The Helmholtz cavity volumes were not physically subdivided, but rather filled with a locally reactive material with a low flow resistivity, to enforce propagation that is normal to the surface. Additionally, plants can also absorb sound in the visco-thermal boundary layer around their organs, depending on the leaf area density. It was found that sciophytes (shade-loving plants) had most acoustic potential due to their large leave surfaces. Analytical, experimental, and numerical validation was performed. A Matlab script was developed that applied Delany-Bazley-Miki equations in an equivalent fluid model, and a transfer-function approach for the multi-layer complex impedance. The design yields near-unity absorption for f>500 Hz. The resonators extended the LF-absorption (a>0.5) down to 80 Hz. Impedance tube and reverberation room measurements demonstrated that piercing the porous substrate layer with the Helmholtz resonator necks can yield a combined acoustic absorption. Finally, acoustic simulations showed that applying the proposed LWS to the facades in a reference urban street canyon in Rotterdam can substantially decrease sound levels, both inside the street canyon, as well as in the adjacent courtyard canyon. However, the window-to-wall ratio of the facade largely determines to what extent sound levels can be decreased, since vertical greenery cannot be applied in front of windows.","Vertical greening systems; Acoustic absorption; Urban street canyon; Green wall","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology","",""
"uuid:bfe9cf49-c9c9-4a71-9a57-42bc2cd2ea80","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bfe9cf49-c9c9-4a71-9a57-42bc2cd2ea80","Beyond Road: Rethink the potential of ecosystem services of the arterial network in Rotterdam","Jiang, Pu (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Tilie, Nico (mentor); van Nes, A. (mentor); van Oel, C.J. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2021","Modern urban road systems often bring environmental problems and affect the quality of life of residents. The main roads in the south of Rotterdam face problems with lack of greenery, heat island effect and flash flooding. These problems have had a negative impact on the well-being of residents, and have also caused the road ecosystem to fail to provide better ecological benefits for the city.
This thesis aims to explore the potential of main roads in improving ecological benefits and quality of life through the concept of ecosystem services. The purpose of the research is to use the arterial network to create urban ecological corridors, support for healthy living, and climate-adaptive infrastructure.
Through the determination of the ecological value of the arterial network and its spatial quality, this thesis clarifies the goals of supporting and habitat services, cultural services and regulating services provided by roads, and proposes spatial intervention strategies. The spatial intervention strategies are applied to the three streets and become different landscape schemes.
The research process of this thesis shows the value and importance of the city's arterial network in improving the ecological integrity of the city and the well-being of residents.
The thesis is under the Shared Heritage Lab which explores the shared history between The Netherlands and Indonesia in terms of cultural and architectural heritage. It is also a cross disciplinary research between heritage architecture, architectural engineering, landscape architecture and urbanism, collaborated with Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Ergoed (RCE) of the Dutch municipality.","Urban Informality; Street vendors; Living heritage; Empowerment; Semarang, Indonesia; Flowscapes","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architecture","Shared Heritage Lab Semarang","-6.979097, 110.425514"
"uuid:5993ee69-7f22-48e3-8edc-234abbc75d13","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5993ee69-7f22-48e3-8edc-234abbc75d13","A multi-platform crowd-mapping application for urban object mapping using street-level imagery","van Alphen, Gerard (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)","Bozzon, Alessandro (mentor); Qiu, Sihang (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Crowd-mapping is a relatively new field of research, which involves the collection of geographic data by a crowd of workers. The collection of said data is of great importance for organizations like municipalities, where it is used for applications such as maintaining streets and greenery. The benefit of crowd-mapping over traditional mapping methods, where workers physically observe the area, is that it has the potential to be far more cost-effective and time-efficient. As this should not come at the cost of losing accuracy, research needs to be done on how to effectively map objects in a city.
Although previous work has focused on mapping urban objects using street-level imagery, they are all specifically aimed at a single type of object. Furthermore, they do not offer a general method for geo-location estimation and do not estimate the height of the objects. All of the systems designed in previous work only support task execution using a web platform. As crowd-mapping is nothing without the crowd, it is important to keep the workers engaged. No research had been done on how the task execution platform and type of task could affect the worker engagement and satisfaction.
In this thesis we will design a system for crowd-mapping urban objects using street-level imagery. We will propose novel methods for geo-location and object height estimation. Experimentation showed that the proposed geo-location method was able to deliver an accuracy with up to 83% of the estimations being within 2.5 meters of the ground truth with a mean distance of 1.85 meters. The height estimation showed up to 85% of the estimations being within 30 centimeters from the ground truth with a mean difference of 15 centimeters. Furthermore, the system supports task execution on three platforms; web, mobile and mobile virtual reality. We demonstrated the feasibility of executing mapping-, data-enrichment- and verification tasks on each of these platforms. Experimentation with the different platforms showed that the type of task and execution platform affects user engagement, cognitive load, satisfaction and execution time.","crowd-mapping; street-level imagery; urban objects","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:159d0aba-f391-4579-9f69-746ea9e9328a","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:159d0aba-f391-4579-9f69-746ea9e9328a","Shop Til You Drop: Shopping Street Design in Old Town","LEE, Seung Keun (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Frausto, S.E. (mentor); Corbett, H.P.S. (mentor); Riedijk, M. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","The “Shop Til You Drop” aims to create a new experience in the old town of Gibraltar, seeking to engage visitors by luring them in with the world of shopping. By designing a unique space that combines the architectural character of the heritage city with that of the modern aspiration of commercialization, it seeks to rebuild the characteristic of the street to bring in economic revenue and urban growth","Architecture; Urban Design; shopping; street; commercial; old town; luxury; tourism; revitalisation; multi-layered street; Gibraltar; residential","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","The Berlage Post-MSc in Architecture and Urban Design","Beyond the Rock",""
"uuid:d0afe20e-f4ce-4f19-ba0a-faf2fd68a089","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d0afe20e-f4ce-4f19-ba0a-faf2fd68a089","Modern families in Amsterdam","van Vliet, Frank (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Kupers, Theo (mentor); Adema, Ferry (graduation committee); van der Putt, Pierijn (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2020","Design for a residential building for the modern family in Amsterdam. The modern family, a diverse target group with a variety of wishes and needs which are not provided by the current housing stock. This project provides housing for this target group which suits their specific needs. Providing a supportive environment for both children and parents.","Dutch Housing; Modern families; Amsterdam; Dwelling; Streets in the air","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Dwelling","Between Standard and Ideals","52.397770, 4.875236"
"uuid:97c50f56-bdec-4da2-af17-27687666d1d8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:97c50f56-bdec-4da2-af17-27687666d1d8","Data Informed Decision Making: Cardiovascular Disease Prevention","Mohammad Ammar Faiq, Ammar (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management)","Cunningham, Scott (mentor); van der Voort, Haiko (mentor); Kist, Janet (graduation committee); Groenwold, Rolf (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2019","Cardiovascular diseases are considered as one the deadliest disease and have also been the most prominent health burden around the world and particularly in the Netherlands. Enormously mitigation has been done to reduce the death burden, by improving the quality of health care services and research related to cardiovascular diseases. One prominent strategy to reduce it is to identify early symptoms of cardiovascular diseases among the potential population. Currently, the prevailing cardiovascular disease risk prediction guidelines that used by a general practitioner only taking into account straightforward factors into their risk factors, and significant improvement to the guidelines is needed to include more socio-economic factors into account since many expert realize the fallacy of the systems. This research expands the current cardiovascular risk estimation guidelines with socio-economic factors such as ethnicity, occupation, social deprivation, by utilizing Bayesian network modeling to understand better the nature of socio-economic factors related to cardiovascular disease risk among the Hague population in the Netherlands. This research is collaborative research between Leiden University of Medical Center (LUMC) as the problem owner, the data provider and knowledge expert and TU Delft as an analyst.
I choose Amsterdam-zuidoost, a typical area with low quality of street as my design target, trying to be an eye-opener to figure out To what extent and in what way can automated vehicle be a trigger to transform automobile-oriented street into people-oriented street when 100% used.
I build up my two extreme scenarios according to different policy, also street protypes under these two scenarios. In scenario 1, SYMBIOSIS STREET,we can see a more vivid future street with diverse functions and activities, also more sustainable environment. If we are lead to this condition, strict rules for AVs and our travel behavior should be accepted, apart from this, more taxes regarding travel miles, ownership will also be inevitable.On the other hand, we will have more efficient and convenient public transport system, more equal society and less social segragation. While this needs Top-down policy and coorperation of AV companies and everyone of us. In scenario 2,FLUID STREET, there will be freedom for everyone to choose their own way to travel, loose policy will encourage indivadual ownership and long travel miles and time on streets. To garuntee the efficiency and safety, there will be no more interactions between people and AVs, people will across street by cars, moving projects provide them with everything and space they need for daily life, their activities actually are restricted in cars, their neighborhoods and different buildings. This kind of new lifestyle makes people rely much more on vehicles, causing privacy and internect safety concerns, and it is unfair for people who cannot afford AVs and rely on public transportation. If we let AVs go, this is probably our future. And it is our choose to lead to which senario.
These observations led to the following design question: how can the cultural values within the kampong community be implemented in order to contribute to the transformation of the old colonial city center of Bandung and vice versa? Therefore, the purpose of this project focuses on sustaining balance in the livelihoods of the local kampong residents through the cultural values of their community within the colonial city center of Bandung.
The design solution is based on creating public and semi-public space within a colonial heritage building, where both the residents of the kampong as well as the users of the historic city center, or more specifically the Braga Street. Thus, this resulted in the transformation of the old Hellerman building, where the heritage is used as a showcase for reconstruction, reinterpretation, and adaptation, and where the programme is based on urban farming, communal kitchens, dining space, and an education hub.
This project is about MAYER a Bluetooth speaker designed using the Gerrard Street philosophy and attending to the needs of consumers. This project uses the agile bussiness canvas a main methodology.","gerrard street; agile; speaker; headphone; modular","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Integrated Product Design","",""
"uuid:ee700b7e-5147-4eb2-8426-b243fc41102f","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee700b7e-5147-4eb2-8426-b243fc41102f","Framing Protest","Jaśkowiec, Ada (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Geerts, Filip (mentor); Parravicini, Mauro (mentor); van Dam, Sien (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","The section of the street, being a constitutive unit of every city, as a design task requires constant reworking and adjustments according to changing socio-political conditions. The society of the 21st century looks different than it used to, the authorities changed along with social stratification models, technological solutions evolved and, hence, the surrounding urban tissue needs to be updated. The street design of a 21th century European, democratic city needs to be reworked in order to host its citizens’ activities and needs most appropriately, otherwise it may turn out too restrictive. Remodelling the street in the spirit of democratic expression, whether it means agreeing or disagreeing, became the main premise of the project.
The project assumes reworking of the street profile, reaching beyond its traditional surfaces of a pavement and a facade, by adding depth and topography to the street and reusing existing buildings and adjacent empty plots as protest-related infrastructure edifices. Architectural solutions assume the creation of multiple ways of framing the protest, creating plurality of perspectives, providing both panoramic and immersive experience of the crowd. Carefully designed surfaces of the street pavement and varying ceiling modules provide orientation for the crowd. The subversive use of small architecture, i.e. benches, lamps is inherently contained in their design. The space is meant to provide all the infrastructure for protest as well as to allow for multiple creative uses of space through appropriation.
The project devises a system of protest street, which in its universality may prove replicable in various contexts and is not bound exclusively to the chosen location of Allee de la Robertsau in Strasbourg.","protest; dissent; dissidence; Strasbourg; France; European; Union; EU; street; section; democracy; Habermas; Arendt; framing","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences","","48.5734053, 7.7521113"
"uuid:aa26da31-33a2-4849-bbd2-74493e8a4eb1","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:aa26da31-33a2-4849-bbd2-74493e8a4eb1","Interaction In-between: Keeping the rules while breaking the rules","Lim, Jinhyuck (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Meijers, W.L.E.C. (mentor); Koopman, F.W.A. (mentor); Nevzgodin, I. (mentor); Nieboer, N.E.T. (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This project is dealing with Centraal Beheer Office, designed by Herman Hertzberger, one of the most representative Structuralism Architects. Despite its architectural meanings and values, Centraal Beheer Office is now disconnected from its surroundings and possess various problems such as sustainability. Since Structuralism Architecture pursued architecture that could flexibly respond to the individual’s way of life and could transform itself based on the changing needs of users, this project also aimed to make a design experiment of balancing between preservation and modification in heritage design. Under the motto of ‘Returning to the Origin,’ this project considered the initial idea of Herman Hertzberger as the starting point of every re-design process. Based on this, the primary position in this project toward re-designing Centraal Beheer Office is ‘keeping the rule while breaking the rule’; more precisely, modifying the existing situations while reusing the underlying principle of the building. In other words, instead of conservation nor mere transformation, the project is aiming to become ‘the reinterpretation’ of Centraal Beheer Office.
Based on the study of Hertzberger’s architectural idea and Centraal Beheer Office, I set my architectural themes as ‘in-between space, interaction, and coexistence.’ Along with this themes, I set my research question as 'How to make Centraal Beheer Office create interaction through in-between space?' With the new program, Art Academy, the project aimed to 1. how to retrieve the publicness of Centraal Beheer Office, 2. how to accommodate the new program, and 3. how to improve the comfort of the building while keeping the existing value of the building. With this purpose, I connected the building with the city through the urban axis and broaden the inner street to attract the people to come. As follow step, I reorganized the spatial system of the building to apply the new program, Art Academy, to the building. At the last phase, I used a double façade scheme on the building not only for the building comfort but also for creating in-between space between in an outside world.","Interaction; in-between space; Centraal Beheer; Herman Hertzberger; Heritage & Architecture; art academy; Structuralism Architecture; double facade; inner street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Heritage & Architecture","",""
"uuid:6b616d60-e974-4a7b-866d-bcb2b5724477","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6b616d60-e974-4a7b-866d-bcb2b5724477","Streets as Places: Reconnecting Toronto with its waterfront by rediscovering streets as social places","Fontijn, Franka (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Tilie, Nico (mentor); van der Spek, S.C. (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This graduation thesis concerns the reintegration and reinterpretationof infrastructure in the urban landscape. Since the Industrial Revolution,people and cities have become more dependent on cars, and by the mid-20th century, infrastructure moved toward being a component of trafficmanagement, instead of urbanism. In urban situation, this caused barriers andisolated spaces, breaking up the fine grained pedestrian network. The cardependent city has serious consequences for health, social connectednessand the environment.In the research location Toronto, large infrastructural elements are imposingthemselves as a barrier between the city and the waterfront. In order toreconnect the city to its Waterfront, streets need to be rediscovered as socialspace and the balance between a street as ‘movement space; and ‘socialspace’ has to be restored. ‘Walkability‘ is the key. A theoretical framework on‘Access & Linkage’ and ‘Placemaking’ will support the design for a succesfulpedestrian network in the city.A new pedestrian network, supported by an intensive and diverse land-use,connects landmarks, parks and attractive facilities in the area, and offers manyopportunities for people to meet, relax, play, run, do sports, and so on. Thedesign will attract public life and contribute to an active lifestyle, with positiveresults for health and social connectedness. The project can serve as anexample for other car dominated cities or for other areas in Toronto whereinfrastructure is causing problems and limits the walkability of the city. When walkability is applied in more cities in the world, this will have positiveresults on the environment.","Walkability; Streets; Placemaking; Connectivity; Infrastructure; Pedestrians","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architecture","",""
"uuid:9009ecc0-6505-49cb-af2e-96d779a3cbf7","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9009ecc0-6505-49cb-af2e-96d779a3cbf7","Framing Atmospheres: A journey through Rue du Faubourg du Temple","Boas, Jolien (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)","Nottrot, Robert (mentor); Cuperus, Ype (mentor); Reinders, Leeke (mentor); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2018","This graduation project finds its origins in my fascination for cities and its atmospheres, which are endangered by the process called gentrification. Gentrification is the effect in which urban areas are renovated and upgraded causing for lower-income classes to be abandoned towards the outer city. Living in the inner city becomes only affordable for higher income classes who have all the same needs for their living environment causing for the cities to change to these needs and loose their authentic spirit.
Dealing with gentrification is difficult since it’s a process that slowly starts without noticing and ones its there there’s no way back. Therefore for my graduation project I developed a new strategy on how to deal with gentrification. I experimented with this new strategy using architectural design as a tool.
Since the overpopulated inner city of Paris is rapidly changing due to gentrification I focused myself on this location and in particular on the street Rue du Faubourg du Temple. For my strategy it’s important to be ahead of the gentrification process and while visiting Paris I found out that this street still possesses its authentic character.
I immersed into Rue du Faubourg du Temple and used all my observations to create a design that is enhancing and exaggerating the important qualities of the identity of the street, hoping these will resist gentrification in future.","Architecture; Urbanism; Paris; Street; Gentrification; roof; Public Space; Shopping street; Multicultural","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab","","48.8698524, 2.37056240000004"
"uuid:b7508d73-a76e-4503-b7ef-784fb4d713d9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b7508d73-a76e-4503-b7ef-784fb4d713d9","Quantifying and Predicting Urban Attractiveness with Street-View Data and Convolutional Neural Networks","Choiri, Hendra Hadhil (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)","Bozzon, Alessandro (mentor); Psyllidis, Achilleas (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","Analysing attractiveness of places in a region is beneficial to support urban planning and policy making. However, the attractiveness of a place is a subjective and high-level concept which is difficult to quantify. The existing methods rely on traditional surveys which may require high cost and have low scalability. This thesis attempts to quantify attractiveness of a place in a more efficient way and develop a model which can automatically predict attractiveness based on Street-View data (i.e. from Google Street View).
As a study case, 800 Google Street View images from 200 locations in Amsterdam have been extracted, and their attractiveness perceptions have been evaluated via crowd-sourcing to get the ground-truth information. The other attributes which are presumed to have a relationship with attractiveness are also assessed, such as familiarity, uniqueness, friendliness, pleasure, arousal, and dominance. The research and analysis revealed several insights related to the attractiveness of places. Attractive perception when seeing a place is positively correlated with perception of uniqueness, friendliness, pleasure, and dominance. Moreover, pleasure is possibly multi-collinear with attractiveness. It was also found that attractiveness perception has low spatial auto-correlation, which means that nearby places do not necessarily have similar attractiveness. Some visual features related to attractiveness were also investigated. The result indicated that scenes related to roads and residential buildings are less attractive, meanwhile, scenes related to greenery, blue sky, and water environment are more attractive.
A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model has been developed via machine learning approach which could automatically predict attractiveness perception of a place based on its representing Google Street View image. The developed model achieved 55.9% accuracy and RMSE of 0.70 to predict attractiveness in 5 ordinal values.","Urban Attractiveness; Crowdsourcing; Machine Learning; Street-View; Convolutional Neural Network","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"uuid:d6f5dc00-31cb-4a05-9d34-0b658bcdf963","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d6f5dc00-31cb-4a05-9d34-0b658bcdf963","Designing the Middellandstraat Food Journey: An initiative to revitalize a multicultural shopping street","Sakiinah, Ummu (TU Delft Industrial Design Engineering)","van Boeijen, Annemiek (mentor); Mulder, Ingrid (graduation committee); Darson, Rudi (graduation committee); Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution)","2017","The project is an initiative to revitalize a multicultural shopping street in Rotterdam, called Middellandstraat. The design question was how to support the shops to attract more visitors to the shopping street through the food diversity. Investigations into the visitors' experience in the street, the context, and market research were done to define opportunities for the design development. The final design aims to enable people to be inspired and informed about the shop's authentic identity and historical value, make visitors feel comfortable in the shops to allow them to explore the Middellandstraat.","Multicultural; Shopping street; Economic revitalization; Rotterdam; Food Journey; Food; Culture; Street; Urban design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","","","","Strategic Product Design","","51.917843, 4.458716"
"uuid:296c745c-d2bc-473c-bc5a-32097e3832dd","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:296c745c-d2bc-473c-bc5a-32097e3832dd","Amsterdam Plan 2040 in Merkelbach Buildings","Kregiel, J.A.","Spoormans, L. (mentor); Quist, W. (mentor)","2016","","plinth; heritage; Amsterdam; vision; 2040; Landlust; concrete; brick; Merkelbach; street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:673a61a5-6620-48f7-87e4-ea945b72d21d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:673a61a5-6620-48f7-87e4-ea945b72d21d","Co-Operative Commons","Yordanova, Y.","Meija Hernandez, J.A. (mentor); Havik, K. (mentor); Jennen, P. (mentor)","2016","The project deals with creating and defining 'the commons' in a South American metropolis. Bustling streets of Bogota's historic centre serve as a platform to explore the relationship between the social and physical sphere. The aim is to reveal the variety of environments that the interaction between social and physical can generate. The design process is broken down into a series of steps and methods that show the multifaceted character the commons.","commons; social environment; physical environment; street; public space; practices","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Methods & Analysis","",""
"uuid:e2449cd3-d873-4151-89bc-21cdd6afcb2b","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e2449cd3-d873-4151-89bc-21cdd6afcb2b","Co-Operative Commons","Bencic, V.","Meija Hernandez, J.A. (mentor); Havik, K. (mentor); Jennen, P. (mentor)","2016","The project deals with creating and defining 'the commons' in a South American metropolis. Bustling streets of Bogota's historic centre serve as a platform to explore the relationship between the social and physical sphere. The aim is to reveal the variety of environments that the interaction between social and physical can generate. The design process is broken down into a series of steps and methods that show the multifaceted character the commons","commons; social environment; physical environment; street; public space; practices","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Methods & Analysis","",""
"uuid:9c5eb318-998c-4b72-884e-1d4d8324f3aa","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9c5eb318-998c-4b72-884e-1d4d8324f3aa","The little street","Lin, H.","Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor); Fonteyne, A. (mentor); Cornelisse, F. (mentor); Fokkinga, J.D. (mentor)","2016","The design aims to insert care program into Rubroek neighborhood in Rotterdam. With remain of the existing social structure, the design is not only for the dementia group but for improving the quality of the entire neighborhood. A lively little street which cross the site to separate different groups architecturally but intertwine existing residents, dementia elderly and pedestrian socially with diversity of communal programs on the street. In combination with 7 gardens of distinct characteristics, together function as a enjoyable place for both neighborhood and care program.","dementia; care; the little street; garden; hofje","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Architecture","","Interiors","",""
"uuid:e8f8e567-513a-4fe7-b858-4de33154fd2c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e8f8e567-513a-4fe7-b858-4de33154fd2c","Ventilation efficiency of street canyons with intersections","De Vries, M.N.","Pourquie, M.J.B.M. (mentor); Tomas, J.M. (mentor)","2016","When looking at domains with several building densities, the resulting average concentrations caused by traffic when unknown, are often linearised between known building densities. To verify if this assumption is correct, several cases of street canyons with intersections, are simulated using the DALESURBAN model. The traffic is represented by a constant emission line source spanning the entire width of the periodic domain. The building density is increased, by increasing the span wise width of the obstacles, while keeping the obstacle height and stream wise obstacle width constant. The aspect ratio of the street canyons is kept constant for all cases and thereby remains in the skimming flow regime. Four span wise obstacle widths are compared in this study and tested under four wind angles ranging from perpendicular to the street canyon to almost parallel to the street canyon. To test the effects of obstacle placement on the spreading of pollutant, the obstacles are placed in an constant and non-constant pattern. For the constant spreading the stream wise streets are all of equal width, and for the non-constant pattern, a wide street is followed by a small street resulting in an alternating pattern. The resulting mean volume-averaged concentrations for the cases above complemented with, mean retention time, ACH and PCH at roof level of the volume show a linear trend for almost all cases. The exceptions in this linear trend are found at the non-perpendicular wind angles. Where at the two lowest wind angles and the highest building density, the pollutant is recirculated in the domain through the span wise periodic boundaries, resulting in a steep increase in mean volume-averaged concentration and mean retention time. Another exception is there for the wind angle just below the perpendicular one, where a large concentration is contained in the cavity at high building density, which is not present at lower building densities.","street canyon; cavity; pollution; traffic; intersections; LES; numerical; building density; front facing area","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering","Process and Energy","","","",""
"uuid:bb579249-19f8-4f9c-8e5d-b61cef3b4ca4","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bb579249-19f8-4f9c-8e5d-b61cef3b4ca4","water sustainable street","zhang, R.Z.","Nijhuis, S. (mentor); Van der Spek, S.C. (mentor)","2015","Streets are not just a place for cars and people to pass by. They have more potentials and opportunities to solve other urban issues and social problems. This design and research is aimed at how to make a multifunctional street in a car-oriented city","street; water runoff; pedestrians and cyclists; car-oriented","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2015-07-01","Architecture and The Built Environment","landscape architecture","","Flowscape","","45.25, 19.85"
"uuid:7f1878b0-5a6f-4582-82ab-1d4aadb88cec","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7f1878b0-5a6f-4582-82ab-1d4aadb88cec","Design of Dynamic Bicycle Path Lighting using principles from the Circular Economy","Mesch, F.","Wever, R. (mentor); Zijlstra, J.J.M. (mentor)","2015","This report presents the results of the design of dynamic bicycle path lighting using a circular design approach for the company Lightwell. In the next decade, 600 million Euros will be invested in the construction of ‘bicycle’ highways, in order to stimulate commuting by bicycle. As no specialized bicycle path lighting is currently available, a potential business opportunity arises.The proposed design: Hyperion, offers an unique cycling experience and has been designed to fit in an update system to benefit from future developments in LED technology. A sub goal of this project is to explore the main issues and benefits of using a circular design approach in a small company and how the delft design methods fit within circular development. Setting the Context A context was created using literature studies and multiple input sessions and questionnaires attended by municipality functionaries. Current bicycle path lighting is often based on research performed on the visual task of motorists, resulting in a misunderstanding of the driving tasks of cyclists. Casting light on the path and the edges of the path (near periphery) is essential for safe cycling, whilst casting light in the far periphery will result in an increased feeling of social safety. Using different light colors, the vision in these field can be optimized whilst keeping the lighting levels low. In order to create circular products, a system in which parts or materials can loop has to be designed. It is already widely known that the fast efficiency development of LED lighting will provide circular opportunities. Using a dynamic model the environmental impact of the optimal replacement scenario of a street light was calculated, indicating that optimal replacement is best performed every 8 years instead of the current lifespan of 20 years. A system is created in which the light engine can easily be upgraded to prolong the lifetime of the entire product. Financial model is used to calculated the viability of this system in real valuate. This construction proves to be budget neutral within 4 years after the first update. Extensive analysis, based on the Circular toolkit by the University of Cambridge formed the basis for the circular requirements of the concept. Hyperion Hyperion consist of 3 products; an innovative bollard, a ‘normal’ fixture and an integrated detection sensor. The fixture and sensor are installed on junctions or areas that requires more light in the periphery due to social safety. In between these sections, special bollards are placed, casting light onto the path and near periphery. This enables more ease of access, reduces the maintenance costs and costs for light engine updates. Furthermore, it offers a new cycling experience through smart dimming and could theoretically result in better facial recognition whilst evoking no false sense of social safety. A lease system will be enabled by a middle-man as the financial risk is it too high for a small business such as Lightwell. In order to get more insights into the circular design in the full development process, the bollard is fully embodied. Circular Design Designing for a circular economy can not solely be done on product level, but requires knowledge on system level and deep technical knowledge of a system/ product architecture. It was concluded that the current design methods taught at Delft offer little room for circularity in a ‘normal’ design assignment. A product to redesign, or ideas for a (new) system should be available from the beginning. As a product is needed to fully define the system this becomes a chicken or egg situation in radical product development.","lighting; Circular Economy; CE; bicycle; street light; design","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","Design Engineering","","Master of Science Integrated Product Design","",""
"uuid:ea9b1295-9841-46f8-bc41-dfdf2fdd8104","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ea9b1295-9841-46f8-bc41-dfdf2fdd8104","Towards a Strategic Integration of the Weakest Social Groups: A Review of The Hague's Structural Visions within a Strategic, Integrated, Regeneration Plan","Vlachvei, E.","Sepulveda, D.A. (mentor); Calabrese, L.M. (mentor)","2014","","strategic planning; participation; The Hague; socio-spatial integration; street life","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-11-30","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","Complex Cities Graduation Studio","",""
"uuid:0781c3a3-4333-4bf8-8f04-efefc5ff65a9","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0781c3a3-4333-4bf8-8f04-efefc5ff65a9","Redesigning the planning process: The case study of Panepistimiou Street in Athens","Chranioti, A.","Nadin, V. (mentor); Zandbelt, D. (mentor); Secchi, B. (mentor)","2014","This diploma thesis explores the Greek planning tradition and practice and its capacity to address the real urgencies of the urban environment and deliver long-term benefits to society and the economy. An overview of recent regeneration proposals is presented in order to investigate the reasons why planning in Greece is said to have weak influence. The evidence presented is essentially reinforced by the extensive study of an on-going regeneration project that takes place in the city centre of Athens: the case study of Panepistimiou Street. The so-called “university” street-one of the major traffic axes of Athens- is currently planned to be transformed into a large pedestrian avenue with public transportation flows. The case study is evaluated in order to understand the “how” and the “what” of the urban proposal: What is the vision that is leading the project of urban transformation and what are the tools that are used to implement the project? Finally, what effect do these interventions have on the urban environment of the city centre? Following this research, the thesis focuses on the construction of alternative ways to intervene in the city through the tool of strategic spatial planning. The aim is to explore the tool, its definition, origin and main principles, and introduce four values that guide the proposal for the area. These are the qualities of a visionary, relational, integrative and action-oriented plan. In such a framework, Panepistimiou becomes the testbed for a coherent and coordinated process of urban regeneration. A new vision for the area is suggested but also a set of actors, processes and institutional provisions is employed. The thesis concludes with a reflection and evaluation of the proposed process. How is it different from the existing project approach and what broader transformation is suggested for the way 21st century urbanists plan and intervene to the city? In the context of the Greek planning system, what institutional provisions are needed to be added for strategic interventions to take place in the future?","Athens; stategic spatial planning; urban regeneration; planning process; streets; planning institutions","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","EMU, European Post-Master in Urbanism","","37.9667, 23.7167"
"uuid:fb8b8430-284c-4546-be23-756d5fa1d170","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fb8b8430-284c-4546-be23-756d5fa1d170","Maintaining mixed neighbourhoods. Fatih plateau: The completed nucleus. A generative strategy for historical Istanbul","Van Dijk, X.G.P.","Riedijk, M. (mentor); Plomp, H. (mentor); Alkan, A.S. (mentor)","2014","The project is the result of a combination of operations performed on the site adjacent to Fatih mosque. It aims to programmatically complete the area’s nucleus to adequately provide for a pluralistic society in conjunction with Fatih mosque that currently dominates the area with its singular religious program. The essential objective is to repair and revitalize the area in the heart of the historical part of the city that apart from the mosque is in a very bad state, by bringing additional public program in, to accommodate for every facet of life in this metropolitan city. The project marries the old fabric below with a new public space above that facilitates virtually all kinds of public program. It consists of three stacked interpretations of universal space. A plinth that negates the hierarchy caused by the topography that does not rely on program to give it its form but rather, inspired by the permanence of monuments, is capable of housing any kind of program for any period of time. On top of the plinth on grade with Fatih mosque the possibility is created for large public programs to take shape as a multitude of expressive buildings that, together with the mosque, form a unity in diversity. The new public space is the interface between, vertically, the existing city and the intensified public program and horizontally, the collective space around the mosque and the new square while at the same time providing all the services for the large public programs on top to allow them to be as autonomous as they can be.","Istanbul; Fatih; earthquake; deterioration; urban transformation; intensification; a-temporality; manifestation of ideals; universal; Dom-ino+; interior street; 3d pocket; building as a city","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-02-28","Architecture and The Built Environment","Public Building","","Capital Region - Istanbul","",""
"uuid:94059e9d-cc5c-40e7-9f21-0b10e2d0989e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:94059e9d-cc5c-40e7-9f21-0b10e2d0989e","Street life: Revitalizing new Asian developments","Reijnen, M.","Calabrese, L. (mentor); Lei, Q. (mentor); Bracken, G. (mentor); Bekkering, H. (mentor)","2014","Street life deals with contemporary issues in Asian new developments. It critiques the new towns and proposes a transformation to increase their livability and reconnect them to the local context - both physical and cultural.","Vietnam; new developments; Asian new town; new town; street life; sense of place; context; transformation; genius loci","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2014-01-29","Architecture and The Built Environment","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:44791d50-c34f-480c-be42-d1ba03a4180e","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44791d50-c34f-480c-be42-d1ba03a4180e","Developing sustainable public lighting for residential streets","Klaassen, N.C.","Flipsen, S.J.F. (mentor); Scheepens, A.E. (mentor); Dijk, L.F. (mentor)","2013","Public street lighting has a major influence on safety, perception of safety and atmosphere perception. The municipality of Rotterdam has the obligation to provide the city with public street lighting. Also, they have the desire to create a pleasant atmosphere in the city during both day and night. A user study performed for this project has helped determine what a pleasant atmosphere means; clean streets (no litter), knowing your neighbors, enough urban nature and seeing in the dark. This thesis focuses on the last two points, because they seemed to be conflicting each other. A hypothesis was formulated, suggesting that urban nature and street lighting conflict each other above and underground. Above ground, trees reduce the light output of the street lighting when they grow close to a lighting point. Below ground, the roots of the trees get strangled between the power cables. This conflict seemed to be enhanced by the fact that space is limited in the urban environment, especially in residential areas. A certain distance is needed between lampposts and trees, because of street lay-outs (side streets, parking spots, cables under ground) the options for are limited for placing a satisfying amount of trees in between the lighting points. However, the living quality of residential areas benefits from more urban nature. The hypothesis was researched with observation and nine interviews. It was revealed that trees blocking light is solved easily by placing trees and lighting point correct. Correctly distancing trees and lighting points, both in height and horizontal spacing. Trees can be allowed to block the light a little bit, because it creates a dynamic shadow on the road. For high speed roads (from 50 km/h) these shadows would become a problem for safety reasons. However, in residential streets it is not. The underground conflict between tree roots and power cables can be solved in two different ways: find other ways to create residential green or redesign public street lighting. Within the first direction many solutions were found, however within the second direction there were not. Since 1800 the lamppost has looked the same: a light source on a pole. Other forms such as hanging street lighting and facade lighting solve some problems above ground (space consumption) but not underground. And these forms of public street lighting bring new problems with them (convincing building owners to allow this way of mounting). With this analysis the assignment for this thesis was formulated: ""Solve the conflict between urban nature and public street lighting by designing a new street lighting system."" Rotterdam has the goal to reduce CO2 emission with 50% in 2020 (compared to 1990). To help reach this goal the CO2 emission of the solution should be lower then the CO2 emission of the current public street lighting. In order to do this the environmental aspects of public street lighting were researched for every step in the life cycle. This was done together with the (financial) value for every life cycle step. Together this results in an Eco-costs Value Ratio (EVR). The manufacturing and energy consumption turned out to be the most harmful steps for the environment. Maintenance and administration and energy consumption are the most expensive steps. Reducing the energy consumption is beneficial in both environmental and financial terms. Reducing eco-costs in the manufacturing phase, together with reducing costs for maintenance and administration would make the design more valuable for the municipality. This results in a list of requirements: - create a better atmosphere - create a safer feeling - create more space for urban nature - reduce CO2 emission of Rotterdam - reduce energy costs - reduce maintenance costs - reduce administration costs - reduce eco-costs of the manufacturing phase The assignment and list of requirements resulted in a new design for public street lighting, mounted on top of the roof of a house, the system is connected to the grid of the house. During night the light uses energy from the house. During the day one or two solar panels generates energy to compensate this use. The solar panel generates more then only what the light is using. This overcapacity is delivered free of charge to the resident. He or she gets a discount on the energy bill (up to 50 euro per year per resident). The resident is not the building owner in many situation. A housing cooperation can be owner as well. Their benefit is the increasing value of a building with solar panels. For the municipality the new concept means no energy costs, no digging, no separate grid and it is easier to convince the resident and building owner to cooperate. Because of these benefits the new design is cheaper then the current system, even with addition of the relatively expensive solar panels. The initial investment is a little bit higher, but the running costs (maintenance, administration and electricity) are much lower. With one solar panel the payback time is 9 years, with two solar panels the payback time is 36 years. The lifetime is at least 40 years. Because of the energy production of the solar panels the new design has reduced the eco-costs and CO2 emission to negative values. This means the environmental burden, caused by manufacturing and energy consumption, is largely compensated. The environmental benefits can get up to 2300 kg CO2 equivalent per street per year.","public street lighting; solar panel; grid connection; residential street; rotterdam; sustainability","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","Integrated Product Design","","","",""
"uuid:f51e57a1-36d3-491b-93b3-00dfd601dadb","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f51e57a1-36d3-491b-93b3-00dfd601dadb","Street of Refuge - Public space for urban refugees","Karkukli, A.O.S.","Vanstiphout, W.A.J. (mentor); Van Dorst, M.J. (mentor); Van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor)","2013","This project focuses on urban refugees who flee to cities to find a safe shelter. Urban refugees often live a hidden life in the city because of political conflicts in which aid an money plays an important role. The aim of this project is to improve the living conditions of urban refugees through changing their political representation. Architecture, the power of physical representation, is used as a tool to stimulate this change.","urban refugees; Amman; Jordan; representation; NGO's; public space; street; refugees; democracy; politics","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-09-02","Architecture","Architecture","","Design as Politics","",""
"uuid:f3861d56-2ab9-4e33-b597-35c27d8943b8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f3861d56-2ab9-4e33-b597-35c27d8943b8","The traffic safety of bicycle streets in the Netherlands","Delbressine, R.R.H.L.","Wegman, F.C.M. (mentor)","2013","In this thesis, the traffic safety of existing bicycle streets in the Netherlands has been studied. In a literature study, an overview of the research so far has been presented. Empirical research based on observations and traffic counts shows the actual use of eight bicycle streets in the Netherlands. The outcomes were used to test bicycle streets to the principles of Sustainable Safety. This test was the base for design improvements of bicycle streets. The most important improvements are the choice for one standard design to improve the recognisability and predictability and the application of a narrow profile and speed bumps to reduce the speeds of motor vehicles on the bicycle street.","bicycle streets","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-08-01","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Transport & Planning","","Traffic Safety","",""
"uuid:66a2c561-3744-4436-84c0-aa706193094c","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:66a2c561-3744-4436-84c0-aa706193094c","Urban Streetscape","Jung, J.","Stouten, P. (mentor); Westrik, J. (mentor)","2013","The Netherlands is one of the fi rst countries that have implemented Pedestrian Oriented Design (POD) concept in the urban area. ‘Woonerf’ (it can be roughly translated in English as ‘Living yard’) was the most popular type of POD in 1970s. ‘Woonerf’ aimed to infl uence driver’s behaviour and improve both the safety and quality of life on the street. It gave the street the functions of meeting place, playground, and walking area. Consequently, it made playful and creative urban landscape, and was very successful in the Netherlands. Moreover, it has spread throughout Western European countries such as Germany, Denmark, and the UK(Hamilton-Baillie, 2008). In the case of UK, the concept of ‘Home Zones’ was developed from the original concept of ‘Woonerf (residential area with restrictions to slow down traffic)’, and it was implemented in order to revitalise deprived neighbourhoods. The increasing in attention to road safety and environmental issues in the UK has made the concept of ‘Home Zones’ popular. In 1999, the British government created guidelines for the home zones, and it has included 14 pilot home zone projects. Home zones are considered as places for social interaction and intended, create a greater sense of pride and ownership in the street by the government of the UK. Consequently, Home zones are expected to improve the liveability in the deprived neighbourhoods (Clayden et al., 2006). However, it is hard to fi nd this kind of approach, for example home zones, to improve the condition of deprived neighbourhoods. The main goal of this project is to introduce Pedestrian Oriented Street Design as an approach to improve the liveability of Dutch neighbourhood. In the northern part of the Netherlands, there are some examples of POD, in the form of ‘Shared Space’. However, this approach is more focused on the development of a shopping street rather than of a whole neighbourhood. Thus, this report proposes the developed of Pedestrian Oriented Design in residential streets using with the case of Carnisse. In order to achieve the aims of this project and answer the research questions, diverse theories and discussions were reviewed. There are already many discussions about the value of street as an urban open space. They point out that the street takes the largest portion of urban open space (Woolley, 2003), it is the place where people can experience the city(Glaser, 2012), and where public socialising and community enjoyment in daily life can occur (Jacobs, 1993). Thus, this report searches for the possibilities of POD in the process of urban regeneration. This report discusses the case of Carnisse, a neighbourhood in the southern part of Rotterdam. In order to develop this project, the neighbourhood was analysed within the city, district and neighbourhood scale. The analysis of Carnisse showed some possible reasons that could make the neighbourhood deprived.","woonerf; shared space; post war neighbourhood; street design; pedestrian oriented street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-08-31","Architecture","Urbanism","","Urban regeneration in European context","",""
"uuid:6dc8afde-da67-4e3a-adf2-b0ff09265b43","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6dc8afde-da67-4e3a-adf2-b0ff09265b43","Minimum / Maximum: A small scale dwelling environment within the large scale of Zuidas","De Haan, H.","Mota, J.A.N. (mentor); Cuperus, Y. (mentor)","2013","This dwelling project aims to create an alternative to the large scale, tower+plinth typology which is common in Zuidas at the moment, instead aiming to design a smaller scale dwelling environment with directer contact between the dwellings and outside/public space and more individual expression for each dwelling.","dwelling; zuidas; Amsterdam; stedelijkheid in de luwte; raised street; small scale; appropriation; individual expression; apartment; row house; collective space; in-between","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2013-07-04","Architecture","Architecture","","Architecture and Dwelling","",""
"uuid:6d21c00d-8048-4313-9df3-1f56838720db","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6d21c00d-8048-4313-9df3-1f56838720db","Westminster City Tall: The underground plinth","Vassiliou, L.A.","Van Bennekom, H. (mentor); Bergsma, A. (mentor); Bollen, R. (mentor)","2013","A high-rise project in the centre of London (area of Westminster) combined with preservation, structural challenge and design for the public realm in new experimental ways. The Westminster City Hall, built in the 1960's is being preserved and obtains a vertical extension of extra 16 floors of retail and high-end apartments on the top, while the old plinth building (Kingsgate House) is being demolished and replaced by a submerged public plaza which will contribute against the gradual densification of the urban tissue.","Westminster; London; High-rise; Victoria street; Underground","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Materialization","","Tall","",""
"uuid:e3db9c35-f156-425c-ab16-8225093a5b62","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e3db9c35-f156-425c-ab16-8225093a5b62","Design of a form language for trash bins for the city of Amsterdam","Altay, A.","Bruens, G.N. (mentor); Karana, E. (mentor); Clark, C. (mentor)","2012","The municipality of Amsterdam wants to improve the image of the city and its streets. Currently the streets are filled with many different objects that make the streets look crowded and inconsistent. Most of these objects are street furniture. The trash bin is a typical example of a street furniture object, that appears in many different forms in the city of Amsterdam. Therefore the goal of this project is to design a series of trash bins for the city. Puccini Trash Bin Design of a form language for trash bins for the city of Amsterdam. Each different size of the bin should be recognizable in their form as one family. Another important aspect is that the bins must fit with the streets of Amsterdam. The aesthetics of the bin were designed to suit its surroundings. The series of trash bins consists of three bins: 50, 100 and 200 liter. The amount of 100 liter bins exceeds the others by far, and therefore the scope for this project focused on that particular bin. The Puccini trash bin meets all the demands that were given by the municipality of Amsterdam. The design even has a discrete link with the Amsterdam School style. Other features like its floating design, durability, ergonomics and efficient use, make it the ideal trash bin for the city of Amsterdam. What may be the most innovative part of this trash bin, is its material. The bin is produced with nature based composites. Natural fibers such as hennep, jute, and flax are used with a special resin, to create a strong, yet sustainable trash bin. In order for the municipality of Amsterdam to achieve their goal of creating order within their lines of street furniture, the form language used in this design must be used on future street furniture designs.","Trash; Bin; Garbage; Composites; Amsterdam; Waste disposal; Puccini; Street furniture","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","ID","","IPD Master","",""
"uuid:2b153a38-904d-4270-9cee-7114db387519","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b153a38-904d-4270-9cee-7114db387519","Woon Werk straat","De Jong, G.D.","Van den Heuvel, D. (mentor); Hrsak, L. (mentor); Cuperus, Y. (mentor)","2012","Een verhoogd woon- en werkgebied opgedeeld door collectieve straten.","living and working; mixed-use; street; Oostenburgeiland","nl","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-11-07","Architecture","Architecture and modernity","","Dwelling - At home in the city","",""
"uuid:7a63b1ad-3c2e-40ba-9878-accabb07f026","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7a63b1ad-3c2e-40ba-9878-accabb07f026","Development of a prediction model for speed limit violations on tangent road sections","Zamanov, M.S.","Wegman, F.C.M. (mentor); Annema, J.A. (mentor); Wijers, P. (mentor); Dijkstra, A. (mentor); Wiggenraad, P.B.L. (mentor)","2012","Speeding and red light running are among the major causes for road crashes. Respectively, speeding is more crucial for rural areas, whereas red light running is more frequent in urban areas where most of the traffic lights are located. To adequately address both issues consistent actions are needed in three main directions (also known as the three Es): engineering, education and enforcement. This study treated, in a way, the engineering and the enforcement. On the one hand, it reviewed the effect of road design and road side environment on speed and red light running that was reported in previous studies. On the other hand, the study aims at developing a model for prediction of the percentage of offenders depending on several road characteristics. It was found that age and gender is an important factor for both types of violations. The road characteristics reported to have an influence on speed are among others curve radius, curvature change rate, road, lane and shoulder width, shoulder type, type of objects and lateral distance, traffic signs and road marking, access points density and street lighting. In regard to red light running the most important factors are related to traffic signal characteristics (control type, cycle length, yellow interval duration), intersection characteristics (traffic volumes, grade, width, speed limit, number and width of approach lanes) and traffic flow characteristics (percentage of trucks). The prediction model was based on speed and road data for the N roads in the Province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The study was aimed at tangent sections and considered both driving directions together. When calculating the percentage of offenders a speed of 87 km/h was used as a limit. It was found that the percentage of offenders is considerably lower in horizontal curves than on tangent sections. Additionally, it was found that the horizontal curve effect disappears about 100 m from the beginning or end of the curve. After reduction, 64 sites were used for model calibration and 12 sites for validation of the resulted model coefficients. A linear and a nonlinear model were developed. Tangent length, median width and the presence of barriers were found to have a positive effect on the percentage of offenders. The presence of street lighting, on the other hand, had a negative correlation to the percentage of offenders. In the end, the only difference between both models was the logarithmic transformation of the tangent length. This transformation was necessary to capture the effect of relatively shorter tangents. This also explains the higher R2 for the nonlinear model. The R2 for the linear model is 0.428 and for the nonlinear model it is 0.502. Both models were equally well validated with the different sample of road sections. It was found that both models perform better for percentages of offenders between 15 % and 45 %.","speeding; red light running; prediction model; offenders; road characteristics; street light; tangent length; median width","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Civil Engineering and Geosciences","Transport & Planning","","","",""
"uuid:fc093933-187f-4e21-900e-4610fa16ceee","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fc093933-187f-4e21-900e-4610fa16ceee","Library Street - A Public Interior","Koenen, J.","Zeinstra, J. (mentor); Pimlott, M. (mentor); Van Der Zaag, E. (mentor)","2012","A new academic library and study center at the Sarphatistraat, for the University of Amsterdam.","library; architecture; interiors; study center; passage; street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2012-07-14","Architecture","Architecture","","Interiors, Buildings and Cities","",""
"uuid:cb18b5d5-a72b-460e-9252-60be881516af","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:cb18b5d5-a72b-460e-9252-60be881516af","The Public Fibre: The entering of 'Culturalfication' inside the public realm","Schuurman, M.","Marzot, N. (mentor); Komossa, S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J. (mentor)","2012","The public realm of the city of Rotterdam is diverse. The use of this public space is influenced by many cultures making use of it according to their own habbits and functions. The Design focuses on the use of this public space as a cultural display. The street inside the building is public and functions as a cultural generator running trough cultural functions. By running trough, visitors get unconsciously conscious about the divers cultures within their public realm.","Public Building; Public Realm; Public street; street; hybrid building; multicultural; theater; movie; dance","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2015-04-20","Architecture","Public Building","","Public Realm Rotterdam","",""
"uuid:24367a8f-f155-40c4-bef7-2c8b5ed16ea8","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:24367a8f-f155-40c4-bef7-2c8b5ed16ea8","The Hague International Shopping City: Creating the Image of an International Shopping City","Ghazzi, K.","Kooijman, D.C. (mentor); Van Oel, C. (mentor)","2011","The ambition of the Municipality of The Hague for a more unique, attractive, and competitive shopping street was the starting point of this research. All the main shopping streets in the larger Dutch cities look alike; they all have the same brands, the same decoration and the same layout. The Hague has decided to use their international image to counter this trend of look-a-like shopping streets. However, the question has risen as to how they should approach this. The goal of this research, therefore, was to formulate solid advice for the municipality of The Hague on how to maximize the opportunities associated with the international identity of their retail area. The focus was on the Grote Marktstraat, a street which is planned for reconstruction. In this research, the communication of a place identity is defined with the help of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ characteristics. Hard characteristics were defined as the fixed environment, the design and the infrastructure of the place. Soft characteristics were defined as the non tangible aspects of the place, which include the service, the use, and the supply of the place. The important soft and hard characteristics in an international shopping street were identified and examined with the help of expert and expat interviews. The perception of the consumer is tested with the help of a consumer survey, including a vignette experiment. Based on different shopping statements it appears that the expat respondents are more hedonic shoppers, while the Dutch respondents are more utilitarian shoppers. In line with this it appeared that the expats much more combine shopping with other activities compared to the Dutch respondents. Several questions concerning software aspects helped to discover the important software aspects for the consumers. The consumers find an attractive public in an international shopping city essential. In this public space the presence of green is vital for an international shopping street. A high service level is especially important for the expats. High service level includes English speaking employees, English signing in the street and just overall service level in the stores. Longer opening hours is also a way of providing service. The supply of certain type of brands and stores is another significant aspect in an international shopping city. The Dutch respondents fashion exclusive stores in an international shopping streets, while the expats find the presence of exclusive stores and chain stores just as important. With the help of the vignette experiment the perception of an international shopping street by the consumer was tested. This experiment included 11 hardware variables: Green, Height of shop windows, Parcellation of building, Shop activities on second floor, Cyclist in the street, Parking of bicycles, Type of lightning fixtures, Profile dimension, Seating, Zoning of the pavement and the Neatness level. The DCA (Discrete Choice Analysis) of the total sample shows 11 attribute levels have a significant effect on the image of an international shopping street: Trees in the street (p=<.0001), Small profile dimension (p=<.0001), Medium profile dimension (p=<.0001), 3 Zones with small mid zone (p=<.0001), Normal seats (p=<.0001), Chandeliers (p=<.0001), Cleanest neatness level (p=0,0002), Medium neatness level (p=0,03) and no shops visible on second floor (p=0,02). The expats are used for the operationalisation of the important variables of an international shopping street. Comparing the results of the expats with the results of the Dutch respondents reveals the effect of the frame of reference on perception. The expats show a different amount and a different order of importance for the attributes compared to the Dutch respondents. The significant attribute levels for the expats are (in order of importance): Trees in the street (p<0.0001), Medium profile dimension (p<0.0001), Cleanest neatness level (p=0.0003), 3 zones small mid zone (p=0.0007), Chandeliers (p=0.0001), 3 Zones Broad mid zone (p=0.0044), No Racks (random parking) (p=0.0097), Normal Seats (p=0.002), Smallest profile dimension (p=0.0147), No shops visible on 2nd floor (p=0.0308). The expats have a clear preference for the medium profile dimension, which differs from the overall sample. Two levels of the attribute zoning resulted in significant positive utilities, which shows that the zoning is very important for the expats. That is, zoning should be indicated, the level NoZoning receives a negative utility. The expats also grant a positive significant utility to the attribute level NoRacks. The expat prefer randomly parked bicycles above the level bicycles parked in racks and the level no parked bicycles at all. For the Dutch respondents, the order of importance of the significant attributes diff ers from the expats. The significant attribute levels, in order of importance, are: Trees in the street (p<0.0001), Small profile dimension (p<0.0001), Medium profile dimension (p<0.0001), Normal seats (p<0.0001), Chandeliers (p=0.0002), 3 zones with small middle zone (p=0.0034), Cleanest neatness level (p=0.0369) and Bicycles Allowed (p=0.023). Although the attribute levels Profile Dimension Medium and profile Dimension Small are ordered one after the other, the parameter estimate indicates a clear preference for one of the levels. The level profiled Dimension Small receives an utility of 0,85 while the level ProfileDimMedium receives the utility of 0,45. The Smallest profile dimension is clearly preferred by the Dutch respondents, in contract to the preference of the expats.","Retail; Discrete Choice Method; The Hague; International; Identity; Shopping streets","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Real Estate and Housing","","Retail and Leisure","",""
"uuid:76096f96-a314-4fdb-93c8-9619a744c167","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:76096f96-a314-4fdb-93c8-9619a744c167","An application as a platform for a Street of the Future","Van Hoorn, B.","Keyson, D. (mentor); Mulder, I. (mentor)","2011","Creating a platform to inspire collaboration and communicate sustainable solutions in a sustainable street called the Street of the Future.","Street of the Future; Sustainability; Application","en","master thesis","","","","","","","Campus only","","Industrial Design Engineering","Design Engineering","","Design for Interaction","",""
"uuid:36f4c565-4ae8-4119-9299-79da7bec6352","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:36f4c565-4ae8-4119-9299-79da7bec6352","Public space for livable neighbourhoods: How generic spatial interventions can realize conditions for the development of public space to accomplish a dureable living environment in specific urban living areas","Van Lievenoogen, M.J.","De Bois, P.G. (mentor); Van Dorst, M. (mentor)","2011","The report is an investigation into the possibilities of using generic methods to achieve certain levels of quality for public space, to stimulate, regulate but most of all conditionate spatial, social and economical developments. These developments should result in a more livable living environment.","public space; livable; postwar neighbourhoods; interventions; urban acupuncture; durable; New Towns; Zoetermeer; Buytenwegh; toolbox; 3-step method; Spacemate; Street as public space; RGBG","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-07-11","Architecture","Urbanism","","Urban acupuncture","",""
"uuid:4a231d3e-dbfc-4248-b5dd-1b1a4322d762","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4a231d3e-dbfc-4248-b5dd-1b1a4322d762","Creative Rotterdam: Creative and Design Resource Center","Pojariya, V.","Marzot, N. (mentor); Komossa, S. (mentor); Fokkinga, J. (mentor)","2011","Rotterdam city has an idea already to try to attract creative class to stay within the city. Creative class has ability to develop the abandon or useless land to turn to be the valuable land. Creative and Design Resource Center is the public building which aim to serve everybody in the city and also try to support the creative class to create the new ideas through using the function in the building to give them the inspiration. The location of the building is in between Lijnbaan and Coolsingel street. The main function in the building are forum, creative library, creative office space, music room with headphone, studio art for students and exhibition spaces.","creative class; gentrification; creative; lijnbaan; coolsingel street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-07-10","Architecture","Public Building","","Public Realm-Graduation Studio Rotterdam","",""
"uuid:88e9ff01-8a67-4d31-9aa8-420d769661e0","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:88e9ff01-8a67-4d31-9aa8-420d769661e0","Measure, understand and improve cities: Visualizing pedestrian flows to improve inner-city quality in Delft using GPS-tracking technology","Van Langelaar, C.M.","Rooij, R.M. (mentor); Van der Spek, S.C. (mentor); Van Dorst, M.J. (mentor)","2011","We all have walked on a street when suddenly someone comes over to you asking for directions. Sometimes, people do not know where they are and they do not know how to reach their destination. They are lost. However, people should not depend on others to find their way. The urban fabric should be legible enough to find one’s way. The problem statement of this Master Thesis is that people should wander and stroll through the urban fabric instead of getting lost. Consequently, for the graduation project we zoom in to one of the many aspects of “good public space”, namely the element ‘wayfinding’. What is good public space in relation to pedestrian’s ability to orientate themselves in the historic city centre? The first chapter deals with wayfinding, its definitions, how it is related to the city centre of Delft, environmental psychology and urban economy. The aim of the graduation project is to better understand how people navigate in cities in order to develop recommendations for urban planning and design to make city visits more enjoyable, engaging and involving for pedestrians. The main research question for the graduation project is: “Which strategic spatial design interventions can improve public space for the slow traffic network in order to retain city visitors in the city centre of Delft?” This subject will be solved by answering four sub-research questions: (i) What are criteria for successful public spaces looking at pedestrians walking in city centres? (ii) What is the current quality of the streets and built environment in the city centre of Delft? (iii) Do pedestrians (visitors/tourists, city centre inhabitants and neighbourhood residents) use the public space in the city centre of Delft differently? (iv) How can the criteria for successful public spaces, the analysis of the current situation and the conclusions of how people use the city centre be embedded in strategic spatial (navigational) recommendations for the city centre of Delft? Applied methods in order to answer the sub-research questions are: (ad i) Literature review studies (a general study about good public space and a specific wayfinding study). (ad ii) Evaluation of the city centre by mapping urban facilities, making a Three-Step analysis, measuring walking distances from two garages, visibility graph analysis, history of Delft by a morphology analysis, quality analysis perception of the city centre based on participants’ questionnaires and a visual analysis (photographs). (ad iii) Actual pedestrian movement is gathered and mapped by doing two GPS-tracking research pilots in the city centre of Delft (a) November 2009: following visitors/tourists who park their car in the Phoenix or Zuidpoort garage and who continue their journey on foot (b) April/May 2010: following city centre inhabitants and neighbourhood residents of Delft. Results are mapped in ArcGIS and statistics are made in SPSS and Excel. Behaviour of the three different pedestrian groups is compared, where after results and conclusions are noted. (ad iv) All gathered information is put into a self made GPS-flowchart: the model shows a researcher in four steps which strategic interventions are recommended for a project area. To answer the main research question, first a future vision of Delft 2030 is described which is followed by a mission, vision and strategy for the city centre of Delft. Consequently, strategic spatial design interventions are proposed, divided into conservative short term and ambitious long term scenarios. The GPS-flowchart is used to determine a strategy for a specific area in the city centre. Due to the fact that there is an enormous amount of data available, several tips for follow-up research are suggested.","urban environment; historic; city centre; visualisation; pedestrian movement; walking; measuring; understanding; improving; spatial quality; GPS; tracking; good public space; wayfinding; environmental psychology; urban economy; GIS; SPSS; city centre evaluation; urban facilities; three-step analysis; walking distances; visibility graph analysis; quality analysis perception; visual quality analysis; density analysis; used streets; non-used streets; mission; vision; strategy; spatial interventions; BCG-matrix; star; cash cow; question mark; dog","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2011-05-12","Architecture","Urbanism","","Studio Urban Acupuncture","",""
"uuid:8eecaffe-fb23-4142-900d-fcfe8bfeab49","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8eecaffe-fb23-4142-900d-fcfe8bfeab49","Lost in the city: Searching for urban vitality in city centre of Kaunas","Jonauskis, T.","Read, S.A. (mentor); Harteveld, M.G.A.D. (mentor); Van der Hoeven, F.D. (mentor)","2010","","city centre; public space; infrastructures; Eastern Europe; Kaunas; street vitality; public transport","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Urbanism","","","",""
"uuid:58aa99bb-7208-430e-9e25-bda914d4db61","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:58aa99bb-7208-430e-9e25-bda914d4db61","Connecting Transvaal","Kroondijk, R.J.","Havik, K. (mentor); Engels, J. (mentor); Komossa, S. (mentor); Marzot, N. (mentor)","2010","Transvaal is one of biggest trouble neighbourhoods of the Netherlands. The big amount of immigrants and the ignorance of each others culture causes that the area is disconnected with the rest of The Hague. By connecting the two most important and exclusive areas of Transvaal, which are the ‘Haagse Markt’ (one of the biggest open markets of the Netherlands) and the ‘Paul Krugerlaan’ (an exclusive Indian shopping street), both areas will work together and will attract a lot of people from outside of Transvaal. To make a logic transition beween this two commercial areas I designed a bazaar street who is injected with 7 exclusive pavilions. These pavilions attract different lifestyles towards the area and also will stimulate the social control by its 24hr activity.","Transvaal; Bazaar Street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","","Architecture","Architecture","","","",""
"uuid:c2d528a4-4015-4c00-a9dd-687da1aea79d","http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c2d528a4-4015-4c00-a9dd-687da1aea79d","Accommodation for the craft of education: Secondary school for crafts education in Amsterdam North","Gerritsen, P.","Stuhlmacher, M.E. (mentor); Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor); Van de Voort, J.A. (mentor)","2009","The assignment was to choose a location in A’dam North for a school with extra-ordinary attention to crafts. The department for Horti Culture and for Cooking+Restaurant provide an opportunity to relate to the Florapark nearby the location and to bring in the public from the neighbourhoods nearby. The departments for Carpentry and Metalworking relate to the crafts which were present at the location during the shipbuilding’s era. The building, with its face to the market square of the Mosplein, is placed on an axis which slices the riverbanks of the IJ and the residential and public/green areas. At the same time an axis, the inner street, is introduced in the design of the school. Public facilities as the restaurant are situated at both ends of this axis as an attempt to connect a compact building, as introvert as an school can be, to the rest of the city.","school; architecture; interiors; mosplein; amsterdam; amsterdam north; mosveld; craft; axis; inner street","en","master thesis","","","","","","","","2009-07-21","Architecture","Interiors; Studio Back to School","","","",""