Abstract
The shortage of adequate housing is one of the significant challenges facing the Netherlands today. This exhibition addresses this issue as a essential piece of a grand spatial puzzle where housing interweaves with energy transition, climate adaptation, circularity, industry, agriculture, infrastructure and nature in new, symbiotic ways.
Creating living spaces must be a harmonious integration of housing, workspaces, areas for nature and food, energy hubs, and liveability in face of the climate threat. We firmly believe this integration is not just a necessity, but holds great potential for creating diverse, liveable, and future-proof living spaces.
TU Delft’s Vision Team Wonen, a multidisciplinary expert group appointed by the Rector Magificus of TU Delft, has gathered recommendations on the Dutch housing challenge. This led to two the advisory report “Ruimte voor Wonen: Naar een integrale aanpak van de Nederlandse woonopgave” (Space for Living: Towards an integrated approach to the Dutch housing challenge). Accompayining the report is the exhibition Room for housing, providing a visual representation of the integrated future that these recommendations can lead to.
The heart of the exhibition lies in four visionary visualisations commissioned to recent graduates from our Faculty by the Vision Team — Future-proof spatial planning, Resilient neighbourhoods, Diverse forms of living and Circular and modular ways of building—, each a fusion of housing with other essential uses.
Room for housing envisions an optimistic future of an integrated, future-proof space for life in the Netherlands—one characterized by enhanced spatiality and flexibility, with a stronger relationship with the environment, where each individual is offered a protected space and, simultaneously, capable of promoting interrelation and cohesion between neighbours.
Creating living spaces must be a harmonious integration of housing, workspaces, areas for nature and food, energy hubs, and liveability in face of the climate threat. We firmly believe this integration is not just a necessity, but holds great potential for creating diverse, liveable, and future-proof living spaces.
TU Delft’s Vision Team Wonen, a multidisciplinary expert group appointed by the Rector Magificus of TU Delft, has gathered recommendations on the Dutch housing challenge. This led to two the advisory report “Ruimte voor Wonen: Naar een integrale aanpak van de Nederlandse woonopgave” (Space for Living: Towards an integrated approach to the Dutch housing challenge). Accompayining the report is the exhibition Room for housing, providing a visual representation of the integrated future that these recommendations can lead to.
The heart of the exhibition lies in four visionary visualisations commissioned to recent graduates from our Faculty by the Vision Team — Future-proof spatial planning, Resilient neighbourhoods, Diverse forms of living and Circular and modular ways of building—, each a fusion of housing with other essential uses.
Room for housing envisions an optimistic future of an integrated, future-proof space for life in the Netherlands—one characterized by enhanced spatiality and flexibility, with a stronger relationship with the environment, where each individual is offered a protected space and, simultaneously, capable of promoting interrelation and cohesion between neighbours.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Delft University of Technology, Faculteit Bouwkunde |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
