Intimate Urbanity of Rue du Moulin

Study on the fragmentation and the collective memory of Rue du Moulin

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

M.B. Menon Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E.I. Ronner Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
S. Stalker Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
L.G.A.J. Reinders Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
J.W. Lafeber Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Megha Menon
Public space Fragmentation Urban Architecture Bressoux Urbanity Street study Ordinary interactions Collective Memory
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Published Date

05-07-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The street is perhaps the most prosaic of the city’s public realm, allowing us to view the very ordinary practices of life and livelihood – a space to move or pause, to meet friends, post a letter, to buy goods and is composed of an amalgamation of rooms along it. Due to the possibility of maneuvering, it tends to exhibit the external spatial reinforcements taken to mark a person’s position. This makes a street not a linear study but a system of social and spatial labyrinths. Hence, the street gives a peek at not only what was and what is, but also the lived realities of allegiance and participation by understanding the social and cultural formations occurring within itself. This is observed by unfolding the street to understand the levels of interactions (or scenes) within the layers between the building and street.
The thesis focuses on the field between architecture and urbanism, on the domain between public and private. It is an attempt to bring an interactive notion to ‘street’ and its role in the design of urban areas and smaller architecture projects. It aims to reinforce the quality of open space within and between the built structures and the existing corridors by blurring the borders of inside and outside.