Encouraging urbanity through new connectivities between living and urban athletic infrastructures

Tutors: Socrates Stratis

2008-09

How could new connectivities between residential and athletic facilities next to a highway encourage new forms of urbanity? The study area is located next to a new junction of the peripheral highway of Limassol, closed to the main football stadium of the city, (Tsireion). The students were invited to study the existing suburban conditions and propose new ones by increasing substantially the existing density. They investigated proximities of such dense residential environments with new urban athletic infrastructures. How could, through such new program, the role of the highway be revisited, adding to it an urban role and reconnecting it back to the city fabric in different ways proposed by the students. Furthermore, how the new athletic program could generate connectivities amongst different kinds of people living in such suburban environments.