Densification as the Key to Suburb Regeneration
Giuseppe Verterame
The urban part of Driescher Hof in Aachen has a suburban condition characterized by sprawl that is typical more recent developments and the result decades speculation. In these contexts, meaning city strongly compromised, since theme living reduced to functionalist concept residence, experienced only within domestic space. regeneration project developed according Urban technique through structured densification system centralities (TDSC) addressing in-depth levels at different scales, from territory architecture. Centrality identified as an architectural type regenerates substantial voids suburbs with aim restoring its identity assuming strategic role relations between cities territorial settlements. Densification assumes greater importance process, action reorganizes available space, quality, well new function satisfies compositional formal structure
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