nai_v_selected works

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

_. research

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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Software

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.

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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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Together with the hydraulic engineering elements, they make visible its infrastructural purpose.

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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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Urban

Arquennes

Analysis. Concepts.

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Peninsular belt. Cherry trees

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Peninsular walking structure. Pedestrian

Seneffe

63 %

Houdeng Goegnies

Sound La LouviĂŠre

Air containing specificity of landscape function

Houdeng Aimeries

Strepy Bracquegnies

Contrast analysis Industry

Inland canal charleroi

4%

canal du centre

12 %

Density Light/High

18 %

Peninsula Highway/Pedestrian

Duferco

43 %

Morphology Lines providing relief

Steep belt line/ Horizontal canal Historical lifts

Agriculture static_idyllic

canal charleroi

canal du centre

Time Encounter past and present

85%

25%

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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Workshop rooms Art residence studios Public space Cafe and restaurant Museum entry Museum offices Museum Auditorium

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Public space. Wooden platform. Overcomes the height difference.

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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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_. The municipality of Nijmegen in collaboration with Wageningen University aims to develop a future scenario and design solutions for its adaptation to climate change

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Urban Functions _ Cycling and pedestrian.

Empty, exposed green areas Urban Dis-Fuctions _Poor connectivity between neighborhoods bu

_. The railroad climatope, with open land allowing strong winds and drawing a gap withing the urban framework becomes an interesting spot.

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Vegetated roofs Cooling effect Water retention

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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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summer

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.

h=3 m

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.

d= 3,5m

d=10cm

Proposal. Ground plan and sections.

IRRIGATION POND

20 m

10m

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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pond

Ground plan.

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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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With the border placed in Natura 2000 protected area the border is illegible, remains difficult to access, and lacks any attractive purpose.

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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.

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500 m

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

human intention

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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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Exposed-Enclosed. Vivid sound-Echo.

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Sequence of sections. Dike canyon widens creating space.

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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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walking line. width 3.00 m.

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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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tidal rhythm/ seasonal rhythm

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

Farm unit

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Inlaag Karrevelden

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Seasonal rhythm_Tidal rhythm. Approaching tidal landscape.

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.

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Average high/low tide: 1.40 - -1.00meters

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Nature development

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Nature to be developed

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average low tide

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average high tide Average high/low tide: 1.40 - -1.00meters NAP Former dike profile average tide Nature to below developed New dike profile

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Mussel growing poles

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Average high/lowtide: Meters 1.40 - -1.00 meters Nature to be developed Mussel growing poles Former dike profile New dike profile NAP

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Average high/lowtide: 1.40 - -1.00 meters

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Nature to be developed

Parking lot

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Karrevelden and inlagen

H. tide

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Entries to the dike 1.60 m

Viewpoint in historical sublime H. tide

Farm unit

H. tide

H. tide 0.4 m

NAP

250

500

Meters

L. tide

L. tide 4.5m

Scale

NAP

NAP L. tide

3.5 m

2,30 m

Scale

NAP

NAP L. tide

Sluice

125

0 L. tide

L. tide 4.5m

‘Heerenkeet’ Cafe

0

Scale

NAP

NAP L. tide

Mussel pole paths unit

*

Legend

Platform 2.10 H. tide

0.4 m

New seawards extended dike line

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.

naiara Valcarlos email: naiara.valcarlos@gmail.com