http://www.theresponsivecity.org Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:27:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TReC takes part in the EU commissioned project ‘Europe from the Bottom Up?' with other 12 representatives from Brussels, London, Barcelona, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Copenhagen, Berlin, Vienna, Goteborg, Rouen, Milan en Zurich. Led by the Brussels based NGO citymine[d], the project aims at first visualizing diverse active local organizations all ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/02/01/europe-from-the-bottom-up/ TReC’s exhibition Eurasian Informality: A Future Vision for Gulensu; an informal settlement in the Asian Wing of Istanbul travels to Paris to take part in the IABR [International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam] Projects for the Open City. The exhibition Projects for the Open City, will take place in the École Nationale ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/02/01/projects-for-the-open-city/ PLAY THE CITY is a multi-agent urban design game and adopts a responsive design approach between designers and other stakeholders. The Game consists of two parts: 1.a real-time, real-place design&negotiation game -to be played by real stakeholders from planning institutions to resident organizations- 2.an interactive web-game supported by google wave: ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/01/17/play-the-city/ TReCairo [Marwan Fayed and Diana Ibáñez López] are mapping the dynamics of urban densification in Cairo, a city whose population estimates vary wildly between an "official" 16m and a popularly assumed 30m. This extraordinary margin of error is in fact a reflection of a very real margin of unofficial growth; ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/01/17/mapping-cairo/ Currently we are busy setting up a research and real-time act project for July and August 2010. Our base will be Istanbul. Istanbul is today’s largest and most diverse city laboratory. Not because of her best practices, but because ‘It all comes together in Istanbul’ if we are to hi-jack ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/01/08/istanbul/ TReC is invited to exhibit EURASIAN INFORMALITY research for International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam-IABR 09. We will be organizing interactive events under the title The Eurasian Informality. Visit our pavilion in RDM terrain, to pick up the Istanbul Manifesto Book of Gecekondu placing Istanbul’s 50 year informality in the international ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2010/01/08/trec-in-rotterdam-architecture-biennial/ Client: IABR Program: an exhibition on Istanbul’s urban emergence and evolution Site area: Istanbul and the informal city of Gulensu Total exhibition space: 4 m2+15m2 [gecekondu] Duration: 2009 - 2012 http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/09/eurasian-informality/ Client: Springer Title: City Games and New Towns [download here the abstract] Client: AGORA Title: Adaptive Design [Dynamisch design heeft toekomst] read here Client: EU Title: STREET LEVEL DESIRES read here Client: NOVA TERRA Title: Vermeers Wanted read here Client: NOVA TERRA Title: Downtown Disney read here Client: Slow Management No.4 Bouwen Title: Het paard van Troje read here Client: IFOU Title: In search for opposing the generic identity read here Client: ATLANTIS Title: Legibility back on the Agenda read here Client: ARCHINED Title: Modernity in Fast-Motion -Istanbul read here for dutch Client: ARCHINED Title: Letters ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/publications-by-trc/ Client: Municipality of Rotterdam/Rotterdam Architecture Academy Program: transformation of a 19th century central residential neighborhood, today inhabited by 70% immigrant residents Site area: Het Oude Westen Total floor space: 28 hectares Duration: 2009 August TReC IN OUDE WESTEN; 15-28AUGUST2009 ‘The Responsive City Game’ in Oude Westen. During the Open City Master Class organized by Rotterdam Architecture Academy, ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/design-games/ Client: INTI/TU Delft Program: an international research on the design of new new towns Site area: the informal city of Gulensu, the new town of Almere, adaptive settlement Quinta de Malaguiera Total floor space: - Duration: 2007-11 http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/adaptive-design/ Client: sLIM Program: content organization of a lecture series on the complexity theories and the city Site area: - Total floor space: - Duration: 2008 January-June http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/slim-self-organizing-city/ Client: Stichting Sprekershoek Program: design of a mobile speaker’s pavilion Site area: squares of Delft Total floor space: - Duration: 2005 September http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/speaker%e2%80%99s-corner/ Client: EU-Spatial Metro Program: improvement of pedestrian experience in European city centers Site area: city of Bristol, Norwich, Rouen and Koblenz Total floor space: - Duration: 2005-7 http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/street-level-desires/ Client: TU Delft Program: transformation of a former industrial harbor into a water city Site area: Waalhaven Total floor space: 10 km2 Duration: 2004 September-2005 June http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/09/08/waalhaven-water-island/ Client:dS+V Rotterdam* Program:a city vision based on re-positioning the water [the Maas, urban canals and the rain] Site area:city of Rotterdam Total floor space:319,35 km2 Duration:2004 September-2005 June *as part of the -scape team http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2009/08/02/watercity/ article post on the architecture of almere-haven's neighborhoods. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/2-the-critical-70s/ article post on the architecture of almere-haven's neighborhoods. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/01-the-critical-70s/ article post explaining why almere is almere today, how it emerged and evolved, written by a.k. constandse. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/almeres-emergence/ link post for opinion articles on Almere by Ole Bouman, Arjen Oosterman, Bart Lootsma, Gert Middelkoop and Petra Brouwer published in archis 1999. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/archis-on-almere/ link post on Almere's new expansion areas. this is a critical article by ekim tan with a background of Istanbul's informal growth. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/trojan-horse/ Almere's residents formed this website. Here, they collect their memories about their new town forming an unusual database on emergence and evolution of a city. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/20/memory-of-almere-2/ Click here for the interactive map of Almere's public facilities. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/19/haven-facilities/ Link post for 'new new towns conference' A critical review on the making of new new towns can be found here. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/19/eco-new-towns/ link post on the challenges of building a city out of nothing. Click here for an interview with the foundinf fathers of almere. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/19/city-out-of-nothing/ Link post for the International New Town Institute Here you will find a comprehensive animation map of new towns globally through time, from Tehran until today's new new towns. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/19/inti/ Link post for public space of new new towns by arnold reijndorp. In this video, city sociologist of almere, arnold reijndorp gives an insight on the public space of new new towns. Please click here and scroll down. http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/19/suburban-urbanity/ In Cedric Price’s Fun Palace [1960-1961] public had unprecedented control over their environment, resulting in a building, which could be responsive to visitors’ needs. An open environment pre-defined by the designer to be activated by the user. In ‘The Responsive City’ visions of the bottom up players calibrate visions ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/10/and-one-more/ Given the right conditions [e.g. flexible rules for spatial growth, shrinkage or land use] up to 68% of the end users do modify their physical surroundings. The need for further negotiations between individuals and authorities is an urgent phenomenon for emerging city environments; either in a marginalized informal ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/10/adaptations/ The end user has particular and difficult-to-predict needs. The comfort level of the environment depends on the proper provision of these specific programs. [think of living, working, and playing needs of not only the nuclear families with or without children, but also single parent families -divorced or separated ... http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/10/unpredictability/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.theresponsivecity.org/2008/08/10/notes/