Architectural Design V-IX: New Urban Landscapes - Focal Points of Urban Densification (M.Brakebusch)

Abstract

With the help of cartographic and statistical surveys, digital and analog, we figure out the limits of the individual metropolitan areas with regard to their possible compression and cooling. After an initial deep drilling in Zurich (in HS20), we will continue with the investigations in the Basel metropolitan area in FS21.

Objective

- Analyze the landscape conditions for the Development of the city - Learning the basics of urban climate planning - Developing a specific vocabulary (concepts) in Area of ​​landscape architecture - Development of an urban / landscape architecture project

Content

Case Study 2: Metropolitan Area Basel The global phenomenon of the rise in temperature requires individual solutions for the increasingly heated and dense settlement area, depending on the local conditions of the place. The programs presented for heat reduction describe fields of action and approaches that are mostly thought out selectively and remain within the political administrative boundaries. However, the federalism of Switzerland leads to an area-wide settlement of the Swiss plateau, the extent of which is given by the geological morphology of Switzerland with the mountain ranges of the Jura and the Alps. The three metropolitan areas of Zurich, Basel and Geneva extend from east to west, and in addition to their urban density, they also have the largest calculated temperature rise. In the Design Studio "New Urban Landscapes" with the help of cartographic and statistical surveys, digital and analog, we figure out the limits of the individual metropolitan areas with regard to their possible compression and cooling. After an initial deep drilling in Zurich (in HS20), we will continue with the investigations in the Basel metropolitan area in FS21. An analysis phase in which experts impart knowledge and tools in the field of urban climate and GIS application is followed by a spatially evaluating synthesis workshop as the conclusion of the four-week group work. The aim of this is to locate a definable room / s for the subsequent nine-week draft. After the semester week, the individual determination of one's own perimeter and program for the urban, landscape architectural design begins. Subject-specific vocabulary and knowledge imparted in the process should help to describe and further develop one's own ideas for the location and its landscape-architectural formulation in a joint discourse.

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