EMU TU Delft Spring semester 2012 APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1. 11. 2011 email to: M.L.deMorree@tudelft.nl
The semester will address the necessity of urban and landscape architectonic design of a new balance between urbanized area and landscape, and will consider the development of landscape-structures in the city as well as of urban settlements in the landscape. The studio challenges the students to develop a new regional perspective for the project area, addressing the issues of de-industrialization, the need of new spatial and economic perspectives for the area, the new potential possibilities of the riverfront and docklands, the perspectives of new landscapes (agriculture and urban) the possibilities of urban agriculture and the necessity of a new organization of watersystems and flood-defense systems.
CONSTRUCTING THE SUSTAINABLE DELTA CITY
Prof. Han Meyer, ir. Inge Bobbink, ir. Willem Hermans The studio will challenge the students to develop and elaborate new urban typologies, addressing the issues of de-industrialization, the need of new spatial and economic perspectives for the area, the new potential possibilities of the riverfront and docklands, the possibilities of urban agriculture and the necessity of a new organization of water-systems and flood-defence systems. The students will have to elaborate key-projects in the urbanized area of Rotterdam as well as in the rural polder-landscape.
THE SUSTAINABLE CITY - THEORIES OF URBAN DESIGN
Constructing the Sustainable Delta City
Dr. Machiel van Dorst, drs. Fransje Hooimeijer The theory-course will focus on questions concerning changing relations between urbanization and landscape and will relate theoretical issues like sustainability, complexity, centrality and self-organization with spatial issues like urban sprawl, landscape-urbanism and urban agriculture.
URBAN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
dr. Meta Berghauser-Pont, Dr. Frans van de Ven This course will address basic principles and new approaches of hydraulic engineering, as well as to question of quality and quantity of urban patterns, elaborated with the space-matrix system. The course will pay attention to the role of guidance and urban rules designed to influence, to safeguard, even to ward off their own destinies.
RESEARCH AND DESIGN
Ir. Steffen Nijhuis This course deals with methods of analysis, design and research-by-design, with a special focus on the ‘layer-approach- and the use of this approach as research and design method. Source picture: www.wilhelminapier.nl