Topic outline

  • RESILIENT NEIGHBORHOOD

    Poster

    Lectures: Period III. Wednesdays 9-12 (Course: ARK-E551401. Automatic enrollment for studio students)
    Tutoring: Periods III - V. Wednesdays 13-17

    Course start 12.1.2022 at 13:15 - note the Assignment: Introduction has to be made before the first session!
    https://aalto.zoom.us/j/61341386993

    The 2022 Urban Design studio examines resilient design thinking - how can the different aspects of resilience be interpreted and implemented through design, and how these aspects can assist in building inclusive and sustainable communities.

    The scale of the inquiry is the neighborhood, and as a concept, the neighborhood refers to both the physical parameters of the built environment as well as its immaterial aspects.

    The studio asks the question: how can the physical contexts enhance different aspects of resilience, in both material and immaterial terms? Resilience as a concept offers a holistic approach to sustainability by emphasizing the systemic understanding of sustainability - how everything is interconnected.  

    In the studio resilience is understood from the point of view of evolutionary resilience in which the crucial points of inquiry are time scales, from short to long term, the capability of the built environment to adapt to unpredictable changes, and the possibility of urban design to embrace the diverse aspects of sustainability from ecological to social in different nested scales of the built environment - from the building to the city, and on to the global scale.


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    Working with a site in East-Helsinki and taking as its starting point the growth targets of the City of Helsinki and its contested concept of ‘Bulevardization’, the studio is structured around a set of workshops that help us define the 1. goals, 2. tools and 3. design criteria for an urban proposal for our site, answering the questions:
    - How to design sustainable neighborhoods for today and with a long term focus
    - How to design for the unpredictable
    - How to create livable neighborhoods

    The results of the studio will be articulated Urban Designs, providing a general conceptual plan of the site area and more detailed solutions in different scales – focusing on the scale of the neighborhood in its different dimensions (spatial and social dimensions), answering the challenge of future transformations through resilient solutions.


    Studio Schedule (changes possible)

    III Period
    12.01. / Start. / Assignment: Introduction discussed / Assignment: Workshop 1. given.
    19.01. / Tutoring Workshop 1.
    26.01. / Assignment: Workshop 1. discussed / Assignment: Workshop 2. given.
    02.02. / Tutoring Workshop 2.
    09.02. / Assignment: Workshop 2. discussed / Assignment: Workshop 3. given.
    16.02. / Tutoring Workshop 3. / Workshop Tutoring Timetable
    23.02. / Assignment: Workshop 3. discussed / Assignment: Urban Design given.

    IV Period
    02.03. / Tutoring. Individual. Individual Tutoring Timetable
    09.03. / Tutoring. Group. Group Tutoring Timetable
    16.03. / 1st Mid Review. Diagnosis. Concept. Site Plan. Roundtable. On site. Väre / J302
    23.03. / Tutoring. Group Tutoring. On site. Väre / Q201 START AT 14:30!
    30.03. / Tutoring. Individual. Individual on site tutoring timetable. Väre / J302
    06.04. / Tutoring. Group. Group Tutoring Timetable. On site. Väre / J302
    13.04. / Seminar session. Peer-discussions. Material to be uploaded on the 08.04. Seminar Session Guidelines
    https://aalto.zoom.us/j/68333501750

    V Period
    20.04. / Easter holiday, no tutoring.
    27.04. / Tutoring. Individual. Individual on site tutoring timetable. Väre / J302
    04.05. / 2nd Mid Review. Articulated Design in different scales. Väre / K301 Order of presentations
    11.05. / Tutoring. Individual. Individual on site tutoring timetable. Väre / J302
    18.05. / Tutoring. Individual. Sign up before 16.5.: Tutoring reservation board
    25.05. / Tutoring. Individual. Sign up before 23.5.: Tutoring reservation board 25.5. Tutoring Schedule
    01.06. / Final Review / Assignment: Urban Design discussed. Roundtable. All day. 9-12 and 13-17. Väre / J302
    Final Review Schedule and Guidelines