With increasing population in highly dense cities and with the non-stop urbanisation, cities are facing many problems regarding housing. This thesis aims to identify the contemporary issues such as housing affordability, exclusion of youth in housing, the change in life-style and the family structure and rising sea levels and explore why, where and how floating developments could respond these issues. In the first chapter the themes have been discussed, in second chapter the critical cities have been detected, then on third chapter with a wide range of functions and sizes, existing floating developments have been deeply studied and compared to each other. In the fourth chapter, a link between the ideas of metabolism movement and the concept of resilience in cities as adoptive complex systems have been indicated. In the fifth chapter, different objectives for floating developments such as mobility, water experience, sea keeping and dynamic geography have been studied. Bringing both findings from metabolism and the objectives together and borrowing the concept of “megastructure and plug-in units” from the Metabolist architects, a framework for a floating development has been identified. In next stage, using different algorithms and concepts, a simulation for growth of a floating development has been proposed. The framework has been later employed in three critical cities showing the presenting the development in different stages. In closing, as a complementary part to the project and as a proof of how the proposal could be realised, an architectural for implementation of the project in Amsterdam has been proposed.
Con l’aumento della popolazione nelle città altamente densead alta densità abitativa e l’urbanizzazione non stop, le città stanno affrontando molti problemi abitativi. Questa tesi mira a identificare le questioni contemporanee come l’accessibilità degli alloggi, l’esclusione dei giovani negli alloggi, il cambiamento dello stile di vita e della struttura familiare, e l’innalzamento del livello del mare ed esplorare perché, dove e come gli sviluppi fluttuanti potrebbero rispondere a queste questioni. Nel primo capitolo sono state discusse le questioni, nel secondo capitolo sono state identificate le città critiche, successivamente poi nel terzo capitolo, con una vasta gamma di funzioni e dimensioni, gli sviluppi galleggianti esistenti sono stati studiati a fondo e confrontati tra loro. Nel quarto capitolo, è stato indicato un collegamento tra le idee del movimento Movimento del metabolismo Metabolismo e il concetto di resilienza nelle città come sistemi complessi di adozionecomplessi sistemi adottivi. Nel quinto capitolo, sono stati studiati diversi obiettivi per gli sviluppi galleggianti come la mobilità, l’esperienza dell’acqua, la conservazione marina e la geografia dinamica. Mettendo insieme i risultati e gli obiettivi del metabolismo Metabolismo e prendendo in prestito il concetto di “megastruttura e unità plug-in” dagli architetti Metabolisti, è stato identificato un sistema per uno sviluppo galleggiante crescente. Nella fase successiva, usando diversi algoritmi e concetti, la crescita dello sviluppo galleggiante è stata simulata in tre città critiche che presentano uno sviluppo in fasi diverse. In chiusura, come parte complementare al progetto e come prova di come la proposta potrebbe essere implementata, è stato fornito un disegno architettonico per la realizzazione del progetto ad Amsterdam.
Life on water. Metabolist floating developments as a response to contemporary housing issues in highly dense populated cities
Zandgheshlaghi, Zahra
2020/2021
Abstract
With increasing population in highly dense cities and with the non-stop urbanisation, cities are facing many problems regarding housing. This thesis aims to identify the contemporary issues such as housing affordability, exclusion of youth in housing, the change in life-style and the family structure and rising sea levels and explore why, where and how floating developments could respond these issues. In the first chapter the themes have been discussed, in second chapter the critical cities have been detected, then on third chapter with a wide range of functions and sizes, existing floating developments have been deeply studied and compared to each other. In the fourth chapter, a link between the ideas of metabolism movement and the concept of resilience in cities as adoptive complex systems have been indicated. In the fifth chapter, different objectives for floating developments such as mobility, water experience, sea keeping and dynamic geography have been studied. Bringing both findings from metabolism and the objectives together and borrowing the concept of “megastructure and plug-in units” from the Metabolist architects, a framework for a floating development has been identified. In next stage, using different algorithms and concepts, a simulation for growth of a floating development has been proposed. The framework has been later employed in three critical cities showing the presenting the development in different stages. In closing, as a complementary part to the project and as a proof of how the proposal could be realised, an architectural for implementation of the project in Amsterdam has been proposed.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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