Tu Delft imprint: 25 books
by Mohammad Taleghani
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Courtyards have been used for thousands of years in different climates in the world. In hot climates they provide shading, in humid climates they cause a stack effect helping ventilation, in cold climates they break cold winds and protect their microclimate. In temperate climates (such as of the Netherlands),...
Facade Refurbishment Toolbox.
Supporting the Design of Residential Energy Upgrades
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The starting point of the research is the need to refurbish existing residential building stock, in order to reduce its energy demand, which accounts for over one fourth of the energy consumption in the European Union. Refurbishment is a necessary step to reach the ambitious energy and decarbonisation...
Integral Facade Construction
Towards a new product architecture for curtain walls
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Integral Facade Construction focuses on the future development of the curtain wall. While the requirements on facades have slowly increased over the last decades, the curtain wall has evolved from craftsmanship oriented constructions to highly developed facade systems. But its constructional principle...
International Facades - CROFT
Climate Related Optimized Facade Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2012
"International Facades - CROFT" links the fields of architecture, building services and building physics. It aims at an international diversity in façade design to reduce energy consumption in building design.
Current architectural planning practices, such as the International Style,...
Renewing City Renewal
A call for strong design
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Between 1970 and 1990 the prewar districts of Dutch cities underwent an unparalleled process of renewal. What began as ‘building for the neighbourhood’ in protest against extensive demolition has now come to be known as ‘city renewal’. Large numbers of affordable dwellings and social facilities...
Spatial Planning and High-tech Development
A comparative study of Eindhoven city-region, the Netherlands and Hsinchu City-region, Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance...
by Kees Geevers
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Dit proefschrift is de weerslag van het onderzoek naar stedenbouwkundige structuren van historische industriële complexen. Doel van het onderzoek was om herkenning en erkenning van deze structuren te bevorderen als dragers van cultuurhistorische waarden in ruimtelijke transformatie.
Industrieel...
Understanding culture in territorial management and its implications for spatial planning.
The case of floodplain management in urbanised delta regions in the Netherlands and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
This study presents and applies an integrative conceptual framework which is used to explain how culture, planning policy and territorial management outcomes are interrelated, and what the implications are for spatial planning. The study investigates territorial development processes in the context...
Performance Assessment Strategies
A computational framework for conceptual design of large roofs
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Using engineering performance evaluations to explore design alternatives during the conceptual phase of architectural design helps to understand the relationships between form and performance; and is crucial for developing well-performing final designs. Computer aided conceptual design has the potential...
Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration
A Study on Rehabilitating the Former Socialistic Public Housing Areas in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation. From 1949 to 1998, the urban housing stock in China largely depended on the public...
Spatial planning and urban resilience in the context of flood risk.
A comparative study of Kaohsiung, Tainan and Rotterdam
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Spatial planning is increasingly being considered as an important mechanism in coping with flood risk due to climate change. One of the reasons for this is that engineering approaches are increasingly expensive and cannot provide complete certainty of protection against climate-related floods. The...
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