Deploy: Lightweight Design + Flyovers

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

A.J.L. Hamelers Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S.H. Verkuijlen Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S. Brancart Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
P.L. Tomesen Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Arthur Hamelers
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Published Date

14-08-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

In a time of increasing awareness for the environment and rising energy prices, an efficiency in our material use is of paramount importance. This research is built on the notion that the design of light structures has a positive effect on the energy use of the built environment. The tent has been chosen to examine this approach of lightness in the domain of architecture. In an attempt to make the tent more efficient, the parasitic properties of the tent system are utilized by attaching it to an infrastructural object that can be found everywhere in the world: The Flyover. In the paper, a framework is developed to classify boundary tensioned membrane tents (a branch of the tensile structure systems), combine twelve of those types with the flyover, and evaluate the combinations by measuring them against spatial and structural attributes. The design portion is focussed on a a metro flyover in Rootterdam South. Multiple small-scale intervention will be introduced to heal the urban fabric surrounding this flyover.