Landscape of Contrasts AIRPORT POLDER
>>> FACTS & FIGURES Team: Ankit Bhargava Josephine van Lohuizen Rochelle Wolvers Tess Stribos Victor Nyman Program: net transformation urban area residential commercial infrastructure water houses Type: thematic / integral realistic / idealistic strategy / blueprint
6300 ha. 260 ha. 4090 ha. 42 km. 1100 ha. 15000
This project speculates the role and position of Haarlemmemeer in the context of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (AMR) for the Year 2040. The current visions all show a strong inclination for further strengthening of Amsterdam city as a super centrality drawing no active participation from Haarlemmemeer. In order for urban regions to be competitive and achieve global visibility, they need to create zones of specialized identity, and in AMR Haarlemmeer is a suburban service core. However, proximity to urban cores, recreation zones in the periphery, location on regional infrastructure and expansive open space provide immense potential. So, in order to become more attractive, the
project uses 2 strategies. The first is to enhance local qualities by adding new connections and new programmes. This will bring fragmented quality landscape in closer reach and bring new people and businesses. The second strategy is to use the adjacency to Schiphol to develop a symbiotic urbanity through blending of the daily urban system of Schiphol and the city – (opening the box, concept). The ambition is to create a unique/contrasting identity for Haarlemmemmer which will open up the region to a much larger range qualities and interactions. In turn, this will lead to making Randstad a more competitive urban region.
COMPONENTS Airport centric
Residential
Industry Green
Water storage
Improving mobility within the field of sub-centralities
Strengthening identities
Amsterdam
Urban centralities
dunes, tulip landscape, beach, water front
Dunes
Golf
Beach
IO
CT
Hotel Education centre
FA S
T
N
CT
IO
NE
NE
N
CO N
CO N
SL OW
Flowers
green heart
Rotterdam, Leiden, Den Hague
Urban centralities
Structuring program by the grid
Reinforcing Tempo
Schiphol (opening of the box)
STRATEGIES
2
Enhancing local qualities and upgradation of perepheral sub-centralities
Creation of symbiotic daily urban system
sit an Tr
Arrival
*Project 5
*Project 1
*Project 2 *Project 3
New connections
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adding to
New programmes
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Regional daily urban system
Tools Programmes
1
Cargo node Trade node (fresh supply, exotic range) *Project 4 Terminal (gateway to the world) Special shops (high end, duty free) High end hotels *Project 3 Airport related programmes 80 million users Transit time - waiting
CITY
Opening up of Schiphol area to enhance visual experience of landscape (sense of arrival) Education centre
N 0
1
2
3
4
5 (km)
Haarlemmemeer Waterfront
Haarlem
Hoofddorp
Dv C B
Nieuw Vennep A
Hillegom
C
B
D
>>> FACTS & FIGURES Team: Ankit Bhargava Program: net transformation urban area residential commercial infrastructure landscape water houses
1500 ha 200 ha 15,000 (No.) not decided not decided not decided 1100 ha. 12,000 (No.)
Stakeholders involved: Municipalities of Nieuw Vennep, Hoofddorp, Lisse & Hilegom Aimed effect: Bringing new attractive living qualities, intertwined system of urban agriculture, will keep some agriculture area from desalination, flexible water management system
This project looks at how two of the available tools (demand for regional water storage and housing) can be used to bring new qualities and make Haarlemmemeer more attractive. The project is to be developed gradually in stages so as to consciously find a new dynamic at local level in which inherent agriculture can also become a part of the urban fabric. The grid is used as a structuring system which defines movement corridors, their tempo and character while the interior pockets are flexible and each can have individual character. The height and slope of the dykes along the grid are to define how water/green are relatable and whether water is for rain-catchment or is deep enough for recreation.
Hoofddorp
Hillegom Nieuw Vennep
Fast
A
Slow
Lisse N
0
1
2
3
4
5 (km)