Exhibition Vertical Cities Asia in Singapore
08 February 2012 by Marketing & Communicatie
From 15 February unitl 2 March 2012, the exhibition ‘Vertical Cities Asia’ – displaying work from Urbanism and Architecture master students of the Architecture faculty TU Delft - will be on display in the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Singapore.
Architecture students awarded
In 2010/2011 Urbanism and Architecture students of the faculty of Architecture TU Delft have participated in the international competition Vertical City Asia. They were awarded for their design ‘The Wall’: an urban design for a square kilometer in Chengdou, China.
The Delft plan: The Wall
According to the jury ‘The Wall’ – a plan from Bart van Lakwijk, Jasper Nijveldt and Herman Pelweet - rightly won the second place. It is a robust plan that interweaves the various scales; from regional to urban and buildings. The plan was honoured for its thorough analysis as a start for interesting design solutions. In contrast to the immense but unpractical superstructures of other entries, the Delft team offered innovative but practical urban designs in which people actually want to live.
Vertical City Asia
Vertical City Asia is a new international design competition in which student teams of ten international universities will focus the urban design of a one square kilometer territory of an Asian city. This year’s edition focused on one square kilometer of Chengdou. The Vertical City Asia Competition is organized by the School of Design and Environment of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Competitors are design studios from the schools of architecture of National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Tongji University, Shanghai, University of Tokyo, ETH, Zurich, Delft University of Technology and University of California at Berkeley.
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