Ship Design for Uncertainty: A Real Options Approach to determine the Value of Design-for-Conversion under Uncertainty

The maritime industry faces a lot of uncertainty, and the energy transition has only increased this uncertainty. Ships will probably have to be converted to an alternative fuel during their lifetime and methanol seems to be the fuel with the most potential for offshore ships. By preparing for this, Design-for-Conversion to methanol, the costs of...

Permanent Space // Changeable Use: Adaptability without future architectural interventions

Redesigning from the permanent, in which the people using the building need to be more adaptable instead of designing a flexible building was the starting point for this graduation project. Therefore the following research question has been formulated: How could the space plan of a monument like the Koudenhorn be redesigned to accommodate...

Circular building foundations: A structural exploration of the possibilities for making building foundations contribute to a circular economy

This research investigated how traditional foundations of buildings can become circular and thus contribute to a circular economy. The current linear take-make-dispose economy results in waste, exhaustion of finite natural resources and environmental degradation. A circular economy is one way to cope with these trends. This type of economy is...

Generic Environments as the Response to the Need of Changeability in Architecture: Urban Intervention in Hong Kong

Are built environments generic because of the need for changeability (flexibility)? That was the key question of the hypothetical assignment presented. Project uses the design tools of generic buildings – embedded into a grid, typical plans or systemized massing of volumes – to support specific identity of Hong Kong as leading city. The chosen...

Dwelling a narrative experience: Embracing the diversity in the experience of dwelling

This is an infill/parasite housing project. The site is the corner in a typical urban block of the city of Berlin. The urban position of the project was based on the idea that "A city must be read as a carpet of fragments, as a continuum sequence of SPATIAL and PROGRAMMATIC PATTERNS." My design proposal is for a new fragment of the patchwork...