scholarly journals Immensity - An Exploration of Emphasis in Kapiti Quarry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Cook
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Design Experiments

<p>Quarries are powerful. They are full of energy. They are vast. However, what happens when they are exhausted? What happens when the excavations cease and they begin to decay? This thesis is an investigation into how Kapiti Quarry’s post-industrial landscape can be redeveloped. Quarries are often repurposed, remediated and redeveloped in three ways. They are filled with water to become a lake. They are built upon to create housing developments. They are filled up with sculpted vegetation to become a garden.  This thesis is an investigation into how Kapiti Quarry’s powerful landscape can be characterised, emphasised and designed. The thesis contains a series of design experiments that examine how the landscape scale interacts with the human scale, how small interventions can create moments of emphasis, how framing and viewports highlight the landscape, and how large interventions interact with their surroundings.  These experiments come together to develop the post-industrial quarry while emphasising the quarry’s key characteristic of immensity.</p>

scholarly journals Immensity - An Exploration of Emphasis in Kapiti Quarry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Cook
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Design Experiments

<p>Quarries are powerful. They are full of energy. They are vast. However, what happens when they are exhausted? What happens when the excavations cease and they begin to decay? This thesis is an investigation into how Kapiti Quarry’s post-industrial landscape can be redeveloped. Quarries are often repurposed, remediated and redeveloped in three ways. They are filled with water to become a lake. They are built upon to create housing developments. They are filled up with sculpted vegetation to become a garden.  This thesis is an investigation into how Kapiti Quarry’s powerful landscape can be characterised, emphasised and designed. The thesis contains a series of design experiments that examine how the landscape scale interacts with the human scale, how small interventions can create moments of emphasis, how framing and viewports highlight the landscape, and how large interventions interact with their surroundings.  These experiments come together to develop the post-industrial quarry while emphasising the quarry’s key characteristic of immensity.</p>

scholarly journals A Preliminary Study on Industrial Landscape Planning and Spatial Layout in Belgium

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1375-1387
Author(s):  
Jiazhen Zhang ◽  
Jeremy Cenci ◽  
Vincent Becue
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Landscape Planning ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Industrial Heritage ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Development Route ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Industrial Tourism

As the material carrier of industrial heritage, industrial landscape planning integrates industrial heritage, post-industrial, and industrial tourism landscapes. In this study, we define the concept of industrial landscape planning. As a subsystem of urban planning, we study industrial landscape planning by using the theories and methods of urban planning. As an example, we consider Belgium and identify the main categories of industrial landscape planning as industrial heritage landscape and industrial tourism landscape. We use an ArcGIS spatial analysis tool and kernel density calculations and reveal the characteristics of four clusters of industrial heritage spatial layout in Belgium, which match its located industrial development route. Each cluster has unique regional characteristics that were spontaneously formed according to existing social and natural resources. At the level of urban planning, there is a lack of unified re-creation. Urban planning is relatively separated from the protection of industrial heritage in Belgium.

scholarly journals New Housing Developments in the City Center of Guadalajara (Mexico): An Analysis from the Perspective of Collective and Sustainable Dwelling

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Alessandra Cireddu
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
City Center ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Housing Developments ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Horizontal Growth ◽  
Downtown Redevelopment ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

New vertical housing developments in Guadalajara (Mexico) are reaching the city center as a response for redensification after many years of expansion of the urban area characterized by a suburban, low density and fragmented pattern. This horizontal growth, dominated by use of the automobile as prevailing mode of transport, has proven to be unsustainable not only from an environmental point of view, but also from a social perspective where the “human scale” of the city has been affected, same as the daily life of its inhabitants. On the other hand, vertical housing proposals are by their very nature associated with concepts of redensification, compact city and collective living; the aim of this article is to analyze some new housing developments in Guadalajara downtown in order to evaluate to what extent the new buildings embody a more sustainable, livable and collective dwelling, to discuss findings, successes and failures and thus be able to contribute some conclusions and open a broader reflection about contemporary housing, urban density and downtown redevelopment in Latin America cities through collective and sustainable dwelling.

Book review: Post-Industrial Landscape Scars

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-434
Author(s):  
Richard Francaviglia
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Post Industrial

From post-industrial landscape to creative precincts: Emergent spaces in Chinese cities

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Limin Hee ◽  
Thomas Schroepfer ◽  
Su Nanxi ◽  
Li Ze
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Cities ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Post Industrial

scholarly journals (Re)discovering Toronto's waterfront: infrastructure and connectivity in a post-industrial landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geordie Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Processes ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Waterfront Redevelopment ◽  
Industrial Use ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Impact ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

The transition of waterfront land use from industrial to post-industrial is a global phenomenon. There are several forces that are driving this change, including the advancement of shipping technology and the relocation of industrial processes to areas with greater availability of land. In place of industrial uses, many cities have undertaken, or are in the process of undertaking the redevelopment of their waterfront. As a result of past industrial use, there often exists, a significant amount of transportation infrastructure that isolates the city from the waterfront. This paper establishes the context for waterfront redevelopment, before examining the impact of infrastructure urban forms by using the work of Kevin Lynch as a tool for analysis. Several case precedents are used to examine the course of action that other North American cities have pursued to mitigate the impact of infrastructure forms on the waterfront and how they may influence the way Toronto deals with its waterfront infrastructure.

scholarly journals Staging tourism: Performing place

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Boyd ◽  
Jan Smitheram
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Paradigmatic Shift ◽  
The Public ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Final Experiment ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Design Experiments

This project examines the relationship between architecture and the tourist experience. In architecture, an understanding of the active tourist body is underdeveloped as visuality is often positioned as the dominant mode of analysing tourism. This project mobilizes the tourist by recognising a paradigmatic shift from the”‘gaze” towards “performance”, which privileges the multisensuous experiences of the tourist engaged with architecture. The project investigates how architecture can stage and amplify the performances of tourists in order to produce place, en route. To test this enquiry, a “design through research” methodology is employed where the design proposition is developed through iterative design experiments. The design proposition is explored across three increasing scales, progressing the research through stages of development and refinement. The first experiment engages with the human scale through a 1:1 installation. The next experiment amplifies the practices of performing tourism through the design of a hotel. In the final experiment, the design of an artificial island stages the public performances of tourists.

Downstream Changes in Bed-sediment and Streamwater Metal Concentrations along a Watercourse in a Rehabilitated Post-industrial Landscape in South Wales

2007 ◽  
Vol 181 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 107-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. D. Walsh ◽  
W. H. Blake ◽  
H. R. Garbett-Davies ◽  
J. G. James ◽  
M. J. Barnsley
Keyword(s):  
Bed Sediment ◽  
Metal Concentrations ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Post Industrial

Mixed use and diversity as a New Urbanism principle guiding the renewal of post-industrial districts

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Maria Cysek-Pawlak
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Strategic Renewal ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Post Industrial

Abstract The revival of post-industrial areas, understood as a factor determining contemporary urban development, is a key process in regeneration. Such areas attract strategic renewal projects, because despite their perfect location next to city centres, they have long been inaccessible to city residents. The backbone of the projects is provided by programmes laying out the future functions of such areas and their target users. In the past, mono-functional districts were popular but their numerous weaknesses have meant that mixed use and diversity are increasingly being introduced into urban areas today. Mixed use and diversity underlie the urban design movement known as the New Urbanism. This article assesses the role of mixed-use and diversity as the New Urbanism principle guiding the renewal of post-industrial areas. It is based on desk research and a comparative analysis of two case studies: the Paris Rive Gauche (France) and the New Centre of Lodz (Poland). The article concludes that regeneration based on the New Urbanism principle of functional and user diversity leads to an effective renewal of run-down urban areas. The applicability of other New Urbanism principles stressing the need to ensure harmony between an urban design strategy and the human scale in the revival of urban neighbourhoods is also worth considering in the long term.

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