An urban transit zone: A permanent structure for temporary inhabitation

In developing cities across the globe, as in Addis Ababa, the number of residents is growing while the amount of good-quality housing remains low. The demand for low-income housing is rising rapidly due to the contemporary aim to eliminate the unhealthy living conditions and the influx of migrants. Without newcomers a city would not be able to...

Blueprint for intervention: A Decision Support Model for transformation of Vacant Office Buildings in Amsterdam

GOAL – The goal of this research is to examine the possibility of a decision support model concerning intervention strategies of vacant office buildings in Amsterdam. This quick scan results in the best future function and intervention for a specific vacant office building. This DSM is based on the market, the location and the building analyses...

Ford Service Innovation: Appropriately growing towards designing services

<b>Introduction: </b>The context of mobility is changing rapidly and new mobility solutions are gaining momentum. Ford is expanding towards an auto and a mobility company and experiments with offering mobility solutions. These experiments should help Ford in discovering emerging opportunities. Traditional product development is not suitable for...

The effect of the Estimated Service Life on the sustainability of vacancy strategies

In the ‘Actieprogramma leegstaande kantoren’ the strategies of redevelopment, transformation and demolition of existing office buildings are suggested to reduce the high vacancy rate in the Dutch office market. Available research on which strategy is most sustainable did not incorporate the estimated service life of the strategies, but applied a...

Social interaction strategies in historic buildings

The location is the Binnengasthuis-area; a zone within the UNESCO World Heritage site of Amsterdam and a campus of the University of Amsterdam. This master thesis examines the influences of the existing building on a transformation design. Why does a certain intervention based on social activities work well with one building but is not relevant...

Healing by transforming: Creating the empowered healing environment

According to the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), there will be more focus on tackling the unhealthy effects of urbanization in the near future. This together with the presence of a large stock of vacant buildings and other developments within these urban areas and the challenges which are formed by the developments in...