Social space
Seeking for communal places in Maastricht
A.W. Formsma (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.B.J. van Deudekom – Mentor (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
L.G.A.J. Reinders – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This master thesis explores the notion of social space by searching for ways of how architectural elements can encourage social behavior in the public domain. Both spatial planning and architecture offer us places for encounters, freedom and creation. Architecture has therefore an important social task, it gives meaning to a place and can stimulate certain activities.
The research is structured in three parts which all influence the project and all operate on different scales. These parts are experienced in daily life, together they form and influence the everyday life and create an order of enclosure. The first part will explain the city of Maastricht, how it is perceived and used today and the historic events that changed the identity and appearance of the city. The second part will focus on the building scale, the transition from the city to a building, the level of public and private and the sequence of spaces in buildings. The last part will show the human scale in and around buildings. It will clarify the way people use spaces, their behavior and the places where people intersect and interact.