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S.I. de Wit

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Confectie en eigenheid

De confectieborders van Mien Ruys als bouwstenen voor gewortelde tuinen

Mien Ruys (1904-1999) was een pionier van de moderne tuinarchitectuur. Ze was politiek en sociaal bevlogen, en een voorvechtster van interdisciplinaire samenwerking; ze werkte samen met architecten en stedenbouwkundigen, en streefde ernaar dat het landschapsontwerp integraal kon ...
Amid growing urban challenges, designers must navigate the interplay of social, ecological, and spatial systems. Spatial design pedagogy can address this need by fostering hands-on, real-world experiences that encourage collaboration, critical and creative thinking, and a deep ap ...
This issue of SPOOL elaborates a designerly perspective on urban forestry. Evidence has increased rapidly in the recent years to confirm the agency of trees and urban forests to cure a number of ills besetting urban societies. An expanding range of disciplines, in varying and nov ...

Second Glance

Landscape Architecture Europe #6

It happens to all of us at one point or another: you walk through a park and think ‘OK, this is really pleasant’, and then leave and kind of forget about it. And when you visit, maybe by accident, for a second time, things have grown, the light is different, you walk from a diffe ...

Introduction

Embracing the Future of the Wadden Sea Landscapes

How do young generations and educators envision the future of the Wadden Sea territories? How will these landscapes be modified in the years to come? How do we embrace the past and the present and imagine the future? […]

Urban Forestscapes

The City of Delft as a Woodland Complex

To understand the role of the urban forest for people and society a focus on the spatial-experiential aspect (in relation to the human body and human perception) is relevant: trees frame the space in which people move, act, experience and appreciate. ‘Tree language’ refers to the ...

Affective Encounters

Nature Close to The Skin

In an era of globalisation, landscape architects and urban designers have learnt to think big: large-scale plans with far-reaching visions, saving the planet and solving urgent global challenges. Usually, we try to solve these problems in the same way that we created them: with a ...

Atlas van boomstad Delft

Conclusies en aanbevelingen

Het stadsbosmozaïek is verantwoordelijk voor structuur, oriëntatie, identiteit en betekenis, en zorgt uiteindelijk voor de leefbaarheid van een stad. Om de stad een leefbare plek te maken en te houden voor zijn (menselijke en niet-menselijke) stadsbewoners, ook in relatie tot vra ...

How Trees Shape Urban Spaces

Multiplicity and Differentiation of the Urban Forest Viewed from a Visual-Spatial Perspective

Background: The field of urban forestry encompasses many dimensions, of which that of visual-spatial perception, addressing the spatial relationship between city and trees, has received little attention. Analyzing the urban forest from a visual-spatial perspective is needed to un ...
Designed form is not about creating a good appearance. Nor is it restricted to the small scale. The small scale, however, can be used as a valuable playground and laboratory for large scale landscape designs. Three case studies are compared in which similar compositional principl ...
The urban environment is perceived through multiple senses in parallel, which means that visual understanding of space is aided and complemented by auditory, basic-orienting, and haptic stimuli - although mainly unconsciously. Sensory conditions are inherent attributes of urban p ...

Augmenting socioecological dynamics in urban leftover spaces

Landscape architectural design as a foundation

Leftover spaces are urban interstices that are open to spontaneous socioecological appropriation, complementary to defined and managed urban open spaces. The design intervention of leftover spaces poses a paradox: while repurposing leftover spaces to make them accessible, usable ...

Urban interstices

From atopia to heterotopia

Atopias are also often inaccessible and unwelcoming. With the Essenburgpark in Rotterdam as an example, the article explores the possibility of transforming these atopias into heterotopias, or other places: sheltered places that are contrary to their surroundings, and at the same ...
Aan de hand van de daktuin van de auteur en de ontwikkeling daarvan, wordt de Nederlandse tuintraditie en de verschillende soorten van gebruik van tuinen beschreven. In de Renaissance gaven tuinen uitdrukking aan de nieuwe onafhankelijkheid. Erasmus beschreef de ideale burgermans ...

Cool Tree Architecture

A Descriptive Framework for a Tree Architecture Typology to Temper Urban Microclimates

As the elementary unit of the urban forest, trees temper thermal extremes in urban microclimates through shading and evapotranspiration, and by altering the movement of air. Metrics on shade performances of different species, however, are currently limited, which can be remedied ...

Delft

Views on Delft

Around 1661, Johannes Vermeer painted what has become one of the most famous city views: the View of Delft. The city of Delft is depicted from across the water of the River Schie. We see the city as a collection of brick buildings with lower and higher towers, peaking into the sk ...

Finding Atopia

Four Perspectives on the Non-Places of Today

In the format of a round-table discussion, we bring together voices from different departments, sections and roles within TU Delft to explore questions arising from the current issue of the magazine. Unlike the more familiar 'topias' like utopia and dystopia, atopia eludes clear ...
'The Garden as an Expression of Supernature' discusses the Wasserkrater Garden in Germany as an entry to define a contemporary interpretation of nature: "super-nature", which might be represented in gardens as a force of abundance, beautiful and dramatic, showing existence to its ...