Beyond the Dike
Dike-ring 14 is the name for a series of dykes and dunes that protect The Randstad conurbation against the effects of climate change, rising sea-levels and subsidence. This has been achieved thus far with huge financial investments approximately every thirty years in order to raise the barriers that …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Coastal Conquest
For centuries artists have come to the island, although there never was a place to work there. Even though the artist feels right as home, there is no home to be found. Dune Studio is an inspirational facility, embedded in the dune landscape of Ameland, set within a natural environment, designed for …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Saline Flood
Redevelopment of the West Brabant area is a merger of the ‘known’ and the ‘to be’. A once thriving agricultural area does not have to lay in waste due to a new allocation plan. The landscape will change after the introduction of salt tidal water, but this gives opportunities for saline agriculture with …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Coastal conquest
Turn the tide means learning from the past. Old school hard edge coastal management since 1834 created subsidence, salinization and low subterraneous water levels. By implementing natural tides at the center of the island of Ameland, a sustainable future can be created. Dynamic coastal management can …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Saline Flood
The transition from a fresh water to a saline water system brings many opportunities. By following the concept of the landscape machine, the monoculture can transform into a rich and diverse landscape with ecological and economical values that strengthen each other. A sustainable area with much higher …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Foreshore
Ooghe 52 degrees is a respond to the Dutch coastal development. The projects finds a way to cooperate and design in a collective space: the Dutch horizon in this case. The new intervention is sea based and the North Sea forms the foundation. It reintroduces the Ooghe, an underwater mudflat. Here, a refinery …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Coastal Conquest
Both inhabitants and tourists of Ameland are in need for a new entry to the island. The lack of quality and adaptability of the current entry from the Wadden Sea makes separation between freight and passenger flows to and from the island necessary. The demand for aanew harbour creates new opportunities. …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Foreshore
Botanical Dunes finds its connection within the Foreshore project, which is dedicated to generate new qualitative coastal tourism. Botanical Dunes ensures a turnaround in the destruction of the present Dutch Dune-scape. Active Architecture offers elements which will revitalize the Dune-scape of – Natura …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Coastal Conquest
Considering the rising sea level and the high expenses of keeping the Wadden dike at Ameland intact, it is important to make a place where knowledge, research and testing of new solutions for dynamic coastal management are brought together. This science center has all these functions under the same roof …
2015-10-25Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access
Coastal Conquest
Design for a spa at the intersection of landscapes. With the sea level rise due to climate change, the traditional way of keeping the island save, by building dikes, will eventually become unaffordable. With farsightedness, twenty-five years ago an experiment with dynamic costal management was started …
2015-10-10Taal, Cultuur & KunstenMasterOpen Access