How public green space is valued by residents of high-rise buildings in Rotterdam: A quantitative research to investigate the relation between public green spaces and the housing price of high-rise buildings in Rotterdam

This research investigated the determinant effect of public green spaces (PGS) on high-rise housing prices in Rotterdam. The growing population and tendency of people to gravitate towards city centers, have led to an increase in high-rise residential buildings in The Netherlands. It is therefore of high importance to optimize the integration of...

Customized Collective Housing: Towards Participatory Design of Dwellings

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...

Retrofit at scale: accelerating capabilities for domestic building stocks

Retrofitting domestic buildings is essential for meeting targets to mitigate the catastrophic impacts of our changing climate. Current rates of retrofitting are far lower than necessary for achieving global net zero climate targets. To date in privately owned homes, policymakers have largely relied on piecemeal activity and often short-lived...

Shop Til You Drop: Shopping Street Design in Old Town

The “Shop Til You Drop” aims to create a new experience in the old town of Gibraltar, seeking to engage visitors by luring them in with the world of shopping. By designing a unique space that combines the architectural character of the heritage city with that of the modern aspiration of commercialization, it seeks to rebuild the characteristic...

Zero-Waste Mass-Timber Residential High-Rise: A sustainable high-density housing solution

More and more people live in cities. The building industry is responsible for 33% of waste production and is set to increase further to 50% in 2025. The energy efficiency is continuously increased, but the waste production at the end of life of a building is largely ignored. This design proposes a solution in the form of a zero-waste high-rise...

Mechanically Storing Renewable Energy at a Residential Scale

Today, more and more households are generating their own solar power. This helps us to come closer to a circular economy, since less fossil fuels are required to meet our energy needs. However, excessively generated energy is often wasted, since transporting or storing it for later use is challenging. Lithium ion batteries provide a solution,...

Agent-Based Modeling of a Thermal Energy Transition in the Built Environment

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050, an energy transition is taking place in the European Union. Achieving these targets requires changes in the heating and cooling sector (H&C). Designing and implementing this energy transition is not trivial, as technology, actors, and institutions interact in complex ways....

Rotterdam's Transformation Potential: Transforming vacant office space into housing

This research aims to uncover the transformation potential of the structural vacant office space in Rotterdam to residential space. The office market in the Netherlands has become a replacement market. The result of this replacement market is that users can choose to rent the highest quality offices at the best locations due to the surplus of...

Business case optimisation for the development of energy neutral residential neighbourhoods: Linear programming applied in a decision support tool for business case optimisation of multi-actor decision-making processes in the realization of energy neutral residential neighbourhoods consisting of all-electric, single-family and owner-occupied dwellings from the viewpoint of the real estate developer

Context – The stricter regulations on energy-efficient developments to prevent climate change and resource depletion, the expected rising energy prices and hence the rising monthly living costs for households, the changing process in urban area development, the demand for housing in the western part of the Netherlands and the increasing...

Robots at the construction site: An adjusted business model for construction companies

Context - After the recession of 2008, the real estate market is picking up again. Amongst others due to the urbanisation and the increasing world population the real estate demand is growing. However, the current scarcity of workforce in the construction industry might become a huge issue in the future. In order to deal with the future real...

Residential Energy Transition of Amsterdam Nieuw West neighbourhoods

The starting point of this research is the urgent need for reducing the current energy consumption and CO2 emissions, that is vital to mitigate climate change and the limitation of energy sources. This target can be achieved by creating more sustainable cities, since nowadays, the built environment, of which residential buildings occupy the...

Design of a residential portable fire extinguisher with aerosol technology

The objective of this graduation project is to develop a feasible design proposal for a residential portable fire extinguisher which makes use of aerosol extinguishing technology. The methodology used in this product design project is the Basic Design Cycle (Roozenburg and Eekels, 1995). In the analysis phase the target group is defined (as...

Dwelling_At home in the City_Berlin_Hidden World

Design of a dwelling project in the neighbourhood Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. This is seen as a chance to create a residential building where families can identify with. As well with the building as with the public and semi-public space around it. This also influences the design of the dwelling.

Sequenties: Een woonensemble in Berlijn

Afstudeerpresentatie en poster van een woonensemble in Berlijn, locatie Tacheles. Woningen zijn georiënteerd rondom filmhoven. Iedere woning heeft uitzicht op geprojecteerde films. Woningen zijn dusdanig opgebouwd dat de afzonderlijke ruimte als een continue ruimte aan elkaar zijn geschakeld en polyvalente flexibiliteit ontstaat.

Presence of water in residential environments - value for money?

The role of water in the locational bundle of residential value and choice determinants is multiple. Relevant attributes pertain to water quality, proximity and length of water frontage, view, size of water body, coastal development costs, and costs caused by flooding. They also pertain to different types of water: the sea, lake, river and so on...