naiara Valcarlos Portfolio + CV
My background in architecture, focused in the smaller scale and immediate surroundings has been enriched with landscape architectural lenses that widens its scope. Research as a tool for understanding the design problems as well as informing design has been inherited from Wageningen University, and the awareness with larger scale issues have widened my design frame and vocabulary. Initiated in a path that faces climate change issues, energy landscapes, shrinking areas, or cultural landscapes such as the dike landscapes, the intention is to give creative solutions to existing problems. And the ultimate goal, to turn every single landscape into a memorable experience. My most recent work has focused on processes and dynamics that conform the landscape, their material manifestation and representation, and the relationship with the aesthetic experience they provide, setting a new language for landscape design.
Name_ Naiara Valcarlos Live_ Spain Telephone_ +34 688 684 700 (Spain) +31 616 301 454 (Netherlands) e-Mail_ naiara.valcarlos@gmail.com Skype_ naiara.valcarlos Website_naiara.valcarlo@weebly.com (in construction)
Curriculum Vitae
Toledo architects, June - September - Architectural data gathering
_. education
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Wagenigen University Netherlands
MSc Landscape Architecture and Planning, Major: Landscape Architecture; 2010-2014 MSc Thesis: Phenomenological approach to ecological restoration, supervised in collaboration with Pieter Veen from Vista Landschaparchitecten en Stedenbouw, 2012-2014
Architecture School of San Sebastian Spain Université Livre de Bruxelles Victor Horta Belgium
Bachelor degree in Architecture of construction, June 2008
Strootman Landschaparchitecten February - June 2011
Academic
Professional Magazine
Architectural Studies Year Abroad, Erasmus Program in Bruxelles, Belgium, 2004-2005 (In conjunction with Architecture School of San Sebastian)
_. professional
experience
landscape architecture intern. Amsterdam. (NL) _Co-development design competition for nature area including idea generation and sketching Vijkerburg, _Assisted in digital document selection & preparation for book publication `Strootman: Strategies for the sublime´ _Assisted in regional vision and specific local scale design: mapping and visualization of landscape program proposals * Research in vision generation of a region embedded in participatory planning process, case study of Assen AA
- ARCHIPRIX 2015; annual best landscape architecture plan by students in the Netherlands (open)
research
- WUF-KLV Thesis Awards 2013-2014, candidate by Landscape Architecture and Planning Chairgroup, Wageningen University, NL - De Folkert Hellinga MSc Award van het Netwerk Land en Water 2014, 1st Prize, Wageningen University, NL
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Freelance 2009-2010
architect. Tolsoa (SP) _Development of design proposal, schematic design, material selection, construction details, document arrangement for irrigation pond _According to client requirements, arrangement of involved professionals
Languages
Ansa Architects February 2008-August 2008
architect assistant. San Sebastian (SP) _Produced permitting documents, monetary plans and LEED documentation for new projects _Arrangement of existing plans to new regulation, revising and adapting their documentation _Meeting clients for project development and arranging presentation _Types of projects include single housing, sports facilities, housing blocks, hotel, commercial buildings, as well as new construction plans or refurbishment of existing buildings
Physical
Estudio A architects October 2006 - October 2007
Toledo architects, June - September 2006
internship as architect, Tolosa (SP) _Assisted in project work at various phases including schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and material selection _Assisted in design-build construction work including demolition, framing, roofing, concrete, welding, siding, and finishing Toledo architects, San Sebastian (SP) _Architectural data gathering for`Restoration Plan of Historical Housing´ Basque Government
awards & honors
design
landscape architecture intern. Wageningen. (NL) _Assisted in interior office design Daesung Corporate Headquarters in Korea _Assisted in project work at various phases including schematic design, design development, material and furniture selection, 3d visualisations
internship as architect, in conjunction with Estudio A architects, Tolosa (SP) _Architectural data gathering within`Recovery of Historical Housing´, initiative of the municipality of Aia, urbanism department _Co-designed detailed plans of house typologies, including sections and required construction details _Participative approach to document restoration process by interviews to house owners _Presented complete project outcome with team to municipality
& publication
_Murmur of limits: evoking the sensuous encounter between ecological phenomena and humans. MSc thesis. Wageningen University. 2014 http://edepot.wur.nl/310609 _Phenomenological analysis: Aesthetic embodiment of the southern coast of Schouwen-Duiveland. Wageningen University. 2014 _Instilling human scale to the limit: evoking metaphors. Toposa Online Magazine. 2015 http://www.toposonline.nl/2015/murmur-of-limits-evoking-the-sensuous-encounterbetween-ecological-phenomena-and-humans-2/
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Oikos Landsape Architets June 2011-August 2011
Municipality of Aia January - October 2007
CCoCouGovernment - Co-designed detailed plans of house typologies, including sections and completed original urbanism plan - Participative approach to document restoration process by interviews to house owners - Presented complete project outcome with team to municipality, with graphic presentations
skills
Windows - Mac Autocad. V-Ray. 3D Max. Sketchup Pro. Adobe package: Photoshop. Illustrator. Indesign. Acrobat Pro. MS Office: Word Excel, Powerpoint Spanish and Basque mother tongue English proficient French intermediate Dutch beginner Sketching. Physical modelling. Collage. Pottery.
_. workshops, lectures, courses & conference workshops
_Art and Architecture as Tools to Rethink Participative Planning Approach in the Social Milieu, organized by M-etxea, Lur Paisajistak, Recetas Urbanas y Straddle3, assisted by Hiria Kolektiboa, Todo por la Praxis, and Hackitectura, Pasaia (SP), July 2010 . _‘Architecture and Art’ workshop ISAI. Brussels (BE). 2005
lectures
_‘The City and its Current Mutations’ Summer Lectures by Carlos Ferrater, University of the Basque Country. San Sebastian (SP). August 2005.
exhibitions
Archiprix 2015, Delft University. (NL). February 2015 Murmur of limits: Interweaving the rhythms of nature. Municipality of Zierikzee. Coming September-October 2015 (NL)
conference
Network Ecologies: exploring relations between environmental art, science and activism, Hull University, Scarborugh (UK). `Aesthetic concepts, metaphors and phenomenology enhancing ecology expressive of cultural values´. June (4-6) , 2015.
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Scope of the project_Reinterpreting elements of the landscape and their aesthetic expression for its revitalization
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Boat lifts
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_. The analysis goes narrowing down from majure lines, main function of the landscape, until coming up with concepts under which the landsape is recognized, and an architectural project suggested. Thieu
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_. The sensuous analysis, detecting concepts that conform our sensuous experience, understands this landscape as a sum of sensuous constrasts worth of being heighlighted.
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_. An area of prosperous industrial activity is decaying and asks for a new reinterpretation for its revitalization.
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Hydraulic system. Boat lift and locks
A canal landscape. Ancienne and new canal. Island - Peninsula territory. Dynamic and Static Water-Land. CanaI Bruxelles-Charleroi_ Part of a north-south axis of water transport in Belgium, whereby the north of France and important waterways in the south of Belgium are connected. Canal centre_ Links the waterways of the Meuse and Scheldt rivers. It connects the artificial lake Grand Large near Nimy, with the Brussels-Charleroi Canal near Seneffe.
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Type_ Landscape Atelier, in collaboration with Université Livre de Bruxelles Location, Date_ La Louviére, Belgium, 2008 Team_ Christophe Lengrand, Alina Popescu, Naiara Valcarlos
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Analysis. Concepts.
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Peninsular belt. Cherry trees
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Peninsular walking structure. Pedestrian
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Houdeng Goegnies
Sound La LouviĂŠre
Air containing specificity of landscape function
Houdeng Aimeries
Strepy Bracquegnies
Contrast analysis Industry
Inland canal charleroi
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canal du centre
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Density Light/High
18 %
Peninsula Highway/Pedestrian
Duferco
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Morphology Lines providing relief
Steep belt line/ Horizontal canal Historical lifts
Agriculture static_idyllic
canal charleroi
canal du centre
Time Encounter past and present
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Dynamism Movement through landscape dynamic_urban
Silence End paved/ Green Dense Industry/Vacuun fields
Landsape and environemntal art center Type_ BA Diploma Location, Date_ La LouviĂŠre, Belgium, 2008 Scope of the project_Revitalization of idylique but neglected area
A contrast peninsular landscape.
Dense Industry - Empty land. Steep vegetation belt - Smooth slope inland grasslands. Dynamic peripheral - Static inland Idillyc - Neglected
Cherry trees peninsular belt
An empty land, with no specific function in an urban and industrial setting surrounded by a canal turning the land into a peninsula. Water infratructure shaping an area that asks for its revitalization by engaging community and bringing new insights. A landsape and environmental art museum is proposed. Grasslands accommodate the outside laboratory, creating an active landsape. The building, with its public space welcomes the visitors. _. The steep cherry peninsular promenade and the canal linked and giving entrance inland by means of a public slope. _. The building contains three main areas: workshop and art residence rooms, the inner museum containing indoor art pieces and an auditorium, and public space articulating both, from inside the building, and from outside. _. The outdoors landscape recovers local species: forest and agricultural production plantation for biodiversity, educational and leisure purposes. Empty land is provided for site related environmental art projects.
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Slope connecting roof terrace Panorama towards canal Up Roof terrace Private spaces in roof terrace Open square of roof terrace. Vegetated 6. Access to open air museum 7. Cafeteria
Access to the public areas: cafe-restaurant. Furniture facing canal and inland botanical forest, cultural fields and environmental art pieces
Greening rails.
Combating Warm Tยบ / Strong Winds.Strategy of slopes and trees.
Climate Change
increasing wind speed and cooling effect
smoothed slope
artifically raised
Planting trees strategically
Type_ MSc Design Atelier, Wageningen Location, Date_ Nijmegen, Netherlands 2010 Client_ Municipality of Nijmegen Scope of the project_Adapting the city to climate change
UHI. City or metropolitan area significantly warmer than its surrounding
due to human activities. Surfaces store short wave readiation, water runoff. Most noticeable in summer and winter.
Effects. Warmer Tยบ, Heavy rain showers, Strong winds Design tools
Trees for shadow evapotranspiration Trees /Buildings for wind blocking effect Water retention areas
Railroad climatope_ Strong wind Warm Tยบ during the day Quick cooling in the evening
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UHI. Changing building configuration for adaption.
Existing situation
Water retention. Vegetations stretches. Room for ponds
Proposal
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Study of shadow pattern.
Winter and Summer. Morning, noon, afternoon winter
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Vegetated walls. Cooling effect. Connecting down area and square
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View of connection .Opened space.
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Alley.Building blocking wind in winter. Trees cooling in spring-summer.
Existing situations. Ground plan.
LA CASSERIE Type_ Internship Strootman landscape architects, garden design Location, Date_ La Casserie, France, 2011 Scope of the project_Design the entrance fence
Proposal. Ground plan.
`Le petit paradise´. `Small paradise´. Romantic. Delicate Atmospheres. Green rooms. Rock garden.
r= 3mm Gallery: Transformation of facades. Reuse of Metallic carpentry for flowery pergola .
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Casserie Aans_ Former industrial site. A new garden is developed within the existing walls. The entry has to be designed and the assignment asked for a fence to be delicate, meaningful, suggestive and welcoming.
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Little islands in movement
Concrete perforation with plants. Sandy Hill
Entry closed at night Behind wall: Grassed or flowery Hills
Garden of rocky ground. Parts of the existing paving stones integrated to the project, combined with plants.
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d=10cm
Proposal. Ground plan and sections.
IRRIGATION POND
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Type_ Pond design, freelance garden Location, Date_ Mekola, Spain, 2008-09 Scope of the project_Enlarge existing water retention and irrigation pond
Project area
Countryside farm. Allotmen gardens.
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Farm_ Familiar house with productive allotment gardens and supply of fresh water directly from the mountains. Garden_ Fallen in misuse, the clients wanted to enlarge the existing water pond. Turn the green garden into water garden. Larger surface for pleisure, and division with allotment gardens.
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Ground plan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Existing water retention Water running element Filtering water to pond Water pool with different heights Water channel for irrigations Stone walls Irrigation water for allotment gardens Existing water drainage 2. New water pipes connecting to existing system, discharging to the river
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Catalyzing the border
Active Mining activity
active mining activity former mining activity
Goal: work in traverse. former mining activity
former mining activity natura 2000
`echoes´
Establish `echoes´
catalizer zone: abandoned train line
water structure border
Former Mining activity
Catalizing the border Type_ IFLA student competition Location, Date_ Eygelshoven, Netherlands, 2011 Scope of the project_ Conceptual design for border areas
Border Ne therlands
Detect Catalyzing element
A shrinking area.
Population decrease. Oversized urban structure.
development of `echoed´ elements in time establishing different activities along catalizer element: dynamics Unifying landscape through and along the catalizer-border zone
Abandoned mining train rails
Border and water
Urban Settlement around mining areas
Former mining activity. Vacant land and infrastructure Border. Zone, area. Illegible and undefined area.
Recovering the train lines
Eygelshoven, located in the south of the Netherlands, surrounded by Natura 2000 and with abandoned infrastructure, a border zone with Germany. Strong mining activity in both sides of the border: the dutch site stopped its activity, meanwhile the german border still keeps it partially active.
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_. The international student competition asked for reflecting upon the borders and their potentials. _. A design strategy that understand the border as a zone intends to unify it, and create a transboundary connection.
Train lines. Structure to cover with wood.
_. The infrastructure fallen in lack of use due to shrinkage process in the area is reinterpreted as design material and diverse activities to be developed in time suggested. 3 250
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vacant lots
development of echoed elements establishing dynamics Walking path and cycling route
Empty green_ connecting urban/train
Proximity to train lines No specific function
Transboundary traffic/pedestrian
Urba allotments Entrance to backyards
SlOW Dynamics in the landsape
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Character of space
unifying landscape through train line
Nature 2000 protected area
High dynamics. Anchor point in the train lines.
The entrance to the city is redesigned. Allotment gardens relocated. Train lines integrated with the vacant land and planted for immersion with the train parcour.
Establishing dynamics: Functions to develop in the urban areas that connect with the old train lines
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Mid dynamics. Platform for public events.
Cleared partially the dense vegetation, the field welcomes leisure activities that revitalize the backside of the city, now opened by means of the old train lines: contemplation, gathering for concerts, games the vegetation grows spontaneously, and partly maintained
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Slow dynamics. Energy park. Willows for biomass production due to the vicinity of water. Solar panels are implemented.
The area can become an educational park and laboratory.
murmur of Limits Limit and rhythm: aesthetic concepts * The dike is an aesthetic limit.
Type_ MSc Thesis Location, Date_ Schouwen, Nethrelands, 2014 Scope of the project_Ecology expressive of human experience for nature development
* ‘key spatial configuration in aesthetic expressiveness of the landscape’(Casey, 2011) * facilitator of different perceivable phenomena, manifested in rhythms
Its materiality involves:
* interweaving diverse rhythms in which nature manifests:
infinitesimal, ephemeral, tidal, seasonal, geological
* the materiality of the dike provides specific rhythm to the embodiment of the dike, Plan Tureluur_ construction of inner dike nature reserve areas along the Oosterschelde, preservation of sandbars and marshes against erosion, and eventually the conservation of inner dike brackish marsh. Cultural understanding of nature_Ecological understanding of nature Experiences that nature affords us and their essence as relevant as ecological knowledge for the development of new nature in XXIst century. _. Aesthetic concepts: Limit and Rhythm _. Aesthetic strategy: Focus on the processes and dynamics existent in site. Enhance the aesthetic experience to its maximum supported by aesthetic metaphors. _. Aesthetic metaphors: Voices of the water, voices of the wind Murmur of culture and nature Embodying the horizon
framing our aesthetic experience
* facilitates the
murmur of limits: interaction of the rhythms of nature in close relationship with the landscape
aesthetic metaphors
A dike landscape. Equally shaped by both the forces of nature and
as design material
horizon, the limit of our site experience
human intention,`tangible meeting point between culture and nature´.
New nature development. Plan Tureluur.1200 Ha.
voices of the water, voices of the wind
foams and waves Primary Dike line
brackish ecosystem
seasonal rhythm
seasonal rhythm tidal rhythm
Aesthetic metaphors. [1] Voices of the water, voices of the wind [2] Murmur of rhythms, culture and nature [3] Embodiment of the horizon Inlaag/Karrevelden dike
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rather than exposing us, now, it protects us, that becomes closely tactile, making the voices o water and the winds to reveal only in their aurial expression, becoming echo, remote, and, in not embodied as a visual or tactile phenomena: the transposition of the visual landscape to t aurial and new tactile space. What we see, is, the sky and the grass.
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But the dike becomes a sequence (300 meters long): it is narrow, focused on the sky and the tactiliy, and we walk through it, in sort of canyon, enclosed space, until it widens, opens, the l _. The thethat dike, reveals is given a new outline, new breaths, in order to open towards a limit, space to us as aapanorama. The limit comes t widened relief: heightened following the existing slope, embrace the space, to indeed determine it, in an ellipse, continuing to protect us, but also all provided with a second walking path, immersed in the us simultaneously the perception of the seasonal rhythm, with the big water elements on on dike. and the tidal rhythm on the other. Both as a visual phenomena again.
Voices of the water, Voices of the wind
_. This gives the possibility to either walk exposed to the winds, the sound of the sea, the foams, the movement of We come to sit on the stairs, in the order look the sea, exposed grass,to with openathorizon, on the side of theagain dike; or to to the wind, to the sea walk on top, immersed in the dike, revealing the dike as its foams and waves, and discovering the dike break that lies down. We go down the stairs, an an element that now protects us.
A dike landscape. Material manifestation of the encounter between forces of nature and
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Cultural landscape. Dynamic transformation with land retreating.
we lead towards the path, wooden path that guides us until the end of the dike break. The ro _. Closely tactile, voices ofthe the water and and the winds located on both sides of the broken dike enhance waves the foams, so the voices of t revealing only in their aurial expression in this water get enhanced, and we get to the end of the path, in order tonew be in the midst of the sea relief, they become echoed and remote.
In overall we impose over the given material, we provide a new relief that enhances the expe of the voices of the water and the winds and we give them a new expression, allowing differe intensities.
The dike in this stretch is highest, as response to the strong north-east winds. The dike relief dates back to 1856, with continuous reconstruction due to dike failures. A compilation of historical dates. The deep water, in combination with strong winds, expresses very vividly, making the stretch a extremely harsh and exposed area. The sea arm getting immersed in the sea is the remnant of a fortmer dike that disappeared under the waves; generates new dynamics, allowing the gathering of sediments.
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Expanded dike. Nature conquers it slowly. Wind, sand, water, birds. Rhythms of nature. The dike expands allowing the mixity of rhythms and a halt on the dike: different intensities of voices
The open space face to the sea catches the sand, and new ecologies can grow through time. It works as a platform for performances.
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Construction Drawing . Sea arm. dike reinforcement
dike reinforcement
rubble concrete body reinforced with stone .
big stones: reinforcement and enhancement voices of the water
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concrete dike body reinforced with stone rubble. small stones rubble. large stones * technical detail adapted from official documents for dike reinforcement: http://www.zeeweringenwiki.nl/mediawiki/images/7/73/Werkbestek_-_alle_tekeningen_(incl._NvI_3).pdf
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Rhythms of culture
_. Minimal interventions in historical karrevelden whose major changes manifest in seasonal rhythm become partially perceivable.
and nature
_. Saline and flowery grasslands, and small-scale pioneering vegetation become accessible by wooden paths that draw a laberynth pattern.
`karrevelden´`inlagen´Old Low lying areas. Brackish nature Tidal - Seasonal Rhythm. The dike as transposition element
_. The dike becomes a new limit of our sight experience, announcing the tidal landscape.
Water-Land. Cultural-nature.
Site structure . 1. Dike system and road. 2. Water and farm units. The remnants of the ancient battle against water sea/inland and humans in Schouwen.
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Inlaag dike_ Secondary dike line protecting the land in case the first primary dike failed. Inlagen_ The characteristic areas between two dikes, usually dug out for salt or clay winning purpose karrevelden_ Low-lying areas directly behind the dikes.
The LIFE-Nature project Brackish Marsh Nature contributes to the conservation of 178 hectares of nature. It concerns the conservation of former creeks and brackish marsh nature. Inner land Open sea
Primary dike line and walking line Inlaag dike accessible
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We cross the dike, perpendicularly, opening the wide panorama and revealing the tidal rhythm.
winter level -1.90 meters
Seasonal rhythm. Water fluctuation and brackish nature. summer level -2.30 meters
Tactile nature. Low lying landscape. Sensing reddish brackish grasslands with strawberry clover and scattered small-scale pioneering vegetation. The root vole, terns, waders and geese the most important animal species.
Embodying the horizon
_. The line is distracted and expanded. _. Wooden paths are placed in the midst of mussel poles and linked to the dike slope at different heights. _. It allows the embodiment of the horizon: Tidal rhythm and embodiment of the horizon tightly bound _. Paths submerged under the waves, exposed with the tidal rhythm, delimiting our situation on the dike. N 12
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Viewpoint in historical sublime H. tide
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Average high/lowtide: 1.40 - -1.00 meters Nature to be developed
5.0
Legend
NAP
Legend
7.5
NAP
average high tide NAP average low tide
-1.00 m
72 m
The dike, former inlaag dike and now primary dike, with softer water dynamics and the non existence of deep channels make this dike stretch a smooth walking line.
average high tide NAP average low tide
-1.00 m
1/12
72 m
33.70
Exposure to tidal rhythm and a wide and far horizon. Mud flats, bordering the dike, exposed to the tidal fluctuation register this diurnal rhythmic dynamic.
5.0
5.0
NAP
Nature development
3.50
3.50
33.70
_. The mussel avenues enhance the flattened horizontaliy leading us towards its encounter.
3.0 m
10
1,40 m
20
Meters
150 m
Plan. Wooden paths and connections to the dike.
Legend Former dike profile Walking Delimitation of rocks Wooden platforms Panoramas Dike body Mussel poles 0
Entry 3,5 m
Mussel pole under high tide
3,0 m
Viewpoints 4,5 m
Sea
Embodying the horizon. Our position conditioned by the tide. Scale
0
10
20
30
40
50 Meters
25
50m
low tide -1.00 meters
Flattened horizontality. Mussel poles enhancing its experience. Active landscape Edible. Mussel harvesting.
high tide + 1,40 meters
stormy conditions above +1.45 meters
Entry. Hidden landscape
Extraordinary and ephemeral event. Dike and mussel landscape disappearing under waves.
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