Designing a new village character
A. Boerendonk (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
L.P.J. van den Burg – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
D. Piccinini – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.J. Oxenaar – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Housing sites are urgently needed and one location that has been designated for this purpose is the Zuidplaspolder. The Zuidplas municipality would like to retain the village character of the existing villages, as it is highly valued by the inhabitants. It has therefore been decided to build a fifth village in the polder, instead of expanding the existing villages. However, this very deep polder has a number of problems, including the water system, the soft peat soil and biodiversity. Climate change will exacerbate the water problems, while oxidation of the peat will also contribute to climate change. This raises the question of whether it is wise to build in this polder. This project investigates whether there is a sustainable way to build a village in this polder, by putting the water system and biodiversity first. It will be investigated what form suits the polder, but also the people who like to live in a village. What ultimately contributes most to sustainability, in this time of great uncertainty about how great the consequences of climate change will be, is the temporary nature of the village, which leaves other options open for the future.