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Rietveldt, Patty (author)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...master thesis 2021
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Bakker, Jesse (author)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...master thesis 2021
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Jiang, Pu (author)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...master thesis 2021
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van de Plasse, Marieke (author)In the South of Rotterdam there is a disconnection between the artworld and the way of life in the neighbourhood. The design of a new museum will try to attempt to reduce the gap between different segments of society in the area. Therefor a museum for Street art will be introduced. Focussing on re-wiring the museum to the neighbourhood and make...master thesis 2021
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Nguyen, Binh Minh (author)This essay investigates the shops as well as commercial buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962, focusing on the relation between the interior and the exterior in each project. Gaining insight into his contribution to the history of shop designs. This research has been conducted through a combination of...student report 2021
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Linssen, Carlijn (author)The fascination started with the idea that a street is a gettering place for everyone. It is an open space where everybody can come and where people can meet and interact with each other. But is the street designed as a place for interaction? Or is it intended to get from one place to the other? Is the street a logistical way of working, to...master thesis 2021
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Król, Maciej (author)In London street art is still formally perceived as an act of anti-social behaviour while it gains more and more acceptance and admiration by people. The fact that it remains illegal means a great wasted potential of inhabitants’ creativity and will to participate in creating public spaces. While street art may mark places that are neglected or...master thesis 2021
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Shen, Luyuan (author)New York was born in the pursuit of profit. Anglo-Dutch War, Independence War, Civil War, World War I and World War II, New York stands at the forefront of every major political change until it becomes the capital of the post-war world. New York opened its arms and embraced the groups that were excluded and expelled from other continents. It...master thesis 2020
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Zhou, R. (author)The project focus on a continuous old wall, which separates the site into two, as the “Spolia”. According to the research on both previous and present urban pattern of the neighborhood, the value of the wall is reflected: it is one of the few remnants of the buried river and a defining character in the sites social manifestation. As a result of...master thesis 2020
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Stohlmann de la Iglesia, A. (author)Following an analysis of the public spaces and their performative depth, the urban figure of the street emerges as an important urban figure in the city of Skopje. Although, the street, as a figure, has undergone through different interpretations throughout time: In the city’s Old Bazaar, the street becomes a place for meeting and the most...master thesis 2020
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Ho, Pik Lam Theodora (author)Semarang is one of the biggest cities in Indonesia under the process of urbanisation, which threatens the underdeveloped capacity of the city. Street vendors booming is an evident phenomenon of urbanisation, it is a new way of urban living to survive in the urban capitalist growth circumstances. Being the majority of the informal sector, street...master thesis 2020
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van Alphen, Gerard (author)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...master thesis 2020
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LEE, Seung Keun (author)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...master thesis 2020
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van Vliet, Frank (author)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...master thesis 2020
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Mohammad Ammar Faiq, Ammar (author)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...master thesis 2019
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Ulbrich, Isabel (author)This project describes the search for new methodologies of analysing an unknown context as well as questioning existing patterns of behaviour in the urban organization. After a fieldtrip to Bogotá, an interests in elements with connecting and separating values in the public sphere has been developed. Teusaquillo, the central area of intervention...master thesis 2019
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Lam, Hiu Ching Debby (author)Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent...master thesis 2019
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Song, Yue (author)Improving the quality of urban spaces has always been the central concern for the urban designers. Street as the typical type of public spaces comprises more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide a space where people can safely walk, bicycle and socialize, this mainly because cars dramatically occupies most street...master thesis 2019
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Pibia, Sebastiano (author)The graduation project is about the design of a new concert hall in the City of London, called the House of Music. The concert hall has been conceived as an extension of the landscape of lakes, gardens, terraces and ruins which develop in the heart of the Barbican.master thesis 2019
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Poldermans, Gijs (author)The city centre of Amsterdam is becoming unaffordable and uninhabitable for its locals. This project features the design for a residential building where social cohesion, liveability and the interaction between tourists and the inhabitants are vocal points.master thesis 2019