Benjamin Bomben
Architectural Engineering
Hybrid Adaptability: Transforming single use parking lots into an active environment
The built environment is unable to easily adapt to future social, environmental and economic contexts. Producing a significant amount of waste to try and upgrade the past, rather than trying to design for the future. In parallel, there is a need to provide more housing and academic spaces throughout the TU Delft Campus. The project develops a prefabricated timber kit of parts system, combining 1D, 2D and 3D systems to quickly transform underused locations of existing parking lots throughout the TU Delft Campus. The kit of parts can be reconfigured to address a variety of scales and generate site-specific responses. The system itself allows for parts to be easily exchanged, added, removed or redesigned.Offering a new way to quickly generate a new circular built environment that is not confined to the date it was constructed but rather allows the built environment to easily evolve alongside TU Delft’s innovations.