Dementia in the Built Environment

Transition to sustainable heating at neighbourhood level: Research in technical, environmental and financial feasibility and development of a process guide for municipalities

Creating an effective peer-to-peer alarm network in social housing neighbourhoods for Homies.

Project background<br/>Insurance company Achmea and consulting and IT services company Accenture commenced a collaboration in the fall of 2015 in an attempt to address burglary damages in social housing apartments. This project was called ‘Homies’. In order to achieve their goal of reducing burglary costs, the Homies team created a concept for...

The distribution system operator as flexibility manager of distributed energy resources: A spreadsheet based simulation study on the case of the Netherlands

Within the Netherlands, house owners set up projects in which all houses within a neighbourhood are collectively renovated and equipped with distributed energy resources (DERs) at the same time. These projects are called ‘neighbourhood distributed energy resource projects’ (NDPs). As some of the equipped DERs electrify much of the heating...

Living with dementia: An elderly home in the centre of Rotterdam

Elderly suffering from dementia go through a difficult and confusing time from the moment they start to show symptoms of dementia. During this time, the process of dementia can only be slowed down. It has the looks of it that there isn’t anything more that can be done, but to make them feel as comfortable as possible for the time being. Although...

Hybrid zones the ideal place for contact: Design for communication in streets with no a hybrid zone

Contact between neighbours is a logical starting point for making a neighbourhood a pleasant place to live. A scientific research has shown that the area in streets where most contact between neighbours takes place is the hybrid zone. Hybrid zones are the zones between one’s private space (ones house) and the public space (the street); things...

Design for Social Impact in the Afrikaanderwijk - welding your way into neighbourhood attachment

This graduation project is aimed at improving the liveability of the Afrikaanderwijk by using the Design for Social Impact [DSI] method. Within the Netherlands, there is a large number of post war suburbs that face an accumulation of problems such as a high unemployment rate, neglected housing facilities, crime and a lack of social networks or...

Spatial-social solutions for Dutch post war neighbourhoods

A research for the effects of interventions in Dutch post war neighbourhoods from a physical as well as a social and economic point of view. The The Hague neighbourhood Mariahoeve is used as a case to make a design for improvement.