Urban Design with Conversion of Existing Infrastructure Facilities

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25420543
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KAWASAKI MASASHI 京都大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (20195077)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KUBOTA Yoshiaki 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (60544955) ; YAMADA Keijiro 金沢工業大学, 環境・建築学部, 准教授 (00303850) ; YOSHIMURA Akiko 千葉工業大学, 建築都市環境学科, 准教授 (50356052) ; YAMAGUCHI Keita 京都大学, 大学院工学研究科, 助教 (80565531)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 都市再生 / 都市デザイン / インフラ / アメニティ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In recent years many cities in foreign countries have undertaken infrastructure conversion projects with using existing infrastructure facilities. This research aims at taking up these cases and considering these processes and strategy of planning, clarifying social backgrounds. Concretely, this research clarified the urban design processes and methods by infrastructure conversion as 1) Linea open-space creation with conversion of the historic railroad viaduct in New York, USA, 2) Riverside space conversion using the river port and historic buildings in Singapore, 3) Pedestrianized space conversion using the historic urban form in the historic center of Macau, 4) Regional revitalization with utilizing the industrial heritage and railroad infrastructure as “Emscher landscape park” in Ruhr region, Germany.

Free Research Field

景観デザイン