Expanding universes on shrinking footprints

Expanding universes on shrinking footprints

Bernátek, Dominik (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Nottrot, R.J. (mentor)
van Dooren, E.J.G.C. (mentor)
van der Meel, H.L. (mentor)
Vitner-Hamming, D. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

2018-06-12

While cities densify, and fill up with building mass, it is of great importance to pay high attention to good quality public space. People should feel at home not only inside their private dwelling, but also outside the building - in the city itself. Architecture has to provide possibilities for people to establish social contacts and on the other hand offer shelter and intimacy. This is one of architecture’s twin-phenomena. Richard Rogers states, that we as architects always have two clients: the people who use the buildings and the people who pass by the buildings, for whom the buildings form outside space. They have different ways of looking at things. “Public spaces - our streets and squares, parks and pavements - are the stages for public life; the public realm is at the heart of our life as social animals.” It is this ‘twin-phenomena’ of architecture - the phenomena of public and private - that interests me.

public space
extension
private space
transition
form
tool

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2018 Dominik Bernátek