(Out of the) Ordinary: towards an intimate portrait of the city

(Out of the) Ordinary: towards an intimate portrait of the city

Latour, Sophie (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor)
Reinders, L.G.A.J. (mentor)
van Deudekom, A.B.J. (mentor)
Zijlstra, H. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Urbanism

2022-11-03

The project “(Out of the) Ordinary: towards an intimate portrait of the city” investigates how we can build housing, to accommodate ordinary life, within an industrial site. It gleans and introduces domestic qualities into a large cellulose storage facility in an attempt to reintroduce the industrial site to Maastricht and provide the city with new heritage. The project tackles and questions different dialogues between: old and new, suburbs and industry, material and immaterial, public and private and facades and actors. The design proposal develops a new, more intimate community fostering strong social networks and face-to-face contact. The architecture encourages ordinary life to take place, stimulating: discovery, encounter, appropriation and daily rituals. The thesis becomes a case study for the regeneration of (inter)national industrial sites and is a proposal to the pressing housing shortage.

Urban Architecture
Maastricht
Ordinary
Sappi Factory
Reuse
Out of the Ordinary

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Student theses

master thesis

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