ir. Herwin Sap, Architect BNA
Postbus 2122 / 6201 CA / Maastricht
Omstraat 17 / 3620 / Veldwezelt [Be]
Tel. 06-12367447
h.a.sap@has-architectuur.nl


PhD Project at the TU Eindhoven
(Promotieonderzoek aan TU Eindhoven)

Faculty of Building and Architecture. Urban Design Group.
(Faculteit Bouwkunde. Leersteerstoel Stedebouwkundig Ontwerpen.)

Subject: The corridor as design question
 (Onderwerp: De corridor als ontwerpopgave)


Start: September 1999

Academic Supervisors:
- prof.dr.ir. Bruno DeMeulder
- dr.ir. Kees Doevendans
- ...


Abstract:

Background: The research focuses on two current phenomena in the urban design discipline. These are (methodological) research-by-design and (spatial) corridor development as component of the territorium city. The corridor in this research is regarded as a relative new and actual urbanisation concept for which a new frameworks and instruments have to be developed. Corridors have so far been mainly researched with a focus on economy and transportation. In this research the corridor is studied and applied as an urbanisation concept located between the nodes of multipolar urban networks and taking into account economic as well as social and ecological features.

Methodology: Research by design is a new orientation of research in the urban design field. The methodology in this project is partly derived from the dialectic between theory and praxis and partly from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. A corridor in this project is regarded as a fragmentary whole, a concept of concepts. Concepts of Gilles Deleuze such as plane of immanence, history and becoming of concepts, line (of flight) and rhizome seem to connect with the fluent and dynamic character of post-modern urbanism and spatial development. These concepts are tested in two case studies of existing corridors and during a student-project. Finally the method will be applied in analysing and actual designing on a third developing corridor.

A more detailed and up to date description of the research will be available here soon.
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