Form Follows Find
From bridge to building
K.M. van Rooij (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
S.H. Verkuijlen – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.M.M. Stoutjesdijk – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This master’s thesis researches how industrial steel reuse from bridges can be reframed as an architectural driver rather than a technical constraint. Thereby, responding to the construction industry’s high CO2 emissions, the study develops a reuse-driven design framework: Form follows Find, integrating material availability, structural logic, and cultural value. The methodology research-by-design is used to combine mapping, prototyping, and case study analysis across regional, building, and human scales. The framework uses a test case, a cultural centre in Eindhoven’s De Kade area, to investigate general design principles that present how industrial donor steel can enable circular and socially accepted architectural projects.