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Research Institute for Environmental Conditions houses research and experiments on the major dangers threatening the landscape, climate and soil conditions in Haarlem / Spaarnwoude by studying the existing landscape through ongoing land transformations. This institute holds experiments to overcome environmental problems in the Netherlands on a real-time land-scale. Inspired from the land transformations in the Netherlands, the fascination is to represent these transformations of the Dutch lowlands in relation to the transformations and developments of technology. The story of constantly shifting landscape / shifting language of the Dutch landscape is exhibited and the memory of the lowlands is represented through keeping the track of the transformations of the landscape. The theme is based on the components that Dutch landscape introduced to the literature, the unique language that it generated over time. Experiments are applications of scaled experiments to a land scale to take measures for the possible future scenarios. Referencing these possible future scenarios its objective is to predict what will happen if these disasters occur. It is a prediction system, which will be realized on real land scale.

Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organization and composition of architectural space as a landscape. The scope of this thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like a landscape. In proiects of OMA, MVRDV, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office or Diller+Scofidio the building inside and landscape outside do not merely interact, but the building is designed as an artificial landscape on its own. Landscape constitutes the inside. The landscape to architecture relation is turned inside-out. The analysis of the Rolex Learning Center by SANAA is surely an important part of our discovery of landscape methods for architectural design. Landscape is developing here as the aesthetic mediator between nature and human.

14 Project Documentations and Analysis of Dutch Architecture with Landscape Methods. MVRDV Villa VPRO, Powerhouse Company Villa 1, Herman Herzberger Coda Museum, NL Architects Basket Ba, SeARCH Posbank Pavillion, Wiel Arets Hedge House, OMA Kunsthal and Educatorium, Maaskant Johnson Wax, Diller & Scofidio Blur Building, De Architecten Cie Frits van Dongen Cap Gemini Campus, Mecanoo TU Dlelft Library and Venhoeven CS Sportplaza Mercator. Compared to Historic Gardens: Hawkstone Park, Villa La Rotonda, Stourhead, Boboli Garden, Castle Howard, Lingering Garden, Villa Cetinale, Stowe House, Campus, Mekelpark, Vondelpark

This diploma thesis focuses on offering a design solution that provides new vision and form at the large urban void of the Former Civil Airport of Hellenikon.

A quest for tools to revise the Dutch in between landscape based on its recreational potential. This thesis proposes a strategy for the revision of the Dutch green buffer zones on the basis of its recreational potential for the urban context. A strategy for the 'Rijk van Dommel en Aa' in the Brainport region (Eindhoven) is used as a case study to test the theoretical background.

For the BAT (British American Tobacco factory) terrain to re-use and use the main valuable buildings as a source was a starting point, this approach depends in the cultural, historical, architectural and social value that the obsolete buildings have. Architectural values related to standardization, function and form, mostly the halls from the year 1921 till 1952 have an architectural value, because of the unity, clarity and precise construction linked with the industrial production. As a recognizable element, prefabricated concrete columns and beams as a repetition, express the clear way it was constructed and assembled. The new flora exhibition space in "hall 12", is related to the biodiversity in the landscape that is predominant in Zevenaar. The flora exhibition space is a new function that can enhance the horticulture value, and can give a new identity to the people in Zevenaar. So the necessity of an architectural landscape considers the ecological approach and the relation to the context. It intend to recover aesthetically the spirit of a place, which lose the identity caused by the urban intervention.

The project is aimed at using landscape proposals to inspire public participation changing their own living environment in shrinking cities. The strategy shows a landscape urbanism process, works at different scales and provides different possibilities towards a prospective future.

About the transformation of a former laboratory into a short stay establishment. With apartments, swimming pool, fitness a restaurant and a café. Aim: realizing a luxury establishment while complementing the historical fabric and the sloping landscape.

Research Questions - How to design a recreational route through the Dutch Delta that generates awareness of the characteristics of the different deltascapes? - How to design a series of pavilions along a recreational route that generates awareness of the relation to water in the deltascapes? - How to design a pavilion that reflects the characteristic relation to the water of the deltascape it is situated in?

Problem statement: Historically, water had been extracted from some of Cuba’s major aquifers at a higher rate than they were recharged, but in recent years the pace of water extraction appears to have intensified. Surface waters diverted into man-made reservoirs can interfere with the natural recharge of aquifers. High evaporation rates from tropical region reservoirs can have adverse environmental impacts by increasing the concentration of minerals in irrigation water. Surface waters have been contaminated by industrial wastes and by the chemical runoff associated with the use of increasing amounts of chemical pesticides and herbicides. Scant water distribution management, alarming condition of infrastructure together with high contamination of water resources constitute a scenario, where the need of establishing elementary infrastructure for water treatment opens possibilities to reformulate the image of infrastructure as a by-product of settlement and to relate it to its public role and use, as well as to the whole ecological process. The area of Puentes Grandes district in Havana character calls for fully specified design; sufficiently open to integrate recreational dynamics of natural ecosystems. Goal: The intention is to design beyond the polarized situation where architecture and landscape can be included as systems in an urban design. In the city scale the design solution should aggregate the development of neighbourhood of river Almendares banks and enforce its natural ecosystems. In the more local scale, design intention is to develop a formula capable of fusing previously separated morphologies of industrial production, hydrological infrastructure and public, green, recreation area. Method description: Finding self-referential accommodation in a landscape that has lost its coherence; examining the site in order to discover possible rules for intervention; rediscover the landscape with its critical properties. Use landscape as both structuring element and medium for rethinking urban conditions, to produce everyday urban spaces and architectural solutions. Relevance: Take the floor in discussion concerning the issue of how dense urban forms emerge from landscape and how urban ecologies support performance spaces. Search for new basis for emergence of form geared to the technological and ecological realities of the contemporary city.

An analysis on the spatial qualities and failures of the Dutch seaside landscape resulted into a design project for the boulevard of Zandvoort. The design seeks for confrontations between dune landscape and the city. A progressive solution is found for a new parking system.

Besides the efforts that are of a descriptive and celebrative nature, studies related to Sri Lanka’s historical built heritage largely view material remains in historical, sociological, socio-historical and semiological perspectives. There is hardly any serious attempt to view such material remains from a technical-analytical approach to understand the compositional aspects of their design. The 5th century AC royal complex at Sigiriya is no exception in this regard. The enormous wealth of information and the material remains unearthed during more than 100 years of field-based research by several generations of archaeologists provide an ideal opportunity for such analysis. The present study aims, therefore, to fill the gap in research related to Sri Lanka’s historical built heritage in general, and to Sigiriya in particular. Therefore, the present research attempts to read Sigiriya as a landscape architectonic design to expose its architectonic composition and design instruments. The study, which is approached from a technicalanalytical point of view, follows a methodological framework that was developed at the Landscape Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. The study reveals that the architectonic design of Sigiriya constitutes multiple design layers and multiple layers of significance with materialspatial- metaphorical-functional coherence, and that it has both general and unique landscape architectonic elements, aspects, characteristics and qualities. The richness of its composition also enables the identification of the landscape architectural value of Sigiriya, which will help reshape policies related to conservation and presentation of Sigiriya as a heritage site, as well as to its protection and management as a green monument. The positive results of the study also underline that the methodology adopted in this research provides a framework for the study of other examples of historical gardens and landscapes in Sri Lanka, which will eventually provide insight into the typological aspects of a possible Sri Lankan tradition of landscape design.

Water inSight provides insight into the ‘water machine’ that forms the basis of the Dutch polder landscape. Authors Inge Bobbink and Suzanne Loen approach the polder landscape from a landscape-architectonic point of view, using technical and spatial analysis drawings, images, plans and experiments to visualise the Netherlands and its water system. Special attention has been paid to polder water, the difference between a peat polder and a lake-bed polder, and the adaptations that are required in the face of climate change. Analyses of the Eendragtspolder, the Belvedère museum, Wickelhof Park and the Onnerpolder pumping station show the diversity of the Dutch water machine and its potential landscape-architectonic qualities. Water inSight is an accessible book for everyone who has a desire to understand the Dutch polder landscape and to be able to recognise the workings of the water machine and adapt it in a landscape-architectonic design. The book contains practical applications and is aimed at water design and management professionals, landscape architects and landscape managers.

Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. The landscape analogy that accompanied architecture for a long time in tectonics or ornament is now transforming the concepts of form and space. The landscape analogy has moved from marginal subjects to the core of the discipline. We are looking for principals of architectural theory, which can not be derived anymore from an big predominant ideology. What framework for architecture do we still need in the more or less lucky freedom of our time? We might want to use the proposed exercise of knowledge transfer to rediscover some basic principles. A study of landscape as a means of architecture could lead to such a basic theory, not derived from any ideology nor adopting philosophical terms to a practical field. We prefer looking in our own backyard, enjoying the freedom of thoughts about our own subject matter. Paper from DRITTES INTERNATIONALES DOKTORANDINNENKOLLEG NACHHALTIGE RAUMENTWICKLUNG (DOKONARA 2009) 3. Kolleg „Globale Krise – regionale Nachhaltigkeit“ 27. bis 30. September 2009, Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar Universität Kassel Architektur, Stadtplanung, Landschaftsplanung Ulf Hahne Universität Innsbruck Institut für Geographie Martin Coy Hochschule Liechtenstein Architektur und Raumplanung Peter Droege

Contemporary architecture has been strongly influenced by the concept of landscape in recent times. A new mindset evolves that changes the core of the architectural discipline: the organization and composition of architectural space as a landscape. The scope of this thesis is to investigate and understand architecture that has been designed like a landscape. In projects of OMA, MVRDV, Peter Eisenman, Foreign Office or Diller+Scofidio the building inside and landscape outside do not merely interact, but the building is designed as an artificial landscape on its own. Landscape constitutes the inside. The landscape to architecture relation is turned inside-out. The author is studying these phenomena and their design methodologies. As a first finalized and completely documented case study the analysis of the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne by SANAA is surely an important part of our discovery of landscape methods for architectural design. Landscape is developing here as the aesthetic mediator between nature and human.

Exploring the Visual Landscape is about the combination of landscape research and planning, visual perception and Geographic Information Science. It showcases possible ways of getting a grip on themes like: landscape openness, cluttering of the rural landscape, high-rise buildings in relation to cityscape, historic landscapes and motorway panoramas. It offers clues for visual landscape assessment of spaces in cities, parks and rural areas. In that respect, it extends the long tradition in the Netherlands on physiognomic landscape research and shows the state of the art at this moment. Exploring the Visual Landscape offers important clues for theory, methodology and application in research and development of landscapes all over the world, from a specifically Dutch academic context. It provides a wide range of insights into the psychological background of landscape perception, the technical considerations of geomatics and methodology in landscape architecture, urban planning and design. Furthermore, there are some experiences worthwhile considering, which demonstrate how this research can be applied in the practice of landscape policy making. This book is sponsored by the OA-fund TU Delft.

How to structure the metropolitan developments of the randstad in the haarlemmermeer by using a park system.