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Lee, Michael (author)
Summary<br/><br/>Numerous ancient historical constructions worldwide depend primarily on an extensive array of wooden foundation piles, as they are subject to loading conditions governed by the superstructure above. Wooden foundations transfer loads through a combination of compression and lateral resistance. The inherent strength of wood...
master thesis 2023
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Feenstra, Rienk (author)
This study investigates the feasibility of manufacturing wooden elements using Layer Object Manufacturing (LOM) technology to replace steel nodes in the built environment. LOM offers significant advantages in allowing the designer to dictate the grain direction of each layer of material and optimize the cutting process, potentially reducing the...
master thesis 2023
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Alberts Coelho, Alexsander (author)
The building stock and the construction industry combined are responsible for a large share of greenhouse gases emissions. At the same time, every year tons of wood, paper and agricultural residues are wasted instead of recycled and upcycled into the production chain. In the fabrication field, the relevance of additive manufacturing processes is...
master thesis 2022
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Bierach, Christopher (author)
With a building industry that is responsible for a large amount of our carbon emissions, a rising population, and the over-extraction of resources, architects and engineers have the responsibility to use environmentally friendly products. Lignin and cellulose are the most abundant biopolymers on earth and produce a lot of waste by ending up...
master thesis 2022
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Milev, Vesko (author)
Concrete and Steel are the materials with the largest market share in the construction industry and have been for a long time.<br/>With environmental awareness increasing, timber is regaining popularity due to the potential for carbon neutral and even carbon negative construction.<br/>Use of structural wood elements in bridges, however, is often...
master thesis 2022
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Rabah, Malek (author)
Upcycling of the biomass residues and wastes is a necessary innovation within the given environmental and economic trends, policies and regulations, competition and depletion of natural resources taking place nowadays. Thus, wood pallet upcycling is chosen in this thesis to be the ambassador of biomass. <br/>Research is built upon the...
master thesis 2021
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Al-Korany, Mays (author)
Redesign of two building on Campus North in the Hembrug, Zaandam area. The design focusses on creating a low-tech and stimulating environment for children. Where parents can have workspaces and maintain a connection with their children (visual and physical).
master thesis 2021
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Smit, Thijn (author)
The Netherlands is building to little in wood and relies way too much on high-emission materials, such as concrete. The building culture is changing, but way to gradual. In response to the scarcity of resources, nitrogen crisis, climate change and the housing crisis, the Netherlands has to turn more to biobased materials, foremost wood, as a...
master thesis 2021
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Dijkhuizen, Micha (author)
Derako is a company specialized in designing and manufacturing wooden suspended ceilings, wall panels and façade panels. Derako faces the challenge of high production of waste, over 50% of their bought wood ends up as waste, additionally over 6500 kilograms of plastic waste is being produced. In their industry, Derako is not alone. The...
master thesis 2021
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Wu, Zhinan (author)
Within the context of utilizing alternative materials to promote sustainable construction in the building industry, Living Architecture is a concept that uses living organisms as the building materials. As a rather unconventional approach, it possesses benefits such as low cost, not requiring considerable workforce or industrial material, carbon...
master thesis 2020
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Rijnders, D.W.A. (author)
This graduation project will be focussing on revitalising the CBD North- East Midtown by using the current building stock respectively the Lever House along Park Avenue designed by SOM Architects. This building is also caught by the large migration to Hudson Yards as more than 50 percent of the building is vacant. A planned raise of lease due to...
master thesis 2020
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Zegers, Juliëtte (author)
Timber Town is one half of the industrial area in Winterswijk, which was built in the 20th century to support the village’s textile industry. Currently this part of the area is not used to its full potential. The other half of the area still contains a functioning textile factory: Gaudium. Here the profession and skills of working with textiles...
master thesis 2020
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Bauer, Lorijn (author)
Timber structures are experiencing a revelation in the build environment due to new technologies and production techniques. However, the longest spans created with timber structures still don't compete with the span widths of structures made of steel. This thesis provides a preliminary design for the long-span football stadium roof structure of...
master thesis 2019
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Raaphorst, Berend (author)
Vacancy is and remains a serious problem in today's office landscape. Many spaces and buildings are unable to adapt to the modern knowledge economy is shifting towards. This project attempts to provide a solution for disconnected, vacant offices spaces, particularly through the integration of parametric architecture. The redevelopment of the...
master thesis 2019
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van den Berg, Mario (author)
Wood can be used to rehabilitate degraded water bodies (lakes and rivers). However wood has historically been removed from river systems to improve flood protection, inland navigation and drink water quality. These actions reduced and degraded the aquatic habitat of the effected river systems. Rijkswaterstaat is interested in reintroducing wood...
student report 2018
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Rubaij Bouman, Roland (author)
The formation of scour holes is a vital thread of retaining the water infrastructure of rivers. Nowadays, protective filters are used to prevent washing away of the underlying material. Rijkswaterstaat started the program 'Stroomlijn’, in which trees (logs) are cut from the floodplains and placed in a sheltered zone of the river to test whether...
master thesis 2018
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Tanzi, Daniele (author)
With the nowadays technological changes, a new building typology<br/>should be developed, where all the phases of the “Food Supply Chain” should be elaborated as one: production, process and retail.<br/>The objective is to develop a building typology that could host a space entirely dedicated to food, where all the unnecessary phases are removed...
master thesis 2018
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Zhang, Zhenkun (author)
The project is the transforming earthquake damaged buildings into new public complexity, integrate separate buildings together, provide more public space, improves existing architecture quality and structural performance through extra construction system. Through the design and research, a more architectural solution to retrofit seismic damage...
master thesis 2017
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van Tol, O. (author)
master thesis 2017
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Broersen, T. (author)
master thesis 2016
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