The Urban Inversion: Void as Volume and New Interior to the Neighborhood

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

H.W.S. Wong Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
E.P.N. Schreurs Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
R.M. van der Schans Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
F.J. Speksnijder Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Stephanie Wong
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Published Date

04-07-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

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.