atom07:Research
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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.
Client
Who can benefit from the site? This led to the quest for a potential client. After a brief research project, we found none (of the questioned) actors were interested in expanding to the site or using the site currently for their own benefits. As the interviews show they are however interested in a occasional use of the site. For this reason we did not define a specific client.
Interviews:
- Top Board technical meeting point delft
- Alumni office interview @TUDelft
- Questionaire with science centre and stylos (done by atom 1).
Initiator
The intervention will be initiated, owned and maintained by a new compagny. This compagny will rent the space. Some of the possible scenario's:
- Artist rent the space to exhibit their own works.
- Bouwpub uses the location to have a special or bigger event.
- TUDelft organises lectures during summer nights or lunhcbreaks.
- Science centre will use the site to give a sneak preview of the inside (just like botanical garden)
- students rent the space to play soccer
- students rent the space to bbq
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
