Urban scaffolding

A topological design tool

Conference paper (2016)

Authors

C. Forgaci Environmental Technology and Design - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Environmental Technology and Design (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2016 Maria Alexandrescu, C. Forgaci, Ioana Ionescu
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Published Date

2016

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Environmental Technology and Design

Abstract

Landscape architecture, landscape urbanism, and urbanism provide a number of tools, methods, and techniques for the design of the built and unbuilt urban landscape. The interplay of these techniques is left up to the designers, and the resulting range of projects associated with the terms is broad and inconsistent. This paper proposes Urban Scaffolding as a way to reconfigure existing practices into a flexible, scalable, repeatable, and compact design mechanism that simultaneously discovers and intervenes in a territory. The method was developed through design projects that focused on reconnecting the urban and natural landscape by means of topological strategies. Two of these projects will be used as examples in this paper.