Tag: urban design
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Designing for Terrorism
It’s been a week since the brutal vehicular massacre that has clouded our city. Since then, I’ve noticed more barricades located around high traffic areas, one, for example, is Union Station. LIke, it wasn’t crowded enough coming from the GO and then jockeying for position to cross the street. Now, we have to maneuver around these…
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Evolution: Can human intelligence design better than nature?
“What do you think of the exhibit?” a nice lady asks me outside of the exhibition space. “I think there’s too much text”, I tell her. “Yeah, you really have to think through it.”
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Water World
The design comes from a concept which dates back to ancient times of the mountain-water worship.
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Holistic, Healthy, Metropolis
KPF’s design for the Meixi Lake a paradigm of living in balance with nature.
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Hillside Identity
The revitalization plan looks into the current condition and reassess the use of plant resources with a focus on renewable energy sources.
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Mobile Village
A vision on the prospects of inner-city travel, the team was asked to address the current mobility situation in the São Paulo metropolitan region and its specific infrastructure.
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Landscape of Lanterns
The plan consists of an attractive night scape seen from the distance which will give guidance to the overall site.
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Adaptation
Situated in an area that borders the historic center and the new waterfront district this urban design marries the two contexts, adapting to both their physical characteristics and programs.
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Beyond Neutrality
The project is an examination of the relationship between a pristine rural landscape and the advancing forces of a rapidly growing city.
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Urban Mobility
Through the recognition of pedestrian crossing on top of the motorway, the current solution, oriented towards car traffic, is substituted by the natural tendency of prioritizing pedestrian and bicycle transportation, more sustainable and healthy.
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A Possible City
Cities have their origin from the need of each people to meet each other. They exist primarily to satisfy human needs and social communities.
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Intelligent Design
The shelter features a green roof covered in foliage, reminiscent of a garden placed on top of tree trunks.
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Gardens by the Bay
The arcadia will showcase signature features such as cooled conservatories, flower dome and cloud forest.
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The Dragon District
The Yongsan International Business District (YIBD) is the world’s largest and most ambitious urban mixed-use project.
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Flipped City
The design questions the traditional typologies by redefining methods of organizing communities built on the human scale. It flips the horizontal cityscape to the vertical.
Richelle Sibolboro 