to my surprise the faculty used my collage on the front page !
The images are clips from a series of site photos I took in Malmö on various study trips. My focus was to enhance street life and diversity, by activating the street edge using mix-use, low-rise buildings with retail space on the ground floor, residential on the top. The key is to provide visual connection between street level and buildings, to allow maximum communication, direct or indirect. People are encouraged to set up smalle business and personalise their spaces, creating an interesting collage of elevations, breaking down the scale of often long, tedious roads. The street is a typology that can be duplicated across the city, vitalising and connecting the movement of people on bicycles and feet, discouraging the use of cars. With the constant activity and movement, the street will become a safer place, where conversations happen, and events are made. Public spaces start from the little gestures along the street, anywhere can become a meeting point, a gathering ground, a market, and a festival.
