Inventing Circulation Patterns using Available Metaheuristic Solvers: From ambiguous fitness functions to procedural patterns

The way people navigate through spaces has been studied for quite a while. Different models have been described and validated through empirical studies.This paper explores the use of such models in an ‘inverse design’ (Faucher and Nivet, 2000) process, applying available metaheuristic-solvers. More detailed, it showcases the description of an...

Energy Logistics of the North Sea: A crowded industrial void

Spaces of ocean-borne energy logistics and their landside extensions around the North Sea have developed into specialised, impermeable structures of energy extraction, transportation, transformation and storage. Despite the irregular dispersal of artefacts, the combination of both fixed and mobile infrastructure weaving through the North Sea has...

The role of analytical models and their circulation in urban studies and policy

Cities are so complex that we constantly build models to represent them, understand them and attempt to plan them. Models represent a middle ground between the singular configurations of cities and universal theories. This is what makes them valuable and prone to circulate (between places, institutions and languages) and evolve to adapt to new...

Observation and modelling of hydrodynamics and residence times in Bilbao Harbour (Northern Spain)

This report contains the work of Stella Spyropoulou for the final MSc thesis for the Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management Erasmus Mundus Postgraduate diploma, with the help and supervision of the UPC (Universitat Polytechnica de Catalunya) staff Marc Mestres and Manel Grifoll. An effort is made in this thesis to identify dominating and...

Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity

This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...

A Computational Method to Generate One-story Floor Plans for Nursing Homes Based on Daylight Hour Potential and Shortest Path of Circulations

Design of elderly care buildings like nursing homes usually looks for balances between the livability for residents and the circulation efficiency for staffs and workers. Losing the balance between these two has the potential of either dissatisfying residents, uncomfortable living experiences, or causing low efficiency in operations, which might...

Predicting effects of environmental change in Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a large glacially carved basin, in between the Cascade and Olympic mountains in the northwest of Washington state, United States. A shallow sill at the north end of Admirality Inlet separates Puget Sound from the strait of Juan de Fuca. To better understand Puget Sound and the changes the region undergoes, it is necessary to be...

Drie-dimensionale circulatiemodellen voor ondiepe meren en zeeen: Inventarisatie van tijdafhankelijke modellen

Three-dimensional circulation models for shallow lakes and seas: General formulation and stationary models

Drie-dimensionale circulatiemodellen voor ondiepe meren en zeeën: Berekeningen van de drie-dimensionale circulatiestromingen in het Grevelingenmeer t.g.v. wind: een toetsing van het stationaire semi-analytische rekenmodel aan prototype-metingen

Three-dimensional circulation models for shallow lakes and seas: Semi-analytical steady state analysis of wind-driven currents including the effect of a depth-dependent turbulent exchange coefficient - text