Tectonic and thermal history of the Southern Chotts Basin: Implications on Petroleum Systems in Central Tunisia

The primary reservoirs present in the Southern Chotts Basin, Central Tunisia, are located within Triassic, Permian and Ordovician units. They are mainly sourced by the Silurian -- Lower Devonian Fegaguira formation and its Hot Shale member. Late Paleozoic exhumation has eroded part of the Palaeozoic package, removing the Early Devonian --...

HIM and HER: How a cognitive and experiential understanding of the place can create new meanings for a more conscious design action

The project I propose is not the child of its time, it rejects the lexicon of current affairs (climate change, pollution, exploitation of resources) as well as that of social issues. It does not want to solve the problem of the site in which it operates, but it embraces a horizon of analysis and observation of man in his existential dimension,...

Liminality of space: reconnecting materiality and embodiment in the design of the swimming pool

The director Andrei Tarkovsky once said, “The image is not a certain meaning, expressed by director, but an entire world reflected in a drop of water.” Different memories, experiences, and imaginary worlds influence perception. Therefore, interpretations of a drop of water can differ significantly. The project is a finite work, which left the...

Urban Amplifiers

This graduation project explores the act of listening to “noise”, to develop a new critical attitude to understanding sounds of the contemporary city. The essential aim is to create ears which separate, abstract and re-organize the myriad of sounds of the environment, which often ends up in a cacophony. The sounds of the surroundings are...

Creating a Craft Culture: The Royal Academy of Fine Art's School of Textiles

Through the process of globalisation, politically and physically, we have found many cities promoting individualism through a neo-liberal modern architecture at the cost of a loss of a local identity. With its traditional heritage and rich material culture, Antwerp is taken as a testing ground for the inclusion of a contemporary structure which...

Form follows climate: A naturally air-conditioned elderly community in Heerlen

The project is an elderly housing in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Since the elderly are vulnerable to climate change, It's aimed to offer them more options of social interaction by providing suitable climate for different functions. The rich climate hierarchy corresponding to spatial hierarchy is the key. Instead of common interior and exterior...

City Monastery Rotterdam: A place amidst the ever-crowded city that can offer moments of rest and room for contemplation in the urban context of Rotterdam.

Preliminary to this design, a careful research was done on the proportional theory of Dom Hans van der Laan. Based on how we perceive space and measure things this system offers a way to create harmonious architecture. What can we learn from this theory for today's architecture and what is the relevance? <br/><br/>Starting from the ideas of Dom...

Levels of Publicness: The Mambo art museum and its city

In Bogotá, the capitol of Colombia, the museum of modern art Mambo needs an extension. This graduation project is a proposal for that extension, which has a focus on the relationship and interaction between the building and the public domain. The result is a building complex that has many different levels of publicness, an open building that is...

A place for ceramics in a city of stone

A design for a Centre for Ceramics with workshops and exhibition space in the historical centre of Maastricht.

Salt based dam design in a hyper saline environment

In order to build structures in the hyper saline environment of the Dead Sea it might be beneficial to use salt as a construction material. The Dead Sea is a tectonically active area with a subsoil consisting of at least eight meters of salt. It is a challenge to construct in this kind of environment, especially since no design criteria exist...

The abuse of architectonics by decorating in an era after deconstructivism: Deconstruction of the tectonic structure as a way of decoration

With criteria based on Derrida's principles for deconstruction early and recent projects of deconstructists as Eisenman, Libeskind and Hadid are compared. The conclusions imply how much in those projects tectonic elements are used to create a style reminiscent to the original objectives of deconstruction and by doing so have become a decoration.

Surface motion modeling for the southeastern Carpathians: Processing and analysis of GPS observation data from the Vrancea seismic region in Romania

The SUBDUCT (Surface Behavior and Dynamical Units of the Southeast Carpathians Tectonics) research program, in which the TU Delft participates, aims to model the surface kinematics of a 350 x 350 km wide area around the Vrancea seismic region in Romania by means of GPS observations. The goal of the project is to relate surface motions to the...