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TUe UrbanLabs

TUe UrbanLabs has been established to strengthen the link between university and practice. We work o

20/06/2022

Save the date for July 8th, friday!

How can we turn around cities and landscapes?

On the last day of academic year 2021-2022, we invite you all to a day of workshops and debate to reflect on the crises that affect our environment.

09/06/2022

Next project from Home for the Youth Studio, done by !

She points out that, in her design the idea of clustering and sharing is meant to stimulate interactions between the youth, other residents and start-ups. Interaction could then result in interest of both parties, which could result in job opportunities for the youth.

The general idea is to recreate the hyper temporary village feeling that is reminiscent of a traditional festival. The chosen building units are shipping containers with an inner area of approximately 18 square metres.

The idea is to not make the cluster too big in order to keep the intimacy of a cluster. She mentioned that previos meetings with building and social experts have provided the insight that there is no exact number that guarantee a social cohesion within a cluster. It is
rather the mix of types of residents within a cluster that could stimulate such a cohesion, which is a reason to include students, couples, starters and young professionals into the area.

18/05/2022

Next project from Experimental Housing, done by Arjan Verhoef! The building blocks are centered around the central park and build upon a set of guiding principles. They open up towards the central Oasis creating a continuous flow of the green space thought the entire plan. The Oasis functions as a multifunctional inner green space for the community. The green space on one hand create space for activity, social interaction, and playground, while on the other hand play a central role in providing cooling, infiltration and enhancing the biodiversity in the Lombarijen. The Oasis focuses on pedestrians and cyclist by not allowing car-traffic to cross. The most southern part of the Oasis is more urban and square-like.

10/05/2022

This year we will participate in a summer school which is a collaboration of the Social Design Studio (University of Applied Arts Vienna) with the ENUTC-Project “TRUSTMAKING: Young creators and responsibilities for the new green transition” and the Ceramics Studio of the University of Applied Arts Vienna at Zukunfthof!

See for more information about the program and how to register:
http://socialdesign.ac.at/projects/summer-school-2022

03/05/2022

Next project from Home for the Youth Studio, done by Sena Berfin Ozbey. Due to the growing shortage of housing, homelessness problems are expected to increase even further in the future. In this project we collaborate with Woonstad Rotterdam (housing association) to provide liveable spaces to these youngsters. The organization offers one of their existing buildings to be transformed into a social hub.
The project aims to provide opportunities to the youth who want to start a new life. It’s aim is to discover the ways to strengthen the social relationship with the project, not only at the building level, but in a wider scale. In this regard, the idea of Jan Gehl was considered as an inspiration. He states that “First life, then spaces, then buildings – the other way around never works”. To achieve this, it is suggested to define a social concept and urban strategies while collaborating with the partners and youngsters as users in the preparation phase. In addition, these strategies are in search of possible job opportunities for the youngsters in order to prepare them to their professional working life.
The whole process is considered as circular, all steps are related and supportive to each other. After the preparation phase, to create a life in the building, youngsters are welcome to start their life here. After this step, the existing space quality is improved. On ground level, the idea is to create a culture hub which works together with the cultural organizations in the neighborhood. In order to strengthen the connection between the park and the building, the passage is created in the middle of the building. Besides these interventions, the support center is designed for mentorship programs when it is needed. The mentorship program is supported by the cultural activities and commercial spaces which provide job opportunities for the youngsters.
To create more housing units, the unused existing terraces are designed with a tiny village atmosphere.

20/04/2022

The next project from experimental housing studio, made by . She points out that in the current context of urban population growth, free space available within urban fabrics is each time more limited. The goal is to investigate an alternative way to deal with the densification process in complex scenarios, where the traditional approach of simply substituting existing buildings for denser ones is not possible: historical city centers constitute local cultural heritage and for this reason need to be preserved, establishing huge constraints. The intention of this research is to explore how to accommodate the future city within the existing one, in a necessarily intimate relation between present and future landscapes. In other words, the question raised is how to promote an architectonic symbiosis able to provide positive outcomes to all the parties involved, in biological terms: Mutualism.

The research has been conducted on how to apply new densification strategies within the existing city by providing positive outcomes for both sides, the new and old ones. The aim has been to explore the potential ways of providing more fruitful outcomes for the urban environment and its users. This mutualistic approach could be applied in different scenarios and places. It was chosen as a concept idea of ‘The Mutual Hub’ project in order to investigate the ways of linking people, buildings and the city of mutualistic approach. The project is located in one of the old industrial port areas of Rotterdam. The idea is to keep and preserve the existing industrial buildings with their own architectural features as much as possible, while adding new housing blocks. At the end of the project, the new additions provide new layers to the existing heritage. In this way, the memory of the spaces could be preserved. Considering all these aspects of mutualistic architecture, one could say that the outcomes allow us to rethink the future city through an inclusive and sustainable approach.

06/04/2022

Lees ons artikel in Ruimte+Wonen.
Een artikel over de kerk als vector in een brede maatschappelijke en ruimtelijke ontwikkeling. En hoe ontwerpend daar aan kan bijdragen.

03/04/2022

Next project is done by Carolina Taron. She points out the “Experimental Housing” was a program introduced in response to the bad quality construction of the post-war. The aim of this program is to re-think the standards ways of doing housing until so far and to elevate the life quality of habitants.

In the current days, cities are getting bigger and bigger and unconstructed space is disappearing. Especially in a densely populated city like Den Haag. This leads to a very unpersonal use of the city, so big that it is almost impossible to create relations and meet people. Besides this we live in an era mainly ruled by technologies. It absorbs people in a digital universe making the connection between people less real and more virtual.

After the analyses the theme that seemed relevant to elaborate in the housing program in Den Haag was “meeting the neighbour”. It would aim to bring the residents together by providing interior/ exterior communal spaces and working on the public/ private boundary trying to dissolve this one in order to take people out of their comfort zones. This is done in a hope to fight solitude. This would be achieved through the manipulation of the private/ public boundary and creating communal space with different morphologies and programs to stimulate the residents.

21/03/2022

Het OntwerpLab voor de klimaatrobuuste stad presenteert het Symposium Klimaatadaptatie als katalysator – casus Limbeek. Meld je aan en ben er bij!

Aanmeldingslink: https://lnkd.in/e_qsx9qX

11/03/2022

As part of our research program Bloeiende Broedplaatsen (on Cultural Incubators) we wrote an article for Boekman #130 on local cultural policy.

We reflected on the current position of incubators within the changed economic landscape and growing pressure on the housing market.

How can cultural incubators react to this changed context and what are municipalities doing to preserve and develop a cultural infrastructure?

10/03/2022

The Municipality of the Hague and the Youth Living Lab TU Eindhoven are organizing a visit and reflection session on housing concepts for homeless young people in the Hague on March 18!

The event is for the partners of the Woonlab, students and employees of the TU/e master studio project ‘A Home for Youth’ and all other interested parties.

The detailed information to attend the event can be found in the second page of our past and TU/e website! (https://www.tue-urbanlabs.nl/)

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