Nurture in Nature

Nurture in Nature: Contributing to childhood development in Bressoux & Droixhe by strengthening nature connectivity

Ooijevaar, Jasmijn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Vermeulen, P.E.L.J.C. (mentor)
Schreurs, E.P.N. (mentor)
van Deudekom, A.B.J. (mentor)
van der Schans, R.M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Public Building

2023-07-05

'The Scarred City', the theme of the Urban Architecture graduation studio in 2022/2023. This location-based studio started with Droixhe/Bressoux, a troublesome and difficult area in Liège (Belgium), as the overarching project site. Starting with fieldwork and participatory research into the hidden social structures of Bressoux and Droixhe and resulting in the importance and absence of nature in the area and its relevance, this thesis grew into a project aiming to contribute to childhood development in Bressoux and Droixhe by strengthening nature connectivity. Drawing workshops on the theme: 'what is nature?' with primary schools in Rotterdam, in comparable demographic neighbourhoods, where key to understanding children's perception of nature and observing their nature connectivity and inspired and aided in the design of a children’s community/leisure centre in Park de l’Oasis. A building which functions as the anchor between child and nature and where the design and its current natural environment go hand in hand to achieve the project’s aim.

Urban Architecture
Design for children
Nature
Kindergarten
Bressoux
children
Ecology

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Student theses

master thesis

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