Enabling the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage - A municipal perspective: Studying the involvement of the municipality in the adaptive reuse process of industrial heritage buildings

Introduction - Industrial heritage buildings possess unique characteristics and significant potential, yet often many remain vacant: presenting an untapped opportunity. Adaptive reuse of these buildings can have an extra-large impact, especially as catalysts for urban (re)development. However, the adaptive reuse process is complex, particularly...

Collective private commissioning initiatives by elderly facilitated by the municipality: A research on how urban municipalities can better facilitate CPC projects in order to meet the increasing demand by elderly.

Due to the limited quantitative and qualitative supply of elderly housing and an increasing demand for alternative housing forms, more and more resident initiatives arise in the Netherlands. However, it is evident from these resident initiatives that municipal processes lack focus, cooperation and experience with resident initiatives such as...

A reflection of society

There is a growing urbanization trend in Amsterdam, this causes dwellings to be less affordable. That is why several areas in Amsterdam are being densified. One of these areas is Sloterdijk Centrum, a typical monofunctional office park of the 80’s and 90’s. The municipality wants to transform this park to a lively mixed use area by adding new...

Understanding the internal commissioning role: An explorative study on public managers in Dutch public sector organisations in their role as internal commissioner involved in the realisation phase of infrastructure projects

Previous research assessing public organisations in the delivery of infrastructure projects mainly focuses on public project delivery organisations and their interaction with private parties. However, many challenges experienced by these project delivery organisations relate to the interaction with the public parent organisation. In practice,...

Single-Pixel Thermopile Sensors for people counting applications

People counting data in offices is used in many applications like HVAC system control and space management to increase comfort, decrease energy consumption and optimise space utilisation. In contrast to past approaches using imaging modalities that tend to be either expensive or intrusive, we consider single-pixel thermopile sensors for people...

Conserving Coastal Lagoons by Enhancing Ecosystem Services: A Case Study of the Muni-Pomadze Lagoon in Ghana

Rapid urbanisation and globalisation are bringing increasingly complex issues to the forefront. Improper planning of human activities and over exploitation of the surrounding natural resources has successfully damaged the biodiversity and the natural processes. Today humanity is at a stage where these ecosystem services are essential for our...

Airehousing: A contemporary perspective on the Airey-Strip

Serving the New Housing Producers

A research on the role of the architect within projects developed through Collective Private Commission (Collectief Particulier Opdrachtgeverschap) in the Netherlands. Input from participants, which is obtained through a workshop and interviews, is used for the design of a dwelling block. This design then forms a hypothesis of what is possible...

Making a fairbnb

How can architects initiate a housing project and provide a successful basis for a fairbnb concept to succeed? The project consists of a strategy and a pilot design project on how to realise?a fair B&B system within the Amsterdam city centre. A fairbnb is a socially and architecturally sustainable solution?, combining the demands of the locals...

Private commissioning in Amsterdam (Het zelfbouwproces in Amsterdam)

“How can the actors that are involved in the process of private commissioning facilitate the target groups, which are active with private commissioning in Amsterdam, in a better way by removing the most important barriers, and increasing incentives for private commissioning?” // "Hoe kunnen de actoren, die bij het zelfbouwproces betrokken zijn,...

Regulation of Organic Urbanism

Search for principles to come to sustainable and vital private commissioned urban development. The test case for the research is the location Oosterwold. The graduation project is a redesign of the structure vision of Oosterwold by MVRDV.

Researching the BLE based intelligent lighting control system

Several leading lighting companies for example NXP and Philips work in a project to explore the next generation intelligent lighting system. One innovation of the project is using a distributed architecture to replace current centralized system to increase robustness and extensibility. As a core component of wireless lighting control system,...

Skip the Developer - Collective Private Commissioning as a model for the sustainable redevelopment of Canadian suburbs.

Planning a self organizing city: Flexible planning and design for a durable urban regeneration

‘The future of city-making is human-centric’, state-driven and market-driven urbanism have reflected their downsides. Human-driven city-making is oriented on an actual user and therefore should produce little vacancy and unnecessary space. Spaces will be directly equipped to suit the need and desires that the context provides. User will be more...

The European quarter, a future perspective. Spatial interventions from a stakeholder perspective in the European quarter in Brussels.

The arrival of the European Union in 1957 in Brussels has fundamentally changed the face of the city. The original early 20th century housing stock in the European quarter has almost totally been demolished and because of the absence of authoritative spatial plans or strategies, the district has been subjected to a continuous wave of speculative...