LINKEROEVER
LORENZO FILIPPI LORENZO GAVEGLIO
LINKEROEVER URBAN ANALYSIS
Linkeroever map
Buildings Water Streets Tunnels
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Mobility/ Connections Water Blocks Bus
Bike paths
Tram/Metro-tram
Parking
Bus/tram stops
Tunnel
1. Groenplaats (City center)
A. Waaslandtunnel
2. Van Eedenplein (main transportation hub)
B. Metro-tram tunnel
3. IGLO, Europark (Bus terminal)
C. Sint-Annatunnel
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Built/ Voids
Built Water
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Voids
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500 m
Water
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Private/ Public
Private space Water
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Public space
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500 m
Water
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Roads/ Green
Roads Water
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Parks/woods Roads
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500 m
Water
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Built/Void Private/Public 1. Antwerp city center 2. Europark Linkeroever 3. Thonetlaan st. Linkeroever
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“Forms do not belong to anyone� @conformi_
1. H. Aelbrecht, R. Brunswijck, O. Wathelet, Plan for Europark (Linkeroever), Antwerp. 1961 2. L. Mies van der Rohe, Brick Country House. 1924 3. Piet Mondrian, Composition 10 (Pier and Ocean). 1915 4. Peter Zumthor, Therme of Vals. 1996 5. Le Corbusier, Plan for Linkeroever, Antwerp. 1933 6. Fala Atelier, Anticlimax Exhibition, Tokyo. 2013 7. Archizoom, No-stop city. 1970 8. Josef Albers, Portfolio 1, Folder 21, Image 1. 1972 9. DOGMA + Office KGDVS, A new Grammar, Masterplan for a new Administrative Capital, South Korea. 2006 10. Ludwig Hilberseimer, Highrise City (Hochhausstadt). 1924 11. Georges Vantongerloo, Construction of volume relations emanating from the ellipsoid. 1926 12. Le Corbusier, Plan Voisin, 1925 14
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Picturesque as a way of looking at the city
Buildings High-rise 7
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Pictures
HORIZON
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LINKEROEVER CRITICAL COMPARISON OF THE 2016 IDEAS COMPETITION WINNING PROPOSALS
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Introduction to the competition
The aim of the competition, launched in 2016 by the city architect Christian Rapp, is to propose new ideas and insights that will feed the social and cultural debate on the future urban transformation of Linkeroever and then turn it into a real plan of the neighborhood. The competition includes the densification of the area and also a consideration of a possible connection with the centre of Antwerp.It requires reasoning on morphology and history. The history of the left bank shows that Linkeroever is an urban district born from a mosaic of plans only partially executed. This means that Linkeroever is made up of a multitude of urban principles (the modernist towers, Europark, the residential area). The programme should contain new residences, based on estimates of the growth of the city of Antwerp and its need by 2030 for 30,000 new houses and the related new services and functions that enable the city to function.This new density must, however, maintain the green character of the left bank, one of the main features that distinguish it and make it loved by its inhabitants.The relationship with the Scheld river is also an important design theme that must be taken into account in the definition of the masterplans. Remembering that Antwerp has no bridges, the 15 offices taking part in the competition are also asked to think about possible physical or mobile connections between the two banks. In the following pages the five winning projects will be briefly explained and compared linearly, in order to highlight the strengths and critical aspects of each of them. 20
K(New) Antwerp
Possibilities
Anchoring
Albers Vogt Arup
DOGMA
Graeme Massie Sutherland Hussey Harris Avantgarden Aecom
Thinning Out and Densifying. New Urban Out and Inside Spaces for the Linkeroever
The Archipelago of Antigoon De Urbanisten
Carlo Moccia Uwe Schrรถder Wim van den Bergh 21
K(New) Antwerp Albers, Vogt, Arup
The project proposed by the three firms is mostly focused on creating a new relationship between ‘‘the new city’’ Linkeroever the historical city Antwerp by designing an amphitheater shaped dock that face the cathedral. The masterplan of the area could be compared with traditional urban planning since the new blocks planned are closed blocks, arranged in an orthogonal and repetitive way. A strong point of the project is trying to define the border of the left bank, a sharp separation between the city and the green areas that then become the countryside. The project is also trying to give Linkeroever a new centre, with new functions and the room for a big playground for different sporadic activities such as festivals. The Europark is left untouched, leaving some freedom for future densification and new possible projects.
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Possibilities DOGMA
Dogma’s project is deeply studying Linkeroever in terms of the typology of the buildings and focusing the new intervention on the contrast between them. The proposal aims to give a clear form to the left bank by reinforcing its boundaries and retrofitting its fabric. It consists of defining a main strip of four quadrants. Densification only takes place inside the strip. The riverbank becomes a linear park that runs parallel to the strip. Linkeroever becomes a laboratory to experiment new typologies of living and working.The difference of urban tissues, already present in the neighborhood is radicalized by DOGMA to respond to the different ideas of living and working of every citizen. Each of the four different quadrants responds to the existing building structure and is thus completed with a specific typology corresponding respectively to terraced houses and park in the first, lofts and workshops in the second, patio houses in the third and towers in the fourth.
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Anchoring Graeme Massie, Sutherland Hussey Harris, Avantgarden, Aecom
‘‘Anchoring’’ aims to preserve and augment the existing qualities of Linkeroever, such as his extensive green space, a wide variety of living conditions, proximity to the river Scheld. The strategies of the project are to create new physical and spatial connections between Linkeroever and the city center, accommodate city growth that provides new amenities and employment opportunities as well as increased residential capacity, create a diverse and pleasurable sequence of public landscapes with improved connections to the river and countryside. The intervention focuses not only on connection with the city and the riverfront but also on Europark, proposing a rich tapestry of urban forms.A new island is designed in the middle of the Scheld, imagined as a new polder. The island creates a ‘‘stepping stone’’ in the river reducing the perceived distance from the two banks. The island contains a mixed-used quarter with housing, public amenities and visitor destination.
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Thinning Out and Densifying. New Urban Out and Inside Spaces for the Linkeroever Carlo Moccia, Uwe Schröder, Wim van den Bergh
This plan should be read as an ideography, as a spatial scenario and not as an urban plan. The three firms interpreted the Linkeroever as a general spatial condition we generally find in the periphery of the contemporary European city, and as such, they try to show how in these circumstances some spatial order and urban form might be created by making a clear distinction between two spatial identities: ‘‘space defined by objects, or space within volumes’’ and ‘‘space surrounding objects, or space between volumes’’. The general project gives just an idea, a volumetric guideline on how the densification of the city should be oriented. The addition of volumes is applied to all the area apart from Europak, where on the contrary there is a reduction of volume from the existing towers.
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The Archipelago of Antigoon De Urbanisten
The Archipelago is the most radical of the five projects, it has a wider view of the city and the landscape that surrounds it. Linkeroever is imagined as a natural biome, an island surrounded by the rider Scheld and characterized by nature, forests and parks, an empire of a great ecological wealth. This project takes into account the possible events that could occur due to climate change, such as the rising of the oceans. From the point of view of the city, the left bank is finally ‘‘reunited’’ with Antwerp with the closure of the ring road that would somehow reconnect the two banks. Three different structures are introduced into the landscape at the scale of the whole island and new residential typologies are built to enrich the already existing heterogeneity.
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Images and texts from the book: Colenbrander, Bernard, Christoph Grafe, Bram van Kaathoven, Jannah Loontjens and Bart Tritsmans. Linkeroever: Sprong Over De Schelde/Across the River. Antwerp 2017. 27
Main concept/ Themes
1. K(New) Antwerp THE RIVER BECOMES CENTRAL #transitions #promenades #square #theatre #monumentality #openblocks
2. Possibilities ONE STRIP, FOUR QUADRANTS #superquadra #overlaying #open #linearstucture #non-typologies
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3. Anchoring NEW SPATIAL CONNECTIONS #link #linearparks #bridges #landmarks #riverfront
4. Thinning Out and Densifying NEW SPATIAL SCENARIOS #duality #spatialidentities #objects #volumes #insideoutside
5. The Archipelago of Antigoon CLOSING THE CIRCLE #zoomout #loop #island #collageofplaces #climatechange #risingwater
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Densification/ New built areas
1. K(New) Antwerp DENSIFICATION NEW BUILDINGS DEMOLITIONS HIGH-RISE
2. Possibilities DENSIFICATION NEW BUILDINGS DEMOLITIONS HIGH-RISE
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3. Anchoring DENSIFICATION NEW BUILDINGS DEMOLITIONS HIGH-RISE
4. Thinning Out and Densifying DENSIFICATION NEW BUILDINGS DEMOLITIONS HIGH-RISE
5. The Archipelago of Antigoon DENSIFICATION NEW BUILDINGS DEMOLITIONS HIGH-RISE
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Main interventions on pubblic space
1. K(New) Antwerp • • • •
City square Promendade along the river Bulevard through Europark Festival grounds (open-air events)
2. Possibilities • Small interventions in the dense urban fabric (small green areas, playgrounds, ... ) • Liner park on the riverbank • Park with open-air sport facilities (north)
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3. Anchoring • New city park, Westpark: new culture, recreational and sports amenities • Pedestrian promenades • New island with pubblic amenities and visitors destinations
4. Thinning Out and Densifying • “New urban outside space: field and objects” (Central park whithin Europark buildings)
5. The Archipelago of Antigoon • Small interventions in the dense urban fabric (small green areas, playgrounds, ... ) • Liner park on the riverbank • Bulevard through Europark
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New mobility/ Connections
1. K(New) Antwerp • Cable car over the Scheldt in proximity of Waaslandtunnel • Watertaxi enhancement (more stops) • Traffic speed is limited to 30 km/h
2. Possibilities • Watertaxi/Vaporetto enhancement (more stops) • New pedestrian paths (liner park on the riverbank) • Waaslandtunnel entrance covered over Europark • New public transport terminal [1]
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3. Anchoring • Two new bridges over the Scheldt river. One goes to the MAS [1] and one goes to Groenplaats [2] • New island (two bridges connection, cruise ships terminal and mixed-use quarter) • Pedestrian promenades
4. Thinning Out and Densifying • Fast traffic via the Waaslandtunnel and the spine of the Charles De Costerlaan [1] • Slow traffic from the center of Antwerp via a new clearly visible bridge [2]
5. The Archipelago of Antigoon • Creation of a secondary channel for the Scheldt. • Connection with Antwerp-north (port) through a new tunnel that closes the Ring road. • Watertaxi enhancement (more stops, loop) • Central walkway through Europark • Tram line enhancement (around Europark) • Waaslandtunnel becomes a bike and pedestrian connection 35