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]

Kevin Lynch Analysis

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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.

List of Actors

Client

We propose to have our own start up business. The TU Delft career centre helps create a business plan

Experts

Specialist will aid the design and construction process. We have identified 3 fields of specialization: - Urban and Landscaping specialist - Will assist in how to create a flourishing space

- Hardware - Construction and fabrication methods

- Software - Grasshopper + Rhino Support ; Arduino, Firefly : Online Forums

- Business Strategies - Career Centre

Experts
    - An expert on the possibillities to let elements move.
    - An expert on the materials, how do people relate and interact with different materials
    - Landscape/public space expert, when do people enter and use a public space
    - Gallery owner to look in to the needs of a gallery
    - Artist,to look in to the needs of a gallery
    - Software experts
    - Students what do they need to be atracted
    - Locals what do they need to be atracted
    - Science centre, what do they need to use the intervention
    - YES Delft, about starting a business and writing a plan
    - TOP Delft, about how to attract people and make money out of it
    - Delft design, about how to attract people and make money out of it

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