Kintsugi

Revitalizing the expressway zone of Tokyo

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

E.K. Redekop-van der Meulen Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

D. Piccinini (supervisor 1)
T. Kuzniecow Bacchin (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2017 Élan Redekop-van der Meulen
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Published Date

31-10-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Though often successful in geopolitical and economical terms, the tendency to engineer infrastructures for ‘single purpose’ often resulted in disrupted landscapes and erasure of cultural and natural values (Strang 1996). Besides this, Tokyo deals with a wide range of problematiques, from the threat of earthquakes destroying its expressways and flood protection to lack of public green spaces or the current energy crises. Therefore, this master thesis aims to integrate infrastructures into the landscape. The networks chosen, namely Transport, Hydrology, Public space and Energy, address the problematiques found in Tokyo. The integration is done in two steps. First, the integration of networks among themselves and second the integration of these networks into the landscape, through the modification of the topography.