A New Design for the Scheveningen Pier

Abstract

The current owners of the Scheveningen Pier are starting to head into the second phase of their exploitation plan, which is to replace the current pier. This new pier is larger than the current pier and can exploit at a higher level. This thesis creates a design for a new Scheveningen Pier. A design method is used, which combines the engineering design method and the spatial design method. This combined design method consists of two design loops. One design loop for the complete design and the functional / spatial design and one design loop for the technical aspects of the design. These technical aspects are the morphology, hydrodynamics and the structural mechanics. In the end of this thesis, a total integrated design has been made. This design accomplishes the goal of this thesis and suffices the requirements and scores good on the criteria. However, to get to a fully functional and realisable design, more detail needs to be added to the design and the calculations. Some design steps should also be revised because new information is gathered over the course of this thesis. The design method used in this thesis is functional, but a more effective design method is given in the end. These changes are based on the experiences gathered in this thesis.