introduction to the UF graduation theme
growth
Birgit Hausleitner 5.9..2017
Isaura _ Thin Cities 1Italo Calvino (1972) Invisible Cities
Source image: Erich Raith (2000) Stadtmorphologie
Isaura, city of the thousand wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. On all sides, wherever the inhabitants dig long vertical holes in the ground, they succeed in drawing up water, as far as the city extends, and no further. Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping wave enclosed beneath the rock’s calcareous sky.
Growth
INTENSIFICATION & DENSIFICATION[Korean infill growth]
Source image: On the Korean Front Line. The FAR game. Constraints Sparking Creativity. Edt. Sung Hong KIM et al (2016)
EXTENSION [AUP Amsterdam]Source image: https://moudenampsen.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/aup2.jpg
Growth - different expressions - different spatial structures organising growth
Where is space to grow?
CONCENTRATIONSource image: https://thingsisayanddobytalise.files.wordpress.
com/2013/08/megacity.jpg
DISPERSIONSource image: http://images.derstandard.at/2014/08/22/zer-siedelung.jpg
Growth - different expressions
What territories are growing currently? and how?
SHENZHEN, CHINASource image: Google Earth 2016
VIENNA, AUSTRIA Source image: Google Earth 2016
Growth - different speed of growth:Consequences for society, economy and environment
1979332,900 inhabitants
201611,600,000 inhabitants
19841,494,874 inhabitants
20161,840,226 inhabitants
Growth - different degrees of formality - what has to be controlled?Different potential for people, different urban qualities
BOTTOM UP ORGANISED GROWTH_ BUENOS AIRES VILLA 31
Source image: https://umbilicusurbis.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/1522426924-0.jpg
NY MANHATTAN GRIDSource image: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/03/21/nyregion/jpgrid1/jpgrid1-jumbo.jpg
Drivers of Growth & Transformation
- increasing amount of population
- extreme growth of a specific activity (like tourism - dominance of a function)
- necessity to adaptat cities to mitigate climate change
- technological changes (example transport via water - streets - trams - airplane)
- process changes - increasing share of self-constuction
Qualitative aspect of growth
When urban environments grow, in what way can they be adapted in a resilient way?
the urban layout: frequency of change
user of a building
use of a building
building
design of the public space
structure of the urban layout
adapted from: Urhahn: Polsslag van de verandering / “Pulse of change”
Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form
the urban layout
establishes key boundaries for the city’s transformation
Heeling, Meyer, Westrik (2002): Het ontwerp van de stadsplattegrond
Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form
Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form
THE STREET SYSTEMSource image: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gPeCd2TtL4/VLcAz91wm-
bI/AAAAAAAABY8/q43b5AHia8c/s1600/haussmannparc3ads.jpeg
THE PARCELLATIONSource image: https://www.planviewer.nl/imro/files/NL.IMRO.0363.A1006BPSTD-OH01/i_NL.IMRO.0363.A1006BPSTD-OH01_0018.jpg
Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form - small scale adaptations with systemic effect
UP- AND DOWNSCALING OF USER UNITS: facilitating new activities Source image: DRO Amsterdam 2013
OPENING AND CLOSING STREETS:changing the border between public and privateSource image: DRO Amsterdam 2013
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Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form - larger scale interventions
RISKSource image: THE BIG U
INTEGRATION OF GREEN-BLUE - MULTI-FUNCTIONALITYSource image: THE BIG U
Qualitative aspect of growth: resilient urban form
Source image: https://www.planviewer.nl/imro/files/NL.IMRO.0363.A1006BPSTD-OH01/i_NL.IMRO.0363.A1006BPSTD-OH01_0018.jpg
How fit are our current urban layouts to be filled in by new activities, accommodate growth?
Does the future city need new kind of parcellation?
Will there be new types of spatial structures?
AMSTERDAM Source image: Google Earth 2017
KATTENBURG ISLAND_ Marine EtablissementSource image: Google Earth 2017
Workshop Growth _ Tuesday next week
What qualities do urban environments in the future need to have? How will growth be organised?
UF mentors - Who are we?
- Urbanists (urban designers & planners/stedebouwkundigen)- Working from different perspectives on the urban fabric.
UF agenda
Tuesday 12.9.2017 morning Workshop Urban Fabrics Themes
every Wednesday 15:00 Coaching
week 3-6 Thursday mornings Clinics on your process for UF students
at the beginning of Q2 GIS course
Please check: https://urbanfabrics.weblog.tudelft.nlfor regular updates