Participation as a Tool for the Sustainable Redesign of Vacant Heritage: The Case of Politiebureau Groningen Centrum

This paper explores the opportunities for locals’ participation as a tool for the sustainable redevelopment of vacant heritage. It focuses on the Politiebureau Groningen Centrum (The Netherlands) as a case study to apply a novel approach to engage community participation in architectural redesign. It fills the academic gap on participation in...

KaDEr | rEflectie: Eindrapportage KaDEr Gelderland project | fase 1 en 2 | 2017 - 2021

Final report of the research project KaDEr

Selection of Core Indicators for the Sustainable Conservation of Built Heritage

This paper presents and discusses the selection of a set of core indicators for the sustainable conservation of built heritage. This core set of indicators was selected by following a two-step methodology: 1) first, a comparative analysis of indicators of two building sustainability assessment (BSA) tools with different approaches was...

Water systems to identify country houses landscapes: a method to organise heritage landscapes based on form, meaning or use

This paper advocates a new approach to group green heritage objects, like country houses and suburban villas, based on landscape features [1].<br/>Since the seventeenth century country houses and suburban villas were designed in relationship to important landscape elements, creating groups of country estates in so called country estates...

NEMAVO-AIREY: Kernkwaliteiten & Transformatiemogelijkheden

Het doel van dit rapport is het identificeren en benoemen van de kernkwaliteiten van het bouwsysteem (en de hiermee gerealiseerde woningen en wijken) op basis van waarnemingen aan Airey-complexen zoals die er nu bij staan en gerelateerd aan historische informatie. Hiertoe is met behulp van google-streetview een overzicht gemaakt van de meeste...

A Seed for the Future

The Healthy School

INTERPRETING - ENHANCING - TRANSFORMING: A phenomenological study of innovative strategies for building upgrade and their architectural use to achieve a new intensified atmosphere in the existing urban heritage

The design focuses on establishing a connection between the technical aspects characterizing innovative strategies for building upgrade with an approach based on phenomenology. This methodology is characterized by the more intangible goal to create a new "intensified atmosphere", a new feeling in the existing context derived by a transformation...

Interventions for the Sustainable Development of Architectural Heritage - The Example of the Soda Fabriek in Schiedam, NL

Existing historic buildings, remnants of a past long gone are often still highly operational in our time, most likely at the expense of the environment. Without interventions, their energy performance is outdated – provided they are used in a contemporary way - and they contribute to the over-consumption of energy and the increase of greenhouse...

Sustainable Heritage; Redesign of climate system Kloosterkerk

The Kloosterkerk is a 700 year old monumental church in The Hague. By analysing and researching the case and relevant literature, a design basis is made for redesigning the climate system. Several systems are developed and evaluated. In the end integrating a energy saving measures, a smart air heating system and PV panels has the most advantages.

Can you keep a secret?

"Can you keep a secret?" is about a urban design for redevelopment of the Heijplaat area, and about an architectural design to transforming the former submarine shed of the RDM into an educational center for sustainable science. The thesis is relevant to the assignment we now face: finding a way to deal with the giant built structures left to us...