Stitching up the community: The co-housing project in the Molenpoort

The co-housing project designed with the reused structure of the Molenpoort commercial centre from the 1970's. The future of the mall is currently being a matter of discussion since the municipality is planning to demolish the whole complex and introduce a completely new urban plan and functions in the area. The design proposal follows the...

Encounter with the edge: A temporary and more considerate architecture addressing the true context of London's ends

London’s ambiguous edges have turned into an area of negligence as they are simply not considered anyone’s responsibility. Its final ends are places where allocated amenities considered as burdens can no longer be pushed further outwards. However, simultaneously, it is where Londoners take advantage of this negligence and escape the city to...

Betweenness: Tangible & Intangible boundaries for formulating a complex estate landscape in Gelders Arcadie

Connection and separation, or synthesis and dissolution, to draw on Georg Simmel’s expression, are each the precondition of the other. It lightens me to rethink the core of boundary. In the estate landscape of Veluwe Zoom, the elites and noble use flowing water, shrubs, walls, fences to declare their own territory and maintain bridge, passage to...

Common Ground: The project as a soft border

Addresses questions social isolation, privatization and individualization of urban sprawl. Focuses on existing boundaries fences, walled estates, commonly<br/>present in contemporary gated society. Enables negotiation of limits between neighbors, houses, possessions and streets. Introduces human proximity to nature and other neighbors by...

Embrace urban growth, avoid urban sprawl

In Europe there is a growing concern about the development of future urban form, especially deconcentrating of urban land use in the form of urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is synonymous with unplanned incremental urban development, characterized by a low density mix of land uses on the urban fringe. On 7th Environment Action Programme to 2020 ...

Metropolitan Region Vienna-Bratislava, rethinking the dispersed territory in-between the two capital cities

This thesis was written in the course of the European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism – Strategies and Design for Cities and Territories (EMU) at the Department of Urbanism in the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands. The research analyses the spatial condition and the planning system in the...

Coen Beeker’s ‘Urban Fields’ for Addis Ababa

Cities under rapid urbanization such as Addis Ababa offer a set of challenges for today’s designers and planners. The urgent need for access to affordable and decent living environments presses city administrations, whose primary response tends to be a top-down approach of public housing projects and allocating plots through a bidding process in...

Containing urban sprawl: An integrated improvement of space-tranport strategies to reduce air pollution emission

Diverse effective strategies have been designed to minimize the phenomenon of urban sprawl. Previous research focused on the link between spatial and transport development strategies to achieve this goal, with the intention of increasing mobility, reducing commuting time and travel costs. However, a side effect of urban sprawl is an increase of...

Controlling Urban Sprawl with Integrated Approach of Space-Transport Development Strategies

Urban sprawl phenomenon has been a huge issue since 20th century characterized by a rapid and unbalanced settlement development with transportation network particularly in a suburban area. The improvement of public transport system is a major requirement to minimize urban sprawl. Academic researchers have explained the linkage strategy between...

Shifting Centralities, Shared Lines: A redefined role for the peri - urban space in Delhi, National Capital Region

TALL Vertical Cities Asia 2011: The 40m cube

The NUS and the Future Foundation organized a competition between 10 universities worldwide to develop ideas and theories in urban growth and architectural form related to density, liveability and sustainability specific to the rapid and exponential growth of urbanism in Asia.   We can either use the existing urban architectural models to...

Taxing land for urban containment: Reflections on a Dutch debate

Excessive land use regulations aimed at containing urban sprawl have been criticised, because they may overcompensate for the external effects of uncontrolled greenfield development and contribute to stagnation in house building. Taxes on building in green spaces may be an instrument for balancing urban growth and the protection of the landscape...

Developing web-based multi-dimensional GIS; Conceptual framework