The Transition, urban design, Ghent, Belgium Part 1 Project 2004 Eilidh Henderson University of Strathclyde | UK The Transition: Year 3, Semester 2 A design project focusing on the connection of two very different sections of Ghent, Belgium through creative intervention. MorphologyAnalysisBoundaryLayeringPatternSparkBorderThresholdEvolutionJunctionChangeDiagonalDynamicIntegrationConnectionInterventionLinkingRe-inventionMovementTextureEdgesBarriersFlowGrouping StructureGenerateOrientationCompletionArteryJuxtapositionCommunityTransportInteractionViewpointsEnergyPerspectiveRegenerationCarvingPresenceFramesRouteComparisonDevelopmentCultureUsersSiteRefiningCohesionInfluence EnclosurePocketsFlexibilitySequenceDirectionTerminationJourneyTransition Eilidh Henderson The project to redevelop the Scharnier area of Ghent, Belgium was considered by the Department to be an exemplary piece of urban design. We considered the design process as much as the final design worthy of particular praise. The student was greatly assisted in tackling the issues of such a large and complex area by exploring (through models and drawings) and applying other urban proposals from a range of different significant architects as a test to both draw out the problems and test potential solutions. This intelligent use of precedents resulted in the student both understanding those architects' own approach deeper, the design issues better and having greater confidence in approaching a personal strategy for the area. Far from resulting in an amalgam of 'favourite bits' from these, it helped the student generate a believable proposal. The work was presented to the Department through drawings, models and a particularly-engaging power point presentation which concluded with the detailed design of a particular component of the proposals. The Department thought that the work would have been praised had it been presented as a 5th year urban scheme. That it came from a third year student was all the more remarkable.