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van Lookeren Campagne, Fé (author)To climb up the circular economy hierarchy and meet the goals of the European Green policy in the construction sector, steel profiles may be reused instead of recycled, which is currently the most common practice. An overarching digital database to efficiently match supply and demand of reclaimed structural elements will stimulate their...master thesis 2022
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Aboueimehrizi, Maryamsadat (author)Early design choices in building shape and fenestration significantly influ- ence the yearly daylight performance of office buildings. Annual daylight performance must be analyzed at the conceptual design stage to support building form and fenestration design decisions. However, the simulation modeling and daylight calculations necessary for the...master thesis 2022
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Shenoy, Rohan (author)This Master's thesis project is conceived in two parts. <br/><br/>The first part is the research project and is titled <<The Art of Acquiring Flow>> where the study assesses an architect’s ability to experience ‘design flow’, during the ideation phase, based on the type of design tool utilized. In order to test the hypothesis, I...master thesis 2022
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van Osch, Floor (author)Design for product care focusses on stimulating users to prevent early obsolescence of products, which is particularly valuable for electronic household products. One product care strategy is to create attachment and therefore care motivation by strengthening the product-user relationship.<br/>Currently, these strategies lack practicable design...master thesis 2022
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Boyuklieva, Alina (author)In the recent years, many older buildings are being transformed into more sustainable zero-energy housing. However, next to its advantages, there are many challenges that still have to be tackled. One of the main ones is the mismatch between residents’ expectations and systems’ functioning. This report analyses the specific case of a demo...master thesis 2022
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Wobben, Lorenzo (author)Outdoor sports, such as surfing, mountaineering and skiing, are historically exclusive. For years, those sports and their communities were dominated by a white athletic male culture and were far from diverse. This homogeneous environment was, and sometimes still is, reflected within the outdoor industry. Thus, for years, outdoor brands,...master thesis 2022
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Ertürkan, H. (author), Karana, E. (author), Mugge, R. (author)Living materials are a nascent material class where living organisms are embedded and kept alive in the design outcome to achieve novel functionalities, expressions, and interactions. Experiential characterisation studies with potential endusers will provide insights for developing these novel materials for meaningful material<br/>applications....conference paper 2022
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Sanz Segura, R. (author), Manchado-Pérez, Eduardo (author), Özcan, Elif (author)Designing alarms to address the increasing complexity of dynamic and interconnected systems in current socio-technological environments presents multi-faceted design problems that require systematic thinking and a collaborative and holistic approach. To understand the alarm design challenges better, we map out the design space for audible...journal article 2022
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Martínez Castro, J.F. (author), Buso, A. (author), Wu, J. (author), Karana, E. (author)Shape-changing textile interfaces have the potential to create unique functions, expressions, and interactions in everyday artifacts. However, the technical expertise required to fabricate and interact with these interfaces limits designers from rapidly iterating through diverse textile expressions. This pictorial presents TEX(alive), a low...conference paper 2022
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van Essen, Kees (author)This research introduces the concept of Universal Prefab (UP), a highly modular building system which uses only prefabricated elements to realise building designs. The discrete structural elements are connected with a standardized connection throughout the entire structure that allows for quick assembly, increasing the efficiency of construction...master thesis 2021
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Thomassen, Luc (author)Engineered Moso bamboo has favorable mechanical properties and shows great potential for large scale application in European architecture due to its high renewability. However, lack of standardization and coherence in test data trongly hinders its practical application. In this research paper, the practical application potential of Moso bamboo...master thesis 2021
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Kösters, Levy (author)While most mobility providers likely have a sustainable or environmentally friendly goal at heart, a poor implementation strategy can do more harm than good within a city. The lack of awareness about the city’s environmental, socio-demographic or socio-economic characteristics or the absence of a clear vision of the local government about how to...master thesis 2021
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Hamelijnck, Max (author)This master thesis' main objective is to develop a parametric design tool which improves the design process and explores the building typologies of a hybrid modular timber construction based on global and local structural requirements. The hybrid modular timber construction is core-less and combines load-bearing and corner-supported modules. The...master thesis 2021
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Snel, Senna (author)Refurbishment is a critical strategy in the circular economy (Bocken et al., 2016). Despite the environmental and financial benefits, refurbished products are not a popular consumer choice (Mugge et al., 2017). Refurbished products are seen as old, used and of low quality, and consumers worry that products are contaminated with traces of a prior...master thesis 2021
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Wang, G. (author)According to Person-Centred Care, as far as possible, people with dementia should be cared for in a way that takes into account their personality, life experiences and preferences. Personalisation is hence the core of Person-Centred Care, yet the approaches, recommendations and tools are lacking for this purpose. Therefore, the author...doctoral thesis 2021
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van Gelderen, Thijs (author)Recycling and reuse of structures and elements is important to reduce the carbon footprint of the building industry. Reuse requires much less energy than recycling and therefore has much potential. However, reuse is still rarely put in practice due to the many challenges constructing with reuse involves. One of these challenges is the complex...master thesis 2021
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Kuijpers, Sophie (author)Politicians, scientific researchers and companies all know; the transition to a Circular Economy [CE] should start now, or actually should have started yesterday. The CE is an economic system that replaces the current take-make-waste linear system and replaces this with the reduction, reuse and recovering of resources. The challenge is to build...master thesis 2021
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Marradi, Chiara (author)In the last decades, more and more complex societal and environmental challenges are rising. Social Innovation is an emerging and promising framework to tackle complex global challenges at the local level of urban contexts. These projects are socially, culturally and contextually embedded and highly dependent on the local ecosystem of resources....master thesis 2021
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Wysocki, Jakub (author)Residents typically have a negligible impact on their living units spatial layout in mass housing projects. Building industry lacks tools for users to create space tailored to their needs. The purpose of this work is facilitate co-creation by providing a pre-configured and engineered set of spatial units corresponding to human activities, in...master thesis 2021
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Bruinsma, Floris (author)The objective of this project is to devise and develop a design tool that lets the user explore different force flows during conceptual design, with the goal to inform different geometries, thereby realizing an integrated design process. Key characteristics that this tool must incorporate to be successful are defined as feedback (the ability to...master thesis 2021