With high-rise buildings, which design solutions create a street space with a human scale at eye level? 

The city's popularity continues as ever, and this can be seen in current building projects. These are increasing in height as the city densifies. From London to Oslo and from Vancouver to Amsterdam. Within the Sensing Streetscapes research project, Lectoraat Bouwtransformatie of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), together with design agencies, municipalities, developers and housing corporations, investigated how to create a human scale in area development with high densities. To this end, the researchers deployed design research, neuroarchitecture and AI. What lessons for practice emerged from this 2-year study and what insights did the experts come up with on this topical issue?

The researchers within the action research Sensing Streetscapes analyzed the applied design solutions in Amsterdam, Vancouver, Toronto, Manchester, London and Oslo to scale high-rise to human proportions at eye level. Because both the design assignment and the methodology of neuroarchitecture are new to the Netherlands, they worked together with international partners and cities. The analyzes show the realized solutions for the same urban planning rules. This made major differences visible.