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Attuning the living Ruin
Contemplation, ruinosity, and care along the Schie
This thesis investigates how the latent contemplative and ruinous qualities of interstitial landscapes along the Schie in Rotterdam North can be spatially framed as an armature for contemplative attunement with nature. The research starts from the observation that residual infrastructural spaces are often dismissed as leftover, unsafe or illegible, while they may contain strong ecological, atmospheric and experiential value.
Through literature research, precedent analysis, repeated fieldwork, deep mapping and design experiments, the thesis examines how contemplation, ruinosity, fourth nature, succession and tree architecture can inform a landscape architectural design attitude based on restraint rather than replacement. The Schie interstitial is read not as empty ground, but as a living ruin: a landscape already shaped by water, infrastructure, spontaneous vegetation, informal use, weathering and time.
The design proposal for Stadspark-West introduces a minimal spatial armature of routes, thresholds, tree structures, steel edges, pause moments and adaptive maintenance. Rather than producing a finished park image, the design prepares conditions in which visitors may slow down, stand still and become more attentive to ongoing processes of growth, decay and care.
The thesis argues that landscape architecture can support attunement not by controlling the interstitial landscape, but by making its existing temporal, ecological and spatial qualities perceptible. ...
Through literature research, precedent analysis, repeated fieldwork, deep mapping and design experiments, the thesis examines how contemplation, ruinosity, fourth nature, succession and tree architecture can inform a landscape architectural design attitude based on restraint rather than replacement. The Schie interstitial is read not as empty ground, but as a living ruin: a landscape already shaped by water, infrastructure, spontaneous vegetation, informal use, weathering and time.
The design proposal for Stadspark-West introduces a minimal spatial armature of routes, thresholds, tree structures, steel edges, pause moments and adaptive maintenance. Rather than producing a finished park image, the design prepares conditions in which visitors may slow down, stand still and become more attentive to ongoing processes of growth, decay and care.
The thesis argues that landscape architecture can support attunement not by controlling the interstitial landscape, but by making its existing temporal, ecological and spatial qualities perceptible. ...
This thesis investigates how the latent contemplative and ruinous qualities of interstitial landscapes along the Schie in Rotterdam North can be spatially framed as an armature for contemplative attunement with nature. The research starts from the observation that residual infrastructural spaces are often dismissed as leftover, unsafe or illegible, while they may contain strong ecological, atmospheric and experiential value.
Through literature research, precedent analysis, repeated fieldwork, deep mapping and design experiments, the thesis examines how contemplation, ruinosity, fourth nature, succession and tree architecture can inform a landscape architectural design attitude based on restraint rather than replacement. The Schie interstitial is read not as empty ground, but as a living ruin: a landscape already shaped by water, infrastructure, spontaneous vegetation, informal use, weathering and time.
The design proposal for Stadspark-West introduces a minimal spatial armature of routes, thresholds, tree structures, steel edges, pause moments and adaptive maintenance. Rather than producing a finished park image, the design prepares conditions in which visitors may slow down, stand still and become more attentive to ongoing processes of growth, decay and care.
The thesis argues that landscape architecture can support attunement not by controlling the interstitial landscape, but by making its existing temporal, ecological and spatial qualities perceptible.
Through literature research, precedent analysis, repeated fieldwork, deep mapping and design experiments, the thesis examines how contemplation, ruinosity, fourth nature, succession and tree architecture can inform a landscape architectural design attitude based on restraint rather than replacement. The Schie interstitial is read not as empty ground, but as a living ruin: a landscape already shaped by water, infrastructure, spontaneous vegetation, informal use, weathering and time.
The design proposal for Stadspark-West introduces a minimal spatial armature of routes, thresholds, tree structures, steel edges, pause moments and adaptive maintenance. Rather than producing a finished park image, the design prepares conditions in which visitors may slow down, stand still and become more attentive to ongoing processes of growth, decay and care.
The thesis argues that landscape architecture can support attunement not by controlling the interstitial landscape, but by making its existing temporal, ecological and spatial qualities perceptible.
Wildwijk en het Land van Wild
Exploring and envisioning Stadspark-West
Student report
(2024)
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E. Nagy, Ettore Sarti, Z.M.A. van Oostrom, F.M.A. de Milliano, A.A. Vos, L. Wiegers, L.W. Waalders, M. Lucanto, M.B. Poorthuis, W. Stadtlander, Y. Wang, S.I. de Wit, M. Veras Morais
This booklet describes the process of work carried out by a group of students within the On Site Studio of the Department of Landscape Architecture at TU Delft (Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences)in the spring of 2024. The students
have different academic backgrounds in either architecture, urbanism or landscape architecture and have been divided into dynamic sub-groups focusing on different approaches to analyse and design, but the work is the result of an effort by the group as a whole.
As the title of the studio ‘ON SITE: Scenes in Stadspark West’ suggests, this project took place in Stadspark West (SPW), a unique location in Rotterdam, however it is not an officially recognised geographical name. The initiators behind SPW refer to it as ‘an idea’ and ‘a fictional park that actually exists’.
This document is divided into three elements, the first part, Analysis and Research, deals with the embodied on-site analysis of the site and the theoretical research that underpins this analysis. The main aim of this part is to get a better grip on the multifaceted area of Stadspark West and to find better ways to describe, define, discuss and work with this area from a landscape architectural perspective. The second part of this booklet focuses on exploring and transcending the outcome of this analysis to a wider audience. In the project we achieve this goal by designing an intervention in the landscape. As the findings of our analysis have come from our first-hand embodied experiences, the aim is to present and extend these impressions from the same perspective. In the final part we use these findings to create an overall vision for Stadspark West. ...
have different academic backgrounds in either architecture, urbanism or landscape architecture and have been divided into dynamic sub-groups focusing on different approaches to analyse and design, but the work is the result of an effort by the group as a whole.
As the title of the studio ‘ON SITE: Scenes in Stadspark West’ suggests, this project took place in Stadspark West (SPW), a unique location in Rotterdam, however it is not an officially recognised geographical name. The initiators behind SPW refer to it as ‘an idea’ and ‘a fictional park that actually exists’.
This document is divided into three elements, the first part, Analysis and Research, deals with the embodied on-site analysis of the site and the theoretical research that underpins this analysis. The main aim of this part is to get a better grip on the multifaceted area of Stadspark West and to find better ways to describe, define, discuss and work with this area from a landscape architectural perspective. The second part of this booklet focuses on exploring and transcending the outcome of this analysis to a wider audience. In the project we achieve this goal by designing an intervention in the landscape. As the findings of our analysis have come from our first-hand embodied experiences, the aim is to present and extend these impressions from the same perspective. In the final part we use these findings to create an overall vision for Stadspark West. ...
This booklet describes the process of work carried out by a group of students within the On Site Studio of the Department of Landscape Architecture at TU Delft (Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences)in the spring of 2024. The students
have different academic backgrounds in either architecture, urbanism or landscape architecture and have been divided into dynamic sub-groups focusing on different approaches to analyse and design, but the work is the result of an effort by the group as a whole.
As the title of the studio ‘ON SITE: Scenes in Stadspark West’ suggests, this project took place in Stadspark West (SPW), a unique location in Rotterdam, however it is not an officially recognised geographical name. The initiators behind SPW refer to it as ‘an idea’ and ‘a fictional park that actually exists’.
This document is divided into three elements, the first part, Analysis and Research, deals with the embodied on-site analysis of the site and the theoretical research that underpins this analysis. The main aim of this part is to get a better grip on the multifaceted area of Stadspark West and to find better ways to describe, define, discuss and work with this area from a landscape architectural perspective. The second part of this booklet focuses on exploring and transcending the outcome of this analysis to a wider audience. In the project we achieve this goal by designing an intervention in the landscape. As the findings of our analysis have come from our first-hand embodied experiences, the aim is to present and extend these impressions from the same perspective. In the final part we use these findings to create an overall vision for Stadspark West.
have different academic backgrounds in either architecture, urbanism or landscape architecture and have been divided into dynamic sub-groups focusing on different approaches to analyse and design, but the work is the result of an effort by the group as a whole.
As the title of the studio ‘ON SITE: Scenes in Stadspark West’ suggests, this project took place in Stadspark West (SPW), a unique location in Rotterdam, however it is not an officially recognised geographical name. The initiators behind SPW refer to it as ‘an idea’ and ‘a fictional park that actually exists’.
This document is divided into three elements, the first part, Analysis and Research, deals with the embodied on-site analysis of the site and the theoretical research that underpins this analysis. The main aim of this part is to get a better grip on the multifaceted area of Stadspark West and to find better ways to describe, define, discuss and work with this area from a landscape architectural perspective. The second part of this booklet focuses on exploring and transcending the outcome of this analysis to a wider audience. In the project we achieve this goal by designing an intervention in the landscape. As the findings of our analysis have come from our first-hand embodied experiences, the aim is to present and extend these impressions from the same perspective. In the final part we use these findings to create an overall vision for Stadspark West.