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Making temporary homes

Why meanings and activities matter

2024 || Paperback || Marjolein Overtoom || TU Delft

A housing shortage has been building up in the Netherlands in the last 30 years. Decreasing the housing shortage takes time, while people need a place to live now. Temporarily transforming vacant buildings into housing could reduce this need by providing the housing market with time to catch up. Can different user perspectives be included in housing design so all residents can easily make their home? A review of literature from housing studies, indoor environmental quality, architectural desi...

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Landscapes of Trade

Towards sustainable spatial planning for the logistics complex in the Netherlands

2024 || Paperback || Merten Nefs || TU Delft

By combining different perspectives and methods of empirical research, this PhD thesis generates multi-disciplinary insights into the rise of the logistics complex and its planning discourse whilst focusing specifically on XXL distribution centres (DCs) in the Netherlands. Since the 1980s, the building footprint of this complex has increased fourfold, to approximately 80 million square metres, generating a new large-scale landscape type: Landscapes of Trade. The research addresses urgent i...

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Daily Mobility in Metropolitan Areas

The case of higher education students and urban spatial ­development in the Valparaiso Metropolitan Area

2024 || Paperback || Marcela Soto || TU Delft

This study seeks to understand the interrelationship between daily mobility and the spatial structure of an emerging metropolitan urban system. It is concerned with the daily mobility of a specific group of inhabitants, higher education students, living in a contemporary metropolis and experiencing urban living. The study’s main aim is to better understand aspects of this complex urban spatial structure through the students’ lives and through their daily mobility to explore specific urban...

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Towards Energy-­Efficient Residential Buildings In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Exploring Energy Retrofitting Options And Assessing Their Feasibility

2024 || Paperback || Ahmed Felimban || TU Delft

The thesis explores energy retrofitting options for enhancing the energy efficiency of residential buildings in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It identifies and validates cost-effective energy retrofit schemes that have the potential for energy savings. The thesis also assesses the feasibility of energy retrofitting scenarios for building envelopes and their impact on reducing energy consumption, improving thermal comfort, and mitigating the environmental impact of buildings. The results of this resea...

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The Potential of Small, Low-Carbon, Zero-Energy Housing

A Multidimensional Approach

2024 || Paperback || Cynthia Souaid || TU Delft

This thesis examines the potential of small, low-carbon, (near) zero-energy dwellings as a solution that would both address sustainability challenges and answer to the growing housing shortage in North-West Europe. It adopts a multidimensional outlook that encompasses institutional, social and technical aspects surrounding the dwellings. The institutional aspect is addressed through an investigation of financial, legislative, technical and cultural barriers to the implementation and uptake of...

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Heritage Beyond Singular Narratives

Embracing Diversity in Participatory Heritage Planning Empowered by Artificial -­Intelligence

2023 || Paperback || Mahda Foroughi || TU Delft

This PhD thesis explores the evolving field of heritage planning, focusing on the cultural significance of heritage properties. It advocates for a value-based approach that recognizes the diverse perspectives of stakeholders, including experts, policymakers, and users. While participatory heritage aims to foster consensus-building, tensions may arise due to varying cultural significance conveyed by different stakeholder groups. Conventional research methods are time-consuming and costly, limi...