A collaborative hybridity design approach: Enhancing urban water resilience and spatial legibility

Keisuke Sugano, Simo Lu, F.L. Hooimeijer*, Frans H.M. van de Ven

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Abstract

Within the global transition to sustainable urban water management, Dutch polder cities are also contemplating revitalising their water traditions. One of the keys to this task is to integrate water management into urban design, which is explored but not yet practically instrumentalized in the urban design process. This article introduces the concept of hybridity and develops a Hybridity Design Approach as an interdisciplinary methodology to explore the possibility of realising the extreme low impact Closed City Concept. Integration of the water environment and urban space needs interdisciplinary cooperation and sharing knowledge, as well as an innovative way of thinking about water-resilient urban design, maximising the landscape quality of a polder city while minimising its hydrological footprint in the region. Effective visualisation tools and techniques for this collaborative design process are developed and tested in the area of Zevenkamp in Rotterdam.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages25
JournalJournal of Urbanism
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • hybridity design
  • urban water management
  • interdisciplinary design
  • visualisation
  • spatial quality

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