This is the final presentation for my Masters Thesis project in Urban and Rural Design at Queen's University Belfast. The project was based in Vinterviken, an area located to the south west of Stockholm city centre. The aim of this project was to analyse the valley of Vinterviken and attempt to reconnect it to the immediate surrounding communities aswell as the greater Stockholm area whilst paying patricular attention to both planning and design details.
This individual project is based on rural housing design with the context of ‘Rural Northern Ireland’. The aim was was to identify a challenging site and create a rennovation or addition to the building which integrates into the surrounding landscape, benefits access and demonstrates high qaulity design which is appropriate to its rural setting and sympathetic towards traditional building style.
This prestation document is the final stage of an urban design project based in the Liberties area of South Dublin, Ireland. The initial stages involved working as a group to create an analysis and prepare an urban design strategy for ‘ Site C’. Stage 3 of the project gave me the opportunity to pick a particular plot within Site C and create my own design proposal. This project repeats the strategy proposed with a group of students at stage 2 and discuss further design proposals for an ‘urban public square’ which compromises a number of uses.
“Do not neglect the idea of ‘a little urban fun’” – Tibbalds 1992
