The Urban Inversion: Void as Volume and New Interior to the Neighborhood

The Urban Inversion: Void as Volume and New Interior to the Neighborhood

Wong, Stephanie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor)
Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor)
van der Schans, R.M. (mentor)
Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism

2023-07-04

Both urban voids and Bressoux are facing the same issue - exist in the city but do not belong to it. The voids are the by-product of urban planning, and the relationship between positive space (massing buildings) and negative spaces (voids) is barely included in design consideration. Generally, these spaces are perceived as a phenomenon of emptiness, neither productive in the urban fabric nor possessing a recognizable role in the neighborhood. Therefore, they never truly integrate into the neighborhood and indeed exist as urban segregation.

However, the nature of emptiness is also regarded as a kind of spatial quality and possesses a certain degree of potential. The project aimed to reposition the role of voids by seeing them as volume and a new interior to the neighborhood. By exploring the movement between interior and exterior, inverting the solid void, it is aimed to transform voids as a mending tool to reconnect the dispersed neighborhood as well as create an alternative public space that truly belongs to the locals.

Urban Architecture
Liège
Urban Voids
Bressoux
Emptiness
Public Community Cluster

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Student theses

master thesis

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