Co- build vertical community

Co- build vertical community: A bottom up vertical community based on a modular leasing system in vacant office building

Wang, Mara (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor)
van der Zaag, E.J. (mentor)
Stoutjesdijk, P.M.M. (mentor)
van Loon, F.D. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-01-25

Office vacancy is an ever dominant problem in the Netherlands and abroad. While there are still a lot of issues unresolved, we might be overwhelmed with ideas, concepts and suggestions on how to tackle this vacancy. This graduation project tried to give a different perspective on this vacancy by introducing the concept of OPEN BUILDING and link this phenomenon with the mid-income housing shortage situation. The project will stress the problem with a design strategy in steps. In the first initiative part, the architect will work together with the developer or housing company to assess the transformation possibility to find a matching target vacant office building. The target building’s location characteristics and physical building characteristics will be assessed.

vertical community
bottom up
raised floor system

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2019 Mara Wang