The focus of the semester was on interpreting and looking at new ways of making the city to shape the improved life of 2050. Through architectural and urban interventions life in cities gets inspired to perceive new meaning. The task at hand is to create a transformation of Eindhoven to be ready to adapt the changes of great influential forces. Answers to transformation in technology, behavior, mobility, collectiveness and many more are interpreted in the transformation of Eindhoven (2018) into Scarcity (2050).

The Fellenoord district is one of the most important development areas in the city of Eindhoven, selected as a test case for the BNA City of the Future project. The area is located right in the center of Eindhoven, including the station area, close to the old city center and the Technical University of Eindhoven. Infrastructure decisions in the past have led to Fellenoord turning into a non-human scale traffic machine, disrupting the urban fabric of Eindhoven. Furthermore, the quality of public space is unacceptable due to unpleasant bicycle and pedestrian tunnels, inward-looking buildings, lack of lively functions and low-quality green areas.

The City of the Future needs more housing, more transport, more public space and so on, but there is only a limited amount of square meters. In other words: in the City of the Future, there is Scarcity of Space. This design proposal aims to attend to the problems of the past and present in the Fellenoord district, while also attending to the Scarcity of Space in the future. It does so by introducing a platform to the site, which enables the layering of the program and thus optimizing the use of space. The quality of public space and program improves while keeping an efficient transport system. This means that in the future, Fellenoord will be a pleasant place to pass through, but to stay as well.