Creative in the city

Creative in the city: Creating a mulit interpretative pedestrian landscape in Skopje city.

Hermens, Diederik (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Havik, K.M. (graduation committee)
Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Methods and Analysis | Positions in Practice

2020-07-10

The project intervenes in the city of Skopje to promote creativity in the city. At the moment Skopje’s public space mainly consists of formal squares and parks which do not respond to or encourage appropriation and creativity within the city. The project will intervene in the in-between spaces on an urban scale, responding to the surrounding functions. I identify in-between spaces in Skopje as spaces which connect areas in the city with different functions and characteristics. For example a space in-between a busy road that connects to a residential neighborhood. A series of interventions will create a complementary network of public spaces in Skopje, improving the continuity in pedestrians experience and the social dynamics in the city. By using level changes and materiality the design aims to create a landscape that invites different forms of usage. The surface of the interventions will differentiate and create spaces by emphasizing or blurring thresholds. This will provide the city of a surface that stimulates people to appropriate the pedestrian landscape. The interventions provide a permanent landscape that can be freely interpreted and triggers people to use the public space in creative ways Through highlighting the potential of in-between spaces this research aims to encourage creativity and appropriation in the city.

Creativity
Pedestrian landscape
Interpretation
Play
Architecture

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Student theses

master thesis

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