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S.H. Verkuijlen

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A strategy for indigenous wood in architecture

A new approach for the Dutch wood production chain

The wood architecture narrative is an important link in carbon reduction of the building sector. However, upscaling wood production and shifting to high-value application is impeded by poor resilience and quality of coniferous production forests in the Netherlands. This research ...

Reconsidering Facade Culture

A study into a modular facade system for ecological architectural tectonics

This study investigates the development of a modular facade system designed to align with
sustainable construction paradigms, focusing on a standardized façade structure, renewable
materials, and climate design for wellbeing. Using the Dutch climate and societal context a ...
This study explores the design and development of large-scale floating structures, addressing current challenges in floating architecture while focusing on technical feasibility, energy self-sufficiency, and sustainable water management. A mixed-method approach combining qualitat ...

Building With Recycled Plastic Materials: Designing Modular Housing and Exploring Circular Solutions

Exploring the Circular Potential of Polyethylene-Aluminum (PolyAl) and Mixed Plastics (DKR350)

One of the challenges for the recycling industry is the lack of sufficient (specific) recycling applications for materials recovered from plastic waste streams. This research explores the potential of recycled plastic materials, particularly polyethylene-aluminum (PolyAl) and mix ...

Transforming Collectivity

Reimagining living together in Westwijk

The housing crisis in the Netherlands has been a growing concern, resulting in public outcry. This crisis stems from long-term political preferences for market-regulated housing, resulting in rising prices, increased rents, long social housing waitlists, and foreign investment-d ...

Empowering Architects For Sustainable High-Rise Development

A Parametric Approach For Sustainable Timber High-Rise Design

The paper establishes the need for a parametric design tool in contemporary tall timber construction, combining literature studies, expert interviews, and case study analyses. Findings reveal seven key challenges, including economic feasibility and fire safety, and explore techni ...

The Urban Dyke

Presevering the future by the increase of valuation

Chapter 1: National Productive Park Delfland
This chapter summarizes casestudies from “Redesigning the Deltas.” It discusses the various factors that led to the design framework of the Urban Dyke.
Chapter 2: Research
The second chapter provides the foundational resear ...
Intergenerational co-housing could provide a solution to enable the ever-growing group of older people who want to live independently for as long as possible. The government also encourages older people to age in place to relieve pressure on healthcare services. For this form of ...

Engaging with Water

An approach on how a sponge building and surrounding area can combat water problems, while using water as connecting bridge between nature, humans and buildings to enhance our well-being and simultaneously use it as an example on how to become more sustainable for communities and other stakeholders

As the accelerating climate change has its effect on the frequency and intensity of rainfalls and the rising sea level, more interventions need to be taken to protect our cities from unpredictable floods and droughts. Therefore, adjusting and transforming our current existing cit ...
The building industry's emphasis on cost-driven standardization has led to more waste, prompting a need for resource-efficient methods. While coreless-filament winding (CFW) with materials like flax fibers show promise, a research gap is present. This study explores how computati ...

Let's build a landfill!

How can we turn non-hazardous soil excavations into buildings?

The currently mostly inefficient resource management neglects valuable existing stocks, and grey
energy and emissions contribute to a building sector misaligned with climate goals. Amid these
challenges, rammed earth, an ancient material, is experiencing a sustainable con ...

Symbiosis Unearthed

Regeneratively transforming postwar flats into healthy urban communities

Symbiosis Unearthed proposes a renovation design for three postwar flats in the 'Westelijke Tuinsteden' of Amsterdam. The aim of the project is to transform the outdated flats into a regenerative, symbiotic community by improving the existing architecture, adding two storeys, and ...

Repeat

Densifying and revitalizing post-war neighborhoods through an ecosystem approach

In a time of increasing awareness for the environment and rising energy prices, an efficiency in our material use is of paramount importance. This research is built on the notion that the design of light structures has a positive effect on the energy use of the built environment. ...
An increasing massive volume of wind turbine blades are coming to end-of-life in the Netherlands. These components contain mostly fibre-reinforced plastics, which has been banned from landfill and incineration. Since then, companies and institutions have spent their efforts to ex ...

Alternative Strategies for Theatres in Central European Climate

The potential of passive design strategies to lower the operational energy requirement for existing theatres in Berlin

This paper investigates the potential of passively lowering the operational energy requirement of performance buildings in the Central European Climate. The energy consumption of this typology is largely caused by mechanical ventilation to cool and ventilate the theatre during sh ...
Overpollution with plastic waste is becoming a leading concern globally, but even more so at island destinations popular among tourists. Tourists generate 3 times more waste than local residents, overuse local resources, and often lead to a change of the identity of the location ...
An important part of people and their wellbeing is their living environment. Because of the increase in population and buildings, urban areas suffer from densification and diminishing green environments. These urban environments have substantial risk of mental illness, such as de ...

Embodied Impact

A framework for sustainable growth

The building industry's unmistakable share in climate change ensured that many policies have been implemented to reduce its impact. However, most policies cover the operational energy and -emissions of buildings, and not their upfront embodied impacts. Fortunately, wood-based bui ...