City of Innovations – book series

The elective course ‘City of Innovations Project’ running in Q3 on a yearly base at TU Delft is led by the group of Complex Projects at the Department of Architecture. The results from the students’ work is collected into a book series by TU Delft Open Publishing. The course reflects upon architectural design strategies (stations) in response to mobility, energy and environment transitions. For the last three years, the City of Rotterdam is the main collaborator and test-bed for the explorations.

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CoI vol.1

‘Living Stations: The Design of Metro Stations in the (east flank) metropolitan areas of Rotterdam’ is the result of the course ‘City of Innovations Project’ 19/20. The Grand Paris Express metro project in France has inspired the course’s approach. Following the critical essays on the strategic role of the infrastructural project for city development interventions, the ‘10 Visions X 5 Locations’ chapter is a systematization of the work of 35 master’s students with input from designers of the City of Rotterdam and experts and academic from the University of Gustave Eiffel in Paris.

You can download the book here:  Living Stations: The Design of Metro Stations in the (east flank) metropolitan areas of Rotterdam | TU Delft OPEN Books

CoI vol.2

‘Inclusive Stations: Gates into the city of Rotterdam’ is the result of the course ‘City of Innovations Project’ 20/21. The course has been focused on three station locations which act as gateways to the city center of Rotterdam: Meijersplein Airport station, Rotterdam Alexander rail-metro station and Slinge metro station. The ‘6 Visions X 3 Locations’ is a systematization of the work of 27 masters students with input from designers of the City of Rotterdam, Delta Metropool Association and De Zwarte Hond.

You can download the book here:  Inclusive Stations: Gates into the city of Rotterdam | TU Delft OPEN Books

CoI vol.3

‘Transit stations: sub-centres in Rotterdam Zuid’ is the result of the course ‘City of Innovations Project’ 21/22 at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, led by the group of Complex Projects at the Department of Architecture. It is connected to the research project Walk-In (acronym of Widening sustAinable mobiLity networKs: Impact on Nodes) financed by NWO and part of the KIEM GoCi program. The book contains 7-scenarios for Rotterdam Zuid area. Students presented those research and design scenarios to the project partners of Walk-In and they learned from their expertise throughout the course. Those are the City of Rotterdam, Delta Metropool Association, De Zwarte Hond, PosadMaxwan, Mecanoo, Bureau Spoorbouwmeester, I&M, Prorail with the collaboration of the University of Gustave Eiffel. By doing so, students contributed to the objective of Walk-In: to investigate the potential of suburban stations in transition in the context of the low car inner city of Rotterdam and to develop generic guidelines and spatial solutions for the integration of sustainable mobility with public space and mixed urban functions and services.

You can download the book here: Transit Stations: Sub-centers in Rotterdam Zuid | TU Delft OPEN Books