Space is the empty part of the building, but its volume is important for the activities of occupants. Architects define the general spatial structures of buildings mainly in the early design stages, and the spatial properties, the connection of the spaces and the boundary conditions of them are significant for the building function and performance. This research first clarified the relationship between spatial configuration of buildings, thermal environment and thermal comfort of occupants in...

Since the 1960s, art and architecture have experienced a series of radical and reciprocal trades. While artists have simulated ‘architectural’ means like plans and models, built structures and pavilions outside art institutions, or intervened in urban and public spaces, architects have employed ‘artistic’ strategies inside art institutions, in exhibitions, biennales and art events. At the same time, art galleries and museums have combined both activities in an interdisciplinary, hybri...

This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a `joined up' approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to architecture from a historical perspective, it goes on to discuss how the desired functional quality and uti...

Architecture and urbanism can contribute to making our cities more resilient to migration. In ‘City of Comings and Goings’ Crimson brings together a cast of European cities that are marked by migration represented through authoratitive essays by local scholars. These cities are also the source of a catalogue of one hundred projects that tackle the issue of migration in many different ways and on different scales. The essays, the catalogue of projects and Crimson’s manifesto-like introdu...

In Nederland staan 10.000 woningen met het predicaat ‘experimenteel’ als resultaat van een uniek woningbouwbeleid uit de jaren zeventig. Het programma Experimentele Woningbouw zorgde vanaf 1968 voor vernieuwing in de volkshuisvesting en de stadsvernieuwing in reactie op de grootschalige en monotone woonwijken uit de jaren vijftig en zestig. Architecten, stedenbouwkundigen en hun opdrachtgevers droegen bij aan vernieuwingen op het gebied van woning, woonvorm en woonomgeving.

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Een vast onderdeel van onze vakantie in het buitenland is voor velen een bezoek aan een kerk. Maar waarom doen we dat in eigen land niet? Kerkinterieurs in Nederland laat zien dat de rijkdom van het Nederlandse kerkinterieur minstens zo indrukwekkend en divers is. Kenmerkend is de middeleeuwse kerk met een protestantse inrichting. Maar we hebben ook barokke schuilkerken, uitbundig gedecoreerde negentiende-eeuwse katholieke kerken, en strakke naoorlogse kerkinterieurs. In alle perioden van onz...

This thesis explores the ways in which landscape is relevant as a concept for designing architecture. Buildings that have been designed like landscapes have become a topic in contemporary architecture. The apparent distinction between architecture and landscape is questioned in exemplary theories and new designs.

The core of this thesis is three case studies of architectural designs that use landscape strategies. The analytical model for landscape architectural composition that Steenbergen an...