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14 March 2019
Movies from the building site
![Movies from the building site](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/7/csm_14032019_banner_GeurNatBeton_30e3558119.jpg)
In the course ‘The smell of wet concrete’, bachelor students of BK Bouwkunde explore the building site. Details of the building under construction are filmed by the students, explaining in detail how the elements are created and assembled on site.
14 March 2019
Connecting history with computer sciences
Researchers from BK Bouwkunde and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science at TU Delft have formed a partnership to connect Humanities and Computer Sciences. They will combine their interdisciplinary skills to connect long-term historical knowledge with cutting edge computer vision, geospatial technology, and crowd sourcing technology.
14 March 2019
Blended modifiers reduce salt damage in lime mortars
![Blended modifiers reduce salt damage in lime mortars](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/7/csm_14032019_RS_SanneGranneman_780eacfabd.jpg)
Lime-bound mortars are vulnarable to damage caused by salt crystallisation, but this can be remedied. PhD researcher Sanne Granneman discovered crystallisation modifiers mixed in with the mortar can prevent them from breaking down.
13 March 2019
Dick van Gameren appointed Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
The Executive Board has appointed Prof. Dick van Gameren Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment as of 1 April 2019. He is currently chairman of the Architecture Department at the same faculty.
08 March 2019
New design for making city districts free of natural gas also delivers considerable CO2 savings
![New design for making city districts free of natural gas also delivers considerable CO2 savings](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/e/1/csm_zonnet%20aardgasvrij%20maken%20van%20wijken_69d97edc51.jpg)
28 February 2019
Pushing the boundaries of Architectural Glass
![Pushing the boundaries of Architectural Glass](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/5/csm_28022019_JamesOCallaghan_SJT_cc9a0a944a.jpg)
James O’Callaghan has been appointed Professor of Architectural Glass. The Chair of Architectural Glass deals with glass in a wider context, both in the built environment and in building envelopes. It is about pushing the boundaries of materiality, performance, form, energy, and the aesthetics of architectural glass.
28 February 2019
Exploring the role of stations in future metropolitan areas
![Exploring the role of stations in future metropolitan areas](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/a/csm_28022019_StationsAsNodes_1b3e3a5cde.jpg)
At the main point of intersection between the railway and the city, stations are key elements in the organisation of the intermodal transport. The new book ‘Stations as Nodes’ explores the role of stations in future metropolitan areas from a French and Dutch perspective.
28 February 2019
Exploring processes and technologies
![Exploring processes and technologies](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/8/3/csm_Afbeelding6_de8b53bfb5.jpg)
Paul Chan has been appointed Professor of Design and Construction Management. The Chair addresses questions of processes that enable whole-life thinking in the development and realisation of building projects. Future practices and accompanying new technologies are looked at from a sociotechnical perspective, exploring how they can contribute to constructing better buildings and communities.
26 February 2019
Four fields of study at TU Delft in global top 10 of QS Subject Rankings
![Four fields of study at TU Delft in global top 10 of QS Subject Rankings](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/f/csm_3F6A9973_edit_bcde931ae6.jpg)
14 February 2019
The importance of fundamental glass research
![The importance of fundamental glass research](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/5/9/csm_14022019_GlassAward_2d1d738a20.jpg)
The TU Delft Glass and Transparency group received the Encouragement Glass Award from Bouwend Nederland. The award acknowledges the importance of fundamental academic glass research to develop new solutions for the future.
07 February 2019
Will 2018 be a pivot-point for the Dutch housing market?
![Will 2018 be a pivot-point for the Dutch housing market?](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/c/d/csm_07022019_koopwoningmonitor_c4049cf184.jpg)
From mid-2013, the Dutch owner-occupied housing market recovered at a rapid pace from the crisis in the five preceding years. In a relatively short period, purchase prices rose sharply. The year 2018, however, shows a decreasing growth or even a decline in the volume on the owner-occupied housing market and on the mortgage market.
31 January 2019
Smart Box: exhibition space, cinema, observation tower and living room
![Smart Box: exhibition space, cinema, observation tower and living room](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/7/e/csm_31022019_banner_SmartBox_24ee36431b.jpg)
The Smart Box has won the Smart Square design competition from the Bosch Architecture Initiative and the municipality of ’s-Hertogenbosch. The design of BK Bouwkunde students Sebastiaan Vork, Nikki de Zeeuw, and Luuk Goossen was unanimously chosen from 52 entries by the jury.
31 January 2019
New heritage insights through satellites and social media
![New heritage insights through satellites and social media](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/3/csm_31012019_Heriland_d86a165b96.jpg)
The HERILAND project applies satellites and social media to provide new insights into heritage. Satellite photos quickly provide a perfect image of the development of cities and their protected areas.
17 January 2019
Cinematic approach to ‘Port city futures’
As part of the Port City Futures research programme, Carola Hein and Paolo De Martino (Architecture) will make a film in collaboration with artist and filmmaker Ollie Palmer. The film will feature interviews with key players in Naples, Rotterdam, and Dunkirk together with future development scenarios provide a view into evolving port-city region relationships.
17 January 2019
Resilient dwelling clusters for urban resettlement
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The Global Housing Study Centre will create a living lab in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to create resilient dwelling clusters for urban resettlement. The lab has been made possible with a € 500.000,- grant from the joint SDG research programme from NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development.
17 January 2019
Handbook on informal urbanisation
The new handbook, edited by Roberto Rocco and Jan van Ballegooijen, explores 25 cases in 24 cities around the world. In each case, informal urbanisation has played a pivotal role in how people have struggled for their right to the city and for their ‘right to rights’ as citizens.
15 January 2019
TU Delft students present design, a transformation of inefficient offices into apartments that produce more energy than they use
![TU Delft students present design, a transformation of inefficient offices into apartments that produce more energy than they use](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/f/5/csm_prototype_20render_0d6f6e3b56.jpg)
The MOR (Modular Office Renovation) team of the TU Delft, which consists of 54 students, is working on a design to renovate (a part of) an inefficient office into an apartment that produces more energy than it uses. On the 15th of January 2019, the team revealed the definitive design of this prototype. With the prototype, the team will travel to Hungary in July 2019 to participate in an international student competition for energy-efficient residences.
14 January 2019
Patterns and forms show fragmentation Chinese city
![Patterns and forms show fragmentation Chinese city](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/7/6/csm_14012019_RS_Jiaxiu%20Cai_2edb209cce.jpg)
Spatial integration of new buildings in an existing environment is food for much discussion, while it in fact is not about words. Studies should focus on forms and patterns, if the goal is to achieve historical continuity in an urban design, concludes Jiaxiu Cai in her PhD research.
09 January 2019
How to integrate the river corridors of a grey and car-addicted city
![How to integrate the river corridors of a grey and car-addicted city](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/3/1/csm_16012019_RS_Claudiu_Forgaci_banner_ab87effd4c.jpg)
Many cities form on the banks of rivers, but that does not mean that city and water are integrated by definition. PhD researcher Claudiu Forgaci investigated how better designed river corridors can contribute to a more resilient and more liveable city.
09 January 2019
Winning design new staircase BK Expo
![Winning design new staircase BK Expo](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/d/7/csm_09012019_Scala_banner_99262a6daa.jpg)
The winning design for a new stair case of the BK Expo physically and visually connects the exhibition space with the surrounding spaces. The design by Veerle Alkemade and Sanne Sophie Hoogkamer is the winning design of the Stylos Scala design competition.
20 December 2018
New BK Lab for collaborative innovations
![New BK Lab for collaborative innovations](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/b/5/csm_20122018_Sandbox_c0a83facd6.jpg)
The new BK Lab for innovations offers a creative space to develop new innovations and to make cutting-edge research visible within the faculty. The new Lab, located at BG.West.200, offers a communal space where researchers can interact and push the boundaries of their research projects.
20 December 2018
Smart sustainable buildings with innovative building services
![Smart sustainable buildings with innovative building services](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/1/1/csm_20122018_installatietechniek_a785737940.jpg)
A new collaboration with the Dutch installation sector has resulted in the creation of the Chair of Building Services Innovations. The chair will be directed to the academic development of innovative building services and support of this part of the building industry, which has a pivotal role to play in the challenges of sustainability and quality of life.
20 December 2018
A kitchen for life
Together with producers and clients, researchers from BK Bouwkunde and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) developed a prototype circular kitchen. This kitchen can be renewed almost indefinitely and adjusted to individual preferences, meaning it is a kitchen for life.
20 December 2018
Re-using heritage for sustainable human well-being
![Re-using heritage for sustainable human well-being](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/a/0/csm_Heritage_and_Technolgy_1bddef5d0e.jpeg)
Uta Pottgiesser has been appointed Professor of Heritage & Technology. She will continue the cutting-edge research programme on the technical aspects of architectural heritage, which is vital for the sound restoration of historical buildings.
20 December 2018
Two research projects into Smart Urban Regions of the Future
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The knowledge programme Smart Urban Regions of the Future deals with societal challenges. Two research projects from BK Bouwkunde have been funded in the latest round of the SURF knowledge programme: research into future spatial patterns of grocery shopping and research into sustainable urban riverfronts.
20 December 2018
Delta policies: assess spatial quality first, then find the best solution
![Delta policies: assess spatial quality first, then find the best solution](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/8/csm_07012019_Promotie_Anne_Loes_Nillesen_163c3f0537.jpg)
Spatial quality is still too often neglected in interventions to keep the water out. That is unnecessary, concludes PhD candidate Anne Loes Nillesen. First list the technical possibilities, then develop an integrated solution in consultation with all relevant parties.
12 December 2018
Gran Finale BK Booths
![Gran Finale BK Booths](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/9/6/csm_WB_Biennale_13_4cfea54f5f.jpg)
During the last week of the Venice Biennale, BK Bouwkunde organised a closing ceremony of research exhibition BK Booths. Content makers, current students and colleagues, alumni, and professionals gathered at Palazzo Mora to discover the BK Booths.
06 December 2018
Circular economies for resilient islands
![Circular economies for resilient islands](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/0/1/csm_06122018_resilient_island_foundation_b50eeb1480.jpg)
The Resilient Island Foundation was founded by five students of BK Bouwkunde. Their goal is to implement a circular economy of food and waste in the world’s most isolated communities. Their first project ‘Maldives Matter’ was selected as one of the five finalists at the TEDx Award in Amsterdam, out of 200 applications.
06 December 2018
Professionalisation of the architectural field
![Professionalisation of the architectural field](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/b/9/csm_06122018_Ondertekening_samenwerkingsovereenkomst_BK_Bouwkunde_en_Stichting_ArchiScienza_e5458b1b3d.jpg)
In the eyes of many practitioners, the architectural profession is undergoing a process of devaluation. To shed light on long-term trends within the profession, BK Bouwkunde starts a sociologic study on professionalisation of practitioners in architecture in collaboration with the ArchiScienza Foundation. This foundation stimulates activities on the intersection of architecture and science in the widest sense.
06 December 2018
Collection of natural stones in online library
![Collection of natural stones in online library](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/6/1/csm_06122018_Lithotheek_banner_3399cfd167.jpg)
Together with the Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency (CHA), BK Bouwkunde TU Delft developed a digital natural stone library. The considerable collections of natural stone of both the RCE and the TU Delft are now easily accessible. Thus, identification and application of natural stone becomes more effortless for architects, conservators, and researchers.
22 November 2018
Housing Market Thesis Award 2018 for two TU Delft alumni
Every year, the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs awards the best master thesis on the housing market. Janneke Michielsen, alumna of the faculty of TBM, was awarded the first prize. The second prize was awarded to alumnus Martijn Nawroth, who graduated with a thesis on future proofing the housing stock of the municipality of Zoetermeer.
22 November 2018
Research on narratives of the European city receives COST grant
The proposal ‘Writing Urban Places. New narratives of the European city’ has been accepted as COST Action proposal. Klaske Havik (Architecture) leads the consortium, aiming to collect current initiatives of scholars addressing urban change from the crossing point of literary studies, urban studies and architecture. The goal is to offer a conceptual framework and operative tools to analyse urban narratives and to share knowledge with city makers.
22 November 2018
Enabling web access to geodata calls for compromises
![Enabling web access to geodata calls for compromises](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/4/8/csm_22112018_Verbeelding_van_Amsterdam_op_basis_van_geselecteerde_geodata._%28C%29_Eric_Fischer_dadfd661f9.jpg)
Geodata open up opportunities for countless new applications, but the true potential remains untapped. Open datasets from the geo-world are not sufficiently compatible with standard search engines or access to them is restricted. According to PhD candidate Linda van den Brink, there are both technological and social obstacles that need to be overcome.
22 November 2018
Education fellowship for augmented education settings
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Martijn Stellingwerff has been awarded a Delft Education Fellowship to showcase and test different augmented education settings. His project ‘DelftXRealities’ will explore education settings that range from a digitally augmented TU Delft campus to full-immersive VR settings that allow collaborations between participants from all over the world.
08 November 2018
Sustainable critical materials
Critical materials are materials which we need for current and future product technologies, but which are now or soon difficult to acquire. BK Bouwkunde is part of the consortium SusCritMat, which aims to educate people from industry and academia about important aspects on critical materials.
08 November 2018
BK alumna Hedwig van der Linden wins NRP Master Award 2018
![BK alumna Hedwig van der Linden wins NRP Master Award 2018](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/f/4/csm_08112018_NRP_master_award_winners_%C2%A9NRP_26c793a038.jpg)
Hedwig van der Linden graduated with her project ‘Expedition Rotterdam – or the revival of the hidden Reconstruction City’. Her project has been awarded with the NRP Master Award 2018 for her original and innovative attitude towards transformation and renovation.
08 November 2018
Hans de Jonge awarded with Hudig Medal
Hans de Jonge (MBE) received the medal for his work towards expanding the professional field of public housing and town planning with building, project, and area development, and his attention for the management and exploitation phases of the building process.
08 November 2018
Alumna Sarah Heemskerk wins silver IPMA award
Sarah Heemskerk graduated with a thesis on applied leadership styles on various contract types. She researched how the leadership style of project managers connects to the rise of integrated contracts in the sector.
08 November 2018
Crossing parallels with Philip Beesley
![Crossing parallels with Philip Beesley](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/1/a/csm_08112018_Crossing_parallels_with_Philip_Beesley_Image_%C2%A9_Philip_Beesley_and_Alex_Willms_PBAI_3dac093478.jpg)
Students from BK Bouwkunde and the faculty of Industrial Design will develop a large scale, immersive interactive installation with artist and architect Philip Beesley. From 17 - 25 November 2018, the installation will be on display at the TU Delft Science Centre.
08 November 2018
Every climate requires its own solar cooling
![Every climate requires its own solar cooling](https://filelist.tudelft.nl/_processed_/2/3/csm_21112018_Promotie_Alejandro_Prieto_Hoces_coolfacade_afb1_ca4116361b.jpg)
The cooling of buildings slurps energy and is primarily aimed at combating the effects of the sun. Can solar energy and heat not be used for cooling? PhD candidate Alejandro Prieto Hoces discovered that solar cooling offers opportunities, but it rarely is a final solution. Just start with good sunscreens.