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sustainable and resilient building design
approaches, methods and tools
2018 || Paperback || Saja Kosanović e.a. || TU Delft Open
The challenges to which contemporary building design needs to respond grow steadily. They originate from the influence of changing environmental conditions on buildings, as well as from the need to reduce the impact of buildings on the environment. The increasing complexity requires the continual revision of design principles and their harmonisation with current scientific findings, technological development, and environmental, social, and economic factors. It is precisely these issues that f...
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Disclosing Interstices
Open-ended Design Transformation of Urban Leftover Spaces
2021 || Paperback || Sitong Luo || TU Delft Open
Leftover spaces are neglected and obsolete spaces within the city. As they are temporarily unoccupied by defined urban functions, leftover spaces provide unique “interstitial conditions” that open for wild species as well as different informal social activities, offering crucial complements to the formal and defined urban spaces. In this context, the design of leftover spaces poses a paradox between the practice of design that projects a set of definitions onto the site, and the indeter...
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Design and Fabrication of Shell Structures
Aided by Radial Basis Functions and Reconfigurable Mechanisms
2022 || Paperback || Yu-Chou Chiang || TU Delft Open
Shell structures carry loads with their thin yet curved shapes. Being thin means shells require little material, which is desirable for minimizing embodied carbon footprints. However, the feature of being curved implies shells require immense effort to design and fabricate. To address the challenges, this dissertation consists of three parts: developing a design algorithm based on radial basis functions (RBFs), inventing a fabrication technique based on reconfigurable mechanisms, and producin...
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The Integration of LADM and IndoorGML to Support the Indoor Navigation Based on the User Access Rights
2022 || Paperback || Abdullah Alattas || TU Delft Open
Indoor navigation applications are actively investigated and developed due to their capacity to provide users with essential information in the modern extensive building complexes. Therefore, many researchers have developed a range of indoor navigation applications, which have focused on aspects such as localization, indoor route computation, and human spatial cognition. Unfortunately, current indoor navigation systems do not consider the user's access rights when it comes to navigating safel...
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Towards A Poetics of Dwelling
Exploring Nearness Within the Chinese Literati Garden
2022 || Paperback || Li Lu || TU Delft
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Towards A Poetics of Dwelling
Exploring Nearness Within the Chinese Literati Garden
2022 || Paperback || Li Lu || TU Delft
This thesis starts with a worrisome observation tied to various phenomena across modern built environments: humans today are experiencing a weakened relatedness to and reduced intimacy with the world around them. In stark contrast to the general trend, however, most Chinese literati gardens maintain their traditional rich conditions, enabling their visitors to experience a unique, high-quality experience of relatedness to and intimacy with the world, which may serve as an antidote to the exis...
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Border Formation
The Becoming Multiple of Space
2023 || Paperback || Grazia Tona || TU Delft
This doctoral thesis examines the militarisation of the Southern border of Hungary as a process of spatial formation, expanding the debate on borders from the political to the architectural arena. Combining spatial theory with empirical research on the case study, the thesis rethinks the border as a complex spatial system, with an agency of its own. From this perspective, it contests the enforcement of spatial boundaries from the above and related ideas of fixity. It brings attention to the a...
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Addis Ababa’s sefer, iddir, and gebbi
Nuanced reading of complex urban forms
2023 || Paperback || Anteneh Tesfaye Tola || TU Delft
This research is motivated by the scholarly calls for new concepts and analytic tools for documenting, analysing, and theorizing complex urban territories such as those of cities in Africa. With implicit comparative intent, it takes the case of Addis Ababa city and its old and typifying places—the sefer, to develop and test a new architectural transdisciplinary research methodology referred to as the trinocular. By way of this methodology, it unearths and introduces sefer, iddir, and gebbi ...
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Computational Design of Indoor Arenas (CDIA)
Integrating multi-functional spaces and long-span roof structures
2021 || Paperback || Wang Pan || TU Delft Open
Indoor arenas are important public buildings catering for various activities (e.g., sports events, stage performances, assemblies, exhibitions, and daily sports for the public) and serving as landmarks in urban contexts. The multi-functional space and long-span roof structure of an indoor arena are highly interrelated, which impact the multi-functionality and structural performance and mainly define the overall form of the building. Therefore, it is crucial to integrate the multi-functional s...
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The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"!
The Refining of Legal Systems and Port-Cities’ Planning
2022 || Paperback || Stephan Hauser || TU Delft Open
Oil is a dangerous product. Its transport, storage and refining present numerous environmental and health challenges. Local, national and European regulators have taken steps to locate it in space since the beginning of industrial oil drilling in the 1860s. But key leaders of the oil industry in Northwest Europe, and beyond, have also served as policy makers and aimed to keep legal constraints (decrees, laws, taxes) as limited as possible to prevent the emergence of obstacles in the developme...