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08 October 2019
Facilitating Circular Economy in Urban Planning
Researchers of BK Bouwkunde contributed to the special issue ‘Facilitating Circular Economy in Urban Planning’ of the open access journal ‘Urban Planning’.
26 September 2019
Award nomination for research into glass production
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Student Ivneet Singh has been selected as one the finalists for the ‘ECHO Award Bèta techniek’. He has been working on a new way of producing glass to make complete transparent structures in large-scale public spaces. His dedication and approach to his complex and challenging graduation project resulted in his nomination.
26 September 2019
‘Northbound’ documentary at Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
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Two Urbanism graduates have been selected to display their documentary ‘Northbound’ at the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2019. The documentary about Europe’s most northern province Finnmark in Norway focusses on the pressure of incoming extractive industries in the Arctic on the landscape and local cultures.
26 September 2019
Open-up interstices
The research project ‘Open-up interstices’ investigates the post-war neighbourhood Den Haag Zuidwest and has been granted funding by NWO Creative Industry KIEM. The project explores the value of existing open spaces of the neighbourhood and brings new perspectives for the undergoing urban regeneration plan.
12 September 2019
Modern trombe wall selected for best tech idea
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The Double Face 2.0 research project has been selected as one of the best tech ideas of the Netherlands in 2019. The trombe wall with phase changing materials can ensure a much lower energy consumption of buildings. Science magazine KIJK organises the public contest, voting is possible until 1 October 2019.
12 September 2019
Renovating mortars with mixed-in inhibitors
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Mortars are recurrently damaged and in need of frequent replacement due to salt crystallization. Mortars with mixed-in inhibitors can help mitigate salt damage. The new research project MORISAL investigates how these inhibitors can create a sustainable and cost-effective answer to a recurrent and severe problem met in practice.
12 September 2019
Education on sustainable housing renovation in Xi’an, China
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This summer, a summer school on sustainable housing renovation was organised in collaboration with Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Queena Qian, Erwin Mlecnik, and Henk Visscher (MBE) introduced 32 Chinese students to a Dutch approach on a more sustainable development of new housing estates.
12 September 2019
NWO Smart Culture grant for The Critical Visitor
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The project has been granted a € 500.000,- NWO Smart Culture Grant and seeks to develop an intersectional methodology to achieve more diverse and inclusive practices.
12 September 2019
Regular architectural solutions fall short in favelas
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The layout of slums often appears to be chaotic, but there is usually one factor that brings an element of order: work. Architectural intervention is rarely successful if designers fail to take this into account, as PhD researcher Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti discovered in the Brazilian favelas.
12 September 2019
Jorma Vitkala Award for James O’Callaghan
The second Jorma Vitkala Award of Merit was awarded to the professor of Architectural Glass for his contributions to the development of glass applications within the field of architecture.