New Bridge Keepers

New Bridge Keepers

Oskam, P.Y.

Van Loon, F.D. (mentor)
Van den Burg, L.J.P. (mentor)
Geraedts, R.P. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Landscape Architecture

2016-01-26

The project concerns a minimal spatial design that re-invents the watersystem in South-Holland by connecting waterways with roads through social use. The water system of Holland functions not only as a very imporant structure to keep our feet dry, as well as a vital transport organ and recreational layer. Because of the developments in the past century, the water system is mainly taken over by train and car infrastructures. As a result, vacancy and water systems correlate (such as: bridge control houses). The intertwinement of the Dutch water system with the geo-morphological, natural, social-economical and historical context of the Netherlands make the intersection of the water and ways (bridge) an interesting occasion to (re)root the urban layer (the Randstad) with its underlaying context. How can vacant areas be transformed into a valuable resource for this problem? In this thesis, a design solution will be presented that will clearify and reintergrate this lost connection.

minimal intervention
bridge houses
participation
social design
boezem system
Holland water kingdom

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:9a5b9a89-d591-435a-b004-3b043166267b

2016-07-01

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Oskam, P.Y.