Reade: Connecting People - Users' Dynamics and its Architectural Representation

A rehabilitation Center building proposal in the center of Amsterdam. The design is derived from a research on the main user groups in a rehabilitation center and the dynamics among them, with an architectural result of the representation of these dynamics.

Archipelago Gardens

Design of Olla-on-the-Move: Toilet for Chemotherapy Bodily Waste Containment

The topic of this graduation project is the design of “Olla-on-the-Move”, the name given to a toilet on the move, for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Working together with the host company, Pharmafilter B.V., the starting point was to design a product or product-service system to “[p]rovide a hygienic and dignified program of care for...

Next Generation Bicycle for Future Urban Mobility Use for Greater China Region

Gusto is a start up Taiwanese bicycle brand, who builds carbon fiber bicycles. It wants to enhance the brand awareness and strengthen the brand image by introducing an innovative urban bicycle for next generation which does contribute to environmental sustainability. ‘Design of a Bicycle for the Metropolitan White-collar Workers for Urban...

Design of an Underactuated Gripper for the Item Picking in Distribution Centers

The particular category of the underactuated grippers is chosen for the automation of the item picking in distribution centers. The underactuated grippers have fewer degrees of actuation than degrees of freedom, so they are mechanically simpler than the fully-actuated grippers, and they are able to adapt to objects regardless of their shapes....

In search for balance in contrasts: graduation project for a designcentre in Rotterdam

There is no Rotterdam identity. Rotterdam has characterizations that everybody can sense namely the big contrasts in Rotterdam. Contrasts originated from top-down-planning of urban renewal projects due to the bombardment in WOI. In my opinion people need these contrasts, to adapt themselves to the changes that are occurring at the moment, to...

Development of conceptual rainfall-runoff models for the personal computer

Nowadays, the development in the personal computer hardware and software is very fast. It is more and more applicable with its recursive calculation character in hydrological modelling. By applying system analysis and system synthesis, it becomes a fashion in hydrological modelling to use the conceptual models instead of black-box models. This...