scholarly journals Catalyzing the In-Between : Mediating Architecture, Landscape and Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Domain Architecture ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Specific Site ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Motion Time ◽  
Residual Space

Dominated by motion, time, and event, the contemporary American metropolis has evolved into a loose agglomerated field, where residual space rules over built form (Lerup,2000). Theorized as Dross by Lars Lerup, these interstitial residual territories disrupt connectivity and urban cohesion (Lerup, 2000). They emerge as the by product of infrastructure where processes accommodating flows are more valued than physical place-generating public domain. Architecture has become increasingly marginalized and is no longer the building block as traditionally understood in Aldo Rossi’s terms (Rossi, 1984). By redesigning a specific site within the degraded downtown core of Houston Texas, this thesis contends that Architecture can seek new opportunities for urban cohesion when intersected with Landscape Urbanism and urban infrastructure. This synthesis has the potential to generate a public realm through strategies that can catalyze novel relationships and connections between territories that are separated by infrastructural systems. By mediating between architecture, landscape and infrastructure, the subsequent site will be restored and become a catalyst for further socioeconomic developments.

scholarly journals Catalyzing the In-Between : Mediating Architecture, Landscape and Infrastructure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Hyder
Keyword(s):  
Building Block ◽  
Domain Architecture ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Specific Site ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Motion Time ◽  
Residual Space

Dominated by motion, time, and event, the contemporary American metropolis has evolved into a loose agglomerated field, where residual space rules over built form (Lerup,2000). Theorized as Dross by Lars Lerup, these interstitial residual territories disrupt connectivity and urban cohesion (Lerup, 2000). They emerge as the by product of infrastructure where processes accommodating flows are more valued than physical place-generating public domain. Architecture has become increasingly marginalized and is no longer the building block as traditionally understood in Aldo Rossi’s terms (Rossi, 1984). By redesigning a specific site within the degraded downtown core of Houston Texas, this thesis contends that Architecture can seek new opportunities for urban cohesion when intersected with Landscape Urbanism and urban infrastructure. This synthesis has the potential to generate a public realm through strategies that can catalyze novel relationships and connections between territories that are separated by infrastructural systems. By mediating between architecture, landscape and infrastructure, the subsequent site will be restored and become a catalyst for further socioeconomic developments.

scholarly journals Interstitial place

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Melnichuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
North America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Adjacent Buildings ◽  
Landscape Urbanism

The fabric of many post WW2 campuses in North America, can be described as a collection of independent buildings rather than as infrastructure that shapes and connects a network of public spaces with character, sense of place and social amenity. The same can be said for our late modernist cities. A re-examination and design of these interstitial leftover spaces can provide much needed public domain for students and faculty while also improving the ambiance and connectivity of adjacent buildings. Through analyzing and intervening within an existing underutilized circulation plaza within Ryerson’s urban Toronto campus, this thesis project asserts the importance of public space by creating new connections and relationships between building, landscape, and people using strategies of landscape urbanism and infrastructural urbanism. The synthesis of architecture, infrastructure and landscape has the potential to create public realm by intensifying and uniting new and existing flows within existing urban and social networks.

scholarly journals Interstitial place

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Melnichuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
North America ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Adjacent Buildings ◽  
Landscape Urbanism

The fabric of many post WW2 campuses in North America, can be described as a collection of independent buildings rather than as infrastructure that shapes and connects a network of public spaces with character, sense of place and social amenity. The same can be said for our late modernist cities. A re-examination and design of these interstitial leftover spaces can provide much needed public domain for students and faculty while also improving the ambiance and connectivity of adjacent buildings. Through analyzing and intervening within an existing underutilized circulation plaza within Ryerson’s urban Toronto campus, this thesis project asserts the importance of public space by creating new connections and relationships between building, landscape, and people using strategies of landscape urbanism and infrastructural urbanism. The synthesis of architecture, infrastructure and landscape has the potential to create public realm by intensifying and uniting new and existing flows within existing urban and social networks.

scholarly journals Regenerating dross : a campus for sustainable energy systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Cogliati
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Waste ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Industrial Site ◽  
Urban Waste ◽  
Landscape Urbanism ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Sustainable Energy Systems ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Ecological Remediation

The following thesis began as an investigation into post-industrial urban waste and the ecological remediation potential that such landscapes embody. It looks at the forces behind waste landscapes or drosscapes and examines the theories associated with the ever-growing amount of waste landscapes throughout our cities. This thesis is largely centered on using Landscape Urbanism as a means of regenerating post-industrial waste sites. The Landscape Urbanists have proposed the use of landscape, rather than architecture, to transform urban waste and reconnect it back to the urban fabric. Where does architecture exist within this context? How can architecture act as a catalyst throughout this transformation? This thesis will examine how architecture and landscape can operate in unison throughout post-industrial site remediation and it will explore how built form can become an integral part of a continuous landscape.

scholarly journals Patterns of Consolidation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Oliver Syme
Keyword(s):  
Housing Development ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Built Form ◽  
The City

<p>This thesis uses design based research to meet the challenge of urban densification. It proposes an approach for higher density housing development that enhances livability, achieves compactness and responds to a city’s unique landscape. To accommodate an increasing amount of people within the city, strategies and experimentation into the density of built form contributing to the urban fabric must be explored. The design based research addresses how improvements can be made upon an existing site through the reconfiguration of built form with an analysis into density, topography, existing natural ecologies and the key components fundamental to a successful urban and public realm.</p>

The in-between: the architecture of surface

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorna Ghorashi
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Vertical Plane ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Spaces ◽  
American Cities

Many North American cities are experiencing an intensive re-urbanization of their central cores. In Toronto, this phenomenon is at an extreme: rampant private development, and weak public authority, is shaping many communities. The mediocre civic spaces and infrastructure to support this burgeoning pedestrian, live-work population has predictably been addressed through the incremental integration of public spaces into individual architectural projects. This ad hoc strategy does not offer the breadth or consistency of language to create a clearly identifiable or contiguous public realm. If we cannot depend on architecture’s vertical plane to define public spaces, we need to reaffirm the domain over which the public has control — the horizontal — streets, sidewalks, and the existing but residual public spaces in-between. This thesis posits that within the existing public spaces of the city’s core we can expand the quality, continuity and accessibility of the public domain by the way we manipulate its surface

scholarly journals The in-between: the architecture of surface

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorna Ghorashi
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Vertical Plane ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Public Authority ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Spaces ◽  
American Cities

Many North American cities are experiencing an intensive re-urbanization of their central cores. In Toronto, this phenomenon is at an extreme: rampant private development, and weak public authority, is shaping many communities. The mediocre civic spaces and infrastructure to support this burgeoning pedestrian, live-work population has predictably been addressed through the incremental integration of public spaces into individual architectural projects. This ad hoc strategy does not offer the breadth or consistency of language to create a clearly identifiable or contiguous public realm. If we cannot depend on architecture’s vertical plane to define public spaces, we need to reaffirm the domain over which the public has control — the horizontal — streets, sidewalks, and the existing but residual public spaces in-between. This thesis posits that within the existing public spaces of the city’s core we can expand the quality, continuity and accessibility of the public domain by the way we manipulate its surface

scholarly journals Negotiating Space and Visibility: Forms of Informality in Public Space

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hesam Kamalipour ◽  
Nastaran Peimani
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Street Trading ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Poor Understanding ◽  
Formal Relations ◽  
Modes Of Governance

Street trading has become integral to how public space works in cities of the global South. It cannot be considered as marginal since it gears to the urban economy and works as a key mode of income generation for the urban poor to sustain livelihoods. A poor understanding of how forms of street trading work in public space can lead to poor design and policy interventions. While many practices of formalization aim at the elimination of informality, the challenge is to explore the complex informal/formal relations and the dynamics of street trading to understand how forms of informality negotiate space and visibility in the public realm. In this paper, we propose a typology of street trading, based on the criteria of mobility within public space and proximity to public/private urban interfaces. While exploring the degrees of mobility in informal street trading can be crucial to the modes of governance and adaptability involved, of critical importance is to investigate how street trading takes place in relation to the built form—particularly the edges of public space where public/private interfaces enable or constrain exchange and appropriation. The developed typology provides a better understanding of the dynamics of street trading and contributes to the ways in which the built environment professions can most effectively engage with interventions in public space without eradicating the scope for informal adaptations.

scholarly journals Planning the (dis)connected city

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (138) ◽  
pp. 363-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Grant
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Transportation Modes

Abstract A strong consensus around values of mixed use, connected streets, and alternative transportation modes drives urban planning theory in most Western nations today. Smart growth and sustainable development models promote diversity, affordability, and connectedness in a vibrant public realm. At the same time, though, we note that gated developments are on the increase. How can we account for the proliferation of homogeneous, isolated, and car-oriented enclaves when those who regulate land use advocate quite different options? This article identifies the principles that planners agree on and uses a case study of Canadian planning practice to illustrate why gated projects get approved regardless of planners’ preferences. In an environment where affluent consumers prefer homogeneity and exclusivity, and where local government is looking for cost-effective options when investing in new urban infrastructure, decision makers may feel compelled to accept gated enclaves as a viable development option.

scholarly journals Keele Street Avenue Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Country Road ◽  
The Right ◽  
Form Development

From its humble origins as a rural country road to its present form as a suburban arterial, the Keele Street Corridor - stretching from Wilson Avenue to Grandravine Drive - has long served the transportation and day-to-day needs of North York and Toronto residents. The following study presents the corridor as it was, as it is, and as it could be. Through a series of recommendations, this report intends to offer a vision of the corridor as an urbanized, livable, and beautiful corridor in keeping with the Official Plan’s Avenues policies and based on the following principles: Locating new and denser housing types that encourage a mix of use, make efficient use of lands, frame the right-of-way, are appropriately massed and attractively designed. Supporting the creation of complete communities that provide a mix of unit types and offers a range of affordability. Creating high-quality and well-planned public spaces that retain existing residents, attract new residents, encourage interaction and animation, and provide the infrastructure required by all. Prioritizing opportunities for greening within the right-of-way, including planting new trees, creating new parks with frontage along Keele Street, planters, and green buildings. Reconfiguring and civilizing Keele Street into a complete street that serves as a living space for its residents, assigns priority to safety, and encourages active transportation and transit. The report is divided into two parts: The first part - BACKGROUND - contains a description of the corridor’s boundaries, its evolution from an agrarian community, presents the current built environment, and reviews the existing policy layers affecting the Corridor. The second part - PLAN - contains recommendations related to the future development and revitalization of the corridor related to future land uses, built form, development, public realm, parks and open space, and transportation network. Key words: Avenue, urban design, urbanization, suburbs, mid-rise building, corridor.

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