Biomapping Delft Suburb

080225_biomapping de hoven aldi and asian market

the task was to find a motivation of an urban area in delft and map it. scale-jumping was encouraged, as was technologies of the gps and 'lie detector' (that shows intensity of place).

movement and the emptiness of space is what we set out to explore in a suburban area of Delft, where there is a great social mix of people (ranging from poor people, the elderly, students, foreign students, immigrants, middle class).

our group decided to recorded the sensual experience of the place, with respect to intensity of place, in a low-tech way. 3 of this group documented the visual intensity and movement of 3 specific points in this area: de hoven entrance and tram stop; asian market and pedestrian thoroughfare; aldi entrance and car park.

Intensity was documented by the quantitative number of people entering the space, on foot, bicycle, car, bus and tram. The intensity of this was graphed like a heartbeat in these 3 specific areas.
It was agreed that this excercise would be useful to someone working for some number-crunching developer, but this is besides the point. The route taken suggests that people are the blood of the urban environment, and the heart the place where they are drawn to / powered from.