Summer Houses In The Netherlands Between 1930-1940

With the significant industrial and economic growth of the beginning of the twentieth century life was busy and of fast pace. Every now and then citizens wanted to escape from reality. Spending time in nature became popular and eventually the trend of outdoor-living emerged. After having been outside for a while people were able to return to...

Escaping Casablanca: Resorting to Inversions of the Everyday

Over the last century, Casablanca has become the economical capital of Morocco. To deal with this ever congesting metropolis, the French Europeans and later wealthy Moroccans, have established an entire region to escape from Casablanca's everyday. The research investigates this relationship between the escape from the everyday into spaces for...

Tussen tent en villa: Het vakantiepark in Nederland 1920-nu

Hoe ontwikkelde het vakantiepark zich en waarom zo? Deze vraag staat centraal in dit proefschrift naar de ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van één van Nederlands bekendste vakantie-accommodaties. Hypothese daarbij was dat die ontwikkeling niet los te zien is van de woonomgeving, omdat het vakantiepark zich steeds in reactie daarop tot een alternatief...

Positive Impact With Community Currencies

Money is an essential technology used by many people around the globe every day. It is beneficial for efficient trade and saving. The aim of this graduation is to design money. A positive impact on the environmental is made with the design of a so called community currency. In the economy we stumble upon limits which the market cannot easily...

Campsites as utopias? A socio-spatial reading of the post-war holiday camp in Belgium, 1950s to 1970s

This paper contrasts the objectives that underlie the development of government-funded holiday camps for family vacations in Belgium with the socio-spatial practices of their initial users. Drawing on oral history, archival material, photographs and site plans, we argue that holidaymakers did not just experience the holiday camp as an...

Sustainable Energy Concepts: A Sustainable energy concept for Safari Resort Beekse Bergen

Research to sustainable energy concepts with a holiday resort as case study. Near the safaripark a new holiday resort will be built. The missing natrual gas connection on location causes problems for thermal energy. This thesis gives a number of sustainable solutions to provide in enough energy for the new holiday resort

An improved Mobile Holiday Home

For company MAAT Caravans bv an new Mobile Holiday Home or Chalet is designed. There should be a distuinghisable chalet that add value, inspire confidence and give positive publicity to the company. A chalet is developed with an oval living room in the center. People in the chalet will have a panoramic view. Another concept is a chalet with a...