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Nguyen, Binh Minh (author)This essay investigates the shops as well as commercial buildings designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the Netherlands from 1922 to 1962, focusing on the relation between the interior and the exterior in each project. Gaining insight into his contribution to the history of shop designs. This research has been conducted through a combination of...student report 2021
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Sarma, Tanishka (author)The migration of different ethnic groups into an urban ecosystem over generations can lend to diversity and religious plurality. As people migrate from their homeland, they bring with them their culture and mould their surroundings into something that emulates ‘home’. These migrant populations try to fit into their new environment, and the host...student report 2022
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Vink, Femke (author)In-between spaces are the gradual transition spaces between two opposites; between inside and outside or public and private. This research will investigate the motives and implementation of the concept within Dutch and Japanese architecture, as it is widely used within architecture of these countries. Because the in-between...student report 2021
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Hietbrink, Cedric (author)The term biophilia and its implementations in architecture have since its popularisation in 1984 gained in popularity throughout the world. This research attempts to find how this has taken shape in the Netherlands by answering the research question: How has public opinion in the Netherlands shaped the influence of Biophilia on architecture in...student report 2022
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Braakhuis, Pim (author)The world is warming up, causing a rise in water levels. The Netherlands has a rich history in the field of water protection: throughout the centuries, the country has increasingly improved its defenses with the help of new techniques, technological advancements, and better regulated management. However, since the end of the previous century,...student report 2024
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Laufer Schuh, F. (author)Significant population displacements have been taking place for centuries, most of the time as a consequence of natural disasters, wars, persecution or economic challenges. In 2023, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported 110 million people forcibly displaced worldwide (UNHCR, 2023). Conflicts in one country rapidly affect...student report 2024
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Matheus Hernandez, David (author)The transition towards greener mobility will play a significant role in decarbonizing the economy. Hence, policy makers need tools that allow them to test alternatives towards that goal. This drive has led to the development of increasingly accurate transport models, with the latest generation being activity-based transport demand models. These...master thesis 2022
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Smit, Laureen (author)Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) is an innovative concept which has the potential to deliver a convenient mobility option to travellers. It provides the supply of multi-modal and demand-driven mobility services which includes custom made travel options with real-time information. This all is shared with the use of a digital platform to the customer....master thesis 2019
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van Wijck, Dirk (author)Public construction projects have an image of poor performance, both in the Netherlands and other countries. Too many public projects go over budget and over time. A possible improvement to this poor performance could be Early Contractor Involvement (ECI). ECI literally translates to involving a contractor “early”, which in current practice...master thesis 2018
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Boon, A. (author)As the field of eParticipation is in the experimentation phase with a wide range of experiments and projects occurring, these efforts need to be converged and analyzed in order to provide a more complete evaluation of the current status of eParticipation within municipalities. Specifically, an overview is needed of the direction municipal...master thesis 2010
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Bruna, Marc (author)Subsidence is affecting different parts of the Netherlands. The strongest subsidence is observed in the province of Groningen due to ongoing natural gas extraction. Subsidence is also observed at several locations in the province of South Holland, where the processes of peat oxidation, soil compaction and the withdrawal of groundwater are at the...master thesis 2020
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Wilkesmann, Florian (author)Around the world, authorities try to increase the attractiveness of multimodal public transport (PT)-related trips to reduce car usage. To achieve this, a seamless combination between the different modes is necessary. The Dutch train station operator NS tries to enhance the combination of the bike and train by providing a train station-based...master thesis 2022
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Tijs, Kasper (author)The objective of this research is to explore the possibilities in the use of digital twins towards the maintenance and operation of tunnels. This is explored by looking at the end users of the technology, to profile their needs and requirements and consider a digital twin design that focuses on this. This research is the start of a human centred...master thesis 2020
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Varanasi, Saurabh (author)It is a well-known fact that the construction industry operates under high levels of complexity and uncertainty, which gives rise to challenges such as ineffective communication, lack of trust, insufficient support from the higher management, etc. Collaboration has demonstrated to be a solution to all these problems. In order to stimulate...master thesis 2021
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Zhu, Chen (author)The textile industry has been in Winterswijk since the 18th century. It is part of the city's cultural legacy. Due to the decline of industry and the expansion and development of city center, the old industrial area, which is now located near the city center, is no longer suitable in the perspective of urban planning. The textile culture slowly...master thesis 2020
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Mohammed, Syed (author)As the transition to a low-carbon economy is imminent in the view of global warming and climate change, there comes a need to identify energy carriers that can completely or partially replace fossil fuels that are used today. Green hydrogen in this respect has been proposed and researched into as a possible replacement for currently used fossil...master thesis 2019
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Schaepman, M. (author)A key factor in making a shopping center a success, one that should be considered from the start of the development, is the management. The shopping center management is responsible for carrying out the concept of the shopping center and adjusting it, if necessary, to the needs of changing society. The internationalisation and strong shopping...master thesis 2008
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Jabri, T. (author)Environmental problems and the dependence on fossil fuels led to increasing interest in renewable energy sources. Photovoltaic (PV) technologies can convert the light emitted by the sun directly into electrical energy. Therefore PV technologies are very promising and the expectations are high worldwide. Compared to neighboring countries like...master thesis 2011
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Admiraal, Jessica (author)Het Stedelijk is a highschool which is situated in Zutphen, at the northern border of the neighborhood Nieuwstad. Due to its height, shape and materialisation, the building stands out of its contexts and function as a border between the neighborhood and the park, which is behind the building. More highschools are situated in this area, which...master thesis 2018
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Smit, Michiel (author)Coastal and offshore infrastructure must be designed to withstand extreme wave-induced loading conditions. Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) is often employed to infer probabilistic distributions that provide information about extreme design conditions. In traditional practices, EVA is performed under the assumption of stationarity. This means that...master thesis 2022