This was presented to the City Development Office (DSO) – Den Haag – on 13 July as part of my MSc thesis from Wageningen University with partnership from Delft Technical University.
The Sustainable Implant is a technical hub and community center on neighborhood/district scale with an integrated electricity, warmth, and wastewater network. The research investigated appropriate technologies and management schemes for socio-economic operationalization of the concept within the Erasmusveld neighborhood development plan. The overarching goal is to create positive social, environmental, and economic value within the community by means of innovative integrated infrastructure. The report will be available by request in August 2010.
April 15, 2010 |
Design Competition
In cooperation with 2012 Architects, a submission to the Sustainable Floating Dwelling design competition held by East Amsterdam (Ontwerpwedstrijd duurzaam drijvend wonen). The brief asked for Cradle to Cradle materials; 100% renewable energy; ecological water, sewage and waste cycles; and limited CO2 emissions during occupation.
We were recognized for our innovative system utilizing two large (30m3) bins of seasonal green waste to biologically produce warmth during decomposing for space warming and hot water.
The floating house was designed with Superuse of steel scaffolding and 1 cubic meter water storage tanks. Two living areas sandwich a central glass house for light, warmth and an indoor garden. Modular infrastructure elements are mounted on the facade’s grid structure.
November 18, 2009 |
Masterplan
Project by DSA Doepel Strijkers Architects, 2009. I assisted with energy calculations, spatial planning, block morphology, infrastructure network, and panel design and wrote the academic justification of the design report, Planning the productive city (25 pages PDF 2.5MB)
October 5, 2009 |
Personal Project
Aim to reduce summer cooling energy while maximizing winter heat gain and thermal mass via sun-facing glass house with water pool. The peak of the building is designed to reduce shadow on the dark side of the building in the winter.
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ECO EASY
August 29, 2009 |
Student Competition
The spatial planning department of Den Haag, The Netherlands cocreated a workshop with Rotterdam-based Enviu “innovators in sustainability” to develop concepts for an upcoming neighborhood development called Erasmusveld which has the lofty aim of being the “Most Sustainable Neighborhood in The Netherlands”. We were asked to think about what sustainable living will be like 2040 and to craft concepts for how that might be achieved.
My team of three students decided that “true” sustainability is currently only practiced by those with the knowledge, time, and effort for the lifestyle required. For a future sustainable neighborhood, sustainability should be as easy as moving into your new home. For this reason we created the ECO EASY concept, a household system that makes sustainable living automatic and easy while monitoring and displaying information related to consumption, waste, and air quality, in part to collect data to prove the high sustainability achievement and to raise awareness in the home.
July 24, 2009 |
Design Competition
Entry for the ReBurbia competition hosted by Inhabitat and Dwell.
Life in a cul-de-sac is isolating, unhealthy, and energy intensive. Simple interventions will promote social sustainability.
Materials, water, and food are imported as products and leave as waste. Almost nothing is produced or reused. The linear system must change into a circular system.
The challenge is to diversify and enrich the monoculture of the culdesac so it can be more socially, environmentally and economically self-supporting.
Suggestions for the improvement of the generic culdesac include creating car-free streets, densifying and diversifying with urban infill, incentivizing electricity production, and closing water and waste cycles.
The final situation is a circular system in which primary resources (sun, wind and rain) are captured and secondary resources (solid waste, organic waste, blackwater, and greywater) are reused.
July 1, 2009 |
Student Project
Brownfields in Prague City Center: Criteria for Sustainable Development
Research conducted by Wageningen University for Arnika, July 2009
Role: editor and author of reuse strategy chapter
5/2009-7/2009
This paper presents research on sustainable development for brownfields located in Prague, Czech Republic. Brownfields studied were: Masarykovo, Žižkov, Smíchov, and Bubny-Zátory railway station, as well as Karlín; an already regenerated brownfield, located in districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8 respectively. The aim is to give an integrated analysis and practical criteria with a list of recommendations to Arnika, a non-governmental organization that is advocating for the sustainable development of brownfields in Prague. The approach we adopted to analyze the situation includes these topics of investigation: communication, policy, ecosystem services, technology and infrastructure and stakeholder analysis.