Pärt and the Experience of the Neutral

Towards Enhanced Resilience in City Design: A Proposition

“…This already takes place in the form of moveable or floatable houses, but not in a coherent way at an urban design scale. Elaborating the idea to "Colonize the Void" [96,97] of Randstad Holland with individual homes on large plots of gardens [98], while leaving behind the unsustainable and expensive Dutch idea to add two meters of sand for stabilizing reasons before building can commence, the planning model called "Lite Urbanism" [99][100][101][102] proposes an alternative. It consists of two typologies: "Campingland", a super-communal space that can be set up as a wood or nature reserve, and "Villageland", with large gardens around houses, enabling a village-like environment at low densities of seven to ten dwellings per hectare [99].…”

“…Elaborating the idea to "Colonize the Void" [96,97] of Randstad Holland with individual homes on large plots of gardens [98], while leaving behind the unsustainable and expensive Dutch idea to add two meters of sand for stabilizing reasons before building can commence, the planning model called "Lite Urbanism" [99][100][101][102] proposes an alternative. It consists of two typologies: "Campingland", a super-communal space that can be set up as a wood or nature reserve, and "Villageland", with large gardens around houses, enabling a village-like environment at low densities of seven to ten dwellings per hectare [99]. Both typologies make use of lighter roads and remove the majority of infrastructure, replacing telephone cables in the ground by mobile telephones, gas pipes by an electricity net connected to local alternative energy sources, and sewage plants at a distance by a water purification system in the garden.…”