Lecture

A Urban Link

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This lecture explores the concept of urban design in Seoul, focusing on integrating the existing hilly terrain into the architectural project. The design aims to recreate the original topography, incorporating sports fields and parking areas. The lecture emphasizes the unifying role of empty spaces, connecting various pavilions and creating a pedestrian-friendly environment with amenities like cafes, fitness centers, and libraries. The architectural design includes classrooms, theaters, chapels, and cultural spaces arranged around a central public area. The three-dimensional layout allows for vertical movement and underground connections to other buildings, including a large underground parking facility. The valley not only serves as a central hub for students but also functions logistically, with water reservoirs for typhoon emergencies and water recycling. Overall, the design promotes sustainability, daily usability, and connectivity between the campus and the surrounding city.

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Urban design

Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban design considers 'bigger picture' issues of economic, social and environmental value and social design. The scope of a project can range from a local street or public space to an entire city and surrounding areas.

New Urbanism

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually influenced many aspects of real estate development, urban planning, and municipal land-use strategies. New Urbanism attempts to address the ills associated with urban sprawl and post-Second World War suburban development.

Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility.

Sustainability

Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long time. Specific definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. Experts often describe sustainability as having three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social, and many publications emphasize the environmental dimension. In everyday use, sustainability often focuses on countering major environmental problems, including climate change, loss of biodiversity, loss of ecosystem services, land degradation, and air and water pollution.

Sustainability measurement

Sustainability measurement is a set of frameworks or indicators to measure how sustainable something is. This includes processes, products, services and businesses. Sustainability is difficult to quantify. It may even be impossible to measure. To measure sustainability, the indicators consider environmental, social and economic domains. The metrics are still evolving. They include indicators, benchmarks and audits. They include sustainability standards and certification systems like Fairtrade and Organic.

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