ARCHITECTURE

Theories of Architecture and Urbanism

Project 1 : ‘Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space’

Project Part 1 : Case Study

Jahn Gehl in the Life Between Buildings (1971) “examined the relationship between patterns of space use, especially outdoor activities, and the spatial properties of the physical world. He introduced the concepts of necessary, optimal and social activities.
For this particular task, students are to read Jahn Gehl’s Life Between Buildings (Chapter 1). Subsequently,   the students are to examine patterns of social activities in a city (foreign city to be provided by instructor*) and identify ‘contact points’.  They are to classify the varying degrees of contact intensity. 

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