This presentation was prepared for DAB220 Placemaking in Architecture, QUT School of Design, to assist students with Project Two. It provides images of pedestrian shelters and urban interventions. Used for education and teaching purposes only.
2. A pedestrian is a person travelling on
foot, whether walking or running. In
some communities, those travelling
using tiny wheels such as roller
skates, skateboards, and scooters are
also included as pedestrians.The term
mostly refers to someone walking on a
road or footpath.
3. A shelter is a basic architectural structure or
building that provides cover
Definition: protection, habitat
Synonyms:
cover, den, digs, dwelling, guard, haven, hermit
age, hide, hideaway, hideout, home, protector, r
efuge, roof, sanctuary, security, shack, shade, sh
ield, tent, umbrella
4. SteelTrees
Steel trees with sprawling
branches support the glass roof
of this greenhouse in
Switzerland by Buehrer Wuest
Architekten
5. Pavilion
This pavilion by Beijing
studioVector Architects is used
to wash and prepare crops
during the harvest at a farm in
ruralChina
6. Pavilion
German architects HENN have
created a streamlined pavilion
with a curled-over steel roof for
car brand Porsche at
theAutostadt theme park
inWolfsburg
7. Tree House Cabins
These tree house-like cabins by
Thai designerWorapong
Manupipatpong are built up
around the column of a
building rather than over the
branches of a tree.
8. Stilted Hut
The 2012 Olympic games begin
today and this latticed timber
hut on stilts by Hackney
architects StudioWeave now
marks the direct route from the
City of London to the Olympic
Park.
9. Temporary Pavilion
The charred exterior of this
temporary pavilion in
Bergen, Norway, references 16
major fires that have taken
place in the city since the
twelfth century.
10. Pavilion
Here are some photographs of
the recently completed Coca-
Cola Beatbox, a pavilion in
the London 2012Olympic Park
that can be played like a
musical instrument
12. Mobile Pavilion
This mobile pavilion for a
travelling chef by Barcelona
studio Rodero Beggiao
Architects will comprise
two wedge-shaped modules
that can be reconfigured to suit
each new home.
13. Serpentine Pavilion
Herzog & de Meuron andAi
Weiwei’s SerpentineGallery
Pavilion was our most popular
architecture story last week so
here’s a run-down of all twelve
temporary pavilions over the
years by architects including
SANAA in 2009
(above, photographed by Iwan
Baan), Jean Nouvel in 2010 and
FrankGehry in 2008.
14. Bottom Up
‘Bottom Up’ Public Intervention
at International Architecture
Festival / eme3
15. Homeless Shelter
Upper SpaceArtists Hijack Bus
Shelters to Address UK
Homelessness
Upper Space worked alongside
young homeless people in the
city of Manchester – the UK’s
fourth most deprived city, in
the creation of street art
interventions that critically
engaged with the governments
changes to the housing benefit
system.
16. Bubble Pavilion
Dutch firm DUSArchitects
have created a pavilion made
of bubbles.Visitors to a
Rotterdam square had to
construct the soapy walls
themselves by lifting metal
frames from five-sided steel
pools.
17. SpinningCanopies
Created for the Shenzhen &
Hong Kong biennale of
urbanism/architecture
2011, the lightweight circular
canopies reveal their golden
undersides when they spin.
Video at:
http://vimeo.com/33868921
18. Tree of Knowledge
Memorial
Tree of Knowledge
Memorial, Barcaldine, Queensl
and, provides a protective
casing for the bones of theTree
of Knowledge as well as shelter
for visitors and pedestrians
21. SteelTree
This steel tree designed by
SamuelWilkinson & Oloom as
part of a grouping of outdoor
furniture for public space in
Lausanne, provides shade and
its “roots” take the form of
benches beneath the wooden
canopy
22. Urban Negative
The design proposal, Urban
Negative by LauraCrane, is a
modular canopy
system, composted of different
components that enable the
alley to retain its utilitarian
function and conform around
existing program while
facilitating a new public space.
The five different components
vary in form based on their
function, from a lighter
component, to a planter
component, to an air-filtering
component that is coated with
titania nanoparticles to help
remove allergens from the air.
The placement of the
components is indicative of the
program beneath.
23. Lantern
Norwegian wood / the
LANTERN pavilion
1st prize international
competition for an urban
shelter and the regeneration of
Sandnes centre, Norway on the
occasion of Stavanger
EuropeanCapital of Culture
2008.
29. Pirrama Park
Pirrama Park by
Aspect Studios
Client:City of Sydney
Project Partners: AspectStudios.
HillThalis Architecture +Urban
Projects,CABConsulting and
TheCity of Sydney
30. Stacked City Camping
Structure
StackedCity Camping
Structure for Portable Urban
Shelter by Import.Export
“Unlike the flat, natural and
remote settings of standard
campsites this structure is
vertical, artificial and intended
to be erected in even the most
dense of urban settings”
http://dornob.com/stacked-
city-camping-structure-for-
portable-urban-
shelter/#ixzz2dFIyDpu8
31. Flux Cocoon
Designed for Lausanne
Lumieres (Urban Light
Festival), Flux Cocoon was
selected as one of the winning
projects of the the city’s first
Light Festival, which
inaugurated on November 23rd
and will run until early January.
Designed by Allegory, it is
located on the pedestrian
bridge in the Flon
area, Lausanne.
http://www.archdaily.com/299
866/flux-cocoon-for-lausanne-
lumieres-urban-light-festival-
allegory/
32. Glebe Point Road Bus
Stop
HUB was engaged to work
through the design detailing
and production of a unique
street scape element which
incorporates a vibrant array of
custom coloured panels on
Glebe Point Rd, Sydney.The
strong effect is echoed in the
school fence behind the
shelter.
http://www.hubstreetequipme
nt.com.au/Shelter/Bespoke/Gle
be-Point-Road-Bus-Shelter
33. Bird Hide
MAKEArchitecture Studio’s
proposal for a bird hide extends
from an existing
pathway, creating a veiled
lookout wrapped in angled
louvres.
http://www.australiandesignrev
iew.com/designwall/1497-un-
built-bird-hide-westgate-park
34. Green-Roofed Shelter
& Urban Curbside
Lounge
JCDecaux, the North American
company that invented the
‘street furniture’ concept of
outdoor
advertising, collaborated with
designer Mathieu Lehanneur to
create a green-roofed rest and
wifi stop for pedestrians in
Paris.
http://weburbanist.com/2012/0
7/03/green-roofed-shelter-is-
urban-curbside-lounge-for-
paris/
35. Installation
Students at the Architectural
Association in London have
constructed leaf-like sculptures
that curl down from a fourth-
floor roof terrace to a ground
level courtyard.
36. Shade Structure
Study for a new pedestrian
canopy on Druitt Street. Our
commission from the City
called for a continuous shelter
for cafe customers and
commuters waiting for the bus.
As a starting point we sampled
the geometry of the existing
Council House building.We felt
this new urban fabric needed to
establish a memorable place
along this busy city footpath.
De Manincor Russell
ArchitectureWorkshop
37. Shade Structure
A circle of trees will frame an
hourglass-shaped hut for Milan
that won’t be complete for 100
years.
38. Intervention
Proxy, a temporary spatial
intervention organized and
designed by Oakland design
collaborative Envelope A+D,
has transformed a quiet corner
lot of San Francisco (at Octavia
Boulevard and Hayes Street, to
be exact) into a vibrant social
space
43. Gazebos
Alga(e)zebo is located at a busy
train station but in a very
unfortunate place: far from the
madding crowd. It's a shame
because it is so interesting and
cozy. It's a big rusting recycled
steel structure, acting like a
gazebo, with a small intimate
enclosed seating area and a
half-dead vine that is meant to
grow up the side. A second pod
has a solar light.
44. Green Sanctuary
Part art installation, part
portable sanctuary, the “Ma
Bulle, Ma Plante, & Moi” (My
Bubble, My Plant, & Me)
exhibition by Amaury Gallon
recently placed several
transparent, plant-filled bubble
structures on the streets of
Paris to provide passers by with
15 minutes of
inspiration, beauty, and fresh
air.
45. Inflatable Pavilion
Custom designed and
handcrafted by Studio
Souffle, this inflatable
structures is portable and can
be popped up just about
anywhere.
47. City Leaks
A Playground for Urban
Dwellers/ Reuse of Milk Crates
PlayMo is an urban intervention
by the platform City Leaks.
48. Treepods
Designers Mario Caceres and
CristianCanonico have
designed a set of beautiful air-
filtering trees for the
SHIFTboston urban
intervention contest. Called
TREEPODS, the designs
harnesses biomimicry to
efficiently emulate the carbon
filtration qualities of trees.
49. Living Pavilion
Dubbed “Living Pavilion”, the
temporary, low-tech and zero-
impact structure is made of
reclaimed milk crates that will
be become a growing surface
for an edible garden.