Exploring Urban Cultures
Semester 1, Ghent, Nederlands / English
Master of Architecture engagement Urban Cultures
Campus Sint Lucas Ghent
Academic year 2024 2025
Tutor: Tomas Liekens
Image: TypicalPlan
context / site:
- E17 – railroad 50A – Corneel Heymanslaan – Noendries
- Q8 – Aldi – Vosmeers – Desco …
- Campus Heymans Faculteit Farmaceutische Wetenschappen
- UZ Gent
challenges:
- isolated programs
- privat worlds
- programmatic no man’s land
- dead-end city
- scale discrepancies
- indetermined in-between space
- drive through space
focus:
- connecting the city
- charging the ground level
- developing an all-sided urban fabric
- creating recognizability
- from (below) ground level to (beyond) the roof
- participative design by:
- a spatial structure, discover, analyze, cataloging,
how:
- in its proportions
with distance and spacing,
on a grid or just off grid
recognizable or sterile,in (material)element or (building)piece,
- and working on/with this spaciousness
-infilling – breaking in – pluging in
-charging – unlocking – programming,
-duplicate – deepen – multiply,
-mirror – stack – stop,
purpose:
- to explore the space, the place
– the scale
– the void / the full / the in-between
– the context: below it, above it, away from it, - this research, what is researched,
diversify programmatically,
– develop (horizontally / vertically / 3-dimensionally / diagonally)
– individual or collective
– lighting / ventilating / heating
the studio
an exercise in density, or just not.
an exercise in making space
and taking space.
timing:
references:
- Sol LeWitt, Irregular Towers
- Chapter 3, HOW TO NOT DEMOLISH A BUILDING, ZIN 51N4E & l’AUC. Ruby Press. 2022
- After Sprawl, onderzoek naar de hedendaagse XDGA. NAi&deSingel. 2002, projecten, p173
- Rem Koolhaas. Taschen. 2004, patent office, p73
- Foundations of Urban Marcel Smets. Actar / Public Space
- Undoing Buildings, adaptive reuse and cultural Sally Stone. Routledge. 2020
- Transformation de la Tour Bois le Prêtre, Lacaton & Vassal, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui N°424, “Anne Lacaton : Nous cherchons toujours à dilater l’espace”, 2018,
- Orban Luc Deleu – T.O.P.office. Valiz Amsterdam.
