Designed Infrastructure: Lessons from Copenhagen Urban Design
— A research project examining the relationship between buildings and the city of Copenhagen, See the digital magazine here ︎︎︎
Research, Urban Design, Mapping, Diagramming
Copenhagen, Denmark
Research Project at DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Advisor: Rasmus Frisk MAA, Arki_Lab Copenhagen + Sydney
Digital Magazine
2016
Excerpt from the Publication:
Recently, cities around the world have been focusing their attention to the idea of livability and the way that the city functions beyond a purely economic outlook. With such rapid urbanization, the world is facing extreme challenges including shortages in housing, economic struggles, post-industrial decay, and other problems. No longer can only construction and engineering solutions fix these city's growing problems. Design and the idea of Designed Infrastructure, popularized by the British architect, Norman Foster, is the thought process of using design thinking to battle some of today's most complex urban issues by improving quality of life and environments in cities (1). Designed Infrastructure takes a more humanistic
approach, looking at the aesthetics of environments, the efficiency and use in the city, the diversity of environments and activity in an urban region, and how cities can move forward to increase standards of living. It also suggests that the competition between cities around the world will become increasingly more important to attract new workers and citizens and design can be a facilitator of this competition. (1)
Copenhagen, Denmark has been on the forefront of dealing with these immense challenges. The city is consistently ranked one of the best places to live in the world citing the livability of the region, the density, transportation networks, high quality of housing, and access to green space.(2) Copenhagen has been at the forefront of experimentation and urban design since the 1990s when the city decided to invest in the people and the urban environment.(3) Architects and urban designers in Copenhagen use the city as a foundation for these experimentations.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Research Project at DIS - Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Advisor: Rasmus Frisk MAA, Arki_Lab Copenhagen + Sydney
Digital Magazine
2016
Excerpt from the Publication:
Recently, cities around the world have been focusing their attention to the idea of livability and the way that the city functions beyond a purely economic outlook. With such rapid urbanization, the world is facing extreme challenges including shortages in housing, economic struggles, post-industrial decay, and other problems. No longer can only construction and engineering solutions fix these city's growing problems. Design and the idea of Designed Infrastructure, popularized by the British architect, Norman Foster, is the thought process of using design thinking to battle some of today's most complex urban issues by improving quality of life and environments in cities (1). Designed Infrastructure takes a more humanistic
approach, looking at the aesthetics of environments, the efficiency and use in the city, the diversity of environments and activity in an urban region, and how cities can move forward to increase standards of living. It also suggests that the competition between cities around the world will become increasingly more important to attract new workers and citizens and design can be a facilitator of this competition. (1)
Copenhagen, Denmark has been on the forefront of dealing with these immense challenges. The city is consistently ranked one of the best places to live in the world citing the livability of the region, the density, transportation networks, high quality of housing, and access to green space.(2) Copenhagen has been at the forefront of experimentation and urban design since the 1990s when the city decided to invest in the people and the urban environment.(3) Architects and urban designers in Copenhagen use the city as a foundation for these experimentations.
Copenhagen Regional Plan