Het toekomstperspectief van de Waterdriehoek

Abstract

The Water Triangle forms an important area of ​​the maritime heritage of the province of South Holland. This area faces the choice of how the charm of this dynamic maritime landscape—with its alternation of wide rivers, large shipyards, and the (visual) openness and small-scale nature of the intervening buildings—can be utilized as a spatial quality. It is precisely here that population decline, dike heightening due to climate change, and, among other things, ever-rising apartment buildings determine the spatial challenges. The maritime heritage can be decisive in creating a future, attractive landscape near Rotterdam. The first steps consisted of a broad definition of a maritime landscape in four zones, featuring tangible and intangible traces. But equally important is broad interest from the local community, in which the stories are captured. This exhibition presents a series of maps as part of a landscape biographical study that showcased the great maritime richness of the area, together with various landscape biographical artifacts representing the essence of the maritime landscape. These objects were created by landscape architecture students from the Landscape Architecture master's track at TU Delft. Students from the Heritage and Architecture master's track created redesigns of various places to illustrate their development potential.