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Urban Concentration/Sprawl/Infrastructure: Bucharest and Brisbane
This third and final semester in the Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design sequence took up questions of urban development related to two rapidly evolving urban connurbantions: in Bucharest, Romania and Brisbane, Australia.
Why Romania and Australia? Having concentrated in the first two semester's studios on the urban problematic of the New York City region and its East Coast Megalopolitan context, we now shifted our scrutiny to Europe and the Far East. The contrast between each of these locations established an internal dialogue within the studio relative to the state of global urbanization at the present time. Specifically, in both locations the design research focused on the future of urban densification and infrastructure: in Bucharest on erasure in the historic center and sprawl at the periphery; and in Brisbane on the question of continuous sprawl and the potentials for centering. In both cases, planned development of new transit infrastructure will have a large impact on future settlement pattern. And in both cases, urbanization is negatively impacting adjacent bio-regions, i.e. the Danube Delta and the Great Barrier Reef.
Students in the studio traveled to Bucharest and Brisbane, participating in design charettes and making public presentations. This studio was organized with the active principal support and participation in Bucharest of the 'Ion Mincu' University of Architecture and Urbanism; and in Brisbane of the University of Queensland Department of Architecture.
Bucharest, Romania
Urban Acupunture: Po-Ku Chen, Chi-Yu Chou, Timothy Reed
Airport Synergism. Flora Hsiang-I Chen, Chin-Hua Huang, Li-Chun Kuo, Gurpreet Shah
Delta Egde: Manolo Figueroa, Angela Chen-Mai Soong, Van Hsin-Hung Tsao
Brisbane, Australia
Verandah Urbanism: Justin G. Moore, Marjan Sansen, Ward Verbakel
Shifting Perceptions: Esi-Kilanga Bowser, Matthew Priest
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