Turnhout studio Design Report

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Foundational Grid Water+Forest +Highway

FOUNDATIONAL GRID Water + Forest + Highway

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Payam Tabrizian

|H03N1a| Landscape Architecture ,final Assignmnet Supervised by Professor Kelly Shannon . Katholiek Universiteit Leuven ,Jan 2011

Abstract Our collective human interventions characterized by hypermobility and pervasive disturbance regimes, has endangered endemic or ‘native’ landscapes as well as urban environments. The assault of heavy infrastructures on ecological and social systems as a concern has invited the planners and designers to look at urbanism practices from a different perspective. Ecology as science has been integrated into design where it becomes the ‘infrastructure of future development’. Hydraulic systems become the underlying mesh; ‘adaptive’ and ‘performative’ forests act as flexible foundations for future development. Looking through the given scope, the project ‘Foundational Grid ‘ is trying to contribute into a fundamental rethinking of urbanism within the context of Turnhout/ Belgium. The aim of this paper is to cut across recent literature and precedents inorder to frame the project within the the contemporary landscape architecture debate. Keywords : Landscape architecture ,forest urbanism , ecological urbanism , highway design, Water urbanism

Architect’s brother by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison ,2010

|H03N1a| Landscape Architecture ,Supervised by Professor Kelly Shannon , Katholiek Universiteit Leuven ,Jan 2011


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