Urban Flow
Designing the link between city and dwelling
H.J. de Thouars (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
H.A.F. Mooij – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
R.S. Guis – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / A)
E. Karanastasi – Mentor (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
A. Romein – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Education and Student Affairs)
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Abstract
We need a new way of designing when it comes to large-scale residential buildings. A way that reflects a high-density urban environment; complex, dynamic, vibrant, and lively. We must design for urban flow.
Current densification efforts often produce closed-off structures, disconnecting inhabitants from the urban flow of the city they live in. Large glass plinths, empty barren public space, and entrances that are meant to facilitate many homes, but are hidden away, create a streetscape that is illegible for people and doesn’t function well on a human scale.
In large-scale urban housing, the link between the city and the home is the residential building itself. The building must function as a transition zone between public space and the private domain of the home, facilitating a continuation of space, scale and movement from city to dwelling and vice versa.