Material stock of buildings in Brno: Towards circularity in the construction and demolition industry

GIS bottom-up analysis of the material stock of construction materials (concrete, bricks, mortar) in buildings in Brno, Czech Republic.

Autonomous Oosterwold: Exploring the land-use, environmental impact and environmental risks of local essential service provision on different levels of autonomy

Essential service systems, such as energy provision and wastewater treatment, are important elements within spatial planning as they cater the most fundamental needs of the built environment. The recent rise in decentralized or local systems compared to the common centralized approach have left spatial planners with a dilemma: on which scale...

Project Play: An exploration of how to combine architecture and play

Everything started with my fascination of Pokémon-Go; the cultural moment when the building environment was used differently than intended; massive groups gathered around in public parks and kids invading your backyard. I wanted to understand the behavior of people and the new ways of interaction between space and humans. Literature research...

Bottom-up manufacturing of nanocrystalline diamond micro structures and components

The exceptional material properties of bulk diamond like high stiffness, high thermal conductivity, wide optical transparency, chemical inertness and bio-compatibility make it the material of choice in many high-end applications. Most present-day diamond micro-devices are fabricated by costly and time-consuming top-down methods, such as focussed...

Collective Mobility Assistant: a self-driving service for small and medium-sized enterprises in a local community

The first fully autonomous vehicles of Ford will be launched in 2021, and the revolution has been carried out not only self-driving technologies but also new business models. I.e., the establishment of Ford Smart Mobility LLC has demonstrated its ambition to seek new mobility business models rather than a focus on manufacturing vehicles itself....

Sustainable Community Development Through Tourism: A strategic model to develop deteriorating rural areas towards a sustainable paradigm

In this project a strategic model for sustainable community development through tourism is designed.<br/>A pilot research in Ljusnarsberg, a deteriorating rural community in Sweden, is performed to develop the strategic model to come to a final concept. The result is a final strategic model based on literature research, insights from the pilot...

The Mass-Customisation of Urban Housing: User-Involvement in Housing Development

The housing process in dense metropolitan environments experiences difficulties to adapt to the comprehensive needs and wants of the modern household. As a consequence of the increasing flexibility in daily-life, there is a growing diversity in the shape of households and their living patterns. In addition, digital developments enable and create...

Sustainable business models for social innovation: The case of renewable energy cooperatives

The European Union has set its goal to produce at least 20 percent of the gross final consumption of energy from renewable energy sources by the year 2020. This ambitious measurement was taken to reduce the anthropogenic GHG emissions in order to mitigate the consequences of climate change. The economic and technical oriented strategies to...

PackCity

The project started with the fascination of pop-up activities with space “PACK and PICK”. With this individual fascination, there are questions keep challenging my own fascination through out the process of the project. First of all, there is the main research question of the inefficient use over time in one day in the “FIXED” architecture, can...

Study of DNA origami plates on graphene nanopores

Combining DNA origami with solid-state nanopores has been gaining an increasing amount of attention due to its potential for biosensing applications. Accordingly, origami plate dockings onto conventional solid-state silicon nitride pores with membranes of ?20nm thick were previously studied. Here, we examine whether graphene, with its single...

Accelerating the urban energy transition by data analytics

The aim of this study is to express the impacts of building-related sustainability measures in a generic set of performance indicators, exploiting fine-grained city data. A data enrichment method is described for energy consumption data and municipal administration data, that gives accurate estimations of the current energy performance of...

Bouwstenen Vogelbuurt: Bottom-up woningtransformatie door het stimuleren van particuliere woningverbetering.

In this graduation a strategy is developed for the Vogelbuurt area in Rotterdam-Zuid, with which the private owners in that neighbourhood can transform their dwellings, for example by merging their home with a neighbouring one.

De architect als initiatiefnemers van bottom-up projecten - Een onderzoek naar het nut en de noodzaak van een business case.

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of architecture

Post-Exodus or the involuntary prisoners of Architecture, is a project about corrupt well intended top-down pretentions. A project about when utopia becomes dystopia. About when the built environment becomes out of tune with experienced and desired reality. Accumulating to the point of large scale vacancy and crisis. The focus of the project...

Op zoek naar een nieuw ruraal ideaal

De titel ‘Op zoek naar een nieuw ruraal ideaal’ staat voor een strategie met als doel een zelfstandige en duurzame dorpsgemeenschap te scheppen bestaande uit oorspronkelijke bewoners en nieuwkomers. De strategie is toegespitst op het aansporen en betrekken van de lokale bevolking en omvat drie elementen; een reizende kermis als initiator, een...