Production Biospheres: A new production space in Hembrug

The project named production biospheres created a process design aimed on the adaptive reuse of the Plots In The Woods site on the Hembrug terrain near Zaandam. The landscape and urban design for the site is based on methods used by landscape architects and ecologists based on the three terms cultivate, stage and set up, not just creating. The...

A new integrated N-S (north-south) system: Renaturing the lower Thames Estuary

Estuarine area, as a transition area between land and sea, is the most dynamic and complicated area, due to its unique location and diverse ecosystem, but yet it is also the most vulnerable and fragile area, as it may be plagued with flooding risk, erosion, subsidence and etc. As the diagram show below, estuary area is influenced by three...

Coastal Conditions: Responding to the Partial Opening of the Haringvliet Sluice

How to, a landscape architect, design with coastal natural processes? Coastal areas have stronger and more fluctuating natural variables than many sites in more sheltered areas. Understanding the past, present, and future form of these processes will allow the designer to shape a form and program that works with the site-specific...

Landscape imagination: Ecology and Industry: Designing a transition for the Port of Rotterdam into a productive landscape Park

The thesis project is a design exploration of a transition for Port of Rotterdam from a nature-based perspective into a productive landscape park. Productive landscape park is a place of co-existence where ecology and industry work together, rather against each other in order to remediate existing ecological damages in the port, promote...

Automatic detection of benthos & birds: Microphytobenthos cover and bird number detection on the Galgeplaat mudflat using terrestrial imagery

Ecological monitoring, i.e. the process of assessing the quality and health of natural habitats, is required to assess the impact of anthropogenic influence. This process is often inhibited by the expenses involved and a limited accessibility to the study site. The use of remotely sensed data then logically comes to mind as a potential solution....