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Future Mobility x Livability: Seeking new opportunities to enhance livability in Amsterdam
No full textThe city of Amsterdam is prospering, the amount of residents and visitors continues to grow every year. With this rapid population increase there are more people seeking to travel each day. This increases the pressure on all types of modalities in Amsterdam. As a result of this, the city becomes more busy, congestion increases, the air quality gets worse, noise caused by traffic increases and the public space diminishes. The current mobility systems have negative and positive effects on the livability in Amsterdam. The way people move through cities is changing rapidly. New technologies in mobility are making it possible for people to navigate through their city more safely and efficiently. Different modes of automated mobility will emerge in the next 30 years. (Papa & Ferreira, 2018) There are still many uncertainties related to their spatial impact on our cities. This graduation project attempts to identify how automated mobility can contribute to enhance livability in Amsterdam. It explores the spatial impact of automated mobility in Amsterdam. To understand this spatial impact the research projects first identifies the scenarios on how automated mobility will be implemented and subsequently researches how this new mobility system can contribute to enhance livability. The design project seeks to propose a model for the implementation of automated mobility in Amsterdam that contributes to enhancing livability
Mosaic Energyscapes: A carbon negative future for Parkstad
No full textThis thesis tackles the described issues through the design of the energy transition of Parkstad Limburg, located in the south of the Netherlands. The region has been the main energy production area of the country during the previous energy period, characterised by coal mining, but with the transition to natural gas extraction it lost its role and has been facing a constant shrinkage, thus a drop in social economy, identity, employment rates and wealth.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Erosion for Betterment: Designing with Erosion to improve well-being | a case study of the Volta Delta, Ghana
No full textErosion for Betterment is a graduation project within the Landscape Architecture master track at the TU Delft. The project examines an underdeveloped coastal area in Ghana that is sadly facing severe erosional threats due to previous unfortunate human activities. It offers an unexpected direction in handling issues as such by proposing an inventful and sustainable way of living profiting from the originally presumed risks. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Questioning the ‘Modern Water’ of İstanbul: Proposing a New Approach to Design Urban Water Infrastructure of the City
No full textIstanbul Water and Sewage Administration’s estimations of decline of water supply is calculated as 24%, with a 2 °C increase in temperature by 2030 caused by increasing evaporation from reservoirs (van Leeuwen & Sjerps, 2016, 12). Considering the fact that 97% of water sources are these dams/reservoirs, it is obvious that İstanbul is vulnerable in terms of water supply without any alternative water supply. It can be indicated that the water that is supplied to the city is not being used efficiently. Even though the water comes from the taps are drinkable, according to a study made by Kanat (2017, 526-527) the use of tap water as potable water is 4% in the city. Furthermore, the treated wastewater is discharged to the Marmara Sea, and the Black Sea through Bosphorus Strait. Because of low water regeneration caused eutrophication of the Marmara Sea, higher effluent quality wastewater discharged in there, while the less advanced treated wastewaters are discharged to the Bosphorus Strait to reach the Black Sea by the currents (van Leeuwen & Sjerps, 2016, 7-8). It can be concluded that the current water management of Istanbul has many technical problems that affects and will be affecting the everyday life of its inhabitants. Examples can be given to these water related problems as drought due to lack of available water, or nuisance due to precipitation. If these current practices continue, with the effects of climate change and the fast, uncontrolled urban growth, problems affecting daily life will get worse in future. ‘Modern Water’ understanding of today sees water as a service to be provided and makes it invisible to users, thus, causes lack of awareness, responsibility and loss of a socio-cultural value which is the meaning of water. While these problems could be answered by spatial solutions, lack of integration between infrastructural and urban design only enlarges the deficiencies. This research aims to discover the relation between the modern water understanding and the unsustainable water practices that currently exist in İstanbul. This is aimed to be done through questioning ‘Modern/Rationalized Water’ and discussing how this caused the abstraction of the socio-cultural aspect of water. The thesis mainly studies the spatial manifestation of this rationalized water that is reduced to be only a natural element of H2O especially in public spaces. This is done by creating a new approach to water related problems in cities, which is inspired by the newly introduced fields of Hydro-sociology and Socio-hydrology. This new approach that aims to preserve the cultural and the social meanings of water while understanding the hydrological cycle of a city is later combined with Urban Water Mass Balance analysis that provides the quantitative examination of the water cycle. After concluding that the natural drainage network of İstanbul is damaged and is under the pressure of the fast urbanization of the city while the trends in the planning still using outdated methods and technologies to control the situation. The needed new approach is studied in the scale of the Kagithane Creek Basin of the Metropolitan Area of İstanbul. The study continues with a proposed design for a specific location near the Kagithane Creek to discuss how this new approach can lead to design activities and change locals everyday experience of water in the city.The thesis concludes that changing the perspective on the water management by including social and cultural aspect to it, changes the way of finding solutions to the technical water management problems by making more integrated management principles necessary
From leftover spaces to a new connection
No full textNowadays, cities are quickly growing and therefore infrastructure is a veryimportant element in the urban environment. Large scale infrastructure like highwaysand railways connect the cities from distant places to each other in an efficient manner.The hard and dominant structure only provides for connection on top of it, butacts as a barrier for the perpendicular connections, which can even lead to separationof the two sides entirely. Large scale infrastructures were built from the perspectiveof the traffic on it and took little consideration of its surroundings and lead to thecreation of the undefined spaces around it. The spaces that are created around largescale infrastructure usually only function as buffer zones. These are needed to keep acertain amount of distance between the highway and its surroundings. This distancecan vary depending on the type of surrounding. While these spaces are used as bufferzones, the presence of the highway also causes certain limitations on the functionalityand other usages of these spaces. This then often results in the spaces not beingused or even being abandoned and neglected all together. This phenomenon occursall over the world in large cities where highways go through urban areas. Especiallyin such a small country as The Netherlands, the space we have is limited. Nowadayswe always stress the fact that we should be making multifunctional spaces, but thesespaces around the highway usually only have the function of buffering between highwayand its surrounding. However, these spaces have the potential to become somethingmuch more than just the leftover spaces of a highway. In my graduation projectI want to address this issue, especially when considering that in the near future, mostof the cars will be using electricity instead of fossil fuel, which will decrease the airpollution and noise from the engine. With this, the view on the spaces around thehighway will change for the better and will allow for more different uses of thesespaces.The main research question of this project will be: “How to transform theleftover spaces created by large scale infrastructure into places that can incorporatenew functions that can solve the local or urban issues, while at the same time stayscoherent?”Rotterdam was chosen as my location, because it is the longest orbital highwayof the Randstad cities, it has many different types of areas it goes through andhighway itself is also tightly encased by the city for most part. For the analysis I separatedit into different layers, representing the leftover spaces and infrastructure, thepotentials on large scale networks and the triggers for development. When overlappingthese layers, we can see which potential is best suited for which area. The ringroad is strongly divided into two halves. And within the halves, it breaks up intosmaller pieces. So it is important to start with strong relevant ones.One of these important spots is the area near Kralingse Zoom. This area hasthe potential to improve the blue-green connections. As a conclusion of the localanalysis, there is a wish to connect the city center with the green areas in the north,but the infrastructure form a strong barrier in between. And the forest itself is alsoonly facing towards the south, making the connection to the north harder. By lookingat the different heights and environments of the infrastructure, different zones aremarked. And with the main goal in mind, each of these zones can contribute to by reactingin their own way. By utilizing the different spatial qualities that the area alreadyhas, the area around the large scale infrastructure can be divided into different parts,that each can react according to what that specific area needs. For instance by loweringthe ground to increase the height of the structures, so both sides can be united.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Variable Vulnerability: A comparative understanding of different socioeconomic systems - San Francisco Bay region
No full textIn this graduation project, I have tried to focus on the aspects of socio-economic development and resilience to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay region. The comparison is between two cases namely East Palo Alto and Foster City which has a variable difference in their socio–economic the system in terms of the communities that it hosts and the vulnerability due to risk that is generated by the type of flood risk management deployed towards flooding. The project also compares the spatial quality and synergies generated by its social systems to understand what qualities exists and what qualities should be added in order to attain a sustainable urban environment
From history to future, form a sustainable and dynamic cityscape
No full textArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
The Green Loop for Active Ageing: The Caring Landscape Design in the Shrinking Parkstad
No full textThe emergent issue of Parkstad is shrinkage of the city in results of the transformation from an industry city to its new developments. In contrast to the economic downturn and the decline in total households, the growing number of older people is particularly conspicuous. Aging society is remarked as a worldwide problem especially in Europe. There is 30% of the population in Parkstad is elders and it will grow and stay in 50% in the next coming 15-50 years. Most of the elders(94%) in the Netherlands lived without any caring helpers. Therefore, to explore what kind of place is more suitable for the elderly to become an important question. In the general stereotype of the public, the city is more suitable for youth rather than elders because of the fast lifestyle. As a shrinking city, Parkstad offered new possibilities of a place or lifestyle: lived between urban and rural.In this Project, the Caring Strategies have two layers: Caring landscape on site for senior elders living environment and a green infrastructure on the urban scale for the ageing process of all-ages residents.Harvest LabArchitecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Dynamic Riverscapes: A vision for inhabitable, sustainable floodplains. The case of Huissensche Waard
No full textThe project proposes a new approach for the design of river riparian zones, researching on the debatable issue of living on the floodplains. In recent years, there has been a shift in the tradition of engineering the river landscape towards a more landscape-friendly perspective. However, the focus still remains usually on nature and recreation, while other functions, like housing, are restricted. In addition, the dikes of the Dutch defense system form strong borders between the urban fabric and the river landscape, allowing little to no interaction between them. The objective is to embrace the natural river processes and use the potentials of inundation and sedimentation as a condition for the creation of a multifunctional and sustainable landscape. A system of living mounds is integrated in the floodplains in balance with nature, through the use of local materials and sediments and with sustainable infrastructure. Main goal is also to ‘break’ the border of the dike and allow people of the surrounding cities to engage and reconnect with this unique, dynamic nature. Added functions, like the new community gardens and a visitor’s centre, act as an extension of the urban fabric into the floodplains and operate as a buffer zone. The proposal binds the dichotomy between processes and forms by combining process-oriented and architectonic-oriented decisions, that utilize the full potential of this dynamic landscape
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