Is de wereld beter af met jouw gebouw? 'Nee' is het antwoord in 99,9% van de gevallen. Bijna elk gebouw vervuilt de lucht, water, bodem en schaadt de biodiversiteit. Wat als we dat omkeren en ons concentreren op positief bijdragen? Als gebouwen lucht, water en bodem zuiveren, biodiversiteit creëren en meer energie opwekken dan we gebruiken? Dan genezen we de wereld met onze gebouwen.

Wat Unilevers’ Paul Polman beschrijft voor bedrijven in het boek Net Positive beschrijft Vincent van der Me...

Dit werkboek geeft handvatten voor kerkrentmeesters, CvB leden en bouwcommissieleden voor praktische zaken op het gebied van budget, planning, vergunningen etc. Ook is er aandacht voor ‘het waarom’ van de verbouwing. Wat is de aanleiding en wat is het doel? En hoe betrek je de gemeente op een positieve manier bij het hele proces?

Naast informatie van professionals, delen kerkrentmeesters, CvB leden en bouwcommissieleden die al een verbouwing achter de rug hebben hun ervaringen. Wat had...

Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has become more blurred, contested and heterogeneous. While attempting to reclaim their role or to take on new roles in collaborations with other actors, ar...

This research seeks to provide insight into the energy performance progress, of the existing non-profit housing stock in the Netherlands, through the application of energy renovations. The non-profit housing stock comprises 30% of the housing market in the Netherlands and a large part of the policies towards a more efficient housing stock rely on the non-profit housing sector. To that end, we determine the energy renovation rate of the stock and the impact of the applied renovations on both t...

Apparatus and apparatisation, the focus of the Cyber-Physical Architecture (CpA) issue #2 of SPOOL, refer to an assemblage of various components, tools, and instruments that in combination produce an exponential surplus beyond the linear sum of parts.

The CpA #2 samples various interests afforded by the apparatus and apparatisation in and of architecture and how they open up new potentials and opportunities. The first article, Building as Apparatus? (by Leach) addresses the theme of “buildi...

Over the last decades, the perception of glass in the engineering world has changed from that of a brittle, fragile material to a reliable structural component of high compressive load-bearing capacity. Although the structural applications of glass in architecture are continuously increasing, they are dominated by a considerable geometrical limitation: the 2-dimensionality imposed by the prevailing float glass industry. Cast glass can overcome this limitation: solid 3-dimensional glass compon...

Who were Le Corbusier’s photographers? The question is seldom asked yet is germane to under­standing the architect’s work. Le Corbusier used photography to promote modern architecture in ways no others did. He directed the photography of his buildings, selected the images that he liked, cropped them, abstracted them, and placed them on the pages of his many books. He mediated the medium of photography mani­pulating visual facts in an era when “the camera never lied”. Yet always ...