Networks of Urban Acupuncture, Sam Friesema
Large-scale, single-point contiguous urban interventions and developments are often out of scale and foreign in relation to the context in which they are constructed. Ranging from complete new towns to new mixed-use shopping and residential districts, these immediate urbanisms are over assumptive in their goals and overreaching in their implementation. Smaller scale networked points of intervention can have a more dynamic impact on existing urban fabric. Networks of Urban Acupuncture (NUA) offers a new way of thinking about urban development within existing conditions, as a strategy of program distribution through coordinated points of intervention with a common formal language.
Advisory Committee
Jeff Kruth, Jonathan Kurtz, AIA, Steven Rugare and Diane Davis-Sikora
Vertical Urbanism, Ziyan Ye
Vertical Urbanism proposes an alternate high-rise typology for Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay District that serves as a new form of ‘urban village’. Patterns of social interaction, sustainable urban lifestyles and smart urban growth are probed to enhance social networks, and challenge traditional systems of urban isolation signature to the tall building paradigm. The project presents a new vertical ‘street’ lifestyle and network of building programming that leverages existing urban systems and community networks.
Co-advisor
Diane Davis-Sikora
Jonathan Kurtz, AIA
