Refurbishing vacant offices with EWF into architectural attractive, low energy, comfortable and durable working environments

Refurbishing vacant offices with EWF into architectural attractive, low energy, comfortable and durable working environments

Swier, P.A.

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architectural Engineering and Technology

2016-01-28

My graduation project was split up into a generic exploration which resulted in a research paper and a specific design in which I have tested the results of the generic part. I explored the potential of applying the Earth, Wind and Fire (EWF) concept on vacant office buildings in the Netherlands. In order to find a specific solution that I could apply on a vacant office building in the IBA Parkstad region I first had to investigate the limitations and possibilities of the existing stock and the EWF concept. The tools I developed during my research helped me to choose a building, guide my design process and to finally develop a showcase. In the end my graduation project is an example of how architects and engineering could use EWF to refurbish vacant office buildings into architectural attractive, low energy, healthy, comfortable, productive and durable working environments. By doing so it could help to solve some of the current problems at the real estate market, such as oversupply, greenhouse gas emissions and vacancy.

Earth
Wind and Fire
EWF
natural airconditioning
airconditioning
architecture
vacancy
refurbishment

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Student theses

master thesis

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