EMU 2015-2017 works

TUDELFT EMU EUROPEAN POST-GRADUATE MASTERS OF URBANISM

YUN-SHIH CHEN

WORKS 2015-2017

2015 Autumn | group work with individual design proposals | regional strategic planning

METROPOOLING

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ZUIDVLEUGEL 2040

From a loose network of attractive places to a connected fractal Metropolitan Region

Urban Region Networks

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The Next Economy From the research and understanding of solidified and emerging trends, a broad definition was elaborated on what we consider the Next Economy to be and what are the challenges for The South Randstad to coup and prosper within this transitioning.

A set of theoretical references were examined in an attempt to foresee the character of the Next Economy.

Consequently, a long-term approach on how to best deal with these changes was proposed.

It is essential to highlight that we do not, by any means, suggest that the Next Economy is a blend of all these diverse theoretical frameworks. On the contrary, we

foresee the Next Economy as presenting or depending on specific characters identified within some of these theories. Other theoretical frameworks presented were crucial for the definition of values and goals we believe are essential in order to help direct the Next Economy in the South Randstad towards a social inclusiveness, fairness, opportunities and bottom-top initiatives.

THEORATICAL FRAMEWORK “(…)re-using, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products. What used to be regarded as ‘waste’ can be turned into a resource. The aim is to look beyond waste and to close the loop of the circular economy.”

Technology & Infrastructure

Circular Economy

“(…) infrastructures are largely responsible for the sense of stability of life in the developed world, the feeling that things work, and will go on working, without the need for thought or action on the part of users beyond paying the monthly bill.”

Source: Paul Edwards

Source: European Comission

“(…) one in which the generation and exploitation of knowledge has come to play the predominant part in the creation of wealth. It is not simply about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge; it is also about the most effective use and exploitation of all types of knowledge in all manner of economic activity”

Knowledge Economy

Governance

“Governance as a particular style of governing refers to sustaining co-ordination and coherence among a wide variety of actors with different purposes and objectives such as political actors and institutions, corporate interests, civil society, and transnational governments”

Source: Ian Brinkley quating the DTI Competitiveness White Paper 1998

Source: Yannis Papadopoulos quoting Pierre (2000)

“The Sharing Economy is the value in taking underutilized assets and making them accessible online to a community, leading to a reduced need for ownership of those assets.”

“Human development involves removing the barriers that hold people back in their freedom to act. It is about enabling the disadvantaged and excluded to (…) be heard and to become active agents in shaping their destiny.“

Sharing Economy

Urban Theories

Source: Alex Stephany “(...) [Jane] Jacobs stresses the importance of urban diversity. Her argument is that diversity foster crossfertilization of ideas.”

Source: Stuart S. Rosenthal refering Jacobs (1969)

Source: HDR 2014, United Nations

Economies of Urbanization

Resilience

“A (…) system is resilient when it can absorb temporary or permanent shocks and adapt to quickly changing conditions without compromising its stability.”

Source: World Economic Forum Nations

Resilient Long-term Approach The following statements clarify the understanding and framework of THE NEXT ECONOMY that will be addressed through this booklet and that has guided the overall vision for the Zuidvleugel region, as well as the metropolitan strategies and local interventions.

THE NEXT ECONOMY 1. Will be characterized by a knowledge and creativity based productiveness

2. In order to achieve global competitiveness,

sustainability and social cohesion, it requires a social-economic reconfiguration of the current linear making and consuming patterns towards efficient circular processes

4. Due to its need for local integration and its affinity with urban dynamics, spatial configurations will have a crucial role in fostering or halting its development

5. As an economic frame under formation, it can be

shape towards fairness, openness to participation and resilience

3. It will rely on technology driven networks that

enable local collaboration while still fostering entrepreneurial freedom

RESILIENT LONG-TERM APPROACH In order to prepare the South Randstad region for future changes of the Next Economy and in order to build not only a resilient region, but also a networked environment of opportunities, diversity and social fairness, we propose the following actions. We also propose a guiding equation in which the economic outputs of knowledge, creativity and production must be optimized and fostered, at the same time that input factors such as waste of resource, low connectivity and social exclusion must be minimized.

POOLING FORCES:

Understand the South Randstad Region as one single but fractal metropolitan area

ATTRACT & CONNECT:

Improve the use and systems within specific environments (Attract)

Research Know-How

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INCREASE

Enhance interaction between different environments (Connect)

STRATEGIC PROJECTS:

Minor interventions based on the local context as seeds for further development

REGIONAL RESILIENCE:

Global reach as an attractive Metropolitan Region

Knowledge

PRODUCTIVITY =

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Diversity Re-arrangement

Creativity

Transformation Creation

Productive Places

ECONOMIC OUTPUT INPUT FACTORS

Resources

Connectivity

People

Saving & Recycling Renewables

Accessibility Duration

Immigration Inclusion

REDUCE WASTE

ATTRACT & CONNECT: ENVIRONMENT SPECIFIC STRATEGIES

URBAN

Environments for human species (Attract) Enhance interaction (Connect) Inclusion of large part of population

(POST-)INDUSTRIAL UNBUILT

Upgrade productive places

Ecological services for next economy

Transform obsolete industrial sites

Diversified choice of landscape

Integrate in Metropolitan Region

Sustainable energy supply Attract & Connect

Environment specific strategies

Currently the region is characterized by a set of different and poorly interconnected environments and segregated systems (as shown in the figure on the right side), which hinders the overall economic development and potential of success as one integrated metropolitan region.

Therefore, the strategical approach contains two main components: -- Improve the spatial conditions within a specific area or environment based on the local context (Attract) -- Enhance the interactions between different areas or environments to increase their interaction and the resilience of the region as a whole (Connect) While each particular site is different and requires a tailor-made intervention, there are general strategies for each environment (as shown in the figure above).

The production and exchange of knowledge, the key driver of innovation, needs to become the backbone of the region and the central connecting element.

METHODOLOGY

Goals

Why?

SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM freedom of choice and action primary material for a quality life shared values social awareness and coehsion health security

Actions

NEXT ECONOMY (People)

How?

culture regulating provisioning supporting

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Problems/ Potensials

What?

INPUT: coastline/dunes canals/trenches/creeks/lakes port/waterfront forest/recreational parks pastures/farmland/green houses

OPEN SPACE/SCAPE

DRIVER OF CHANGES

SERVICES:

CURRENT GREEN-BLUE NETWORK

ECO-LINKING GREEN-BLUE NETWORK

STRATEGY By reviewing the current landscape condition in the south wing of Randstad, we will be amazed by the richness of diversity landscapes and overwhelming open spaces in the region. These landscapes in different scale has already been categorized carefully by serving diversified urban requirements - food production in Westland, manufacturing in Rotterdam port, recreational space as Den Haag coastline and Rotterdam urban parks etc. However, behind this zoning picture was a profound, artificial distinction between human and nature.

(IABR, 2014) For the new era of next economy, urban planners should take response to confronting environmental challenge and guarantee a sustainable development to the region. These problems can not be simply handled by refurnishing a few grass roofs with LEED-platinum buildings (Sijmons, 2009), but rather a systemic design of landscape.

RE-BRANDING GREEN-BLUE NODES

RE-BRANDING GREEN-BLUE NODES

To answer the challenge of the region, the systematic design of landscapes in South-wing of Randstad has three main strategies as eco-linking, re-branding and en-powering. With the help of technology tools as GIS and Space Syntax, we develope our design by research through regional, urban and local scales.

LAND-SCAPES STRATEGY

The strategy of Eco-linking is to connect and to enhance current blue- green networks as a structured system for slow mobility network, ecological corridor and renewable energy transformation.

ECO-LINKING

The three strategy is crossing scales of regional, local and the flows in between. In the design case of Green Corridor between Westland and the Hague. The kernel density analysis of leisure activities demonstrate the Hague - Westland as a cluster of leisure activities. Although the functions seems to be bonding the two municipality with each other, the accessibility between them is still weak. Secondly, the analysis appeals more leisure activities and qualified green spaces concentrated in the central Den Haag. The Westland is only touching the edge of this leisure cluster. To enhance the spatial quality and the interaction between Den Haag and Westland, we need to improve the

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[1] Unequal distribution of Qualified green spaces in The Hague [2] Leisure clusters and public transportation proximity in Den Haag-Westland area [3] Highly integrated streets in Local and Global integration Space Syntax Analysis [4] Eco-linking in intervention of Green Corridor between Westland and the Hague

Source: Author Illustration from GIS & Space Syntax Analysis

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LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES ECO-LINKING

Scapes in different scale along the Eco-link Source: Google Streetview; Photography by authors

Intervention Project ‘The Veins’ in Westland Source: Design by Fecianti

accessibility by increase the Green-Blue link between them as Green corridor. From the space syntax analysis, the streets for Green corridor intervention enjoys both high global integration and high local integration. This can been seen as potential to rebrand the streets into more vibrant axis.

ECO-LINKING LAYERS

Green Network Source: Design by Authors

Blue Network

Fast - Slow Bike Network

LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES

RE-BRANDING The re-branding is to identify the current back-yard landscape, such as infrastructure green space in Middendelftland and waterway in Westland into green nodes or lines for benefiting the surround area.

In the design of ‘The Crown’ in Mid-Delftland as an example, the re-branding of neglected green space contributes to activate the local awareness and identity of public green space for the area. Furthermore, it will help to develop a local waste management and re-cycle system for En-powering strategy.

Design of Intervention Project ‘The Crown’ in Midden-Delftland Source: Design by Author

E n - p o w e r i n g i s a s t r a t e g y b y p ro c e s s , s t a r t w i t h implementation of new energy research clusters into the port area. By replacing the nodes of energy production and sharing current infrastructure structure for transport energy and resource, a back-up system for current energy system will be set-up. While the fossil fuel gradually fading out from the port, the renewable energy plants will become the new generator for the energy system.

CHANGING NODES

EN-POWERING

ACTIVATING SYSTEM

Intervention Projects (Left) The ‘Generator’ in Rotterdam Port (Right) The ‘Magnet’ in Rotterdam Cityport Source: Design by Author

Current Electricity System Source: data from PBL report

Vision for De-centralized Energy System Source: Design by Author

INTERVENTION SITE 3:

DELFT - MIDDEN DELFLAND - HORIZONTAL AXIS by Danial Ferrer & Rebeca Rabello - CROWNING by Chen, Yun-shih

Horizontal Axis

Crowning

DELFT - MIDDEN DELFLAND

Delft Midden-Delfland

The Delft and Midden Delfland areas see passing through of infrastructures connecting cities, such as highway, railway, and canal. These fast network, however, results in barriers separating local clusters.

Schiedam Vlaardingen

Photos showing the barriers caused by the A13 highway.

Source: Yun-shih Chen

Analysis of the current north-south barriers in the Delft area.

Source: Rebeca / Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data.

Maasland

The goal of the Delft and Midden Delfland interventions is to mend the partition caused by infrastructure, street configuration, or the indifference of local industries of the area. The intention is to study the talents or potentials of different groups of people, local productions and communities, and identify opportunities to integrate activities so as to provide betterments in the Next Economy services.

Infrastructure, public transportation system, and feature clusters in the Delft - Midden Delfland area.

Source: Yun-shih Chen Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data.

Delft Historical Centre

TU Delft

Industrial Area

Polders & Pasture lands

Vlaardingen Historical Centre

Schiedam Historical Centre

DELFT - MIDDEN DELFLAND

Different groups of people in Delft-Midden Delfland area.

Source: TUDelft / Midden-Delfland.net / ‘s Heeren Loo / Yes!Delft

Through the study of different stakeholders’ interests, the infrastructure and transportation system, and the potential resources in the area, we found a lot of potential connections between diverse groups of people. For example, the students seeking part-time jobs can support when the farmers call for aids; researchers with new innovations, can also show their ideas to visitors. Moreover, many semipublic organizations, such as youth scouting association, care centres, student office, etc, with their dedication in social works or skill training, can be conceivable organizers for integrating various clusters.

Thus, we proposed the inclusion of local participation in the course of planning, making use of existing or new commercial centers, to increase livability and integrate people, pertaining to the essence of the Next Economy.

Diagram of the local inclusion mechanism.

Source: Yun-shih Chen

Intelligence-disabled Care Centre

CARE-CENTRE USERS: - sense of achievement/participation - learning-by-doing education - skills training (communication/interaction) - socialization

Stakeholders analysis and mapping of commercial and semi-public functions within the Delft - Midden Delfland area.

Source: EMU students Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data.

TOURISTS: - traditional/local-industry related activities - diversity of things to do

Student office Sports & Culture Centre

Yes! Delft

Delft art centre

STUDENT: - part-time jobs - cultural-life experiences - recreational/ leisure activity - socialization SCHOLARS/ RESEARCHERS: - knowledge implementation - innovation experimentation

FARMERS: - temporary helpers (farming aid) - more markets at home - equipment/facility improvement

YOUTH SCOUTS: - practice of social works - organizing skill/ leadership trainings

Christian Open School

Senior Care Centre

LOCAL RESIDENTS: - nearby green spaces for leisure - diversity of choices of recreational activities - social integration/ local participation

DELFT - MIDDEN DELFLAND Based on the concept, in physical connection, we propose a slow-speed network under the framework of the existed public transportation system to provide accessibility for events going, meeting up, knowledge exchange, and creative innovation. The main idea is to ensure delicate and throughscale connections at the appropriate location with opportune forms rather than link everything. In this way sufficient environmental protection to the productive landscape can be maintained. The network not only offer new opportunities for people to interact, but also include them in the process of production, innovation, and planning, inviting all users together to build their own living environment.

Within the slow-network system, two interventions were proposed as initiating projects for the plan. The Horizontal Axis project in Delft exhibits the reuse of industrial spaces and the upgrading of the industry. The Crowning project at the border of Midden Delfland, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam, on the other hand, portraits the scenario of integrating local production clusters and residential neighborhoods, turning the impact of constructing new infrastructure into benefit.

Horizontal Axis

Crowning

Proposal of the slow-speed network.

Source: EMU students Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data.

Aerial of Midden Delfland and the new-built A4 highway.

Source: Siebe Swart [accessed from: nrc.nl]

MIDDEN-DELFLAND Analyzing the scapes in the Midden-Delfland, the buffer-zone area between the Hague and Rotterdam, the productive landscape present the rich history of polder settlements and farming culture.

Being the oldest pasture land in the Netherlands, the municipality is also the first Dutch member of the Cittaslow organization, the international mark of accreditation for municipalities that provide the highest quality living environment, local produce, hospitality, natural environment, infrastructure, cultural history and identity preservation.

Midden-Delfland offers the grasslands for the important cattleraising production of the Dutch Agri-food sector. Moreover, it also provide an oasis of open space and tranquillity where local residents and visitors can enjoy various of green-blue nature and the overwhelming Dutch polder landscape. Many routes have been mapped out which will take cyclists, walkers and skaters through the vast open peat meadow landscape with its authentic villages. The brooks and canals also make the landscape appealing to those with an interest for water sports.

On the other hand, the area suffers the barriers drawn by the passing through of infrastructures, flooding risks, and the inconvenience of lacking accessibility. Discontinuity and tortuosity of the bike lanes, in the meanwhile, also provide a relatively low profile in terms of the experience of cycling through this buffer zone.

Recently, the highway A4 was opened in the early 2016. The installation of the new infrastructure, however, tend to separate completely the infrastructure and the landscape. Nevertheless, in the border of Midden-Delfland, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam municipalities, the tunneled design of the highway tend to bridge the barriers of local neighborhoods with the use of landscape.

Evaluating the design, there are more potentials which can be integrated with the new infrastructure.

Local recreational activity.

AGRI-FOOD

Local production-related markets or activity.

Feature clusters

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Analyses map of the Midden-Delfland, Vlaardingen, and Schiedam area. Mapping of resources and local clusters.

Source: Yun-shih Chen / Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data local-activity clusters > 750M walking distance from public transportation protected/controlled for grassland birds pasturelands grazing up to 2 livestocks per acre

Analyses map of the unreachability by public transportation, local activity clusters, and natural protected lands.

Source: Yun-shih Chen / Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data

MIDDEN-DELFLAND Source: Gemeente Midden-Delfland

Source: Koos van Beeck

Source: Gemeente Midden-Delfland

At the Midden-Delfland area, with the rich diversity of landscapes, the municipalities, several agricultural, cultural associations and farmers also acted vigorously together to boost local market, to extend their hospitality to visitors to enjoy and get informed with the great assets they have. On many Midden-delfland websites, we can see agendas full of farming-aid activities, farmhouse workshops, aqua-sports, or advertisement for farmhouse restaurants. The local communities work actively and closely.

Also, as previously mentioned, there are many semi-public facilities such as youth scouting, senior care centre, which now however worked in an isolated way, indifferent from their neighborhoods and landscape.

The map at the left page shows the clusters and patches of the local activities, production, resources, and potentials. Another map at the bottom-left portraits the areas unreachable by public transportation, and the protected lands for wildlife or environment.

Source: Midden-Delfland.net Photos showing the rich landscape resources and local production activity in the Midden-Delfland area.

Source: Midden-Delfland.net

Source: Midden-Delfland.net

Farmers seeking for more economic opportunities for the local production.

Source: Midden-Delfland Vereniging. [accessed from www.middendelflandvereniging.nl/] Source: Midden-Delfland.net

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Tree structure of the Nortnern Vlaardingen and Schiedam, and the Crowning intervention.

Source: Yun-shih Chen / Basemap source: Top10NL GIS data

The A4 highway Dak Park project.

Source: Rijkswaterstaat, Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, A4 Process report.

--Extension of tram lines/stops --Bike routes with special pavement --Motorways leading activity-providers to the Activity Parks.

Eco-linking

Re-branding

--Activity Park I: welcoming lounge, multifunction spaces for activity and events --Activity Park II: market places, bike rental/return points, truck renting/parking --Sports Park --Natural-scape Park

--Bio-energy Plant & Park --New neighborhood Em-powering

Natural-scap

Upper Entrance

New tram stop

Bike rental/return point

A4 Park city Kiosk/ bike store

Bio-energy Park Bio-energy Plant New neighborhood

Tram: extension Activity Park I

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Activity Park II Sports Park

Tram: new line

Tram: new stop

MIDDEN-DELFLAND: CROWNING “Local communities flourish when given the opportunity to recognize and share their special qualities, particularly when they discover they have a unique identity which is valued by others.�

- Yamazaki Ryo As a strategic intervention, the Crowning project is proposed to break the segregation caused by the tree-structure configuration of the neighborhoods.

The eco-linking, re-branding, and em-powering strategies are implemented in the design.

Sports Park

Parking

Bio-energy Plant

Tram: new line

Natural-scapes Park Tram: new line

Activity Park II

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Youth scouting

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Crowning intervention scenario perspective.

Source: Yun-shih Chen

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RETHINKING HAVANA C O N S T R U C T I N G S U S TA I N A B L E U R B A N L A N D S C A P E S

EMU SPRING 2017

by Yun-shih Chen

Sinuous Horizon 1

Occupation

A framework of informality and vitality Casablanca, situated at the northeastern side of Havana bay, the landscape exhibits powerful identity with the lime stone ridge falling into the bay, and settlements inhabiting on the steepest steepest part of the slope. The two projects in Casablanca intend to consolidate the role of the area being the metropolitan park for the city of Havana.

This project will approach from the neighborhood perspective to provide at higher scale a development scheme for the area, and then zoom in to the smaller scales with spatial interventions to upgrade the public spaces, integrated with green-blue and mobility networks. Both scales aim at achieving a sustainable framework that not only provide betterment to the living environment, but also preserve the area's vitality and spatial quality, further helping the place to build a stronger identity and in the meanwhile, a coherent connection to Havana metropolitan as a whole.

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At Casablanca, the ridge falls into the bay at where the green reaches water. The potential role of the area is to be the metropolitan park for the city of Havana.

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Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro 16th Century

Observatory tower 1900s

Castillo de San Carlos 18th Century Fisher village since 16th Century

Military barracks, warships since 1780s

Cabotage and carpenter Workshops since 1740s

1. Location of the project 2. Project in 3 layers of structure of regional scale 3. The landscape characteristic and the role of Casablanca for the city of Havana.

4. Painting showing the narrative quality of the landscape of Casablanca

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Spatial quality at larger scale

Spatial quality at smaller scale

Entering the area through the main transportation - the ferry boat station - from Havana Vieja, the viewing sequence displays the diverse landscapes with landmarks, and various building morphologies from fortifying castles and fisher villages with more than 400 years' history; small manufacturing factories began with ship careening business; military barracks and warships since the 18th Century, and the largerscale container facilities erected from the port industry began in early 20th Century.

Traversing through the neighborhoods of Casablanca, on the other hand, the use of space has an intimate interplay between landscape and settlements, displaying a vibrant atmosphere with unique logic in the space composition. In terms of function, the area possesses port-related tech-engineering knowledges and manufacturing clusters.

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Narrow ascending passages in between houses, with turnings along the landform to enter private spaces.

Container Industries since 1960s Marsh wetlands

Small platforms in between contour lines where the terrain provides condition for staying or other activities.

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Self-initiated constructions using local materials with the intention to promote hidden qualities of the place.

5. Spatial composition shown in figure-groupd maps of differnet scales, and the degree of vitality on streets 6. The interplay of use of space and the hilly landscape of Casablanca

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Spatial Issue 1. Disconnection between green and blue

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The spatial configuration in the neighborhood mostly consist of informal housings along the slopes, with long and linear blocks parallel to the contour lines. This linear blocks basically guide people to move horizontally.

Moreover, with the gated institutions on the ridge top and industrial areas along waterfront, the connection of different heights to allow vertical movement is few.

3. Deterioration of public spaces and physical facilities Many public spaces, especially at waterfront, are lack of maintenance and exhibit a declined condition. There are several vacant spaces in between houses, but usually occupied by ruins, abandoned objects, or vegetations (which are not able to walk through).

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2. Lack of natural and artificial water supply The map of natural and artificial water supply covered area shows Casablanca has no river or streams providing natural water supply. Nor has there aqueduct constructed for guiding water to the neighborhoods. Currently people uses pumps to get water from underground, or collect rain water with barrels on roof top.

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1. Photo showing the water front blocked by fences of the manufacturing factories. Source: author

4. Map of natural & artificial water supply. Source: EMU

2. Photo of military area at waterfront and is inaccessible to publics. Source: Magdalini Papadam

8-9. photos showing the deterioration of public space and physical facility.

3. The technology and engineering institutions on the ridge gate green spaces inside the fences. Source: Peter Bocsak

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5-7. photos showing the way people use water. Source: author

10. Morphological study. Source: author 11. Intervention concept diagram. Source: author

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Rainwater network Vertical inaccessibility

Enhance vertical connection

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Potential locations for public space intervention 4

3. Mappint of public owned green spaces public-owned green spaces

Potential of rainwater harvesting 4. Mappint of Vacant lands Direction of water flow Lower parts on the ridge / flatter parts on steep slopes

1-2. photos of vacant spaces. Source: author 3,5. photos of vitality observed Source: Magdalini Papadam 4. public-owned green spaces. Source: author

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Rules of public spaces Open spaces to be created (integrated with green-blue network and public spaces) Maintained existed open spaces Gov-owned green spaces Public buildings - preserved Non-residential functions Buildings to be taken out Neighborhood blocks

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Development framework

Space quality of design •

Institutional functions integrated with public accessible landscape design for rain-water network

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Semi-public functions serve as the attractor of people to come to the inserted green-blue corridors

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Soften the atmosphere of streetscape with water and vegetation, providing more shadows and better atmospheres

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Landmark

Industrial Area

Water Treatment Plant

Concerned buildings

Green Spaces

Neighborhood Blocks

Protected Wetland

Defined Public Spaces (integrated with green-blue network)

Military area

Water Distribution System

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Residential neighborhoods Military area Industrial areas

City Envelope City envelope for preserving and building stronger landscape identity: • •

control visual quality from important public spaces keep visibility of landmark & ridge from the bay and historical centre to ensure tourism potentials and the symbol of metropolitan park.

Phase 1

shorten street blocks

densifying by in-filling

maintain living spaces visual quality Phase 2

cleaning industrial land; reuse military buildings

Phase 3 5-6F 4-5F

hight limit for new neighborhood blocks

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Mobility system

Phase 1 declined railway suggested to be replaced by bus line existed bus line new bus line train (to be cancelled)

Phase 2 change bus into tram; keep the original main roads in industrial and military tramway

Aerial view landmark / preserved buildings kept and re-used buildings green areas concerned waterscape interventions protected wetland

Phase 3 downgrading several roads in the neighborhoods into pedestrian ways

Green-blue network

Phase 1 1st implementation of public spaces integrated with rain-water harvesting existed green spaces green spaces in institutional territories; improve public accessibility protected Wetland water distribution system defined public spaces

Phase 2 gradually build-up the whole rain-water structure within neighborhoods enlarge ecology park to clean out industrial pollutions Phase 3 raise public transportation and walkability of streets in neighborhoods

existed ferry new ferry lines

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2016 Autumn | group work | scenario exploration and design intervention

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