How can Hong Kong's housing development escape its unrelenting uniformity? How might architects and developers bypass strict planning and building regulations? How might they add more value by creative design? How might they realize innovative and attractive housing towers, towers that would radically change Hong Kong?Hong Kong's notoriously strict building regulations impose a relentless uniformity on the city. This book aims to propose new indicators to achieve a proper balance between popu...

Na een tijd waarin begrippen als 'programma', 'data' en 'beeld' de boventoon voerden, zien we in de hedendaagse architectuurpraktijk nu een hernieuwde zoektocht naar 'sfeer'. OASE heeft de twee vooraanstaande architecten Peter Zumthor en Juhani Pallasmaa, die sfeer hebben uitgeroepen tot een kernthema van de architectuur, uitgenodigd om in gesprek te gaan over hoe je sfeer bouwt.In zijn interview met OASE verbindt de Finse architect Juhani Pallasmaa het begrip sfeer met zintuiglijke ervaringe...

At the main point of intersection between the railway and the city, stations are key elements in the organization of the intermodal transport as well as catalysts of urban developments in metropolises, medium and small cities. The focus of this publication is to explore the enrichment of a renewed approach of railway stations as intermodal nodes, therefore acting as breeding grounds for both urban and social developments.

In this publication, invited experts from practice and knowledge instit...

Public libraries want to contribute to an inclusive and innovative society and aim to enable their patrons to acquire the necessary 21st century skills. Dutch public libraries are therefore gradually adding more and more activities to their curriculum, teaching these different types of skills, such as ‘invention literacy’.

They also often provide a ‘performative space’ (i.e. a makerspace) for their patrons. This means library spaces are no longer dominated by books, but rather reflect...

Architectural training seems to be more difficult to organize than ever before. After May 1968, education was radically democratized, or at least that was the intention. However, the 1999 Bologna Declaration radically changed the structure of architecture schools as well. Is there any tradition left to hand down to students? What skills do they need before they can enter the job market? And how about the kind of knowledge that may not be practical, but is nevertheless necessary to fully under...

This research aimed at understanding how occupants use energy in their homes to make themselves feel more comfortable. This was done to propose customized environmental characteristics that could improve the occupants’ comfort while reducing energy consumption. To conceptualize such bespoke environmental features, occupant archetypes were produced based on the occupants’ intentions and motivations behind comfort behaviours.

A mixed-methods human-centered design approach was developed for ...

ONTO 03 maakt het gebruik van referenties in het artistieke proces en in de argumentatie ervan nadien, zichtbaar en bespreekbaar door middel van beschrijving, analyse, vergelijking en duiding. Hoe, wanneer en waarom worden referenties gebruikt? En welke soorten en vormen zijn er precies?

Het gebruik van referenties wordt zelden gezien als een belangrijk onderdeel van de artistieke praktijk en de ontwerppraktijk. Het gebruik ervan lijkt te berusten op een vanzelfsprekend opgebouwde kennis, per...