The municipality of Rotterdam has the ambition to realize a healthy city by 2020. A healthy diet is high on the list of priorities and the municipality is supporting initiatives to ensure that healthy food is available for resident of Rotterdam. The Oude Westen district in the city center of Rotterdam …

Although Grodzka Island is located in the heart of the city, many citizens of Szczecin have forgotten this piece of land. The island is surrounded by a very strong historical context of the popular cultural centre and an upcoming new hotspot in the city: the post-industrial harbour. Today, the city of …

The Antwerp Zoo has been chosen as the pilot location for a meeting place to rediscover nature in the center of a modern city. People look for nature and thus create places for such encounters in cities: a public garden, a botanical garden, a zoological garden. Life has always been subject to the limitations …

CONCORDIA - the greatest level of craftsmanshipThe transformation of a former textile factory into a University of Craft with the ambition for a improvement strategy of a small Polish town, Bolesławiec. INTRODUCTION We are citizens of the world, we travel long distances and seek new advantures. But …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

Compost is an ecological way to turn waste into soil. By transforming the abandoned Sparrenkade Powerhouse into a CEC (composting experience center) it will become the kick-starter of an urban ecosystem. The CEC is located opposite the city's waste disposal company, which will later become a demonstration …

In Delft, a fundamental perspective shift between different generations is born. By providing shared office and studio spaces for professionals from different age groups in the former City Hall at the edge of the historic center of Delft, a city route through the design of Jo Coenen is revived. This …

Insteek van dit onderzoek was: “Wat is de invloed van vrij grote, kunstmatige hoogteverschillen in de Nederlandse openbare ruimte in ruimtelijke en functionele zin?”. Gekozen is voor het onderwerp hoogteverschillen, omdat er in het plangebied de Spuikom (Vlissingen) veel hoogteverschillen voorkomen. …

De prairiebeplanting is in de jaren ’90 in Europa terechtgekomen door interesse van diverse botanici en tuinarchitecten die zich in deze materie verdiepten. De trend begon rond deze jaren, waarbij grassen worden gecombineerd met vaste planten wat een natuurlijk karakter uitstraalt. Tijdens de aanleg …

In opdracht van de Sociale Moestuin Sliedrecht en de gemeente is gekeken hoe een stedelijk gebied zich in de toekomst kan ontwikkelen en wat het aandeel van de sociale moestuin hierin is. Er is daarom allereerst een inventarisatie en analyse van geheel Sliedrecht en vervolgens van het projectgebied en …