reflection

The TU Delft campus offers a unique mixture of urban qualities within its context and so, designing a densification project for this area has been an inspiring and exciting challenge. “De Nieuwe Haven” district in particular, has been the most interesting spot for me from the beginning due to its nice views to the water and the feeling of a port area seems the most ideal place for attracting human activity. Developing an urban identity of a waterside living area is the number one task here. In my point of view, commercial activities can serve as an important activator of human behavior and is one of the main reasons for everyday routes for almost everyone. This whole individual project is about the coexistence of a different range of people that would reside in this area and would fulfill their everyday needs and those who would move across the campus throughout their day for educational/ professional reasons or for simply enjoying a waterside environment. To ensure that this living environment would be friendly and exciting to be in, but also in order to tackle the environmental threats that today’s cities are facing, we had to take into consideration various concepts of sustainability, and in the end to assess ourselves based on some specific criteria. This very last aspect of the course has been extremely difficult to fully comprehend and apply in this intensive six weeks course. I still have some critical thinking as to how one person can approach all these aspects all by themselves, while assessing their own project, but hopefully this will give me new ideas and reflections in my future attempts of providing humans with more suitable living environments.

Assessment on the individual project