Exploring Bluefields

Exploring Bluefields: Designing the Banter See as an operative landscape structure

Liang, Joey (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Nijhuis, S. (mentor)
Sepulveda Carmona, D.A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2018-07-05

During my study of landscape architecture, I am always looking for opportunities how landscape infrastructure as the strongest approach to RE-activate the potential of derelict areas. Fascinated by existing precedent projects which are using a landscape approach to transform derelict areas into operative landscapes such as High Line Park, Duisburg Park and Freshkills park. This time I want to focus on the derelict area on water form, which is named Bluefield.

My project is located in the post harbor called Banter See, it is a large infrastructural component in water form mediating between the city of Wilhelmshaven and the dynamic seascape of the Jade Bay in northwestern Lower Saxony, Germany. I chose this site to do my research by design not only because it fit in the typology of Bluefield I’m researching on, but also with a cultural background of post-harbor, facing transformation, which will be valuable to design with as a precedent case for the future.

Based on the existing situation and the concept of building up connections to make the bluefield operative in systems, I came up with Three zone vision which is asking for connections aiming for different themes:
‘restore natural gradient’,
‘revive harbor memory’
‘recover holiday tourism’.

Interacting with each other, the multi-connection will build up the flowing network with re-activate value to achieve my research objective of operative landscape structure, and finally benefit the cityscope and bay scope with harbor transformation.

Landscape infrastructure
Urban structure
Water
Harbour
Holism
Transformation
System

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