The world is facing global challenges that are dramatically changing the social and physical environments, resulting in cultural confrontation. Rapid urban growth, and gentrification increase urban pressure while jeopardizing social cohesion, multicultural values and local economies. Moreover, environmental factors associated with climate change challenge the way cities respond and adapt, as their assets have to be re-designed to meet the current and future generation needs.

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This study is based on the fact that all people have a basic need for protection from other people (and animals) as well as from the elements (the exterior climate). People need a space in which they can withdraw from the rest of the world. The two states, inside and outside, public and private, contact with, or isolation from, the outside world, are relevant in fulfilling this basic need. People also want their home to have a certain appearance or status which they can identify with and whic...

Peter van Veelen applies a resilience based planning method (the Adaptive Pathways Method, or APM) to develop and assess adaptation pathways at the level of neighbourhood development in two flood prone waterfront cases in Rotterdam. APM is a structured, iterative approach based on defining the conditions under which policy objectives are no longer attainable and adaptation is required, and the assessment of sequences of adaptation actions. It enables policy makers to explore and develop adapt...

Potentials of virtual environment for enhancing creativity of architects have shaped this research. There is no singular definition of creativity. In fact, there are more than 100 different definitions for creativity according to different contexts and disciplines. Nevertheless, it is possible to confine the boundaries of definitions and address creativity within a confined framework.

De serie Kostenkengetallen Bouwprojecten bestaat uit de volgende titels:

• Bouwkundig werk

• Werktuigbouwkundige installaties

• Elektrotechnische installaties

In de serie Kostenkengetallen Bouwprojecten staat het budgetteren van gebouwkosten centraal; zowel voor nieuwbouw, renovatie als onderhoud. De kostenkengetallen geven, per gebouwtype, de kosten per hoofdelement weer. De serie bestaat uit 3 modules. Elke module bestaat uit een boekje waarmee u zeer snel en betrouwbaar kostenraminge...

Bouwkostenkennis binnen handbereik!

Het BouwkostenKompas Woning- en Utiliteitsbouw 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 19...

This research investigates and elucidates the behaviour of nanolime products for consolidation of calcareous substrates. Based on the developed knowledge, it proposes and validates a methodology (including solvent modification and application protocol) for improving the consolidation effectiveness of nanolime dispersions, making these a suitable alternative for TEOS products.

This pioneering research focuses on Biomimetic Interactive Architecture using "Computation", "Embodiment", and "Biology" to generate an intimate embodied convergence to propose a novel rule-based design framework for creating organic architectures composed of swarm-based intelligent components. Furthermore, the research boldly claims that Interactive Architecture should emerge as the next truly Organic Architecture. As the world and society are dynamically changing, especially in this digital...