Changing Public Realm and Urban Green: The New Interior Landscape

The transformation of the great Western cities is an on-going process. It has become evident over the last decades that cities need to transform into compact, interrelated and creative artefacts. Within this process the nature of natural and artificial urban green,1 in other words the verdure, is already changing today in both qualitative and...

Groundscrapers: Vitalizing the Tradition of the Urban Low Rise, Mixed Hybrid Building

The fact that hybrid buildings can be interpreted as extremely condensed urban blocks, increasing the city’s density and contributing to its public realm, forms one of the key interests of this research. According to its European interpretation, the “ground scraper” is not only public because of the character of its plinth facing the street, but...

Introduction: Different architectural position, process as a common ground

The study of urban form in the Netherlands

The study of urban form in the Netherlands has been heavily influenced by the Modern Movement and characterized by strong disciplinary specialization. On the one hand there is the distinction between art and engineering and on the other the search for instrumental universal rationality. This helps to explain the increasing interest, initially...