Print Email Facebook Twitter The Curtains Title The Curtains: On the Private-Public Street Boundary Author Lam, Hiu Ching Debby (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture) Contributor Mejia Hernandez, Jorge (mentor) Jennen, Pierre (mentor) Altes Arlandis, Alberto (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Date 2019-07-05 Abstract Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent potentials embedded in these boundary walls that could support more vibrant streetscape. Unlocked by investigating a ‘wall’ through urban ecology and etymology, findings are translated into an architectural intervention that evokes search for meaningfulness and integration between the school boundary walls and the neighbourhood. As an incremental result from a parallel process of research and design, a new series of ‘urban curtains’ challenges the monotonous definition of school boundary walls which are ubiquitous in Teusaquillo. Various actors would explore their own interpretation of this seam between school and street, by operating each layer of curtain. Built to activate urban life, the ‘urban curtain’ is also advocating a new type of ‘co-operative security’ that initiates public surveillance, in opposition to a passive security device imposed by the school authority. Within this seam, is an inconspicuous yet sensitive testing ground that embodies how the author, as an architect, could craft capacity for an equivocal built environment. Subject streetboundaryfront yardcurtainwallsecuritypublic realmaffordanceTeusaquilloBogota To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:56bb94c8-fb6b-4c38-85e3-688783d1bac8 Coordinates 4.633724461981417,-74.0762186050415 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Hiu Ching Debby Lam Files PDF 4717120_HCDLam_Position_Paper.pdf 716.53 KB PDF 4717120_HCDLam_P5_Presentation.pdf 123.55 MB PDF 4717120_HCDLam_Reflection.pdf 591.51 KB PDF 4717120_HCDLam_Drawings.pdf 57.87 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:56bb94c8-fb6b-4c38-85e3-688783d1bac8/datastream/OBJ3/view