Category: Urban Design

Urban design, public space, thesis, transit hub, urban transformation
Architecture

Urban Design and Development of a Public Space

This thesis uses a case study approach at the proposed Transit Hub for the City of Kitchener to focus on opportunities for a high quality public space/square to better integrate a new LRT line and a new GO/VIA rail station into the surrounding city. The conceptual framework of this thesis

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Landscape urbanism, ecology, landscape, urbanization, slums
Landscape

(Slum)scapes of adaptation Weak Grounds, Risk Ecologies, Community Initiatives | Harvard GSD

Rapid population growth, rural-urban migration, and the occupation of vulnerable territories are powerful characteristics for the increase of informal settlements. Largely, informal settlements have been defined by socio-economic standards, poverty, and lack of infrastructure. However, there is little research to comprehend the ecosystems, grounds, and implications of settling those environments.

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Urban design, conservation, adaptive reuse, heritage, urban intervention
Urban Design Thesis

In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion | Mehrauli, Delhi

I intend to study the impacts of the architectural conservation of the Qutub Minar Complex on the urban village of Mehrauli, New Delhi, because the manner in which national- and international-level preservation and planning frameworks operate reveals underlying sociopolitical conflicts and instruments of spatial cleansing. The thesis seeks to develop

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Architecture thesis, public park, urbanism, public space, , cultural center
Architecture

Art Hub as a Public Space | Uneeb Ahmad

The thesis analyzes factors that hinder the communication of artists and the public and aims to conclude a way by which communication may be improved. It studies artists aiming to work in the public realm and their work. The other aspect focuses on the understanding of a public space which

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Urban planning, architecture, Masterplanning, competition, urban design
Architecture

The face of Renovation | Asadov Architectural Bureau

The identity of any territory consists of three components – residents, buildings and urban spaces. The District of Coptevo is bordered by a ring railway and has a unique atmosphere of the forecourt town with fragments of cozy red-brick building. We decided to support this image and introduced the theme

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Urban planning, architecture, Masterplanning, competition, urban design
Architecture

The Face of Renovation | LDA Design

LDA Design, in partnership with KRNV Architecture, has won two sites in the Face of Renovation international competition, managed by the Moscow Government. The sites span the city, from Altufevsky in the north east to the districts of Donskoy and Kotlovka in the south west. Much of Moscow’s Soviet-era housing

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Urban planning, Township, Masterplanning, competetion, urban design
Urban Design

Tushino Airfield Masterplan Competition

Masterplan competition project proposal. Tushino airfield in Moscow. Team: LDA Design Competition for the creation of an architectural and urban concept of the site of the former Tushino airfield. Tushino Airfield Masterplan competition project. Organizer: TUSHINO AIRFIELD MASTERPLAN COMPETITION  Program: Masterplan Location: Moscow, Russia. Recognition: Info

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Conservation

Urban Design Strategy & Conservation Plan for Bandra Station, Mumbai

The Bandra Station is Grade I listed living functional suburban station in Mumbai. As principal architects, the task involved preparation of  a comprehensive conservation plan and urban design strategy  for the station and its immediate precinct. The key objectives of the project are to develop Bandra Station as an efficient transportation hub

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Urbanism, Landscape, Masterplan/Mobility, Architecture, Public space
Transportation

Scali Milano – Catalysts for sustainable living

What if we use the ‘scali’ – railway yards – and their connecting infrastructure to improve the mobility of Milan in order to generate new opportunities for the city as a whole? This is the main question guiding Mecanoo’s vision for the seven scali of Milan. As multi-modal hubs, the

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