Streetscape Territories

Streetscape Territories Streetscape Territories is an international research project that deals with the way buildings or properties are related to streets.

This project focuses on the territorial organization of urban projects, explored in different contexts, studied as part of different cultures and defined by different social networks. Streetscape Territories deals with models of proximity within a street, neighborhood or region and starts from the assumption that urban space, from the domestic scale till the scale of the city, can be understood as

a discontinuous urban space, containing different levels of collective use that are defined by multiple physical, cultural or territorial boundaries. Etymologically, streetscapes refer to systems of streets. Therefore, streetscape territories allude to the existence and importance of territorial systems as related to the street. Examples of these territorial systems could be a set of properties, of which the exterior boundaries are constantly questioned and tested by its neighbors, or a house or storefront that exists as part of a shared portico in a street. One might consider either a courtyard or passage commonly used by a restricted group of neighbors in a residential area, or even a square, as part of a succession or set of collective spaces within a city. Independent from the categories of scale or function, streetscapes are defined by and dependent upon systems of adjacent, overlapped, and integrated territories, controlled by multiple agents. Territoriality, permeability, and proximity have indeed become the real protagonists of urban growth or transformation. Therefore, the contemporary discourse on streetscapes can no longer focus on the aesthetics of a perfect set design or conflictproof environments. Neither does the quality of a streetscape depend on the size of the constituent building lots nor the dimensions of its buildings. The built environment, together with its constituent elements and related dimensions, is increasingly defined by access control and its inherent social networks. Who gets access to which spaces, when and how? As explored in the 1960s as a reaction to modern planning recipes, streetscapes can be seen as configurations—simple or complex—with physical, visual, and territorial factors defining a morphological and functional display of urban cues that are coded and decoded according to the present socio-cultural framework of a neighborhood. This model, however, needs to be updated according to new spatial and social phenomena. Streetscape Territories wants to take this particular challenge as a starting point. Collaborators Streetscape Territories Research Project:
Kris Scheerlinck, Pedro Dachs, Mateusz Mateusz Szymanowski, Ferran Massip, Mikel Gurrutxaga, Natalia Hidalgo, Román Sarrió, Joshua Dandois, Guillaume Dopchie, Amelie Van Neer, Michal Janak, Thomas Stroobants, Hannes Van Damme, Yannick Bontinckx and Kenneth Notte.

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25/09/2021

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Picture by Alvin Baltrop, New York, 1971-1991 Announcing a new architectural design studio for the Hudson Riverfront, Manhattan, New York, USA. Alvin Baltrop (1948 – February 1, 2004) was an Americ…

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Hi! Here is a follow-up of my ongoing architectural explorations of Streetscapes Essentials (see previous posts in this blog) as part of my research project. What is essential to the streetscapes i…

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(image from Shame, Steve McQueen, 2001) Here is the thing. Streetscapes are of little interest if we do not listen to the stories they unfold. For many years, I tried to analyze these collective sp…

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