The Rhine-Waal Valley needs an urban tissue with excellent liveability standards. By restoring the harmony between occupation patterns, landscape structures and natural processes, a new balance will flourish between man and nature. A careful alignment based upon the specific characteristics of the “water …

The Stuwwal Nijmegen provides special beauty with landscape contrasts such as the contrast between high and low. The complex underground provides a great diversity in flora and fauna. This extraordinary beauty is in danger of being lost due to increasing climate change. The hilly landscape extends to …

The current water management of the Ooijpolder is focused on discharging the excess domestic water to the Waal. This takes place by one (or in heavy rain two) pumps. Due to safety standards it is mandatory to have two additional pumps which can support the discharge of the water in case of extreme rainfall …

Sweet Retreat is a new type of agriculture and a upgrade to the architeral landscape. It provides for a more involved foodproduction.

The Well is a synergy of landscape, architecture, nature and water. It offers an alternative way of living as an ecological system wher nature hosts the built environment as a guest and simultanaeously nature itself is a guest within the built environment. Prevously the City of Antwerp had a strong connection …

Vacancy and decline in the rural area on one side and urban growth on the other side ask for new forms of spatial use. Exploring adequate solutions to guaranty the livability in the whole region of Arnhem Nijmegen is a necessity. New forms of agriculture, biobased economy, optimized deploying of the …

This vademecum allows us to look at landscape in a different way. Landscape here is not considered as a static image, a picture painted by nature or designed by man. It is, instead, considered as the temporary result of social, economic and political movements, as a snapshot in the continuous interaction …

De vraag naar woon-, werk- en recreatiegebieden in de overstromingsgevoelige IJssel-Vechtdelta blijft ondanks de waterperikelen. De geplande bypass bij Kampen is niet geheel onomstreden. Het deelt het bestaande cultuurlandschap in tweeën. Door de minimale breedte zijn er hoge dijken nodig waarachter …

Het veldonderzoek vond plaats in de overgangszones van drie steden: Gouda en Alphen aan den Rijn in het veenweidelandschap, Zoetermeer in het droogmakerijlandschap

Het ontwerpondersteunend onderzoek is gericht op het vinden van handvatten voor de uitwerking van het masterplan. Het masterplan is gemaakt voor de omgeving Kampen en Zwolle, gelegen in de IJssel-Vechtdelta. Nederzettingen in de IJssel-Vechtdelta hebben tot op heden niet altijd gebruik gemaakt van hun …