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Stoschek, Dominik (author)At the EU Parliament in Brussels, deliberation and decision-making processes are stuck in an ever-turning hamster wheel designed to reach unanimous compromises. The architecture of the so-called Consensusland provides spatial settings exclusively designed for the purpose of reaching compromises and not offering room where discussions and...master thesis 2023
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Taal, Jamie (author)This graduation project searches for a framework for regeneration that integrates several core themes to bring about more social interaction in a post-war neighborhood like Moerwijk while at the same time densifying it. The result of the research is a constructed pattern language. The pattern language forms the basis of the framework for...master thesis 2023
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Boreel, Noor (author)In the eighteenth century, the city centre of the metropolis of London was the most chaotic due to its immense industries and excessive noise and smell. This sensorial overstimulation brought and still brings potential unsustainable health and well-being effects on its urban participants. <br/><br/>This research explores the redefinition and...master thesis 2022
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Sun, Wenwen (author)This doctoral research investigates the understanding and implementation of public space in the reformed Chinese context, particularly from the perspectives of urban design and architecture, by referring to the complex process and result of transculturation (transculturación). It delineates how public space as a Greco-Roman originated concept...doctoral thesis 2022
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Song, Lulu (author)The project Open House, ‘gleans’ a derelict and underutilised part of the riverfront in Maastricht and gives it over to the everyday people of the city in the form of a public building - an Arts Centre for Maastricht. The ambition for the project is to create an architecture that will mesh seamlessly with the public realm, breaking down the...master thesis 2022
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Ockers, Michiel (author)Public Matter aims for the unification of built form and public use. Within the context of London, extensive research has been conducted to understand a city’s ability and shortcomings in accommodating the public. This project speaks of a reciprocal relation between research and design, and form and use. Ultimately, a series of acts is proposed...master thesis 2022
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Guild, William (author)The post-industrial city has become a fragmented landscape of urbanisation. The rational city of the modernist era has been eroded by the forces of globalisation and the liberalised economy, erasing the traditional points of reference in the urban environment. Consequently, this space has become increasingly illegible. Koolhaas notes: ‘We were...master thesis 2020
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Shadap, Alan (author)This thesis is an exploration of the cultural characteristics and urban identity of residential neighbourhoods of Shillong, a hilltown settlement in the north east region of India. The rapid pace of unplanned urbanization trends in the hill stations of India has resulted in the degradation of the quality of public space networks of hill stations...master thesis 2019
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Lopes Cardozo, Rebecca (author)A proposal to set up material conditions that make it possible for dwellers in Teusaquillo, Bogotá to collectively experience the public realms anew through the movement of their bodies during the festive and attentive dance of the carnival taking place along Parkway. Here, one can choose to fully engage with life beyond the self or to withdraw...master thesis 2019
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Lam, Hiu Ching Debby (author)Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent...master thesis 2019
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Cook, Matthew (author)A proposal for a series of water plazas along the route of the Rio Arzobispo in Bogotá, Colombia. This follows extensive research on elements of the city and how they are perceived through my method: Narrative Inhabitation. The bed of the rio has been redesigned to increase its capacity to hold rainwater to be released slowly, mitigating flood...master thesis 2018
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Teerds, P.J. (author)The modern emphasis on authenticity and the individual not only caused an ‘astonishing flowering of poetry and music’ and ‘the rise of the novel’ states the philosopher Hannah Arendt in her well-known book The Human Condition, but also the fall and ‘decline of the more public arts, especially architecture.’ In this study Hans Teerds takes up the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Asarpota, Karishma (author)This research and design studio combines infrastructural sub-structure design with urban realm design. Set within the framework of Sustainable Urban Engineering of Territory (SUET), a case for activating the public realm of Zuidplein, Rotterdam is explored in this studio.student report 2017
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Van Uden, M.F.M. (author)Socio-philosophers and architects hold very different views on the definition of the public realm/sphere, resulting in the neglecting of the critique of the first group on the latter. In this paper architectural solutions are discussed on this topic, looking first at what architectural elements stimulate the gathering in public places, secondly...master thesis 2016
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De Ronde, W.R. (author)Graduation project the urban sculpture is a proposal to densify the urban emptiness within the Sint-Jacobsplaats while dealing with the fragmented patch work of buildings and integrating a hybrid flexible program within a unifying building skin.master thesis 2014
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De Winter, M.C.J. (author)The project aims to develop a new interpretive framework, through architectural and urban design, that is embodied by a 3-dimensional grid system and is facilitating the interplays among community (public life), infrastructure and greenification within the city center of Rotterdam.master thesis 2014
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Sobels, O.J. (author)The Mediator is an intervention in the urban fabric of Rotterdam. Influenced by a historic analysis of the influence of infrastructure on the transformation of the city, it forms a new link between a structuralist 'village' and the modern public space of Rotterdam.master thesis 2013
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Kalinauskas, I. (author), Van den Heuvel, J.H.J. (author)Graduation project the bold line is a proposal to the situation of transforming abandoned urban voids by implementing a unique specific condition, the Supersized Inhabitable Urban Pergola, which combines nature, landscape, architecture and infrastructure in a most provocative hybrid way.master thesis 2013
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Luk, H.Y.H. (author)The thesis project is about intervening nodes along the border of the state farm in the capital city of Ankara, which a transit and service hub would be as an example of the node along it, in order to response to the issue of fragmented and unstructured urban fabric development of the city, which leads to social segregation and community...master thesis 2013