D. PHD research
Research projects
D1 Ecociudad; Alternatives to popular housing in Lima, Peru
Researcher: Arch. J. Burga Bartra
Programme: -
In collaboration with Unesco IHE Delft
The research focuses on the critical cases of barriadas (squatter settlements) and solares (inner city slums) and investigates options for urban and architectural upgrading with participation of local government and local residents.
Since the new government in Peru in 2005 Burga is governmental advisor and has therefore temporary stopped his PhD work
D2 A tool for Sustainable Urban Planning and Design
Researcher: ir E van Keeken
Programme: -
A tool based on the tool DPL, (Duurzaamheid Prestatie voor Lokaties = Sustainability performance for Locations) but useful in an earlier stage of the design process
In collaboration with the faculty of Civil Engineering, chair “Materials, Sustainability & Durability”
D3 Attached housing in Vietnam
PhD-student: Nguyen Mai Anh (Phd candidate has announced to interrupt his work at Delft University).
Programme: Sustainability
Research on the origin, Development, cultural significance and role of attached housing in the Vietnamese city. The goal is the emphasis the positive contribution of attached housing in a Sustainable Development of Vietnam.
D4 Architecture, ethics and sustainability
PhD-student: M J González Díaz
Programme: -
Authenticity and ethical criteria integration in the Development of a more Sustainable architecture. The economic, social and environmental triple support as the guarantee of the process. The aim is to make a sustainability universal requires awareness within architecture. If man needs specific answers at all moments in history, a discipline as humanistic as architecture should be sensitive to man’s new position on nature, offering its own interpretation on this new and different situation.
D6 Sustainble Building Construction 1
PhD-student: Loriane Mina Icibaci
Programme: Sustainability (C2C&B 001)
Investigating and innovating sustainable building materials and construction processes able to reduce increasing resource flows and energy demand, promises a significant contribution to the construction sector and its ecological footprint around the world.
D7 Innovative Climate Adaptive Urban Design by decentralization of Urban Infrastructures
PhD-student: Maria Marotta
Programme: Sustainability (I&N 003)
New ways of water management in the urban planning process, combining small-scale and large-scale, social and spatial aspects and involving technological aspects like the research of new materials and technologies for constructions and urban infrastructures..
A2 Sustainable innovation and Architecture (see part A)
PhD researcher: ir. P.G. Teeuw PDEng
Programme: Sustainability (TM&T 006)
