Resilent dencity green network: A common solution to multiple problems

Van leegstand naar leven: Een ander woon en leefmilieu voor de Nederlandse binnenstad

De Nederlandse binnenstad wordt veelal geassocieerd met een grote concentratie aan mensen, een hoge bebouwingsdichtheid en een sterke vraag naar ruimte. De afgelopen dertig jaar is er dan ook een aanzienlijke bevolkingsgroei waarneembaar in de grootste steden (Fig 1-1). De aantrekkings- kracht van de stad lijkt steeds sterker te worden, op zowel...

Composite Countryside: A Shed for Production

This project is an experimental start to investigating the countryside from its own spatial perspective. Even though my focus is limited to Estonia, many of the points raised share characteristics with other places. The research project “The Project of Reading Landscapes” discusses the influence of various agents on the countryside landscapes...

Creating Place in a Placeless Space

Place, being a product of personal perceptions, makes the establishment of such an inevitably subjective endeavor. The unavoidable Canadian perspective that I bring to each experience of the Dutch landscape has led to a project initiative aimed at revealing the uniqueness of currently ‘placeless’ spaces that reside within the fringe area of many...

Resilient DenCity: Building With Water

This thesis is part of a bigger project called Resilient DenCity, which is the title of a group project taking place at TU Delft and more specifically within Explore Lab 19 and it is conducted by four students: Cosimo Conserva (Public Realm), Matteo Ferrarese (Green Network), Vince Marchetto (Density) Mattia Tintori (Multi purpose flood...

Resilient DenCity: Jersey City waterfront towards a human Public Realm

The hereby thesis has been developed within the Graduation Studio “Explore Lab”. Explore Lab is a Graduation Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. In this Lab I had the opportunity to follow my fascination on public spaces by doing research and producing a graduation projet out of it. The theme of the project involved the careful...