Bring Linpan back to life: Revival of the Linpan community, Sichuan, China, in a modern context through adaptation and appreciation of its circularity

Linpan is a unique traditional rural landscape, mainly found on the plains of western Sichuan, China. It is known for its traditional agricultural practices, characterized by a harmonious coexistence between people and nature. The traditional architecture, festivals, lifestyles and the interdependence between human and nature can definitely be...

Visualization to Enhance Communication in Online Psychological Counselling

How to enhance communication between people is always an interesting topic in the design area. After going through the research, the author set the specific context for online counselling due to the increasing demand for online counselling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The online format limits a lot of non-verbal information like body language,...

Visualization for Better Stakeholder Communication: Design of a visualization strategy tool and an empowering visual tool for multi-stakeholder projects

Towards an everyday utopia: The whole earth catalog and architectural practice in American counterculture communes, 1968-1971

This thesis explores the impact of the Whole Earth Catalog on architecture practices in communes during the late 1960s and early 1970s, focusing on the relationship between people and the built environment. By analyzing the Catalog's contents, the real self-build works in communities, and the critiques it received, this study reveals the Catalog...

Efficiency of Peer-to-Peer Trading Coalitions in Energy Communities

Peer-to-peer trading and energy communities have garnered much attention over the last few years due to the wider spread of distributed energy resources. Much research has been performed on the mechanisms and methodologies behind their implementation and realisation. However, the efficiency and micro-structure of trading in such markets raise...

ADome: Implementing CAN in a multi­sensor measurement setup

This thesis focuses on improving the readout of the ADome by implementing MCUs at each antenna probe, enabling local sampling and memory storage. The serial communication protocols CAN, SPI and I2C are considered and compared with one another. Ultimately, CAN is decided due to its robustness and simplicity which make the system cheap and ensures...

Community living circle along station influencing realm: Exploring the relationship between the community living circle and rail station influencing realm in a mountainous urban context

China is facing the dual challenges of urbanization and motorization（Jing, 2008）. The poorly organized urban centers and traditional residential planning are unable to meet the increasingly diverse demand of people. To solve these problems, the TOD model and the emerging community living circle are being favored by policy makers. Promoting urban...

Gated Community in Suburban Beijing: relation between spatial-functional structure and urbanity

Gated communities are recognized as a global phenomenon. During a long period of urban development, gated community becomes the most widespread Chinese residential type. It is usually surrounded by fast motor vehicle lanes, therefore lack of social connection with surrounding areas. And due to the few connection, the streets out of gated...

A communication and collaboration tool design for caregivers of seniors with cognitive impairments

Due to the demographic shift and aging population, the number of the seniors with cognitive impairments is increasing. In taking care of these seniors, caregivers experience both financial and emotional burdens. This project studies three care parties of this special group of people, who take care of the seniors with a mild cognitive impairment ...

Improving communication between research team and stakeholders - Information mapping for kick-off workshops

Researchers often obtain rich insights from their studies and generate ideas based on the research results. To keep the project going, it is essential for them to convey the results and ideas to stakeholders insides the organization, but outside their team, for example, the sales people. However, their stakeholders are often sceptical or...