500m

N

500m N

Design model: Vlietscape

BoezemWillow forestryDitchRobinho parkReet DitchDitch

20m

Design model: International Zone

The land-in-Between

Design model: A4 Parkway

100

70

100

100

50

Design Principles:- Establish a strong contrast between urban and rural land-uses within urbanised areas.- Spatial organisation by country estates and polder landscape. - Estates as Foci along the Vliet. - Polder parcels provide a variation of plantation.

Programmatic opportunities:-Re-working of the landscape as a production landscape allowed by ecological or global climate objectives.-Residential quality in correlation with isolation:Using the reference of the former peat reclamation lakes the ‘production polder’ could provide an interesting basis for an dynamic residential landscape

Each of the models is de! ned through the development of a speci! c typological approach providing the main design principles. In relation to this typological elaboration of the models, also programmatic directives have been developed providing an assessment of the spatial claims.

Design Principles:- Provide a clear character to the Coulisse and de! ne their relation with the urban occupation that encloses them.- Provide a coherent structure (design language) to the urban Boulevard, the central artery in the new system of secondary roads and in addition provide in a di" erentiation of other routes.

Design Principles:- Introduce the infrastructural lines to organize the development of the Vlietzone in di" erent smaller zones that confront each other and allow developments along the parkway.

4. Legibility: Local identity

5. Legibility: Landscape grain

1. Integration of the flowscape with the local context

To re-arrange the spatial organisation from the Vlietweg the main recommendation is to threat the re-organisation of infrastructure as an integrated assignment in the development of the zone.

2. Permeability & internal connectivity

3. Road-allotment relation: routing & public space

More attention for road-allotmentrelationships provides the opportunity to:- Stage programme along the # owscapes of Vliet, A4 and urban motorway by routing, following the example of estates as foci along the Vliet- Develop a more qualitative public space along the main infrastructure.

Private garden

Public walk

Appartment blocks typology

10 m

bu!er

13 m

Vlietweg

30 m

inner street

Estates

Low rise housing typology

20m

Programmatic opportunities:- Introduce recreational program or ecological and cultural historical objectives to activate the Coulisse.- De! ne the Coulisse by residential program or program with an economical function.- Allow Coulisse to accommodate institutions or retail.programs that contribute to a staging of the di" erent routes.

Programmatic opportunities:- $ e Vliet as linear route with small recreational program. Allowing residential program, supported by cultural historical objectives.- $ e Parkway developments structures larger recreational program in relation with o% ces, retail and program oriented on a regional scale.- Residential program will be supported in the intermediate zone between the A4 and the Vlietzone.* A large scale (international) event program will be required to restructure the A4 infrastructure.

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B

Generic Design principles

$ e three models that are presented to you deal with the problems that have emerged with the development of the urban fringe into an enclosed urban fringe. While the le& column introduces the speci! c potentials that are to be found in each of the models seperately, this section will present to you the generic principles for enclosed urban fringe developments.$ e generic principles are introduced as conclusions that apply to all the models.

A design experiment on the spatial transformation of the enclosed urban fringe

500m

N

500m

N

500mN

500m

500m

N

500m N

June 2011, Sven van Oosten,Graduation project Delft University of TechnologyDepartment of: Urbanism Graduation studio: Urban Regeneration

Mentors: John Westrik, René van der Velde

An extended model

industrial heritage

Havenspoorpad

Cultural heritage

Charloise lagedijk

A15

Rail

Railway

Cultural heritage /

HaarlemmertrekvaartN200

Cultural heritage /

Old Rhine

A44

Railway

$ e thesis links the generic principles to other fringe areas with similar characteristics such as the A15 zone in Rotterdam and the Brettenzone in Amsterdam.

Ultimately the thesis argues for a de! nition of the fringe from the # owscape, in relation to open landscape enclaves and urban fabric, as a binding elements in the future fringe.

source: Stadsrandenatlas van de Zuidvleugel, Lola landscape architects (2011), Own elaboration

source: Google earth, own elaboration

Source: Google earth, own elaboration

Source: Google earth