Biesbosch Bezinningslandschap - a future scenario for the Amaliapolder

An impressive farm complex, located on a polder island at the heart of natural park the Biesbosch near Dodrecht and Breda, provides the ultimate setting for a nature retreat. The design proposal is fed by the site's rich history, highly varied landscape, the cultural-historical values of the site and research into the characteristics of a place...

Familiarising the unknown: How to interact with a changing water environment and (re)embrace its natural power

The story about the relationship of human with water has been always linked with the fear of the hidden, natural power of water. By identifying the historical position of the North Sea, it is confirmed that the sea has been perceived as “the edge of the world” in its past. The sea and its cold northern waters was seen as an evil in itself, as a...

Keep calm and let the water come. Enabling water management plans for Southwest Dutch delta to give the nature more important position in order to strengthen area’s socio-economic vitality

“The global ecosystem is the source of all the material inputs feeding the economic subsystem” (Costanza, et al., 1997) and delta regions are the hotspots of such feeding ecosystem. Deltas have been one of the most nutritious and economy sustaining landscapes since the beginning of a human era. They provided food, water, connectivity, and even...

Il cuore verde di Varallo Sesia: Living in touch with nature in a shrinking village

De krimpsituatie in de Sesia Vallei in het noordwesten van Italië biedt nieuwe kansen voor het benutten van de kwaliteiten van het gebied. De verbinding van de berg en de rivier met de stad en de bewoners staat centraal. De relatie tussen het wonen en natuur is hierbij het uitgangspunt. The shrinking village in the Sesia valley in northwest...