Print Email Facebook Twitter Green Galaxies; An Interstitial Strategy for Restorative Spaces Title Green Galaxies; An Interstitial Strategy for Restorative Spaces Author De Wit, S.I. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Date 2014-04-01 Abstract While most people prefer visual, physical and conceptual open space where nature can be experienced, relating to the possibilities these spaces offer for psychological restoration. Since access to ‘restorative’ natural spaces decreases with growing urbanization, we need to create urban spaces that provide opportunities for restoration as part of everyday life. Small-scale alternatives are likely to become more important as settings for restoration. A strategy to deal with the pressure on open space caused by ongoing urbanization, is to exploit existing fallow lots, leftover spaces in the interstices of the urban tissue, temporary or permanent. Such a strategy could create a constellation, a non-hierarchical pattern so ubiquitous that each unit would be both special and ordinary. Its internal logic, determined by situation, dependent on time, coincidence and circumstance is derived from the inbetween and coincidental character of the interstices, simultaneously autonomous and situational. This paper presents Paley Park (Robert Zion, 1967) as a case study of an interstitial garden, to discover several landscape architectural translations of the different aspects of a restorative setting. Subject urban acupunctureinterstitial gardenslandscape architecturepocket park To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4ef64e28-ae19-44df-9ac1-e4d3081f506b Publisher IOS Press ISBN 9781614993650 Source New Urban Configurations. Ed. R. Cavallo, S. Komossa, N. Marzot, M. Berghauser-Pont, J. Kuijper; Authors version Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2014 De Wit, S.I. Files PDF Green_galaxies_an_interst ... rategy.pdf 12.52 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4ef64e28-ae19-44df-9ac1-e4d3081f506b/datastream/OBJ/view