Landscape Development in the Border Condition

the borderland as a cultural interface

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

K.D. Kalogeropoulou Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

S. Nijhuis (supervisor 1)
W.W.L.M. Wilms Floet (supervisor 1)
A. Mulder (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2017 Nadia Kalogeropoulou
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Published Date

29-06-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The development of the landscape around the national border, a usually “unreachable” space due to mentality issues and practical difficulties, is the subject of this graduation project. Enhancing inner connections, literally and symbolically, has been the key to preserve and celebrate the unique qualities of the borderland. A combination of structural continuities and punctual interventions was proposed, with the natural landscape acting as the base upon which connections and boundaries –physical, mental, soft, hard- are at a constant dialogue. Being multi-scalar in nature, with a regional perspective as well as local elaborations, the project envisions a development of the borderland in all aspects –ecological, economical, cultural- that will attract people’s attention and trust and, hence, turn this landscape from edge to core.