Archive
16 January 2020
Multifunctional territories in-between offer tremendous opportunities for sustainability
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Areas around cities are often referred to negatively with the term 'urban sprawl'. But it is precisely in these territories in-between that we can achieve many of our sustainability goals, says PhD researcher Alexander Wandl. We just have to learn to plan them better.
19 December 2019
Revitalisation for Brainpark Rotterdam
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The design ‘Building Upon Brainpark’ proposes to revitalise the Brainpark area in Rotterdam by making the area more visible to local residents and users of the location. The design by BK alumni Kevin Westerveld, Nima Morkoç, Hedwig van der Linden, and master student Lars Kloeg was selected as a special mention in the Europan 15 x Productive Rotterdam design competition.
19 December 2019
Participatory action research
New Horizon 2020 project UPLIFT aims to provide insight into the structural drivers of intergenerational inequalities within the European Union, focusing on vulnerable young people. Researchers from Management in the Built Environment will coordinate the participatory action research, involving the young people themselves to develop innovative policy solutions.
19 December 2019
‘Behavioural sciences key to energy savings and comfort at home’
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Residential comfort tends to be associated with pleasant temperatures, but there’s much more to it than that. PhD researcher Marco Ortiz identified the living conditions we experience as pleasant and used this research to draw up psychological profiles that can be used to design comfortable, energy-efficient houses tailored to the users’ preferences.
19 December 2019
Affordable and user-friendly renovation concepts
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The new consortium IEBB stands for integrated energy transition for existing buildings and has received a 13,8 million euro grant to develop affordable and user-friendly renovation concepts in the coming years. Researchers from the faculties of Architecture and the Built Environment, Industrial Design Engineering and Applied Sciences at TU Delft are developing the necessary knowledge for, amongst others, innovative renovation concepts, digitisation of the renovation process, optimisation of heat pumps and energy performance of buildings, chain innovation and implementation.
17 December 2019
Virtual depot: behind the scenes of museums
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Storage facilities of museums house over 90% of the collections of most museums. The project ‘DIPOT: Digital depot’ explores how these spaces can be made accessible through VR technologies. This would help not only to open up the collection to a broader public, but also to improve the design of future museums’ storage facilities.
05 December 2019
NRP Master Awards 2019 for BK alumni
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Mary Lou van den Berg received the NRP Master Award for her thesis on adaptive reuse of shared heritage in the city centre of Bandung, Indonesia. The second and third prizes were received by BK alumni Ditte Gerding and Tessa Persoon, respectively.
05 December 2019
Common preference as a real estate strategy
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What is the most effective way for an organisation to make decisions about real estate that best match the organisation’s needs? Monique Arkesteijn investigated existing methods and developed a model in which stakeholders’ preferences lead to the best option. Her research offers corporate real estate (CRE) managers a fresh approach to decision-making.
05 December 2019
Architecture students win design prize for eco-cabin
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Master students Mickaël Minghetti and Karol Wojtas explored how you can live in a spectacular yet vulnerable environment. Vectorworks rewarded their design for an eco-cabin with a $1.000,- prize and free Vectorworks software and training for the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.
04 December 2019
International exhibition Together! is coming to Delft
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The international exhibition Together! on the future of living in the city is coming to Delft. The exhibition responds to challenges in contemporary architecture by focussing on collectivity and demand-oriented development. TU Delft organises the exhibition together with Delft municipality, architectural firm Inbo and developer cepezedprojects, accompanied by a wide-ranging programme of public and academic events.
21 November 2019
Thesis award for exploration of 3D functionalities
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Geo-information Netherlands awards an annual thesis award to a graduate who has made an especially memorable contribution to the field of geography. BK alumna Inge van den Meiracker received the GIN-NCG Thesis award for her graduation project ‘Exploring 3D functionalities: A research into software that support the spatial analysis and visualisation of 3D surface data’.
21 November 2019
Grant for sustainable integration of vertical farming
Vertical farming is the integration of high-tech agriculture in buildings. SKY HIGH researches this revolution in plant production with over 23 partners. Researchers from BK Bouwkunde received a grant of €560.000,- to explore how vertical farming can be integrated sustainably in buildings and urban energy systems.
19 November 2019
‘Passive cooling is a matter of smart design’
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Constructing energy neutral in warm areas is near impossible without the application of passive cooling. Use Chinese rural architecture as a best practice example, proposes PhD researcher Xiaoyu Du. This type of architecture does not need energy slurping airconditioning through the smart space lay-out.
19 November 2019
“Glass bricks are monsters!”
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We are quite good at recycling bottles, but other kinds of waste glass recycling have been less successful. Make cast glass out of it, says PhD researcher Faidra Oikonomopoulou. It is stronger than steel and concrete; plus, it is a great, transparent building material.
14 November 2019
Both a technological and a societal challenge
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To create energy-neutral cities, we need to fundamentally change how we live in our cities. The City-zen Roadshow helps to understand that it is necessary to look at sustainability from both a technological and a societal perspective.
07 November 2019
Open spatial data infrastructure education network
The project SPIDER aims to promote and strengthen active learning and teaching towards open spatial data infrastructures. The Urban Data Governance Group received an Erasmusp+ grant for the three-year project, collaborating with Bochum University of Applied Sciences, KU Leuven, Lund University, and the University of Zagreb.
07 November 2019
Award for thesis on water defense in Vietnam
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Alumna Rapa Surajaras won the KuiperCompagnons Gradatuation Award 2019 for masterstudents for her thesis ‘Breathe: Redefining a zone of informal settlements for Ho Chi Minh City’. Her project was selected by the professional jury from over thirty contributions to the annual competition by magazine Blauwe Kamer.
07 November 2019
Distinction for former professor Monica Chao-Duivis
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On 25 October, Monika Chao-Duivis gave her farewell speech as professor of Building Law. The day before, she was awarded the distinction Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau for her efforts towards society through her work on building law.
07 November 2019
Makerspaces in public libraries
Public libraries are increasingly facilitating a variety of performative opportunities. Supporting ‘making’ is becoming a common feature. The new open-access publication Atlas: Makerspaces in public libraries in the Netherlands’ takes a closer look to this development.
07 November 2019
Exploration of aesthetics in façade design
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The research project ‘PrettyFace – Exploration of aesthetics in façade design’ has been granted funding by NWO Creative Industry KIEM. The project aims to explore aesthetical aspects of façade design, with the goal of identifying and discussing parameters. These parameters can be used to develop building products for architectural application based on aesthetical preferences.
07 November 2019
Celebrating spatial planning and strategy
Spatial Planning & Strategy is one of the key pillars to Urbanism at TU Delft. Over the past eleven years, the integrative approach to urbanism has further solidified under the guidance of professor Vincent Nadin. A new open-access publication celebrates the achievements of the past decade.
07 November 2019
The auxiliary forces behind public real estate managers
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A homeless faculty. That was what the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment was when its permanent accommodation at the Berlageweg was destroyed by fire in 2008. For Alexandra den Heijer, a lecturer and researcher at that time, this personal drama provided the impetus for an inspiring learning process. What do you miss the most when you suddenly lose your building and its facilities? As the new professor for Public Real Estate, Den Heijer likes putting that question to students and professionals.
24 October 2019
Freya Spencer-Wood nominated for TU Delft Best Graduate Award 2019
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Freya Spencer-Wood graduated from the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment with a thesis on how the dialogue between politics and architecture can be made as open and accessible as possible. On 12 November, Spencer-Wood will give a live pitch to compete for the title ‘TU Delft Best Graduate 2019’, together with the seven nominees from other faculties.
24 October 2019
Archiprix selection 2020 announced
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Every year, the best gradation projects of the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment are selected and exhibited at the BK Expo. The jury selected the nine best projects to compete in the Dutch Archiprix, the leading annual competition for upcoming design talent.
24 October 2019
“For a professor of Building Law, a university of technology is the place to be.”
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On 25 October, Monika Chao-Duives gives her farewell speech as Professor of Building Law. Within ‘The case of the melting dinosaur’, she will focus on the emergence of integrated types of contracts. But she will start by looking back at fifteen years as professor, making a final plea for basic knowledge of law to be made compulsory for every professional practitioner in the field of architecture and the built environment.
17 October 2019
Inhabiting a living house
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Living in a living fungus: as far as Bob Hendrikx is concerned, this should soon be possible. A life-size, tactile test setup of his graduation project will be on show during Dutch Design Week 2019.
09 October 2019
First graduation ceremony MSc MADE
The first cohort of MSc MADE students has graduated. With classes on metropolitan challenges, entrepreneurial skills and data analysis in the urban context, the graduates have developed to be the first generation of metropolitan innovators.
09 October 2019
“Structures have a service life, but what about their afterlife?”
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Mauro Overend has been appointed Professor of Structural Design & Mechanics at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. “Guaranteeing safety whilst using resources more efficiently, that’s the main objective.”
09 October 2019
Extensive research on education innovation
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Within the research programme ‘Research on education innovation’, BK Bouwkunde structurally looks into opportunities to innovate, improve, monitor, and research education. The 4TU Centre for Engineering Education has granted € 105.000 to both BK Bouwkunde and the faculty Industrial Design Engineering to set up, carry out, and extend three projects and one event to further develop and share knowledge.
09 October 2019
Galileo satellites for better cadastral land surveys
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With Galileo, the new European Global Satellite Navigation System, cadastral measurements can be conducted real-time in the field. With the possibility for on-field boundary determination, conducting cadastral surveys becomes more efficient. Researchers received a H2020 grant to further improve the availability of the system and to integrate land surveys in the cadastral workflow.
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.