A collaborative hybridity design approach
Enhancing urban water resilience and spatial legibility
Keisuke Sugano (University of Tsukuba)
Simo Lu (Royal HaskoningDHV)
F. Hooimeijer (TU Delft - Environmental Technology and Design)
F.H.M. van de Ven (Deltares)
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Abstract
Within the global transition to sustainable urban water management, Dutch polder cities are also contemplating revitalising their water traditions. One of the keys to this task is to integrate water management into urban design, which is explored but not yet practically instrumentalized in the urban design process. This article introduces the concept of hybridity and develops a Hybridity Design Approach as an interdisciplinary methodology to explore the possibility of realising the extreme low impact Closed City Concept. Integration of the water environment and urban space needs interdisciplinary cooperation and sharing knowledge, as well as an innovative way of thinking about water-resilient urban design, maximising the landscape quality of a polder city while minimising its hydrological footprint in the region. Effective visualisation tools and techniques for this collaborative design process are developed and tested in the area of Zevenkamp in Rotterdam.
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