A Meta-Field

A Meta-Field: The Coexisting Groundscape in Between

Kao, Hsuanya (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Architecture)

Mejia Hernandez, Jorge (mentor)
Jennen, Pierre (mentor)
Altes Arlandis, Alberto (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-07-22

How could public spaces tell us about the city? How does public space take part in our thoughts and affect behaviors? What makes the groundscape? What embodies its essence? And what will people perceive when lowering their gazes? I argue the process of making groundscape is not only constructing a horizontal layer of urban tissue but also closely intertwining with the flow of knowledge, for instance in the sense of meaning and identity. Through transforming an unbuilt plot into a public space where the groundscape becomes a collective stage to hold different social possibilities and arouse the public consciousness, the thought behind this project is to understand the generation of things as an episode of the whole. Considering the episode as a process that performs urban life and bring inhabitants together, whenever a spatial intervention happens, the groundscape could provide a soft background for both human and nonhuman activities which grows with the city.

groundscape
pavement
public space
coexisting
affordance
frountyard
courtyard

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Student theses

master thesis

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