Category: Graduation Projects

Graduation Projects

Circular Water Stories in Design

Most students of the CWS lab joined the analysis of the Traditional Water Systems, gaining input for their thesis project. Moreover, a few graduation projects conducted before 2018 are added, since they deal with the Circular Water Stories topic, as well. Different mentors from the LA section guide the students during their, one year lasting, thesis process. The student’s first mentor is always a member of the LA section, the second mentor derives from another discipline a.o. architect, urbanist, civil engineer, ecologist, preferably a member of the TU Delft.

The title and the image give a hint towards the content of the project. By clicking, you will be connected to the TU Delft education repository, getting access to the entire thesis.

More than River: Attuning to the rhythm of the Meuse landscapes, France.
ⓒ Tobias Macchione (2024-25)
Reviving the Heritage Water Network: A sustainable system for the depopulated and flood prone Saga, Japan.
ⓒ Kanako Inai (2024-25)
Valuing the Cerrado: Designing a Botanical Garden in the Brazilian Savanna, Brazil.
ⓒ Camila Rosado (2024-25)
Memories of Tlaloc: Water as the cultural Legacy in Xochimilco, Mexico.
ⓒ Carolina Marquez (2024-25)
Untold Waters: Regrowing a coextensive riverine landscape through flood mitigation and rehabilitation strategies, South Africa.
ⓒ Nicola Vollmer (2024-25)
Cascading Floodspace: Rebalancing flood prevention through spatial design interventions in Jianghan Plain, China.
ⓒ Houxuan Zhang (2024-25)
Cultivating Commons: Reclaiming the dike-fishpond system for people and ecology in the Pearl River Delta, China.
ⓒ Xiaolei Ma (2024-25)
Breathing Lake: A rural adaptive self-circulating natural-social system welcoming water dynamics, China.
ⓒ Antong Huang (2023-24)
Living with drought prone landscapes: Spatial design interventions for a rain and dry season mitigation system in Ryabega, Rwanda.
ⓒ Charlotte Delobbe (2023-24)
Eco-Human Symbiosis: Revitalising the cultural & natural of Philippi Park, Greece.
ⓒ Fotini Katavelaki (2023-24)
Symbiosis: Renovating traditional cultural landscape of Baiyangdian Lake-Wetland System, Hebei Province, China.
ⓒ Kelin Mu (2023-24)
Surmounting the polder, the Netherlands.
ⓒ Rafael Gridelli (2023-24)
A dialog between people and landscape: the Aliki Wetland Ecosystem as astarting point to explore Naxos Island, Greece.
ⓒ Stelina Tsalapati (2023-24)
Living Water: Sustaining the legacy of Japan’s Biwa Lakeside water in contemporary Urban Development, Japan.
ⓒ Chenye Yang (2023-24)
Liquid Land: regaining balance between agriculture and nature with historical inspiration, the Netherlands.
ⓒ Fabian Schwegman (2023-24)
Bring Linpan back to life: Revival of the Linpan community, Sichuan, China, in a modern context through adaptation and appreciation of its circularity
ⓒ Zhiyun Zhang (2022-23)
The Intermotion Landscape: An Experimental Design on Movement, Place Making and the Appreciation of the Cultural Landscape in the Zaanstad Area
ⓒ Keng Ching Chen (2022-23)
[Re] Birthing Rural Areas: A Journey Towards Environmental Rejuvenation and Social Progress
ⓒ Xenia Georgiadou (2022-23)
On the rocks – a breakable heaven: A new water system and way of living for the Guadarrama mountains, in Spain
ⓒ Javier Sanchez Jimenez (2022-23)
Quenching Thirst: Cooperation and interaction by living with water from Huamantanga in the hills to Lima on the coast, Peru
ⓒ Wanning Liang (2022-23)
Water steps: Reviving the Bagmati River in the Kathmandu Valley
ⓒ Maozhu Zhang (2022-23)
From ”Stone City” to ”Hidden Water Region”: Visualize and value the invisible water flows in Matera
ⓒ Wenting Gao (2022-23)
Pop Out Milan: Unveiling Milan’s urban Renaissance through the rebirth of the Navigli Canal system as a landscape connection and social link
ⓒ Nicole Filippoli (2022-23)
Reactivating traditional villages: Towards a sustainable cultural landscape for Yuanyang County
ⓒ Yuan Yuan (2021-22)
The Canal Story: Canal du Midi – the Living Water Heritage
ⓒ Pingyao Sun (2021-22)
Revive the Sprengenbeek landscape: Integration of a heritage water system into the renewed circular agricultural landscape at Vaassen, Veluwe
ⓒ Yunshu Jiang (2021-22)
Yofyros: A River Beyond Banks: Revealing and redefining Yofyros river landscape as a bridge between the identity of the place and people living with water
ⓒ Emmanouela Armoutaki (2020-21)
From ambigious borderscapes to pluralism: An alternative landscape representation as a way of integrating ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ around the Hunze valley
ⓒ Farnoosh Bazrafkan (2020-21)
From survival to revival: A new water management way for upper reaches of Tarim River integrated a sustainable livelihood design
ⓒ Xinyu He (2020-21)
Ancient salination: A generator for a sustainable development of the salt villages in Danzhou
ⓒ Ran Yan (2020-21)
The Operating Venetian Lagoon – The Agency of Barene: A resilient landscape infrastructure towards ecological, cultural and productive heritage preservation
ⓒ Amina Chouairi (2019-20)
Landscapes In-Flux: Journey through the dynamic floodplains of holy river Ganga at Prayagraj, India
ⓒ Tanvi Gupta (2019-20)
Land can sometimes be water: Bridging the dichotomy between land and water through amphibious landscapes
ⓒ Naeema Ali (2019-20)
Beyond sand and water: Opportunities for the continuous social, structural and morphological transformation of Puntarenas
ⓒ Maria Jose Zuniga (2019-20)
Revealing Rome’s Water-Based Culture: a resilient, dynamic and interactive layer, Italy
ⓒ Camilla Di Nicola (2019-20)
Watering the Semiarid: designing a wetness retention landscape in Jaguaribara, Brazil
ⓒ Monica Veras Morais (2019-20)
A New Watery Balance: redefining the scenic and circular waterscape in the village of Wuyuan, China
ⓒ Jiawei Zhao (2019-20)
Reveal the Unseen- Retrieving Sense of Place by Public Water Space based on the Former Irrigation System, Ksôkong Tsùn, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
ⓒ Man Chuan Lin (2019-20)
Breath: redefining a zone of informal settlements for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
ⓒ Rapa Surajaras (2018-19)
Redefining Bangkok’s Inclusive Water-Based Society: flood resilience planning of adaptive and performative hybrid infrastructure network, Thailand
ⓒ Krit Thienvuyichai (2018-19)
Re-connecting with water: creating spatial solutions for water collection and storage in rural areas, which suffer from water scarcity and loss of social and environmental cohesion, Morocco
ⓒ Melinda Marjan (2018-19)
Minimal Intervention in Oslo: an attempt of reading the ultimate, Norway
ⓒ Liu Wanxin (2017-18)
Rising out of the Wrath: the post-disaster religious landscape of Kedarnath valley, India
ⓒ Vanshika Bharaj (2017-18)
The Living Estuary: a study of developing landscape spatial adaptive strategies to integrate the water, ecosystem and anthropo-dynamics in the Estuary of Volta Delta, Ghana
ⓒ Ayu Tri Prestasia (2017-18)
The Production Valleys: finding balance between people and environment, Honduras
ⓒ Jade Appleton (2017-18)