Dutch multifunctional motorway tunnel

The Landtunnel Utrecht at Leidsche Rijn has become a milestone in Dutch tunnelling because it signifies a remarkable leap forwards in the conceptualisation, awareness and insight into the use of underground space technology and tunnelling for environmental purposes. At the beginning of the 21st century, all motorway tunnels in the Netherlands ...

Shifting Gravity

The aim of this research is to find an answer on the question of how we should deal with situations where there has been a very large expansion -which results in a shifting gravity point- and we have to search for densification opportunities within existing urban areas. In these situations the new basis of the housing area at the edge of the...

Project: Transferium Utrecht

The Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam and Utrecht form the compact „metroloop" popularly referred to as the Randstad, or „Rim City", Europe's densest conurbation. A number of government initiatives have investigated the potential for a high-speed magnetic levitation („maglev") rail system to solve the growing mobility problem in...