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Discomfort glare from daylight in classrooms
2022 || Paperback || Raquel Viula || TU Delft
Provision of daylight without the risk of discomfort glare is one of the aspects that determine the quality of the classroom environment. Although discomfort glare from daylight is under investigation for a long time, a knowledge gap concerning the applicability of the existing metrics to the spatial conditions of the classroom is identified in this work. An investigation on the applicability of existing metrics to the prediction of discomfort glare in classrooms has been carried out based on...
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At the crossroads of Architecture and Landscape
Preservation Strategies of Historic Military Systems: a Comparison between Italy and the Netherlands
2022 || Paperback || Federica Marulo || TU Delft
In the context of rapid urban transformations, this thesis explores the possible preservation strategies for historic military systems that used to be embedded in extra-urban settings, but that now are absorbed in the development dynamics of complex metropolitan areas. The research stems from the main peculiarity of these heritage systems: namely, the coexistence of cultural and natural values, and their being at the crossroads of the architecture and landscape domains. Although the need to a...
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Het handschrift van L.P. Roodbaard
Ontwerpprincipes van Noord-Nederlandse landschapsparken in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw
2022 || Paperback || Els van der Laan-Meijer || TU Delft
Het oeuvre van de tuin- en landschapsarchitect Lucas Pieters Roodbaard (1782-1851) is toonaangevend voor de Noord-Nederlandse landschapsparken uit de eerste helft van de 19de eeuw. Zijn oeuvre is te verdelen in drie categorieën: openbare wandelparken, landschapsparken bij buitenplaatsen en landschapstuinen bij (stads)villa’s. Aan de hand van ruimtelijk architectonisch onderzoek is een schat aan oorspronkelijke plantekeningen uitgebreid gedocumenteerd en geanalyseerd om zo tot de kern van d...
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Towards Self-Sufficient High-Rises
Performance Optimisation using Artificial Intelligence
2022 || Paperback || Berk Ekici || TU Delft
Population growth and urbanisation trends bring many consequences related to the increase in global energy consumption, CO2 emissions and a decrease in arable land per person. High‑rises have been one of the inevitable buildings of metropoles to provide extra floor space since the early examples in the 19th century. Therefore, optimisation of high-rise buildings has been the focus of researchers because of significant performance enhancement, mainly in energy consumption and generation. Bas...
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CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION
2022 || Paperback || Section Of Landscape Architecture || TU Delft
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...