Ulf Hackauf is a research and teacher at the chair of Environmental Technology and Design. He graduated as architect from the Technische Universität in Braunschweig, Germany and worked as project architect in several architecture firms in the Netherlands. From 2008 to 2014 he was part of The Why Factory/TU Delft. Next to the MSc Urbanism program, Ulf also teaches in the MSc Industrial Ecology.
Ulf is interested in how urban planning and design can improve resource management in urban areas. In his PhD research, he focusses on the spatial characteristics of urban environments that enable or limit local management of resource flows. He uses parametric design studies to explore these space/flow relations within urban neighbourhoods.
Ulf is interested in mentoring projects that improve local management of essential flows through principle and quantified analysis, leading to integrated and synergetic spatial solutions.
Students Ulf has supervised the following students:
MSc Urbanism
Von Meijenfeldt, C. W. (2020) Autonomous Oosterwold: Exploring the land-use, environmental impact and environmental risks of local essential service provision on different levels of autonomy (first mentor Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Ellen van Bueren)
Cortenraede, T. (2018). Rethinking Waste: Urban integration of waste collection and treatment systems based on circular concepts (first mentor Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Alex Wandl)
Cardoso Pera Eboli, C. (2018). Metabolic Horizon: a regional strategy for Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region’s (RMBH) wastewater and solid waste. (first mentor Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Lidewij Trummer)
Ter Heijden, W. (2019). City without Sand: A material conscious approach for the urban construction metabolism (first mentor Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Henk Jonkers)
MSc Industrial Ecology
Arjang Tajbakhsh (2018) Rise of the factories: understanding the development of textile manufactring in the upper Citarum River basin (first mentor Arjan van Timmeren and Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Erik Louw)
Xu ben Zhang (2018) Back to blue: An evaluation of cage aquaculture in the Saguling Reservoir and opportunities for sustainable practices (first mentor Stefano Cucurachi, second mentor Ulf Hackauf)
Nora Mees (2018) Integration of Urban Metabolism into Street-scale Planning and Design Practices (first mentor Ulf Hackauf, second mentor Ellen van Bueren)
MSc Building Technology
Linda Vos (2020) Energy planning for the unknown: On the potential of adaptive planning to guide the development of a future-proof energy system for the case of Schieoevers Noord, Delft (first mentor Andy van den Dobbelsteen, second mentor Ulf Hackauf)