It is well-known that the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) at schools affects the health, comfort and performance of school children. Considering the need for a more effective way to improve both the IEQ in primary school classrooms and children’s satisfaction, along with the positive potential of individual control, this thesis aimed to propose a new way - individual control - to improve the IEQ in classrooms of primary schools and to increase children’s satisfaction in the Netherlands.

First the main IEQ problem in classrooms as well as IEQ perceptions and preferences of the school children were identified through literature and field studies. The outcome showed that noise was the main IEQ problem in classrooms of Dutch primary schools, children could be clustered in according to their IEQ perceptions and preferences, and the reported IEQ-improving actions of the teachers could not effectively improve the IEQ for each chil...

This dissertation focuses on Industrial Heritage Reuse practice in Europe, with special emphasis on the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and Greece. This vastly complex yet fascinating topic has not been studied holistically under the circumstances of the contemporary era. In the 21st century, Industrial Heritage Reuse is required to be more responsive, more sustainable, more inclusive and more value-driven than before. An enhanced approach for the transformation of industrial relics is...

In this booklet, the architectural theorist and Professor at York University Abidin Kusno discusses two lectures given by two influential professors in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia. The first one, ‘The aesthetics of architecture and the art of the moderns’, was given by C. Wolff Schoemaker in 1930. The second, entitled ‘Towards an Indonesian Architecture’, was delivered by Vincent Van Romondt in 1954. Schoemaker and Van Romondt held different views on the challenges of archite...

The research aims to provide an understanding of an urbanizing delta in which different scales, times, and domains are related to each other; and to examine how this understanding can be used in a planning and design process in a rapidly urbanizing delta. A mapping method is developed according to the key notions in the understanding of urban deltas, namely its systems, scales, and temporality. The systematic mapping approach was used to organize and analyze both short-term and long-term...

DeFKa Research is in 2021 gestart met langlopend project over het Havenkwartier in Assen. Kunstenaars, architecten en omwonenden werden uitgenodigd om mee te denken over de nieuwe ontwikkelingen in het Havenkwartier van Assen, waar zo’n 500 tot 600 nieuwe woningen gebouwd moeten gaan worden. Aan het Havenkwartierproject namen deel: Martina Dal Brollo, Gabrielle Kroese, Siska Peeks, Ingeborg Entrop, Koen van Uden van Nex Lab en Walter Stoop en Wissam van 12WAT Architecten en in een later sta...

Een thermen is een van de meest complexe bouwwerken om te ontwerpen en bouwen. De logistiek in het complex, de enorme berg techniek die een plaats moet krijgen, de pogingen om tot een goede prijs/kwaliteitverhouding te komen, een altijd beperkt budget zodat keuzes moeten worden gemaakt, de moeilijke vraagstukken rond bouwfysica, de totale benadering met interieur en tuin en het meest belangrijke: het ontwerpen van een gebouw dat enerzijds spectaculair is en anderzijds aanvoelt als een warme ...