Bridging the Fast and the Slow

Bridging the Fast and the Slow: the urban multifunction interface as place for experience of social interaction and inward reflection

Liu, Chang (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

de Wit, Saskia (mentor)
Harteveld, Maurice (mentor)
de Jong, Peter (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2018-10-30

With urbanisation, city life is becoming more efficient and artificial. The pace of living is getting faster and the cosiness of slowing down are disappearing. Social warmth among people are decreasing in anonymous cities and spiritual restoration are being pushed away as nature is being pushed out of the expanding cities. This project tries to bring back the slow pace of living into urbanised cities. It is not erasing the convenience of modern technology, but to reintroduce ALSO the layer of slow living. In order to make space for this slow life, space for fast life are condensed where possible. Yet, in most cities, there is no such luck as having a lot of vacant space. So, the second strategy is to use the interface between the fast and the slow as multifunctional space. Doing so, space is expanded functional wise, and different activates interact better as they happen in the same location. In order to make the space not only a theoretical space where activities could happen but a place where activities do happen, needs of the people and their behaviour pattern are studied and put into the design. In addition, views arranging from urban to natural are overlaying these activities, providing a supporting atmosphere. In short, with the concerns of space, behaviour pattern, and view, the slow is reintroduced into urban cities. The multifunctional interface bridges different activities. It bridges the fast and the slow.

Slow Life
Space
Behaviour Pattern
View
Multifunctional Interface

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Student theses

master thesis

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