RESEARCH
Reflections on the Why, What and How of Cross-Border Build Projects - Lessons from the 1st Fall Symposium Building Beyond Borders
Griet Verbeeck, Elke Knapen, Peggy Winkels, Bart Janssens, Nicolas Coeckelberghs (2020)
Paper published in Building Beyond Borders FALL Symposium 2020, Proceedings of the 1st Fall Symposium, 9 - 10 November 2020, Hasselt, Belgium, p.10-17
'Building Beyond Borders' Project-based learning from, with & for the world
Bart Janssens, Peggy Winkels, Nicolas Coeckelberghs, Griet Verbeeck, Elke Knapen (2020)
Paper published in PLEA 2020 Planning Post Carbon Cities , proceedings of 35th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, 1 - 3 September 2020, A Coruña, Spain, Volume 3, p.1501-1506
Keywords: sustainable architecture, project-based learning, design/build project
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Sensitivity analysis of passive design strategies for residential buildings in cold semi-arid climates
Waqas Ahmed Mahar, Griet Verbeeck, Sigrid Reiter, Shady Attia (2020)
Paper published in Sustainability 2020, 12(3), 1091
Keywords: decision support, building simulation, personalised systems, adaptive comfort
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Potential of contemporary earth architecture for low impact building in Belgium
Van der Linden Jasper, Janssens Bart, Knapen Elke (2019)
Paper published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 323, No. 1, p. 012018). IOP Publishing.
Key words: research by design, sustainable tourism, social and cultural impact
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An investigation of thermal comfort of houses in dry and semi-arid climates of Quetta, Pakistan
Waqas Ahmed Mahar, Griet Verbeeck, Manoj Kumar Singh, Shady Attia (2019)
Paper published in Sustainability 11(19), Special Issue Green Building Technologies
Keywords: adaptive thermal comfort, residential buildings, heating dominated passive measures, design recommendations
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Operationalization of Strategic Niche Management by Living Labs as Leverage for a Sustainable Transition: Illustration by Student Work on Tourism Infrastructure in the Tanzanian Context
Janssens Bart, Winkels Peggy, Hannes Els, Verbeeck Griet, Cuyvers Rob (2016)
Paper presented at the ICST-DS (International conference on sustainable tourism), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 2016
Transition management approaches and instruments such as Living Labs provide a new orientation to societal change. It aims for the creation of sustainable innovative practices within socio-technical niches, which may have the potential to upscale to wider systemic transformations. In recent years, the architecture students of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts at the University of Hasselt (Belgium) have conducted designerly research targeting sustainable tourism infrastructure developments within the Tanzanian context, specifically in Dar es Salaam.
On the theoretical background of Strategic Niche Management, this paper interprets the concept of Living Labs for the building sector, within the built environment and within Higher Education Institutes for Architecture and Planning. For the latter, exemplary results of student work is discussed. The objective is: in general, to provide incentives to close the gap between ‘rhetoric’ and ‘reality’; and in specific, to increase the awareness of the potentials of the Tanzanian tourism sector for sustainability. The underlying objective is twofold: first, to highlight transition management and Living Labs in education and training as a ‘short cut’ towards a sustainable transition; and second, incentivize a discussion on adding a ‘build’ component to the student ‘design’ projects, aiming for real-life sustainable projects.
Key words: strategic niche management, living labs, sustainability transition, architecture and planning, education
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Architectural design led approach to sustainable tourism for the waterfront development of Kunduchi in Tanzania
Leus Maria, Winkels Peggy (2016)
Paper presented at the ICST-DS (International conference on sustainable tourism), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, July 2016
In Kunduchi, located in the Kinondoni district of the Dar es Salaam Region, it is of vital importance for the lives and livelihoods of the indigenous people to preserve the typical ecosystems and ensure the identity and economic resilience of these areas. This also goes for the remainder of Tanzania’s coastal communities.
The problem statement is as follows: In what way can sustainable tourism in Kunduchi serve as an engine for economic and social empowerment? How can Kunduchi be an inspiring example for the development of the coast of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania that is threatened by large-scale tourist infrastructure? How to design sustainable solutions with respect for the local community and the local traditions?
In this paper, firstly, a theoretical framework that connects sustainable tourism with the sustainable development of coastal areas is defined. Assumptions made on the basis of the literature review provide parameters that play an important role in the architectural concepts. Secondly, a research by design is presented in order to analyze and evaluate different scenarios to outline the opportunities of sustainable tourism on site of Kunduchi.Sustainable waterfront development is an obvious subtitle since the subtle spatial integration of these projects in the urban and water related context of Dar es Salaam is of major importance.
Key words: research by design, sustainable tourism, social and cultural impact
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