The world is facing global challenges that are dramatically changing the social and physical environments, resulting in cultural confrontation. Rapid urban growth, and gentrification increase urban pressure while jeopardizing social cohesion, multicultural values and local economies. Moreover, environmental factors associated with climate change challenge the way cities respond and adapt, as their assets have to be re-designed to meet the current and future generation needs.

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This study is based on the fact that all people have a basic need for protection from other people (and animals) as well as from the elements (the exterior climate). People need a space in which they can withdraw from the rest of the world. The two states, inside and outside, public and private, contact with, or isolation from, the outside world, are relevant in fulfilling this basic need. People also want their home to have a certain appearance or status which they can identify with and whic...

Peter van Veelen applies a resilience based planning method (the Adaptive Pathways Method, or APM) to develop and assess adaptation pathways at the level of neighbourhood development in two flood prone waterfront cases in Rotterdam. APM is a structured, iterative approach based on defining the conditions under which policy objectives are no longer attainable and adaptation is required, and the assessment of sequences of adaptation actions. It enables policy makers to explore and develop adapt...

Potentials of virtual environment for enhancing creativity of architects have shaped this research. There is no singular definition of creativity. In fact, there are more than 100 different definitions for creativity according to different contexts and disciplines. Nevertheless, it is possible to confine the boundaries of definitions and address creativity within a confined framework.

De Studenteneditie ISSO-Referentiedetails helpt studenten om de bouwtechnische details te ontwerpen en toetsen. De kennis is uitstekend geschikt voor het bouwkundig onderwijs, omdat regelgeving en bouwpraktijk erin samenkomen in herkenbare bouwkundige oplossingen. Vanaf de start van de ontwikkeling van de kennis, is deze speciale Studenteneditie zeer gewaardeerd bij zowel mbo als hbo-opleidingen.

ISSO heeft de kennis in Studenteneditie ISSO-Referentiedetails in 2021 herzien. Deze geactualisee...

Bouwkostenkennis binnen handbereik!

Het BouwkostenKompas Woning- en Utiliteitsbouw is een handzaam boek met meer dan 1.000 kostenkengetallen van verschillende typen bouwwerken.

De kengetallen zijn een hulpmiddel voor architecten,

ontwikkelaars en andere professionals die snel en een-

voudig de kosten van een bouwproject willen bepalen.

Alle kengetallen zijn onderbouwd met begrotingen die zijn opgesteld en continu worden onderhouden door bouwkostendeskundigen van IGG Bouweconomie.

IGG is in 19...

This research investigates and elucidates the behaviour of nanolime products for consolidation of calcareous substrates. Based on the developed knowledge, it proposes and validates a methodology (including solvent modification and application protocol) for improving the consolidation effectiveness of nanolime dispersions, making these a suitable alternative for TEOS products.

This publication presents the study of urban transformation and opportunities for urban upgrading through the rehabilitation and recycling of neighbourhoods, exploring the past and present of the housing estates of the main Galician industrial cities in order to discover, on different scales, how the public housing projects built in the second half of the twentieth century were formed, how their urban integration process has taken shape, what the open spaces associated with public housing are...

This book is about the first ten years of the master track in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft. It delves into the personal, educational, didactical, organizational and, above all, substantive dimensions of the teaching of this appealing and highly relevant discipline at the academic level.

The book has three parts. The first part – PROFILE – discusses the context and events that led up to the develop...

The clean energy and Circular Economy transitions in the Built Environment have respectively dominated the academic dialogue in architecture, engineering, and real estate for the last 20+ years. While significant progress has been done, and many fine examples of more sustainable architecture exist, the process has been hindered by traditional systemic models for the planning, contracting, financing, construction, and management of building projects.

If we are to meet the ambitious climate-cha...