(Out of the) Ordinary: towards an intimate portrait of the city
S.C. Latour (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
LGAJ Reinders – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
A.B.J. van Deudekom – Mentor (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
H. Zijlstra – Coach (TU Delft - Heritage & Design)
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Abstract
The project “(Out of the) Ordinary: towards an intimate portrait of the city” investigates how we can build housing, to accommodate ordinary life, within an industrial site. It gleans and introduces domestic qualities into a large cellulose storage facility in an attempt to reintroduce the industrial site to Maastricht and provide the city with new heritage. The project tackles and questions different dialogues between: old and new, suburbs and industry, material and immaterial, public and private and facades and actors. The design proposal develops a new, more intimate community fostering strong social networks and face-to-face contact. The architecture encourages ordinary life to take place, stimulating: discovery, encounter, appropriation and daily rituals. The thesis becomes a case study for the regeneration of (inter)national industrial sites and is a proposal to the pressing housing shortage.