Thus the city within

A palatial building rests by Rue de Bois Sauvage of Brussels, an intimate street located at the exact point where the lower historic city ends and upper bureaucratic city starts. The Palace remains like a parasite of a larger introverted structure that fortifies an entire urban block to hide the offices of the National Bank of Belgium. The...

Urban Nature Analysis: The first step towards nature inclusive design

Nature inclusive is a large topic that is still in its pioneering phase. There is a need for clear elaboration and ways of incorporating this new way of thinking into design. In order to have a functional nature inclusive design one must fist<br/>know the existing ecosystem to contribute to this. The research question: how can a designer analyze...

SESCeffect: The city should be for everyone

“The city should be for everyone”. According to Paulo Mendes da Rocha, “the city has to address the issues of coexistence, inclusion and the transformation of its own fabric”. This is the “battle” the Brazilian institution SESC is facing from its birth in 1946. As a non-profit private institution kept by trade businessmen, SESC primary aim is...

Open and Closed: A public space in Rotterdam at the border condition

In the coming 20 years, the city centre of Rotterdam will face a new wave of constructions, with the goal of densify the area with new 50.000 dwellings before the 2040, converting the city centre towards a more residential and international character. This up-coming densification of Rotterdam, led by the high-rise strategy developed by the...

Estimating crowd density and their emotions for city events using social media images

Event managers at large city events use crowd density as a metric in the process of maintaining safety at large scale city events. Identifying the density of crowds at these events relies on expensive physical infrastructure to work well or have limited accuracy. We propose amethod that addresses the gap of not relying on physical infrastructure...

Hinting Civic Futures: A call for cityness in the future smart age

By 2030, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities. With technological development, the focus of building a city has been changing over time. Currently, the urban construction is dominated by the dream of the built environment with embedded intelligence. Urban data streams are processed by algorithms which feed to the physical urban...

Fringe Fictions: The Case of La Linea Verde: The Kitchen, the Table, the Soil and the Market

Complex Project Havana Studio Vedado Group | All for One, One for All: Spontaneous Community Prototype

Cuba is facing badly lack of housing and in the high risk of building collapse. This project is to resolve the issues and stimulate the public life.

City as an archive

This project proposes a move of the TU Delft to the historical centre as both a further invitation to the public and a way of embedding Delft students and academics in the city itself. In the larger social framework, it is a logical and desirable project to reunite the city and the university.

Millennial City

From the Medieval Walled City model to the contemporary Grid City model, the anthropocene CITY has evolved as a new species to a stage that surpasses humanity. Its main goal is efficiency and prosperity of the city itself instead of individual human aspirations. At this moment the city has repressed individual by collective goals, it is no...

Designing a scorecard to create insight into partnerships between traditional energy companies and Dutch cities on the sustainable energy topic

This research focuses on collaborations between traditional energy companies and cities to increase the sustainability of cities and will be illustrated by the Vattenfall Sustainable Cities case. The environment of traditional energy companies like Vattenfall is changing. Renewable, distributed and more efficient energy generation technologies...

Lifetime City & Theater City

The ambition of the Yongsan theatre is to bring people together. It is a truly public domain that is open to everyone. The new theater in the heart of Yongsan attracts people from around the neighbourhood, but also people from outside Yongsan, that come by the adjacent station, or by car. The building attracts visitors from all ages. Both young...