City Rituals. The Field: Rethinking the brewery

Social life in a modern city is conditioned by long-established traditions, cultural codes, and patterns of human behavior. Such aspects will be individual for almost any city since their formation takes place over long periods. A similar activator of social life in London is the beer culture – a complex ritual chain that has lost one of the...

Against the Alienation of Belgrade's Bohemian Quarter: How a residential urban infill could protect and foster existing social structures

Skadarlija block, also known as Belgrade’s Bohemian Quarter, has gone through a major change the last decade. It is in this block, similar to what happened along the Sava and Danube river with the Splavovi, where spontaneous citizens’ initiatives created a vivid environment in which locals together responded to their needs and desires. Due to...

Enhancing the productivity of a one-way bottling and packaging production line: A case study at Heineken Zoeterwoude

This thesis investigates different ways in which the productivity of a one-way bottling and packaging production line can be increased. This is done by comparing different configurations regarding machine capacities, machine reliability and buffer capacities with each other. This is done with both the use of a generic model and a case study. The...

Using the water pinch analysis to optimize the water network of a brewery and its neighbours to achieve circularity: Can the process effluent of a brewery be used to grow oranges?

Water is an important resource in many industries in the world. Due to emerging regulatory framework, change in consumer’s perspective and increasing costs for water, industries are forced to move towards sustainable water use. Nowadays, improvements in the brewery industry are focussed on increasing the efficiency of the processes or treating...

A CE Indicator Scorecard and Circular Economy Business Model Canvas for the Food and Beverage Industry

A circular economy (CE) is seen as needed in all industry sectors to manage finite resources and to reduce the impact of production and consumption of goods on the planet. While the food and beverage industry has already many measurements in place to ensure cleaner production, a transition towards a CE requires a broader systems perspective....

Re_Claiming Rome, Papal Arsenal: Tiberinus Brewery

This project seeks to reclame the Tiber for the City of Rome and in doing so will create a physical interface which blurs the boundaries between the river and land. The water of the river and a piece of the City's industrial heritage will be re_appropriated within this project for the creation of; a brewery, a performance venue, a social hub and...

MATCH: Disclosing the military city Lisbon

Disclosing the military city Lisbon My project involves a former military site located in the edge of Lisbon. The project is located in the district Beato located near the harbor north of the center of the city. This project is closely related to the studio of Heritage & architecture as it is not only worth keeping, but can and needs to be...