Brainport's life cycle: Spatial strategy to strengthen the position of the Brainport Eindhoven in the knowledge economy

Brainport's life cycle: Spatial strategy to strengthen the position of the Brainport Eindhoven in the knowledge economy

Van Dijk, P.D.

Rosenboom, H.J. (mentor)
Westrik, J.A. (mentor)

Architecture

Urbanism

2013-01-25

The graduation project concerns the Brainport region, located in the southwest of the Netherlands, around the city of Eindhoven. The aim of the graduation project is to strengthen the position of the Brainport region in the knowledge economy. Hereby the attraction of creative and innovative companies and the stimulation of their development plays a crucial role. The development of these creative and innovative companies have therefore been divided into four phases of development, with each a different supportive urban environment. This graduation project is an alternative strategy to the current policy of developing new work and live environments on the outskirts of the city. This project pleads for the locating of starting companies on more centrally located sites, where they benefit from the proximity of knowledge sources and facilities. Therefore small-scale industrial sites will be transformed for the facilitating of these starting entrepreneurs. Together with knowledge sources and business and science parcs, the starter environments form a network through the city of Eindhoven. These hotspots will be mutually connected through a Bus Rapit Transport network. The spatial interpretation of such a starter environment is presented in an urban design of the Hoogstraat, in the southwest of Eindhoven.

brainport
Eindhoven
knowledge economy
life cycle
innovation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6b9a5bed-fc39-46be-8385-765608cd7993

2013-02-01

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Van Dijk, P.D.