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robinde louw.
landscape architect portfolio
2015
2013
MSc Landscape Architecture (graduated with honorouble mention + ArchiPrix nominee)Technical University of Delft, The NetherlandsVilla Urbana: design of an experimental ensembleTeatro Urbano: park design in an urban transformationNew Dutch Waterscapes: design of a recreational landscapeLandscape Architecture ON site: being part of the Oerol festivalForum Romanum in Varna: landscape-based urban development strategy to slums
BSc Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (pre-selection Archiprix exhibition)Wageningen University and Research Center, The NetherlandsStudio Site design: design of an memorial landscapeStudio Urban design: urban regeneration designStudio Regional design: design of an agricultural landscapeIntegrated Metropolitan studio: landscape planningRiverscape: a (micro-)climate-adaptive redesign of a typical Dutch neighborhood
Robin de LouwBemuurde Weerd O.Z. 363514 AP UtrechtThe Netherlands
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2013
2014 The Juchowo Village projectResearch-assistant Biodynamic AgricultureJuchowo, Poland
Staatslieden Art CommunityAssistant urban designerUtrecht, The Netherlands
Genius LociCommittee member Wageningen, The Netherlands
Youth City CouncilRepresentativeLaarbeek, The Netherlands
2013
2004
[email protected](+31) 631045757
EXPERIENCE INDEX01. FORUM ROMANUM
02. THE POLDERDUCT
03. HOFBOS
04. VILLA CUBO
05. RIVERSCAPE
06. INSTITUTE OF TIME TAKING
07. STAATSLIEDEN ART COMMUNITY
08. Drawings
Academic projects And/Other01.
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FORUM ROMANUM, 2015Landscape-based urban development strategy to integrate informal Roma settlements
01. MSc Landscape ArchitectureTechnical University of Delft
5th year design ThesisIn-situ slum upgradingVarna, Bulgaria
The city of Varna is facing major challenges in the post- communist urban landscape such as floodings and accentuated socio-spatial fragmentation. European and National Roma Integration Strategies are currently lacking the capacity to be implemented in this complex urban reality. This project approaches the natural landscape in an operative way by using it’s characteristics as a spatial development framework to re-activate social capital.
The natural landscape of Varna is hidden in the post-communist urban structure of canalization and fragmentation. Its waterfront is highly inaccessible.
Mak
suda
Natural streams from the plateau have been turned into engineered canals
The neighborhood of Maksuda inhabits a Roma community at risk, facing social vulnerability natural hazard such as floodings and landslides
Black Sea300 m
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basic shelter primitive housing semi-solid 1 or 2 floor housing
solid 1 or 2 floor housing
advanced multiple floor housing
relocation to resettlement zone
clearance and redevelopment
conventional in-situ slum upgrading
marginalized community
Proposed landscape-based in-situ slum upgrading faciilitates a spatial framework for binding and bonding processes
Maksuda is a city within a city: a strong social network defines the neighborhood. Asset-based approach to upgrading should focus on the provision of infrastructure and urban connections.inhabitants make progress in their own housing facilities.
Traditional approaches to marginalized communities
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Primorski park
business & culture
systematizion neigbhorhood
Black Sea
Lake Varna Maksuda
brown fields mixed residential neighborhood
ring road
Varna may have all the components to develop towards an inclusive city, but it currently lacks the connective tissue to tie it all together. The canalized drainage system has the potential to be developed towards a socio-spatial framework guiding a sequence of public spaces along restored streams. This corridor connects the different urban communities by generating new mobility flows.
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systematizion neigbhorhood
Section and collage of the Maksuda zoneHighlighting the unique landscape features of cultural urban identity of the Roma
Section and collage of the Brownfield zoneHighlighting the potential open spaces around the canalized system
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regional 3d model
district 3d model
neighborhood 3d model
Multiscalar approach Augmented reality: projections on milled 3d models (30x22.5 cm)
If public space becomes the medium for integration, then the landscape becomes our canvas
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Augmented reality: projections on milled 3d models (30x22.5 cm) Detail of welded copper installationDetail of beech wooden base (45x34 cm)
The models (30x22.5 cm) are positioned in a sunken rectangle
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The development of Maksuda as Cultural Enclave in a new continuous park corridor focussing on pedestrian mobility and the restoration of urban streams: bonding within and binding along.
Strategic development plan of Maksuda towards a Cultural Enclave with urban significance
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Augmented reality: the Strategic Development Plan of Maksuda projected on the milled landscape
The four focus subjects within the European and National Strategy Roma Integration are spatialized in the new landscape
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ultu
ral t
erra
ces
with
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mun
ity s
tairs
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l lan
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long
cor
ridor
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‘balcony’ road path terraces gullysand path
terraces square community stairs with shops/centers/services
continuous walking path
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Section showing the Community stairs and agricultural terraces. The unused risk area is turned into a cultural landscape in which landscaped landforms are used to stabilize the grounds. The Agricultural terraces are important for income substitution.
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pedestrian entrance buss lane defined meadows with livestock fluctuating gully
defined meadows with livestock cont.walkingpath
Roma settlements
Section showing the rural park landscape in which typical Roma characteristics are acknowledged as aspect of the Cultural Enclave. Dedicated meadows for their livestock can be watched over from an elevated same-level path structure.
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local road
extension pedestrian zone into
Conceptual representation to highlight the ‘urban balcony’ as cultural cluster
Conceptual representation to highlight the design principles of the pedestrian zone
Zoom of the Strategic Development Plan of Maksuda focussing on the new local cultural landscape
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The new cultural landscape of Maksuda(map is projected on in the 3D landscape installation)
local network of waterpumps connected to the urban drainage system
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livestock
waste exchange
household farming
Elaborated design of the ‘Market Balcony‘ integrating the local landscape features and cultural characteristics of the urban Roma community
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Section III showing the community stairs which facilitate both public and private services, but also function as backbone of the terraced landscape. The balcony combines ceremonial space with a pop-up market and waste-exchange center.
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agricultural products: from the terraces, backyards or plateau to the marketwaste: from the city or neighborhood to the waste exchange centercoupons: exchange of waste into services located in the stairs
inter-local hub
Architectural model of the ‘Market balcony‘ highlighting new flows of goods and services
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Envisioned.The Roma as cultural enclave within the city
Before. Instable and segregated urban landscape
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Architectural model highlighting the connectivity of landscape and community
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Visual of the new cultural landscape in which traditional Roma elements are integrated within the larger urban reality
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industrial waterfrontoccupation over unidentified drainage system
open waterfrontCultural Enclave Maksuda
identified streams
( ( shaped ring road system X shaped ring road systemLow-speedmobility
undefined open spacegreen sponge: buffer
forest strip: infiltrationstream restoration
The proposed revision of the Strategic Development Plan of The Municipality of Varna in which the landscape functions as a socio-spatial framework to solve contemporary challenges such as floodings and marginalizations.
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Municipal proposal Revised landscape-based proposal
Maksuda is acknowledged as an vivid cultural space within a low-speed mobility corridor along the revitalized streams
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Augmented reality: the proposed revision of the Strategic Development Plan of The Municipality of Varna is projected on the milled landscape.
Mak
suda
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THE POLDERDUCT, 2014A recreational rural landscape in the heart of the metropolitan area of Rotterdam-The Hague
02. MSc Landscape ArchitectureTechnical University of Delft
4th year design of recreational landscapeMoerkapelle, the Netherlands
The Rotte is a small peat river in the Rhine-Maas-delta in the Netherlands. It sprouts in Moerkapelle, at the 140-Morgen Polder in the so-called Green Heart, and drains all surrounding polders. In present times one-third of the Rotte is positioned in the urban tissue of Rotterdam. This design focusses on the re-activation of urban-rural recreation by grasping the historical sensuousness of the polders in which sound was an defening characteristic.
The rural landscape has historically been of importance for recreational purposes
The original water management function of the windmills have been replaced by electronic pumpingstations. This changed the experience and relationship of citizens with the rural backland
“140
Mor
gen“
-Pol
der
port of Rotterdam
win
dmill
no.
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A risen river meandering across polders, skilled in binding words into flowing thoughts of diverse forms. Searching for words that can settle the thirsty souls along her shores, listen! For songs with poetic charms, and for verses of a writers tongue. Recall! The sound that water performs. The sound of water singing, flowing, over the pebbles, over the cobbles. The multiple of sounds that accompanies soaking rains, the dark splatters on a sidewalk, roaring swirls, along roadsides brown with mud. The slow hiss, pop and sputter of water moving up a level, long forgotten, and another level. The cohesion inherent in each chaotic drip
Music of the river
windmill no. 5
The historic watersystem of the ‘140 Morgen‘-polder. The four windmills in the front, ‘scoop wheel mills’, were able to level the water up one meter each, the two ‘screw mills‘ in the back two meter each.
Rot
te
A self-composed poem to express the historical identity and experience of the polder landscape.
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The ‘140 Morgen‘-polder has an equal surface level in both systems.
Three soil classifications can be derived depending on their clay gradient. The soil is stable for building and constructions.
The average highest water level is in between 40 and 80 cm, the average lowest is 120 cm below surface for both systems
The ‘140 Morgen‘-polder consists out of two separate polder systems or compartiments and is drained by two electronic pumpingstation with below-surface pipes nowadays.
Modern pumpingstation
In the proposed development plan for the ‘140 Morgen‘-polder both polder systems are merged into one system. The new pumping station is positioned in the center of the polder in a new fluctuating waterbody based on the soil and height characteristics
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pum
ping
stat
ion
‘The
Pol
derd
uct‘
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no. 5
no. 6
no. 1
no. 2
no. 3
no. 4
The
Pol
derd
uct
Model of the strategic development plan for the ‘140 Morgen‘-polder
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02.a
: the
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02.b
: she
ep-d
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02a: Longitudal section and plan of the Polderduct showing the sequence of spaces with coherent sounds
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02a: Longitudal section and plan of the Polderduct showing the sequence of spaces with coherent sounds
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02a: Longitudal section and plan of the Polderduct showing the sequence of spaces with coherent sounds
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ion
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02a: Short sections highlighting the different experiences on top of the Polderduct. The decreasing waterlevel from start to end results in different sound experiences of water falling down.
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02a: The Polderduct is a modern landmark expressing the historical relation of landscape, waterlevels and dikes. Water management has always characterized the dutch landscape, this design shows the landscape system.
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sm
all d
ike
that
his
toric
ally
se
pera
ted
the
two
pold
er s
yste
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is tu
rned
into
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p di
ke
02b. Plan and sections showing how the old dike is envisioned to turn into a core element in the walking structure
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02c. Plan and sections showing one of three allotment islands. The walking structure of the island follows the old reclemation pattern of the Polder.
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arriving walking over sand
stepping over the wooden walking path
birds
wind through reed
children playing with water
stone skipping
farming in the allotment gardens
sheep on the dike
water dropping from the leaves in the water
flowing water
pumping station The Polderduct
splatering water on the Polderduct
waterfall into the Rotte
stepping of the stairs
The design focusses on a new sensory experience of the Dutch rural landscape. Silence becomes sound again. By expressing the water management system with sounds, urban-rural recreation is activated.
Graphical walking path indicating the different experiences that resemble the new polder. The composed audio is accessible through https://soundcloud.com/robindelouw/the-polderduct-experiencing-the-new-dutch-rurality
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HOFBOS, 2013A multi-level park design in an urban transformation zone towards a compact layered city
03. MSc Landscape ArchitectureTechnical University of Delft
4th year design of urban regenerationRotterdam, the Netherlands
The last segment of the ‘Hofbogen’-highline is positioned in a high dynamic, ‘lined‘ urban landscape.
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ent o
f the
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ofbo
gen‘
-hig
hlin
e
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post-industrial area
railway
highway
‘park’ river ‘park‘‘main road‘ The viaduct has always been an defining characteristic of
the neighborhood. Fellow-students have designed other segments of the highline.
is intended to be converted to a (semi) public recreational area.
The center of Rotterdam is transforming. The 1.9 km long, arched ‘Hofplein’-viaduct was built in the early 20th century, the construction of an underground light-rail link between Rotterdam and The Hague made that the viaduct lost it’s infrastructural connection since 2010. This design focusses on the conversion of this monumental urban element into a lineair recreational area with local and regional significance.
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end of the Hofbogen-viaduct (height 0)
The design of the last segment of the Hofbogen-viaduct follows the Genius Loci of the landscape. A lined forest is designed, which will be the climax of the lineair, elevated park
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ists
pede
stria
n, s
oft
stai
rs
open
mea
dow
prom
enad
e
spor
tcen
ter
wat
erfr
ontThe forest is planted in line
with the construction blocks of the arches
The platforms with benches on top of the highline are positioned in accordance with the landscape lines
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Model of the design The path structure is in line with the arches to accentuate the monumal urban element
The open meadows in the lined forest are suitable for sunbathing
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‘highway’labyrinth with
enclosed benches
Plan, section and conceptual planting color scheme of the lineair park. The planting leads to a climax at the most dynamic urban ‘line’, which is the highway.
‘highway’labyrinth with
enclosed benches
‘river’wetland with
steppingstones
‘park‘grassland with shrubs
‘main road’grassland
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03a:
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tion
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03b:
sec
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construction detail II
white coating to cover opened reinforced concrete construction
squared timber
gravelconcrete ballast base course(150mm)
03a. Side view with construction details
construction detail II
basalt paving stones (150x250/500x100mm)
cover plate from non-alloy steel (10mm)
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tion
deta
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il IV 03b. Section with construction details
construction detail III
top soil, humussubstrate layer (300mm)drainage buffer layer (type FKD 25, 25mm)protective absorption layer(type RMS 300, 3mm)
construction detail IV
ground spot (LED)basalt paving stones (500x500mm)concrete ballast base course(150 mm)
tree pit with planting soil
support for young tree
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Hamamelis x Inter. ‘Pallida‘
Hamamelis x Inter. ‘Jelena‘
Hamamelis x Inter. ‘Diana
Bouteloua gracilis
Festuca amethystina
Nassella tenuissima
Koeleria macrantha
Crocus ancyrensis ‘Golden’
Scilla mistschenkoana
Helleborus argutifolius
Gaylussacia baccata (april)
Narcissus ‘Hawera’ (april) Fothergilla gardenii (may)
Tulipa batalinii (april) Asclepias tuberosa (july)
Papaver orientale (june)
Gypsophila paniculata (august)
Parthenocissus (oktober)
Rudbeckia (november)
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Fothergilla gardenii (may)
trees
Acer Campestre
base grasses shrubs perennials and seasonal
Asclepias tuberosa (july)
Gypsophila paniculata (august)
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VILLA CUBO, 2013A design to integrate a former limestone quarry into the regional natural landscape characteristics
04. MSc Landscape ArchitectureTechnical University of Delft
4th year design of an experimental ensemble‘T Rooth, The Netherlands
old
limes
tone
qua
rry
‘T R
ooth
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Geomorphology of Limburg
The landscape of Limburg in the south of the Netherlands is formed by the process of rivers cutting through geological sediments and therefore in high contrast to the rest of the ‘flat’ dutch landscape. Quarry ‘T Rooth‘ literally cuts it’s way through the regional landscape. This design focusses on the spatial integration of this artificial landscape into park which displays the characteristic system of plateau, slope forest and valley.
The characteristic landscape types of Limburg, with the quarry cutting through it.
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Vis
itors
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ter
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se o
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hig
h-tr
unk
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hard Retro-morphology
development plan showing the integration of the old quarry into the regional landscape characteristic by using vista’s
04b. Zoom of the visitors centrum, the core of the new valley
04a. Zoom of Villa Cubo, the house of the park supervisor, positioned in a limestone wall.
park entrance
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04b. The visitors centrum combining all directions in the landscape
04b. The re-appearance of high-trunk orchards in the southern Dutch landscape
04a. Longitudal section showing the retro-morphology of the landscape, while preserving some limestone walls
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II section I
topv
iew
04a. topview
04a. section I: central hallway positioned towards garden, view from rooms over landscape
04a. section II: the enclosed garden
bed
bed
living bed bath office
entr
ance
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ion
III
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04a. Section III: the living room and roofgardens
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04a. zoom of roofgarden with vegetables
04a. Model of the Villa Cubo
RIVERSCAPE, 2012A (micro)-climate adaptive redesign of a typical Dutch neighborhood facing heat-stress
05. BSc Landscape ArchitectureWageningen University
3th year design ThesisUtrecht, The Netherlands
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‘Maasplein‘ is the main square of the neighborhood and also playground of the primary school
The square is popular in use but lacks attractiveness
Most streets lack natural shading of trees
The rational structure of the neighborhood enables to categorize all streets in directions: N-S, E-W and N.E.-S.W., S.E. N.W.
The Rivierenwijk-neighborhood in Utrecht can function as a case to explore the potentiallity of a climate-based approach to revitalizing streets and squares. Prior to the design was an extensive analysis of materialization and albedo, wind directions, vegetation and shading. The urban design focusses on the use of these elements to regulate heat and manage water locally.
05a. ‘Maasplein’ square
05b. ‘Zuiderzeestraat‘ street
05c. ‘De Poort’ garden
The new open watersystem uses small raingardens and larger park structures to integrate water in the urban environment.
05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, plan
The ‘Maasplein‘ square and four streets, one of each direction, is redesigned to highlight the potentiality for the whole neighborhood to manage climate consequences
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05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, long section
05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, short section
The ‘Maasplein‘ becomes the green-blue heart of the neighborhood. The design incorporates fluctuating waterlevels and combines public with private uses.
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05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, long section
05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, short section
05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, impression waterlounge
05a. ‘Maasplein‘ square, impression playfield primary school
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05b. ‘Zuiderzeestraat‘ street, materialization and dimensions
05b.‘Zuiderzeestraat‘ street, impression streetscape05b. ‘Zuiderzeestraat‘ street, close-up of raingarden
1.6 1.4 0.75 2 3.5 2 1.6 0.5 0.8
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05c. ‘De Poort‘ garden, materialization and dimensions
1.6 8.75 3 7 3 4
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05c. ‘De Poort‘ garden, today
05c. ‘De Poort‘ garden, envisioned
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nce
to p
rivat
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rds
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INSTITUTE OF TIME TAKING, 2014Art as a layer of imagination over the landscape
Conceptual sections highlighting the new approach in coast protection of the Dutch government.
The “Institute of Time Taking” is a land art installation collaboratively developed by 15 students of the chair of Landscape Architecture at TUDelft for the annual 10-day Oerol Festival held at the island of Terschelling in the Wadden sea. The Dune landscape is expressed to visitors by using a scientific and a sensorial approach. In the project each visitor will experience both approaches. The project aims a long-term dialogue with and awareness to the visitors about human interventions and processes with our surroundings.
06. MSc Landscape ArchitectureTechnical University of Delft
4th year Land Art projectTerschelling, The Netherlands
fixed sea dike (traditional)
natural dynamic (revised)
Using the human body in a pattern to ‘measure‘ the landscape and define the Genius Loci
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c tra
ck Routing
Entrance
Visitors get a personal booklet with ‘scientific‘ tools which have been designed by the students. These tools can be used to measure the landscape along the track. Five audio spots along the track explain landscape systems such as flora and tidals. Each visitor is invited, based on the landscape pattern on the postcard, to one sensorial spot to experience the landscape.
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Routing
Entrance
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06a. The booklet given to each visitor includes five tools and one postcard.
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SUBLIME the overwhelming experience of being alone in nature
Each visitor is led to a private, sensorial spot in the landscape by a student. The visitor is left here alone for some minuts to re-experience the landscape. Each spot is positioned in a specific landscape type with matching chair.
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At the end of the track visitors can sent their experience to someone else by postcard. This is the postcard with one of five landscape patterns on the cover which was the key to their sublime moment.
The postcards have all been sent for free by the TUDelft, the project attracted a total of 6000 visitors.
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thunderclouds, the endless ocean, the strength of the wind
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Staatslieden Art Community, 2013Bottom-up initiatives for urban regeneration
Staatslieden, 2013Parkings, dog toilet, waste containers and social clustering at night
“Staatslieden Art Community“ is a collective of artists and designers in Utrecht that actively work together with the local community to generate social capital and spatial transformation. The Staatslieden-neighborhood is a post-war neighborhood facing socio-spatial challenges. This urban design has been developed in close contact with both residents and the spatial development department of the Municipality of Utrecht.
07. Assistent urban designer
Community-based designUtrecht, The Netherlands
Staatslieden, 1960
Art panels developed by Staatslieden Art Community
Staatslieden, 1993
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A defening characteristic of all housing blocks in the neighborhood are the patterns in the facade
Defening waste as elements
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The development plan for the square based on discussions with residents and the Municipality of Utrecht. The vegetation is low to avoid social clustering, even so no seats are placed. The envisioned planting is low-maintanance.
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II07a. The pedestrian zone surrounding the park has the potential to become a meetingpoint for the residents.
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07a. Impression of the park highlighting the new cultural value.
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nect
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ame
art d
ispl
ays
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07a. The park has been constructed in 2014, although the permanent art installations haven’t been constructed yet.
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DRAWINGS 08.
cherry orchard (charcoal and pencil)plateau edge (pencil)
landscape system (watercolor)
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