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Site Qualities
De Vries van Heyplantsoen, is a park infront of of BK-City – Delft. Urban Planner, Kevin Lynch’s emprical research on how individuals perceive and navigate through a site has led to research done using GPRS tracking devices for site analysis.
Additional Information on Site Qualities
Additional Information on Kevin Lynch theories [1]; [2]
Input > Output Actors <
Distinguished from the traditional designing methodology in which architects will dominate every part of the design process by applying the up-down styling intervention and previous experiences, we try to apply a bottom-up design method to build up a connection between the building and the actors in which the persistent information input and output will be available. Methodology See List of Input - Output Actors
Client
We propose to have our own start up business.
Additional Information on actors
Experts
In order to have some solid grounds to foundate this project we need to research different aspects of the park. Instead of doing all this research we need to find expert on the different topics. Some of the topics we may look in to:
- Landscape, what makes a good park. When do people use it?
- Ergonomics, what are the demands of people for different functions?
- installations, what technique's are required to make it work?
- Materials, how do people relate to different materials? Which materials are fit for which use?
- Public space, how to create a flourishing space? What required?
- ....
Readings
Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language
Tchumi vs. OMA
http://architecturalassociation.ie/pdf/BM_13.pdf#page=53
Urban Landscapes
http://www.rali.boku.ac.at/fileadmin/_/H85/H852/X_LArch_3_2009_090531_xlarch_all.pdf#page=132
