INFRATECTURE
Infrastructure by Design

A city’s infrastructure forms a ‘spaghetti’ of streets, tunnels, routes and lines. But infrastructure can be so much more than a functional necessity. Infratecture stands for really designing integrally and realizing infrastructure that aims for a functional solution for traffic flows while simultaneously adding social, cultural, ecological and economic value.

Infratecture shows how the right mentality, sincere collaboration and an intelligent design can result in infrastructure that can be a meaningful part of our daily living environment. With 15 perspectives and 30 international best practices, this book illustrates this in an inspiring way.
This is a practice-based book about designing and realizing streets, crossings, squares, bridges and viaducts, but also about designing biotopes, noise barriers, junctions and even speed.

CONTENTS

Introduction 

Designing infrastructure

History

Attitude

Cases
1.Transfer
2. Infrabuilding
3. Decision points
4. Commerce
5. In the dark
6. Bridging
7. Reuse
8. Art
9. Storage
10. 24/ 7
11. Street
12. (De)fencing
13. Roadside biotipes
14. Speedscapes
15. Panorama

Just do it

Literature 

Credits

About the author

THE AUTHOR: 

• Marc Verheijen is a traffic engineer and an architect. He works at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences as Infratecture professor and at the Urban Planning and Public Works Department of the municipality of Rotterdam as an architect.