scholarly journals Field of Intimacy: Explorations of interiority within the landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michelle Hall
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Interesting Connection ◽  
Landscape Water ◽  
The Social ◽  
Engineered Systems ◽  
The City

<p>Interior Architecture cannot be bound by the confines of a building, it is not the catalyst of architectural intervention, in fact we can have interior experiences within the landscape. As a discipline Interior Architecture tends to be quite insular, struggling to connect to the exterior context of a design, whereas landscape architecture tends to be so involved with the context at the large scale, that the finer details and experiences of space can be lost. Generally, engineered systems tend to be internalized and designed without regard for the social. There is an interesting connection between landscape and interior architecture, with landscapes being able to generate their own sense of interiority. I have defined “existential intimacy” to describe the haptic bodily experience of a space through which one gains an understanding of something bigger than themselves (whether it be a system, process, or just being more aware and connected with their direct surroundings). This research explores what happens when notions of “existential intimacy” are applied within a landscape. Water is used as an important device for establishing existential intimacy enhancing the ability to engage with larger systems. By applying existential intimacy to the Wellington context of Mount Victoria and engaging with stormwater systems in the city, a field of intimacy is created connecting with water detention to allow more intensified experiential inhabitation of the green belt. Designing with a focus on existential intimacy, an expansiveness across scales is created, meaning that the design cannot lose context or detail, but is forced to engage with both, to create spaces which are both functional (in an engineered sense) and experiential.</p>

scholarly journals Field of Intimacy: Explorations of interiority within the landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michelle Hall
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Green Belt ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Interesting Connection ◽  
Landscape Water ◽  
The Social ◽  
Engineered Systems ◽  
The City

<p>Interior Architecture cannot be bound by the confines of a building, it is not the catalyst of architectural intervention, in fact we can have interior experiences within the landscape. As a discipline Interior Architecture tends to be quite insular, struggling to connect to the exterior context of a design, whereas landscape architecture tends to be so involved with the context at the large scale, that the finer details and experiences of space can be lost. Generally, engineered systems tend to be internalized and designed without regard for the social. There is an interesting connection between landscape and interior architecture, with landscapes being able to generate their own sense of interiority. I have defined “existential intimacy” to describe the haptic bodily experience of a space through which one gains an understanding of something bigger than themselves (whether it be a system, process, or just being more aware and connected with their direct surroundings). This research explores what happens when notions of “existential intimacy” are applied within a landscape. Water is used as an important device for establishing existential intimacy enhancing the ability to engage with larger systems. By applying existential intimacy to the Wellington context of Mount Victoria and engaging with stormwater systems in the city, a field of intimacy is created connecting with water detention to allow more intensified experiential inhabitation of the green belt. Designing with a focus on existential intimacy, an expansiveness across scales is created, meaning that the design cannot lose context or detail, but is forced to engage with both, to create spaces which are both functional (in an engineered sense) and experiential.</p>

What is Popular about the Khānqāh?

2015 ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Nathan Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City

After Saladin opened the Saʿīd al-Su ʿadāʾ Cairo was infused with many hundreds of juridical Sufis from the East. This immigration had a profound impact on the social and religious fabric of the city. Upon their arrival these individuals lived and worked in the very heart of urban Cairo, the bayn al-qa‚ rayn district. While the Sufis were obliged to spend portions of their day engaged in devotions within the walls of the khānqāh, they were not required to sequester themselves. They performed public rituals every evening, they paraded through the streets of Cairo every Friday, and they frequented the city’s many madrasas, mosques and teaching circles. Locals also came to the khānqāh to study with them on site. All these practices contributed to the popularisation of Sufism on a large scale in Cairo. But what exactly where these Sufis popularising?

scholarly journals The other interior: An ode to cigarettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen-Lize Pike
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The City

<p>Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be resigned to the confines of four walls within a singular piece of architecture. Interior architecture is a discipline that deals with the in-between. ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ are wrongly defined as opposing states. For the inside and outside are not as distinct as we have come to believe. They are not opposites. They are intertwined, collapsing into each other. You can never be completely outside; to be outside something means to be inside something else. At once outside a building, you are still inside the confines of the city. We see this interior condition everyday in the city. It is hard to escape the affiliation of alleyways with the profane. The city is wilder than we think. Alleyways hold onto the secrets of the other side of the city through their reliquary of remnants of the activities taken place. The copious number of drained cigarette butts flaunts the defiance of the smoker. Similar to the dark romance a smoker shares with his cigarette, they flirt with the allure of darkness and the hideously seductive risk of tiptoeing on the edge of regulated space. The alleyways become the illicit interior, a meeting place, market place and connection space for society’s sub-cultures, where the currency is cigarettes. This thesis explores the intensification of this unbuilt landscape. Alleyways are interstitial sites for experimentation of the threshold between public and private, light and shadow, presence and absence, sacred and secular, legal and illegal. Interstitial spaces are often over-looked and unappreciated. This research endeavours to reveal the inherent interiority and sacral conditions of these cast-aside sites. The interstitial endures the grotesque scars of the city in its beautiful ugliness of decay. These interstitial sites are allowed to just exist when everything else is arbitrarily swept clean each day. Becoming uninhibited canvases of they city.  The research focuses on five particular fractures within Wellington City’s infrastructure. These five sites form the initial vehicle for the design research and generation. The approach to the research follows an unconventional methodology, embracing experimental freethinking drawing and modelling explorations. The five sites all have a connection to Wellingtons prominent Cuba Street and lead to the concluding site for Design, the interstice between Town Hall and The Michael Fowler Centre, in Civic Square. The aim is not to sterilise the interstitial but to ensure its idiosyncrasies are retained. The outcome is a smoker’s room.  In the wider scope this research sets out to contribute to the potential of Interior Architecture through the engagement of the smoker. Implementing interior architecture on two different scales; macro and micro. The macro where the city is the envelope housing the new interior and the micro scale where the design is re-contextualised as a product in the form of an ashtray. Liberating interiors from the traditional constraints. Reclaiming interstitial space as the interiors of the city, inverting Interior Architecture from the contained, to the container. People- human encounters and activities, like the walls in architecture, have the ability to define interior space.</p>

scholarly journals Paradigmatic Rejuvenation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
William Conway
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Economic Vitality ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The City ◽  
Lincoln University

<p>In 2010 Neil Challenger, Head of the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, stated that the malls surrounding Christchurch drove the life out of the inner city of Christchurch. His economic and sociological concerns were expressed even before the earthquake occurred, and this forms the current hesitation on the rebuilding of Christchurch’s inner city.  The position of this research proposal is to establish whether an urban architectural intervention can address these economic and sociological concerns and the potentially devastating effects the suburban mall has had on urban life within Christchurch.  The thesis specifically asks whether establishing a mall typology as a landmark building within the inner city can strategically engage the damaged historic buildings of post-earthquake Christchurch in ways that actively preserve these historic remnants.  The main intention of this research is to engage the damaged historic buildings of post-earthquake Christchurch in ways that actively preserve these remnants and are also economically viable. By preserving the remnants as active, working elements of the urban fabric, they act as historic reminders or memorials of the event and associated loss, while also actively participating in the regrowth of the city. The thesis argues that contemporary architecture can play a strategic role in these imperatives.  Overall this research argues that there exists a distinct requirement for large-scale retail in the inner city urban environment that recognises and responds to the damaged cultural and historic architecture of inner city Christchurch. The objective of the thesis is to propose means to rejuvenate not only the economic vitality of central Christchurch,but also its historic character.</p>

Learning from Our Tampines Hub: Co-Generative Hubs for Urbanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-98
Author(s):  
Chee Huang Seah ◽  
Shawn Eng Kiong Teo
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
The City ◽  
Community Space

Within the past three years, the Singapore government has completed three integrated community hubs around the island. In tandem with the state's decentralization plan of 1991, such large-scale communal architecture plays a significant role in rejuvenating the heartlands and fostering a sense of place as towns mature. These nodal developments leverage on its urban context and programmatic offerings in a bid to generate a sustainable hub ecology for the city. Integrating various national and community stakeholders within a single development might seem like a literal trope for a whole-of-government approach to co-locate, co-share and collaborate. Through Our Tampines Hub, we examine the complexities of Singapore's first integrated hub. While validating the post-occupancy performance of the development, we also re flect and analyse specific design strategies and processes that aid in the social production of this mega community space. Through the theoretical underpinnings of largescale communal architecture as social condensers, this paper seeks to investigate the role and productive potential of this emerging shared urban model of integrated communal architecture in Singapore. It examines not only economic value in the land and space optimization harnessed, but also the new designs produced in the governance framework, closed-loop environmental outcomes and social impetus.

scholarly journals Natural Commercial Centers: Regeneration Opportunities and Urban Challenges

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 392-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Esposito de Vita ◽  
Stefania Ragozino
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Regeneration Process ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Market Areas ◽  
The City

In the history of European cities, public spaces always played a pivotal role, representing key places for developing social interactions and for enhancing the sense of community. Squares, commercial streets, market places as well as traditional retail and art-and-crafts areas can be considered the core of the city. The social, economic and demographic crisis and the loss of cultural identity has affected the capacity of attraction of local small retailers, giving the floor to the aggressive strategies of suburban shopping malls, centers, arcades or precinct, forming a complex of shops, movie theaters, restaurants and food courts with interconnecting walkways [. Typical expressions of a globalized economy, the different categories of suburban shopping mall have transformed behaviors and paths at a large scale [. One consequences can be identified in the loss of traditional commercial activities within the city centre, producing a situation of urban decline, mirrored by the impoverishment of public spaces [[. This paper suggests that, by activating the existing cultural and socio-economic capital it is possible to undertake a successful regeneration process based on a participative approach and on public and private integrated tools. By focussing on the experience of the Centri Commerciali Naturali (Natural Commercial Centres) established in Italy as partnership between Municipalities, cultural operators, public services providers and associations of shops owners to exploit the commercial activities in the historical centers the ongoing research is oriented to explore successful experiences of private-public partnership to be implemented in a regeneration process of areas traditionally dedicated to retail and art-and-craft small enterprises. The paper discusses the potentiality and the criticism of the NCC as engine for the redevelopment and regeneration of the inner city abandoned retail areas. In so doing, the experience developed in Campania (Southern Italy) will be analyzed in order to show how the activation of the social capital within the framework of the CCN could contribute in renovating the traditional commercial identity of the area, supporting the public spaces regeneration process. This paper aspires to offer useful insights to all those policy makers, city managers and planners who seek to revitalise traditional market areas in European city centres.

scholarly journals Development of Infrastructure and Changes in the Social Space of Kharkiv at the Turn of the 19th – 20th Centuries

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Philanthropic Organizations ◽  
Symbolic Coding ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The article explored the impact of urban infrastructure on the social space of Kharkov in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Kharkiv municipality began to implement large-scale infrastructure projects that contributed to solving urgent sanitary-epidemiological and social problems from the 1870s. The first significant technological component of the infrastructure was water supply. Telephone communications, electric lighting, sewage, horse and electric trams started to function in Kharkiv at that time. Networks of medical, educational and cultural institutions were widely developed. The publication clarified the role of certain actors in the creation and maintenance of infrastructure elements. In particular, thanks to Kharkiv municipality declared the basics of collective safety, occupational health, social ecology and formed communicative relations of infrastructure institutions with consumers. Attention is also focused on the role of Kharkiv philanthropic organizations and expert groups, which contributed to the awareness of citizens of such an ethical principle as social responsibility. In the article considered changes in the material substrate of the social space of Kharkiv. It is noted that although the center of the city was the zone of “prestige”, however, the localization of the components of the city infrastructure gradually expanded, which became one of the important features of the modernization of the social space of the city. Networks of hospitals and educational institutions covered remote Kharkiv areas. Public transport and stationary trading establishments become part of the everyday practices of residents of the city's environs. It is concluded that the development of infrastructure not only changed the physical appearance of the city, but also transformed social practices and the symbolic coding of social space.

scholarly journals Utilization of tangible heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Mariya Sergeevna Kozhevnikova
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Sport Facilities ◽  
The City

The holding of such large-scale world events as the Olympic Games, Universiades, and championships require major capital investments in the development of infrastructure of the host city, which in the future becomes the so-called heritage. The article analyzes the experience of utilization of heritage after holding major sports events in other countries and Russian cities, examines the planned and actual use of the heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade held in Krasnoyarsk in March 2019 with regards to sports facilities built, reconstructed or renovated for the World Student Games afterwards.&nbsp; The novelty of this research consists in the analysis of utilization of the heritage of the XXIX World Winter Universiade held in Krasnoyarsk in March 2019 almost two years after the competition. The conclusion is made that the sport facilities built for the World Student Games are actively used by the city residents for public skating or skiing, professional sports, as well as commercial events, such as concerts, exhibitions, etc. The developed sports infrastructure created for the World Student Games allows Krasnoyarsk hosting all-Russian and world athletic events. The XXIX World Winter Universiade had a positive impact upon the social and economic development of Krasnoyarsk.

scholarly journals Paradigmatic Rejuvenation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
William Conway
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Economic Vitality ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The City ◽  
Lincoln University

<p>In 2010 Neil Challenger, Head of the School of Landscape Architecture at Lincoln University, stated that the malls surrounding Christchurch drove the life out of the inner city of Christchurch. His economic and sociological concerns were expressed even before the earthquake occurred, and this forms the current hesitation on the rebuilding of Christchurch’s inner city.  The position of this research proposal is to establish whether an urban architectural intervention can address these economic and sociological concerns and the potentially devastating effects the suburban mall has had on urban life within Christchurch.  The thesis specifically asks whether establishing a mall typology as a landmark building within the inner city can strategically engage the damaged historic buildings of post-earthquake Christchurch in ways that actively preserve these historic remnants.  The main intention of this research is to engage the damaged historic buildings of post-earthquake Christchurch in ways that actively preserve these remnants and are also economically viable. By preserving the remnants as active, working elements of the urban fabric, they act as historic reminders or memorials of the event and associated loss, while also actively participating in the regrowth of the city. The thesis argues that contemporary architecture can play a strategic role in these imperatives.  Overall this research argues that there exists a distinct requirement for large-scale retail in the inner city urban environment that recognises and responds to the damaged cultural and historic architecture of inner city Christchurch. The objective of the thesis is to propose means to rejuvenate not only the economic vitality of central Christchurch,but also its historic character.</p>

scholarly journals The other interior: An ode to cigarettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen-Lize Pike
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The City

<p>Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be resigned to the confines of four walls within a singular piece of architecture. Interior architecture is a discipline that deals with the in-between. ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ are wrongly defined as opposing states. For the inside and outside are not as distinct as we have come to believe. They are not opposites. They are intertwined, collapsing into each other. You can never be completely outside; to be outside something means to be inside something else. At once outside a building, you are still inside the confines of the city. We see this interior condition everyday in the city. It is hard to escape the affiliation of alleyways with the profane. The city is wilder than we think. Alleyways hold onto the secrets of the other side of the city through their reliquary of remnants of the activities taken place. The copious number of drained cigarette butts flaunts the defiance of the smoker. Similar to the dark romance a smoker shares with his cigarette, they flirt with the allure of darkness and the hideously seductive risk of tiptoeing on the edge of regulated space. The alleyways become the illicit interior, a meeting place, market place and connection space for society’s sub-cultures, where the currency is cigarettes. This thesis explores the intensification of this unbuilt landscape. Alleyways are interstitial sites for experimentation of the threshold between public and private, light and shadow, presence and absence, sacred and secular, legal and illegal. Interstitial spaces are often over-looked and unappreciated. This research endeavours to reveal the inherent interiority and sacral conditions of these cast-aside sites. The interstitial endures the grotesque scars of the city in its beautiful ugliness of decay. These interstitial sites are allowed to just exist when everything else is arbitrarily swept clean each day. Becoming uninhibited canvases of they city.  The research focuses on five particular fractures within Wellington City’s infrastructure. These five sites form the initial vehicle for the design research and generation. The approach to the research follows an unconventional methodology, embracing experimental freethinking drawing and modelling explorations. The five sites all have a connection to Wellingtons prominent Cuba Street and lead to the concluding site for Design, the interstice between Town Hall and The Michael Fowler Centre, in Civic Square. The aim is not to sterilise the interstitial but to ensure its idiosyncrasies are retained. The outcome is a smoker’s room.  In the wider scope this research sets out to contribute to the potential of Interior Architecture through the engagement of the smoker. Implementing interior architecture on two different scales; macro and micro. The macro where the city is the envelope housing the new interior and the micro scale where the design is re-contextualised as a product in the form of an ashtray. Liberating interiors from the traditional constraints. Reclaiming interstitial space as the interiors of the city, inverting Interior Architecture from the contained, to the container. People- human encounters and activities, like the walls in architecture, have the ability to define interior space.</p>

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