Turning a city of walls into a city for all: a redevelopment strategy to reunite the urban core with the metropolitan region of Grand Paris

Throughout history, Paris has always been a city of walls. The differences between the wealthy core and the poor periphery are increasing rapidly. The Boulevard Périphérique, Paris’s concrete ring road, is the spatial and symbolic manifestation of the imbalance between the city and periphery. The ring road works as a mobility bottleneck at the...

Redefined Public Floodplain

The design proposal is situated along the edge of the city of Strasbourg, the design deals with a existing flooding problem in the area that currently limits the development of the area. The building looks at providing a new scenic route that crosses through a multitude of different landscapes and elevations. The elevated walkway is meant to...

Infrastructure - Connecting barriers

Urban design and planning is a profession that requires looking at different scale levels and how these interact with each other. Urban designers or planners often try to connect different areas with each other because they believe that this makes the connected areas stronger. This connection on the large scale is made by large-scale...