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Hendi, Alaa (author)
The growing concern about a mental health crisis and a looming threat of the loneliness epidemic worldwide that was further escalated by the COVID-19 pandemic forced people into isolation and created a new form of ‘work from home’ lifestyle. Nonetheless, the loneliness epidemic can be traced back to the 19th-century design principles that...
master thesis 2024
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Torbica, Angelina (author)
Sao Paulo, Brazil, a megacity home to 22.4 million inhabitants as of 2022 has “one of the most inequitable distributions of wealth in the world” (Caldeira 1996, 303). In the various districts, the inequality either shouts or whispers its presence. An open city, where the street-scape is the backdrop for social convergence, segregates itself in...
master thesis 2023
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Shymanski, Geneviève (author)
As the Global South continues to rapidly urbanize, finding affordable and sustainable housing solutions is paramount. The Global Housing Graduation studio provides the opportunity to design new housing typologies through environmental and social lenses. São Paulo’s challenges with rapid urbanization and social inequality has left more than a...
master thesis 2023
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Cruz Rojas, Juan (author)
From a global perspective, the building industry is one of the significant factors of environmental impact on the planet. Related activities in this industry refer to 40% of total carbon emissions; 28% of this value accounts for building operations, while the remaining 12% represents the manufacturing of new construction materials. Studies have...
master thesis 2023
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Spapens, Maxime (author)
An important part of people and their wellbeing is their living environment. Because of the increase in population and buildings, urban areas suffer from densification and diminishing green environments. These urban environments have substantial risk of mental illness, such as depression and anxiety. Green environments and qualitative features...
master thesis 2023
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Croon, T.M. (author), Hoekstra, J.S.C.M. (author), Dubois, U. (author)
abstract 2023
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Doğan, Ferhat (author)
This thesis focusses on social housing oppurtunities in the urban city centre of Beirut after the explosion of the Harbour of August 2020. The focus of the paper is aimed at the lower and middle class Beirutis and aimes to connect different fragments of the city centre.
master thesis 2022
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Isenia Bustamante, Hillary (author)
Despite the fact that everyone has the right to adequate housing, this fundamental human right has become a critical manner in several European Union (EU) nations, especially in the Netherlands (OHCHR, 2009; Rosenfeld, 2015; European Parliament, 2020). Despite being the largest social sector in Europe, accounting for approximately 30% of the...
master thesis 2022
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Espinosa, Vasilka (author)
The emic structure of space heavily depends on the social, cultural, and economic context (Hillier, 1989). Yet, many social housing projects disregard this crucial aspect by standardizing the configuration of space (Sanoff, 2000). To be able to avoid the standardization of configuration and benefit from the cost-efficiency of mass production ...
master thesis 2022
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Klimi, Myrto (author)
The fragmented urban landscape of the metropolitan area of Athen and Piraeus with its local specificities is strongly related to demographic flows. The arrival of more than 220.000 refugees in the metropolitan area of Athens and Piraeus after the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the population exchange that followed the Treaty of Lausanne posed the...
student report 2022
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Pritha Hayuningtyas, Pritha (author)
Governments worldwide deal with the question of how to elevate their low-income household (LIH) into a higher standard of living. The main view of scholars on housing is that homeownership usually is the first step into improving the lives of people with a low income. The Province of Jakarta struggled with the same question. To address the...
master thesis 2022
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van Eijs, Maarten (author)
This graduation booklet shows the work that is done during the ‘Global Housing Graduation Studio: Addis Ababa Living Lab’. The goal of this project was to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Currently, Addis Ababa is facing the problems which are caused by the ongoing rapid...
master thesis 2021
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Phan, T. (author)
Our society is expanding and in response to this, cities are undergoing transformations. The pluralism of an individualized society, relating to one’s own needs and desires, is perceptible in the way we dwell in the city. However, this doesn’t mean that a larger cohesive (social) structure isn’t essential. Indeed, Brussels, the capital of the...
master thesis 2020
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van Weerdenburg, K.A. (author)
The focus in Northeast Midtown on a highly lucrative and luxurious housing market resulted in a severe shortage of affordable apartments. This project shows that it is possible to develop affordable housing in Manhattan. Increased apartment density, combined with new amenities, provides the neighborhood with spaces to live, work, teach, and...
master thesis 2020
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Ural, Osman (author)
New York is currently going through a construction boom as developers try to take advantage of rising land values and rents caused by economic growth, resulting in a lack of affordable housing available to middle-income families. The current Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, has made it a priority to meet the demands and challenges of the...
master thesis 2019
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de Rooij, Bas (author)
The planet cannot keep sustaining our linear economy much longer. Industries are moving circular to reduce environmental impact. The kitchen industry has to change. CIK (the Circular Kitchen) is a research project that develops a circular kitchen: a product-service system for tenants in social housing in the Netherlands. The product is aimed to...
master thesis 2019
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Lachman, D.R.A. (author)
master thesis 2016
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Tegkelidis, A. (author)
As we have seen so far, the phenomenon of extrastatecraft[2] has been reconfiguring the “urban software” in the national scale of the Netherlands, affecting simultaneously multiple municipal cores with geopolitically background of high importance. In that sense, Rotterdam’s Timmerhuis is subjected to the described reformations that have been...
master thesis 2014
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Setayesh, M. (author)
This project is based on the research of the Studio which looked at the phenomenon of abandoned housing in Mexico, focusing on the Border City of Juarez where there is the highest percentage of vacated, foreclosed, abandoned and vandalized (social) housing. The main problems was identified as the flawed process of housing production and...
master thesis 2012
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