From teatime cookies to rain-pants: Resolving dilemmas through design using concerns at three abstraction levels

Users often have conflicting concerns (i.e., dilemmas), such as ‘embracing change vs. following tradition.’ Design can resolve these dilemmas through simultaneously fulfilling conflicting user concerns. This paper proposes three abstraction levels for framing user concerns when formulating dilemmas. In a large-scale industry project, we...

Computationally-driven engineering of sublattice ordering in a hexagonal AlHfScTiZr high entropy alloy

Multi-principle element alloys have enormous potential, but their exploration suffers from the tremendously large range of configurations. In the last decade such alloys have been designed with a focus on random solid solutions. Here we apply an experimentally verified, combined thermodynamic and first-principles design strategy to reverse...

Applying Reliable Methods to Analyse and Deflect an Asteroid: Design Synthesis Exercise Spring 2016; Group S03: Final review

This report presents the Final design of the Design Synthesis Exercise (DSE) to 'Capture a Small Asteroid and Change its Orbit' at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. The bachelor programme 'Aerospace Engineering' comprises several projects enabling students to explore aeronautics and space from different...

Can spatial form support urban ecosystem services: Representing patches and connectivity zones for bees using space syntax methodology

Heliport Gorinchem - Designing an Aerial Logistic Network

The Dutch city of Gorinchem has great economic growth opportunities for the future, but is limited by its transport system. It is strategically located at a crossroad of two motorways and two rivers, the Boven-Merwede and the Linge. Gorinchem is home to a number of multinationals, among others Damen Shipyards and Van Oord. This sets the right...

Delft Aerospace Design Projects 2006: Design in aeronautics, astronautics, earth observation and related areas