Stitching a non-place

Towards a more integrated design of urban fragmentation in Hillegersberg Zuid

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

M.E. van Eck Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

T. Bouma Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Cor Wagenaar Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Miriam van Eck
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Published Date

21-04-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

This report attempts to explore the causes of spatial incoherency in Hillegersberg Zuid. It does this through a retrospective historical analysis of the infrastructure, its symbolic projections and its use. Through the lens of socio-political motives of the past century the cities’ response to the current housing crisis is questioned in the area along the Ceintuurbaan, RET and St. Franciscus Gasthuis, designated as a search area for densification by the Municipality of Rotterdam. The existing functions service a larger framework yet present as isolated blocks disconnected from their immediate surroundings. (Re)developing this physical, economic and socio-political border has the potential to create a permeable boundary and allow for more diverse interaction. By searching for an approach in which the existing structures are integrated into a sustainable densification of the area a proposal is presented through physical models and design research in a concept to reconnect the fragmented area