Hospitable Movement
An impermanent housing solution within the Dutch peat polders, taking care of the terminally ill
O. Klijn – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
R. Kuijlenburg – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
A. Campos Uribe – Coach (TU Delft - Building Knowledge)
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Abstract
Hospitable Movement results from a research and design-based search towards a form of temporary inhabitation of the Dutch Peat polders. Many of these polders are now dealing with subsiding peat and releasing greenhouse gas emissions by draining the landscape. A new way of cultivating the landscape is required, by raising the water level and changing to wetland agriculture. Changing the landscape in this rigorous way doesn’t happen overnight, leaving the landscape unused in the process. A form of temporary housing is sought to fill this time gap, utilizing the precious landscape in its transition years. By various means of research, varying from surveys, literature reviews, testing out variants, and calculations temporary hospice has been designed on a specific site. Even though palliative care is the outcome of this research and design project, many other forms of temporary housing can be applied to similar sites, enabling us to release pressure from certain housing problems, buying time in the permanent problem-solving process.