This thesis starts with a worrisome observation tied to various phenomena across modern built environments: humans today are experiencing a weakened relatedness to and reduced intimacy with the world around them. In stark contrast to the general trend, however, most Chinese literati gardens maintain their traditional rich conditions, enabling their visitors to experience a unique, high-quality experience of relatedness to and intimacy with the world, which may serve as an antidote to the exis...

Oil is a dangerous product. Its transport, storage and refining present numerous environmental and health challenges. Local, national and European regulators have taken steps to locate it in space since the beginning of industrial oil drilling in the 1860s. But key leaders of the oil industry in Northwest Europe, and beyond, have also served as policy makers and aimed to keep legal constraints (decrees, laws, taxes) as limited as possible to prevent the emergence of obstacles in the developme...

There are an increasing number of optimal-design paradigms used in architectural design nowadays. In these paradigms, a design task is formulated, or partially formulated, as an optimization problem. Multi-Disciplinary Optimization and Multi-Objective Optimization, as two important optimal-design paradigms, have shown their great potential in improving the performances of complex buildings in recent decades. Nevertheless, current paradigms for ill‑defined conceptual architectural design sti...

Na een aanloopperiode is het bijna zo ver.

Nederland krijgt een integraal wettelijk stelsel voor de bescherming en benutting van de fysieke leefomgeving: de Omgevingswet.

Minister Hugo de Jonge (Ruimtelijke Ordening) vindt het onverantwoord om de Omgevingswet op 1 januari 2023 te laten

ingaan en kiest ervoor de ingangsdatum van de wet met zes maanden te verplaatsen naar 1 juli 2023.

Dit levert extra voorbereidingstijd op, die kan worden gebruikt om het DSO beter te testen en hiermee te oefenen.

Het bestaande sectorale omgevings recht schiet tekort om alle omgevingsvraag stukken adequaat aan te pakke...

Bouwkostenkennis binnen handbereik!

Het BouwkostenKompas Sloopwerken 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 1988 opgericht a...

This dissertation puts together planning documents and multiple archival sources to demonstrate how urban planning and the role of planners have evolved in an ever-changing transnational context of Iran. It challenges the prevailing approach in the literature of Tehran urban studies that simply flattens the complexity of local-foreign collaboration and labels transnational planning of Tehran a top-down “Westernization” project. To depict a more nuanced picture of Tehran master planning at...

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...

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...