Van leegstaand kantoor naar geliberaliseerde huurwoning: Aanbevelingen aan de gemeente Amsterdam ter bevordering van transformatie van leegstaande kantoren naar geliberaliseerde huurwoningen

The supply and demand of the Dutch office market is not in balance. 15,7% of all the offices are vacant. The most vacancy can be found in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a big city with a large population and a large group of immigrants. There is a shortage of different types of housing, which means that transformation of vacant offices into housing...

The "Donor Skelet": Designing with reused structural concrete elements

The goal of this thesis is to research the feasibility level of reusing existing structural concrete elements. Nowadays, a major problem that the Dutch building industry is facing is the high vacancy rate of office buildings. The available solutions for the vacant offices are transformation or demolition. Transformation is the best solution but...