The Urban Inversion: Void as Volume and New Interior to the Neighborhood
H.W.S. Wong (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Eireen Schreurs – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
R.M. van der Schans – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)
F.J. Speksnijder – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
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Abstract
Both urban voids and Bressoux are facing the same issue - exist in the city but do not belong to it. The voids are the by-product of urban planning, and the relationship between positive space (massing buildings) and negative spaces (voids) is barely included in design consideration. Generally, these spaces are perceived as a phenomenon of emptiness, neither productive in the urban fabric nor possessing a recognizable role in the neighborhood. Therefore, they never truly integrate into the neighborhood and indeed exist as urban segregation.
However, the nature of emptiness is also regarded as a kind of spatial quality and possesses a certain degree of potential. The project aimed to reposition the role of voids by seeing them as volume and a new interior to the neighborhood. By exploring the movement between interior and exterior, inverting the solid void, it is aimed to transform voids as a mending tool to reconnect the dispersed neighborhood as well as create an alternative public space that truly belongs to the locals.