Samenvatting

‘Flow, a journey of wellness and nature’ is composed of three parts. It starts with a visitor center at the edge of the nature reserve Maashorst, near the highway. A cycling and walking route leads to a gate platform, from where a raised path leads to a wellness pavilion and an outdoor terrace. The orchestration of the route ties in with the therapeutic goals of the embedded termen spa, inspired by the attributed medical ‘wijst water’ phenomenon along the Peel fault line. By reprogramming vacant farmland into a restorative retreat, the project explores architectural, ecological and biophilic sources for regeneration of the land and for human well-being. It offers a site-specific response to a territory shaped by centuries of extraction.