4 MINUTE CITY
2012
How large can the city of Rotterdam be if every building or function should be reachable within 4 minutes? This studio developed a list of vehicle properties, organized by vehicle speed. The list includes information on the vehicle's maximum speed, buffer zone, passenger capacity, turning radius, maximum inclination, and the vehicle's so-called action radius, the distance the vehicle can cover within 4 minutes.
For the whole city of Rotterdam and for each of the six stereotypical households (students, adults without children, families with stay at home parents, families with employed parents, people from outside the city and people living in institutions) in the city, building and function volume and connection intensities at peak hour were calculated and visualized.
Peak hour connection intensities in the city of Rotterdam, between functions in the city (top) and individiual units of each function (bottom).
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Team: Jasper Poortvliet and Lara Tomholt
Instructors: Tihamer Salij, Winy Maas (The Why Factory, part of MVRDV)