In-Between Boezem Landscapes
Designing a Mediating Water Landscape into the Dutch Lowlands
I. Bobbink (TU Delft - Landscape Architecture)
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Abstract
An in-between boezem landscape is a newly built large-scale green-blue diked structure that stores water in a polder landscape and en¬riches its ecology. A polder is reclaimed low-ly¬ing land surrounded by dikes with a specific water management regime, depending on its land use. Since many Dutch polders lie under sea level, the rainwater must be pumped out constantly. Today, polder water is discharged into the boezem network, releasing surplus water into rivers and sea. The newly designed in-between boezem landscape is mainly posi¬tioned between the polder and the boezem wa¬ter level. Exceptional, it can be placed higher than the boezem level, meaning higher than the NAP (average sea level), making the land suita¬ble to implement housing. [...]
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