Lecture Topics:
1. Measuring Urban Density
2. High Density Building Typologies
3. Layered Infrastructure and Urban Intensity
4. Density and Urban Voids
5. Representing Urban Density
1. Measuring Urban Density
2. High Density Building Typologies
3. Layered Infrastructure and Urban Intensity
4. Density and Urban Voids
5. Representing Urban Density
As the majority of the world population resides in urban regions, the design of high density cities has become increasingly more important. With limited amounts of space and resources we need to think carefully about how we use the space we have and plan for livable cities offering a high quality of life.
This experimental seminar is taught by Claudia Wigger at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning since the Winter Term 2014. It researches into the context of urban density, verticality, infrastructure, ecology and program and their integration into the design of high-density cities. The aim of the course is to better understand the numeric parameters that represent urban density but as well to research into tools to analyze and evaluate spatial characteristics and qualities of urban space.
The seminar introduces key ideas through lectures, film screenings and reading assignments that are developed in smaller group discussions in which students share and respond to individual case studies.
Lecture topics cover an introduction to urban density, urban infrastructure, high-density
urban typologies and urban void spaces. The aim of the lectures is to place the role of urban density into a historical and theoretical context and locate it’s significance within contemporary urban design practice.
Through collecting data and building critical analysis of different contemporary high-density cities the seminar collectively developed a set of graphic tools to represent urban density and its conditions both quantitatively and qualitatively.
This experimental seminar researched into the three-dimensional relationships of program, infrastructures and architecture in urban environments. The aim of the course was not only to fully understand the evolution and dynamics of selected high-density cities but as well to investigate which elements of urban density can be distilled to describe and analyze spatial characteristics and the actual design of urban spaces.
This experimental seminar is taught by Claudia Wigger at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning since the Winter Term 2014. It researches into the context of urban density, verticality, infrastructure, ecology and program and their integration into the design of high-density cities. The aim of the course is to better understand the numeric parameters that represent urban density but as well to research into tools to analyze and evaluate spatial characteristics and qualities of urban space.
The seminar introduces key ideas through lectures, film screenings and reading assignments that are developed in smaller group discussions in which students share and respond to individual case studies.
Lecture topics cover an introduction to urban density, urban infrastructure, high-density
urban typologies and urban void spaces. The aim of the lectures is to place the role of urban density into a historical and theoretical context and locate it’s significance within contemporary urban design practice.
Through collecting data and building critical analysis of different contemporary high-density cities the seminar collectively developed a set of graphic tools to represent urban density and its conditions both quantitatively and qualitatively.
This experimental seminar researched into the three-dimensional relationships of program, infrastructures and architecture in urban environments. The aim of the course was not only to fully understand the evolution and dynamics of selected high-density cities but as well to investigate which elements of urban density can be distilled to describe and analyze spatial characteristics and the actual design of urban spaces.