The dike ribbon of Dordrecht

The dike ribbon of Dordrecht

Huls, S.L.S.Q.

Meyer, V.J. (mentor)
Stolk, E.H. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Delta Interventions

2016-01-20

The city of Dordrecht and its municipality are since destructive floods in the past one of the most developed and state-of-the-art cities in the Netherlands concerning water safety and flood reduction. Within the graduation studio one of the topics was the island of Dordrecht and the current strategy for water safety. This project takes the policy from the municipality and current progress as the starting point. After the construction of the Delta Works, the Dutch assumed they were safeguarded from floods coming from the sea. They thought a new decade had begun where the water, urban, agricultural and natural system could be regulated. But the climate change, which became hot topic afterwards, wasn’t taken into account properly. The threat of a rising sea level, higher river peaks, subsidence and salinization due to a changing climate gave a new perspective on the Dutch delta. This project takes this unknown future as an opportunity to plan with adaptivity in the delta combining water safety and spatial quality into a new identity for the island of Dordrecht.

adaptivity
spatial quality
water safety
dike
identity

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e398d857-5692-4e00-9a5f-8d803f95a884

2016-01-20

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Huls, S.L.S.Q.