Spaarne North - Haarlem (booklet)

H A A R L E M : z i p t h e s c a t t e r e d c i t y t o g e t h e r

Robin Boelsums, Ruud Hoekstra,Richard de Ruiter, Qiu Ye

H A A R L E M : z i p t h e s c a t t e r e d c i t y t o g e t h e r

Analys is and des ign of the c i t y for m

Robin Boelsums 1275267, Ruud Hoekstra 1402587, Richard de Ruiter 1342061, Qiu Ye 4125398Tutor: Steffen Nijhuis Phd-can. TU Delft // 01-11-2010 // R&D Studio AR1U090 Group 5

Masters of Urbanism TU Delft

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P R E FA C EBefore you lies the research & design report, which is the result of the Masters of Urbanism Studio AR1U090, Analysis and Design of the City Form, commissioned by the TU Delft.

The focus of this course lies on the spatial form of the city. How to analyse the city by just considering its spatial form? Take a look at the landscape and its physical influence on the spatial development of the city over times. How does the open space relate to the urban fabric?

When developing a vision, use only spatial aspects, almost ignoring economic or social influences. Zooming in to the spacial aspects gives enough guidelines to design a qualitive masterplan.

Use these different scales and see what influence they have on each other. The masterplan can give new input for the vision. With those subjects can be learned to deal with one of the most important lessons in urbanism: working through scales.

Special thanks to Steffen Nijhuis PhD-can. for his contribution and in-put he had in the project, tutoring us through the Research and Design Studio.

Robin BoelsumsRuud HoekstraRichard de RuiterQiu Ye

November 1st, 2010

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A B S T R A C TThe first settlements of Haarlem developed in the 13th century on the sandbanks along the river Spaarne. In the following centuries Haarlem developed by the underlying landscape. In the beginning of the 20th century infrastructure became more and more important, by the com-ing of the railroad and highways. Haarlem grew towards and along this infrastructure, until 1960. Schalkwijk became part of Haarlem and its development, and also the North and Waarderpolder were detatched from both the landscape and the infrastructure.

Based on this analysis can be concluded that there is a wide variety of urban fabrics. This can be a quality but it can also cause fragmenta-tion in a bad sense. To remain and improve this quality of diversity, is a structure needed to structurise the city of Haarlem. The open spaces in between of the urban fabrics are the focus points. There is a lot of potential to transform these spaces into transition zones from one to the other urban patch.

The open spaces -in which the Spaarne, Schipholweg and Amster-damseweg are eleborated - can be the zippers to zip the scattered city together.

Spaarne South - This zone is reorganised as a green carpet of the Spaarne zone which is one of the structures of Haarlem. The goal is to complete the present landscape and improve its relationship with surroundings. The approach is to permeate the lanscape and create more view spots in dwelling areas, and maximize the visable angel of landscape from the neighbourhood.

Spaarne North - A vision on this zone was developed, aiming for a good relation of both riverbanks with the water. Creating this relation, the water turns into a transition zone that enables a relation between the East and West urban patch. In the more detailed zoomed in masterplan can be seen how this relation was created: sight lines to the water, a road along the water and buildings along the bank for instance.

Amsterdamseweg - This zone is based on the vision of pin nailing a green carpet to its surroundings. By adding a strong tree structure the open space patches of east and west are connected.By redefining the fast grey infrastructures, making the railway track underground and distracting high density traffic around the zone, the base conditions for a green carpet are created.The borders of the zone determine which program should come into

the green carpet. Hereby a logical connection to the surrounding bor-ders/patches is shaped.Sight lines make a connection north south to the surrounding patches and physic connections are created by slow grey structures in the form of bicycle and pedestrian routes.Functional inner courts in the dwelling area with car parking and back-yards result in streets free of car parking. These strengthen the green carpet as a whole.

Schipholweg - For the Schipholweg is a vision developed, aiming to connect the northern part of Schalkwijk with the city-landscape. The space between the Schipholweg and the Boerhaavelaan is zipping the city with the landscape by new and improved connections of green-structure and slow & fast infrastructure.


I N T R O D U C T I O NHaarlem is one of the most beautiful old cities of the Netherlands, posi-tioned in the provence of North Holland. It consists of 150,000 inhabit-ants and that makes it a medium sized city in this country. Its attractive, monumental centre is famous and with its location close to Amsterdam and the coastline, it attracts both foreign and inland tourists.

Are there actually problems in Haarlem? Is there anything that can be improved by urbanists? Out of the analysis should emerge the improve-ments that can be made by urbanists, by considering its spatial aspects.

The analysis contains the growth of Haarlem. Based on the conclusions indept research on open space can be formed. The research gives suf-ficient input to develop a vision on the entire city. In the vision dif-ferent envelopes can be defined that ask for redevelopment. On four envelopes will be zoomed in to formulate its more specified vision and masterplan.

To conclude, the four envelop visions will provide new input to refine the vision on the city of Haarlem.


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4 Preface5 Abstract6 Introduction7 Index8 Analysis Haarlem8 Haarlem in the region9 Soil of Haarlem10 Growth of Haarlem18 Strategy19 Analysis open space22 Conclusion23 Vision24 Envelopes27 Spaarne South31 Spaarne North43 Amsterdamseweg55 Schipholweg67 Evaluation69 Reflection


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Haarlem is situated in the Northwest wing of the Randstad, surrounded by big sized cities: economical (financial hart Amsterdam) or infrastructural (Schiphol) and political (the Hague). In this surrounding Haarlem could take a position as a recreational city (for tourists). It can also take the position of a dwelling area for people who work in Amsterdam. In this way Haarlem takes part in the bigger region and can benefit from that.

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S O I L O F H A A R L E MThe elongated shape (7000 by 1800 m) of the city Haarlem is determined by geographical conditions. The forming of the landscape started 12,000 years ago. Due to a relatively short period of increasing temperature the ice caps and glaciers, that much of the northern and western part of Europe covered, began to melt.

The relatively shallow bowl (tundra plain) between England and the Netherlands began filling with water, now called the North Sea. Around 7,000 years before the beginning of our era, came an end to a gradually rising sea level. Wind and seas supplied large amounts of sand, making sand barriers. In this elongated, parallel spaced sand banks the wind threw meters high dunes which eventually formed a closed coastline,in some places interrupted by estuaries.

The oldest, most eastern shoreline is the sandbank on which Spaarn-woude would arise. When this shoreline was formed a new shoreline started to arise. On this second sandbank Schoten, Haarlem and Heem-stede were founded.On the third shoreline Santpoort, Bloemendaal, Hillegom and Lisse were founded. These so-called ancient dunes should not be confused with the dozens of meters high dunes between The Hague and Den Helder. These young dunes arise in the eleventh and twelfth century and are now part of the dune landscape of The Netherlands and function as a defensive wall for the seawater.

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Haarlem - Haarlo-hein - high up situated village.

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Establishment of the Bisdom of Haarlem.

Spanish siege: fall of the fortress Haarlem: the siege of Haar-lem.

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40,000 inhabitants.

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Third city of the Netherlands 55,000 inhabitants.

Pest-plague: of inhabitants died

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First train between Haarlem and Amsterdam.

Railroad between Haalem and Leiden.

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Development of Waarderpolder, North, and Schalkwijk

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S T R AT E G YLooking at this historical development we can see that there is a wide variety of urban patches. This variety can be a quality, but it can also cause fragmentation in a negative sense. How can we make certain that this diversity is a quality and that it does not make Haarlem a scattered city? We need to add structure to the city, that is our goal.There is a lot of potential in the open spaces. They seperate the urban patches from each other and could be used to add structure to the city. These spaces can then be a transition zone between the diverse urban fabrics. As a metaphor the open spaces can be the zipper that zip the scattered city together.

Now that is clear what direction the research is heading towards, the method can be defined. First step is to take a closer look at the open space. What are the potentialities? Based on that we can develop a city vision for Haarlem.In this plan envelopes can be defined, that ask for attention. We will individualy zoom in on four of the envelopes to make a more detailed vision and masterplan.

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Open space is defined as the space that is unbuilt or relatively low densed. The urban patches in between, are the relatively high densed areas. What can be found in these spaces? How do they relate to the edges of the urban patches around?We take a look at the green structue and its functions, and the water functions. Furthermore we investigate the crossings on the infrasctruc-ture, and the building typologies on the edges that are shown in the right figure.

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The green struc-ture of Haarlem is divided into four types of green: city green; tree struc-ture; peat meadow & suburban area; and a provincial e co l o gi c a l m a i n structure. This green

structure has several features that devides the green area into different fragments. There are

protected areas and other areas have a recreational or sport function.This distribution ensures that the green structure is not always easy accessible for people. In order to improve the accessibility, so people can make best use of the green qualities of the city, new slow infra-structure connections are created. This route leads to contact with the various green structures of the city. When the green structure of the city functions, will the city attract new residents and tourists, because of the increasing cultural and tourist value.

Looking at the water, a diversity of functions can be seen. Next to regular water ways, a water treatment plant can be found. Also different search areas for water storage are present. Some areas have been protected, urbanists cannot change anything there.The last function that can be found is living on water. A very interest-ing one, because it is a transition zone between open and built space.

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Profile Spaarne - Buitenspaarne

Profile Spaarne - Spaarne (3)

Profile Spaarne - Spaarndamseweg (5)

Profile Spaarne - Spaarndamseweg2 (6)

Profile Vondelweg (7)

Profile Spoor-Jan P.C.straat (13)

Profile Spoor-Westerstraat (15)

The study shows the relation of the building typologies to the open space.By research in profiles and typology stamps the following questions can be asked:Is there grey infrastructure (one way, two ways, four ways) in between and does it cause fragmentation? Is the connection to the open space hard (cay) or soft (slope, nature)? Is the connection to the open space physical long or short? What are the weaknesses, strengths and op-portunities to relate the typology to the open space? Looking at the pictures above, the answers can be seen. The typologies consists of a lot of different combinations in these mentioned subjects, which cre-ates a diverse urban landscape.

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TypologyIn the direction the in-frastructure leads to, it mostly creates a good connection. Crossing these infrastruc tura l lines can be a problem and can cause fragmen-tation. This depends on how the road is designed: is it a one way, two way, four way or bicycle or pedestrian route? It also depends on how the crossings are designed: bridges, tunnels or flat crossings.Gathering this information can point out where new transitions have to be made. Where are opportunities to cross and where to create a better flow of grey infrastructure?With the relation to open space in mind interventions can be designed based on this analysis.

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O P E N S PA C EIt can be concluded that not only the urban fabric shows a lot of di-versity, also the open space is really diverse. The diversity of green and water functions shows that there is a great potential of making relations from the urban fabric towards these functions. Zooming in we can take a closer look on these relations to create the envelop visions.

On first sight the crossings over the infrastructure look sufficient. When zooming in we can refine this statement.The urban fabric is at this day still very diverse, so this creates opportu-nities to have a good look at the transistion between them. It creates a good quality of an interesting urban environment. But it can also causes fragmentation on a city scale, if there is not a good structure made.

Haarlem consists of a variety of urban patches. These patches are a result of historical development in landscape, infrastructure and de-tatched areas. Next to that, there are a lot of open spaces in between with a variety of program.The open space can give structure to these patches, it can function as

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a zipper: a transition zone that connects the patches to a united whole.

Due to chaining the open spaces a strong structure arises. This structure can consist of different spatial qualities. The challenge is to create a good transition zone from one urban patch, to the open space, and to the other urban patch.

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E N V E L O P E SZone 1 Jan GijzenkadeThe areas of the old football stadium of FC Haarlem and other sport functions along the Jan Gijzenkade have the potential for a new devel-opment area for dwelling and reorganisation of the sport facilities. In a green environment, a new living environment develops.

Zone 2 Green zone NorthThe Northern green zone has a protected and recreational function. The protected area is a breading place for birds. The recreational func-tion is provided with windmills. The connections as the accessibility of both areas can be improved in a way that they are accessible for slow infrastructure, cyclists and pedestrians.

Zone 3 Spaarne NorthThe Spaarne North zone consists of two urban patches with a river in between: in the East a light industrial area and in the West a dwelling area. Due to demolishment and fallow land there is a possibility to do interventions which relate the areas to the Spaarne river. Also by in-terventions on a more zoomed in scale -sightlines to the water, a road along the water and buildings faced to the water- the zone can develop as a transition zone and improve the East West connection. Zone 4 Railway node WestThe area has the potential to relocate the NS Prorail facility along the Schipholweg. By relocating this function to this area, it provides new development space along the Schipholweg for housing and commercial programme.

Zone 5 AmsterdamsewegThe Amsterdamseweg zone is the primary entrance of Haarlem. By the relocation of the NS Prorail facility a large space along the Amsterdam-seweg close to the inner city comes free. Distraction of the existing high densed grey structures trough the zone creates circumstances which are suitable for dwelling and commercial development. By replacing the railway track underground and distractiing the high densed traffic the area can develop as a transition zone in East West and in North South direction.

Zone 6 Green zone EastThe green zone is the connection between the northern and southern green zones. By creating a landscape bridge in the North to connect both parts together and making new slow infrastructure bridge over the Schipholweg a continuous routing trough the green zones of Haarlem is established

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Zone 9 Green zone SouthConnect with other greenzones

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Zone 8 Spaarne SouthNew development area

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Zone 6 Green zone EastConnect with other green zones

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Zone 5 AmsterdamsewegReorganize the Prole/Program/Connections

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Zone 4Railway Knot WestRelocated NS Prorail

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Zone 3Spaarne NorthNew development area/Relation with water

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Zone 2Green zone NorthConnect with other greenzones

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Zone 1Jan GijzenkadeReorganization green functions


E N V E L O P E SZone 7 SchipholwegThe Schipholweg zone is the secondary entrance of Haarlem. By design-ing the area the zone can connect the northern part of Schalkwijk with the city landscape to the north side of the Schipholweg. The designed area between the Schipholweg and the Boerhaavelaan can zip these three patches together by new and improved connections of green structure and slow and fast infrastructure. In this way the Schipholweg also becomes an interesting entrance of Haarlem.

Zone 8 Spaarne SouthThe Spaarne South zone consists of three patches: the Spaarne River, a green area and a dwelling area. The zone can develop a connection for Schalkwijk towards its surroundings and towards the entire chain of open spaces. By creating buildings in the border area that face to the Spaarne the zone can develop as a green garden for this neighbour-hood. Also sightlines can help to establish the connection towards the Spaarne.

Zone 9 Green zone SouthThe southern green zone has a protected and water storage function. The protected area is a breading place for birds. The water storage area is reserved for extreme water conditions. The connections as the acces-sibility of both areas can be improved in a way that they are accessible for slow infrastructure: cyclists and pedestrians. With all the new con-nections and entrance to the green zone it makes that the green zone isbecoming one whole.

Chosing four envelopesDue to the fact that each one of the group will elaborate oneof the envelopes, a decision needs to be made how to choose which ones will be elaborated. The zones with the highest priority are the ones surrounded by urban patches, so zone 3, 5 and 7. These can re-ally prevent Haarlem from being scattered. The rest of the zones are positioned on the edges of the city.Furthermore the district Schalkwijk is an important part, because it is built as an isolated part of Haarlem. This gives priority to zone 7, 8 and 9, in which 8 is the most important one since it relates to both Schalk-wijk and Heemstede.

With this information we can state that the zones with the highest pri-ority are: Spaarne South (8), Spaarne North (3), Amsterdamseweg (5) and Schipholweg (7).Moreover these envelopes are the most complex ones. They consist of wide waterways, a large green area, and the most important infrastruc-tures. If these four zones are developed, the hardest task is finished and the rest of the zones can follow from these designs.

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INTRODUCTION

TRANSFORM

From the filed trip I find out that this ares is seperated by three functions, which are sports area, dwelling area and park. Each area is very closed to itself and hard to access. My goal is to reorgnaize this area by mix up these functions and create more see through angels for other parts of Schalkwijk. By doing these, people lives in schalkwijk can better enjoy the Spaarne river. Meanwhile, the relationship between lanscape and other city fabrics will be improved.

CONCEPT

My site is an green finger in Schalkwijk, which is the only green left along the spaarne river. As the main structure of the city, i think it should be kept as green as it can, which not only completes the lanscape structure but also could be quanlity of the neighbourhood.

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Schalkwijk has a long history of being a fame land of Haarlemmermeer. Its development of dwelling starts in 1980s, after it becomes part of Haar-lem. The building in this area is mainly joint-house, however, there are some independent houses along the river, which creates variety relation-ships between landscape and building.

There are three type of green relationships, which I think could be prob-lems:

There several joint-houses near the sports yard, but the entrances of this side are blocked. There is only one main entrance of those sports yard, but people who live nearby have to travel around to the other side to get in. Same thing also happened with the houses along the river, the river bank becomes part of their back yard, which blocks the view to the Spaarne.

The jo int-house is the identity of Schalkwijk , most of them have their own publ ic space. The problem is those spaces are 100% public but very xenophobic. People will feel uncomfortable of being there if they are not living in the neighborhood.

It is said that Netherlands enjoy nature landscape, but do they really? One interesting discovery is that there were more peo-ple sitting along the road, enjoy their coffee than who sitting in a beautiful but very nature park. Perhaps the park is a little bit too nature/wild to people to enjoy. And, those shadows of big trees and the lacking of artificial facilities make the park unfriendly.

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S p a a r n e S o u t hDESIGN APPROACH

SLOPE PARK

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Slope park is an interesting park. The plants composed by grass, low pushes and small trees. The goal is to create visiable angels to Spaarne river as many as possible. At the same time it can be a quanlity green area to the community. The Slope makes the place more fun and enable the low land be-comes a water pool if the wate level rises. In Winter, when the water froze, it can be used as a skating rink. So the park is a mutiple function open space.

1 1The approach is to use part structure of inner city, than collage the sight view analysis from the surroundings, grow low plants like grass and small pushes which will not block the views, the last step is to create artificial facilities to make the park more easy to enjoy.


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The river Spaarne cuts through Haarlem from North to South. In the previous analysis of the city, the question was raised whether these kinds of open areas in between the urban patches cause problems.In this section there will be zoomed in to the North of the Spaarne. The analysis will show that the diversity of urban patches is also present on this lower scale. On the West a residential area, and on the East an industrial area. Next, a method is shown on how to deal with this diversity. How can the water function as a transition zone between the different patches on the East and West bank? This will be shown, on the base of six principles, in an envelope vision of Spaarne North.What do these principles look like spatially? Zooming in to a more detailed masterplan will answer this question.

Finally, an evaluation can be found, reconsidering the working method and final products.

The river Spaarne cuts through Haarlem The envelope Spaarne North


S T R AT E G YThe goal is to add structure to Haarlem, by developing the open spaces. On this lower scale it means that we need to improve the relation of East and West by connecting both riversides to the water.The Spaarne as transition zone between the urban patches is the tool to reach the goal. How will the Spaarne be used? That will be formulated in six principles that are on the base of the envelope vision.

First an analysis is shown to proove that not only on the city scale there is a wide variety of urban fabrics, but also on this lower scale that is the case.Then, the method to reach the goal is translated into six prin-ciples. This will be shown in a vision.After that, we can see how this works spatially in a masterplan when zooming in more. The spatial qualities will also be shown in graphical impressions.

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Zipping the East and West bank together: using the Spaarne as a transition zone in between


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West: the open space directly at the riverside is clearly defined by a con-sistent row of buildings.

West: the buildings shape the open space, there is a low OSR.

East: the open space at the riverside is not clear defined. The form of the buildings is inconsistent.

East: the buildings are placed in the open space, there is a high OSR.

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West: refined road structure, no dead end roads

West: the road is at the riverside and branches out away from the river.

East: unrefined road structure, many dead end roads

East: the road is inland and branches out towards the river.

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V I S I O N : 6 P R I N C I P L E SExist ing s i tuat ion

Pedestrian and cycle path along waterCar road along water

Sight line towards water

Building along water

Building on water

Public space along water

Follow shape of waterbank

Out of this previous analysis clearly the conclusion can be drawn that the East and West consist of two diverse patches. These are seperated by the Spaarne, so to connect them the relation with the Spaarne should be improved. The water can then function as a transition zone in between.To relate to the water six principles are established. In the current situation the principles are already there on some spots. Most changes are made on the East side. On the next page the princi-ples will be explained one by one.


In the form of house-b o a t s a n d b r i d g e s there can be built on the water. In order to be able to create a road along the eastern riverbank (principle 5),

two bridges need to be established in the middle and south part. Living on the water will be in the two branches on the East. By building on the water, the urban fabric is mixed with the open space.

The urban fabric is an active space where a lot happens. Bringing this urbanised space close to the water cre-ates a spatial relation between the two.

This in contrast with for example an unused industrial area, that denies any relation with the water.

It goes without saying that sight lines towards the water create spa-tial connections. A t r a d i t i o n a l way of building is applied in the d e s i g n , w h i c h

ensures that the sight lines cut the building blocks into pieces.

Public space attracts people to stay at the waterside. This ensures a relation.Spatially it creates cambers along the linear space of the Spaarne. The open

space is pulled into the urban patch. The open space is as well part of the open space as part of the urban fabric.

The roads are part of the open s p a c e a s w e l l as of the urban fabric. Therefore it creates a tran-sition between t h e t w o . T h i s bankside road is

already present at the West, but will be estab-lished in the East, for pedestrians and cyclists.

Fol lowing the s h a p e o f t h e w a t e r b a n k i s copying the form of the space to the urban fab-r ic. Using this shape not only at the riverside, but also further

inland can create a new relation.

6 P R I N C I P L E SFuture s i tuat ion


Sight line towards waterBuilding along waterBuilding on water

Public space along water Follow shape of waterbank

















Sight line towards water

Building along water

Building on water

Public space along water

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C R U C I A L D E TA I LLocat ion in Haar lem M aster plan

To be able to show the spatial qualities of this approach, it is useful to work on a lower scale. The area for the masterplan was chosen on a spot with new buildings on both the East and the West. But on each other spot of the Spaarne North envelope, the approach to come to a detailed masterplan would have been the same.

First, the plan will be explained as if it is a masterplan that stands on its own. Second it will be explained on the base of the six principles.

This area is approximately 500 by 500 meters, 25 hectares. Industry in the city is generally slowly shifting out of the city. For this approach in Haarlem this shifting is encouraged. But Haarlem has almost no places where this industry can shift to, so the use of the groundspace should be intensified.The Waarderpolder will be shifted to an area with a mixed function of dwellings and offices. How can dwellings be combined with offices and industry? The light industry will therefore be converted from wide, low buildings, to small, high buildings with parking lots underground. The industry should be surrounded by offices, since in most cases it is not allowed to build dwellings next to it. Next to the offices can be a mixture of offices and dwellings.

All of this will be established within the frame of the six principles.

Transformation of industrial buildings: intensify use of space

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C R U C I A L D E TA I LM aster plan

The new residential areas are developed with green surroundings. In Haarlem there is a lack of public green therefore it is good to always keep this in mind when designing public space.Some building blocks have an inner gar-den, but all blocks have an outer garden or private zone. This makes the transition zone between public and private. This ensures that the transition from the open space of the river to the public space around it to the actual dwellings is as sufficient as possible.

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C R U C I A L D E TA I LFunc t ion map

In the map of the functions can be seen how business is combined with dwellings. When mixing these functions it is important to keep in mind the social control that there is, after closing hours. Ideal the two functions would be organised in a chess pattern, so that there is always a form of social control on the streets.There are 510 dwellings and approximately 50,000m2 of offices.In this area already exist some dwellings. There are a lot of houseboats, but also some detatched houses that seem lost between the industry. In this plan it becomes attatched to the environment.

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Building in green & view on water

Green lanePublic square & roads along the water

Looking out of the office

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New added principles

So far, the principles that are in the masterplan were not discussed yet. That shows that also without the principles and the foregoing vision, this could be a qualitative good plan.In the image below can be seen that the principles are there. This shows only the new added principles. There is built on and along the water, there are sightlines towards the water, public spaces and continuous roads along the Spaarne, and the shape of the riverbank has been fol-lowed.

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This project took eight weeks, so it is not possible to elaborate and research anything as much as you would like. If I had more time I would definitely take more time to research what principles could be used to create a relation with the water. Literature studies and a comparison of designs would have been useful. Now, I only took a quick look at Dutch cities with the same width of water running through. For the time being however, it was effective.

The industry of the Waarderpolder is very diverse. I did not have the time to research what the exact funtcions of the buildings are, whether the will disappear in 10-20 years and whether it is possible to build dwellings nearby. If I had more time I would have done that, but for the time being I made assumptions on what can and will disappear.

I found the project very interesting. After MSc2 it was very useful to finally get an introduction to urbanism and work on a lower scale (in comparison to Island IJsselmonde).Analysing the city went very well I think. With the group we came to interesting conclusions, and thanks to our teacher we focused very much on creating a coherent story combined with beautiful, legible maps.I myself like analysing very much, and also the theoratical approach is my cup of thee. When we had to switch to a desgin however, I had a bit of trouble. I cannot simply design something from scratch. I need a good base on which I can design. So when I got stuck in the process, I zoomed out again to reformulate and sharpen the principles. On that base I was able to design much better. Just draw, then you almost au-tomatically find out what is wrong or right.

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Introduction

Out of the analysis on city scales comes forward that Haarlem consists of a wide variety of so called patches. The open space provides conditions to structurate these patches. One of the open spaces is around the Amsterdamseweg. This infrastructural line developed trough the history from draft cannel where horses on a side road pull boats in the cannel to six lane car traffic nowadays.

In combination with the Schipholweg (secondary entrance of Haarlem from out the Polder Haarlemmermeer) these two form the main entrances of Haarlem. Since they both consists of a more open space these could develop as green fingers towards the inner-city. Also where there is a lack of green in the inner-city itself it can bring in the landscape along these entrances. Connecting the green edge on the eastern part of Haarlem makes it a city structure of open spaces.

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Strategy

Goal From out the city vision is determined to connect surrounding patches via open space. This to structurate the variety of existing patches where Haarlem is rich of.Tool By adding a green structuring space the plot area can be designed. This green structuring space can hold the identity of the open space and transform in a transition zone between patches surrounding the area.Method By analyzing the existing situation strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and treats can be filtered. Based on this information new interventions are designed which support the goal to improve the connection between the patches.


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Analysis existing situation

In the existing situation the Northern patch consists of light industry program. The southern patch is programmed with dwellings. The patches are separated by an open space which is filled in with two infrastructural structures a high density road with a wide profile and a railway track.Programmatic the open space is filled in with a train maintenance workplace close to the inner-city and light industrial program in the eastern part of the plot area.Driving to Haarlem over the Amsterdamseweg the car driver sees a flyover, another flyover for pedestrians, open space and large light industrial volumes with metal claddings.

All these features strengthen the patches isolation in the North-South direction.In the Northern part of the industrial area a new bridge is developed by the municipality of Haarlem. This gives potentials to distract the traffic from the Amsterdamseweg.

In the area is a lot of open space which in not all clear defined or developed yet. This is an opportunity to add new structure which handles with the weaknesses of the large light industrial volumes. More specific the look of these volumes is mostly not that attractive to see and these volumes have an inwards direction of the building organization.

By distracting the main infrastructure lines (high density road and railway) the area is ready to be developed as a transition zone that connects the northern patch to the Southern patch.

existing route of road traffic and railwaytrack.

existing entrance area; Amsterdamseweg wide road profile and pedestrian bridge.

Amsterdamseweg, railwaytrack and big grain size light industrial volumes.

light industrial volumes with metal claddings

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adaption of the railway trackBy moving the railway in the plot area underground the area becomes free of slicing lines which are hardly to pass. This is a highly expensive intervention but it will not only be effective for the plot area. This intervention makes it possible to develop the plot area in that way that it brings good conditions for the Northern and Southern patch as well. Due to connecting these patches via the transition zone the total area becomes more attractive and therefore interesting for investors in the future.

adaption / distraction of the road structureDue to the resent development of the connecting bridge over the Spaarne River in the Northern part of Haarlem an opportunities comes forth to distract the high density traffic which is driving over the Amsterdamseweg. By this distraction of traffic the existing wide profile of the Amsterdamseweg can be adapted. Transforming this profile in a low density road (two lanes) in the dwelling area and a medium density road(four lanes) along the commercial area creates conditions for crossing in North-South direction.

bringing the railwaytrack under ground in the plot area

existing road structure

distraction of the road structure


spatial formIn spatial form the plot area consists of two different areas. A circulation space near to the inner-city and a continuous space in the eastern part of the plot area. These formal condition are interpreted as a place to stay which in translation means a dwelling area and park and a place to pass translated in a commercial boulevard.

adding a strong tree structureBy adding a strong tree structure trough the open space and connected to the green areas in the eastern and western part a continuous green element is developed. This structure gives a clear identity on the plot area and connects the green spaces as a chain. Now users of the slow infrastructure (bicyclist or pedestrians) can follow this structure towards or outwards the city.

informing program form out its bordersThe typology which is positioned along the borders of the plot area can spatial inform the new development areas. At the western side a small grain size informs the plot area. This condition can programmatic been translated as dwelling area which consists of also a small grain size. At the eastern part a bigger grain size inform the borders of the plot area. These are translated in a commercial program. In combination with the spatial form and the adaption of the road structure these three interventions form a logical whole.


circulation space and continuous space.

adding a strong tree structure.

informing new program fromout its borders.

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defining enterance.

existing build line.

interlocking space by composition creating new build line.

defining entranceThe existing entrance is a follow up of infrastructural elements (wide road profile, railway track along, fly-over, pedestrian bridge), here and there a big light industrial volume with metal cladding and a lot of open space. Not really an entrance you should wish as a city.In the new situation the infrastructure is adapted (distraction road traffic by roundabout and underground railway track) also the build structure is supplemented. By adding a new ecoduct which connect the green edges along the build area North-South a clear dividing of program is realized.To explicit the entrance of Haarlem a marking building is placed right after the roundabout. By these interventions a new entrance develops; first you are driving trough the landscape than passing the ecoduct you see the marking building which is announcing Haarlem. In front of it you can pass Haarlem by going right on the roundabout and by going straight ahead you are entering Haarlem.

adding build volumes commercial zoneBorder conditions along the commercial area inform the new development. By adding new volumes in the same direction (lightly twisted) in front of the existing volumes a new spatial view is designed. By giving these a higher quality cladding the view becomes more interesting. Due to position the new volumes not on one line but in a variety out of the middle line the volumes interlock the space around them. This composition makes also spatial the relation/connection between the patch in the northern part and the open space.

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picking up visual and structural lines fromout the surrounding borders.

adding visual lines to create an open plan.

adding structure dwelling areaThe functional structure of the dwelling area is designed by picking up visual and functional lines out of the borders. Due to this structure the new plan makes a physical relation with its surrounding and thus between the open space and the patch in the south. By adding physical lines in thirty degrees toward the main infrastructural line (Amsterdamseweg) the dwelling area develops as an open plan and in combination with the green tree structure as a green enclave.

Amsterdamsepoortpicking up visual lines

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Masterplan AmsterdamsewegThis zone is designed based on the vision of pin nailing a green carpet to its surroundings. By adding a strong tree structure the open space patches east and west are connected.By redefining the fast grey infrastructures, making the railway track underground and distracting high density traffic around the zone, the base conditions for a green carpet are created.The borders of the zone determine which program should come into the green carpet based on the grain size of surrounding volumes are that dwellings and commercial volumes. Hereby a logical connection to the surrounding borders/patches is shaped.Sight lines make a connection north south for example to the Amsterdamsepoort and from the dwelling area to the park. Due to these aspects the surrounding patches are psychically connected to the plot area. By adding slow grey structures in the form of bicycle and pedestrian routes real connections to the surrounding area are created.The composition of the new added commercial program interlocks the existing volumes to the plot area/open space. In this way the relation between the two spaces comes to stand.Functional inner courts in the dwelling area with car parking and backyards result in streets free of car parking. These strengthen the green carpet as a whole.

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3D-Section

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Within the designed structure of the dwelling area building blocks are designed. These are faced outwards but functional pointed inwards. In the inner courts is the backyard and the parking facility designed. Due to this composition the streets in the dwelling area are free of parked cars. This strengthens the openness of the dwelling area.

Amsterdamseweg - new commercial area

Amsterdamseweg - new dwellings faced towards the park - underground railway track

Amsterdamseweg - new dwellings faced outwards with functional innercour - railwaytrack on slope

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Due to the use of a functional inner court the streets are kept free of parked cars. Hereby the streets have an open and green character.

In the new situation the visitor enters Haarlem by passing an ecoduct (which has a green-, pedestrian- and bicyclist connection) after this Haalem will show up by a clear build line and a marking building in front.

The dwelling area consists of housing blocks which are faced outwards. The functional part is situated at the inner court. Here are the backyards and cars parked.

A slow grey connection transports pedestrians and bicyclist from the inner-city through the park, via the commercial green zone to the land-scape edge or Amsterdam city.


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Master plan vs. city vision

From out the master plan interventions can be placed towards the city vision (button up).The adaption of the railway track and distraction of the road structures are important to the city scale and city vision.The east west green structure on city scale and on plan scale the slow grey structure (pedestrian and bicyclist) in north south direction can be imbedded in the city vision.

Points of attention

In the project less attention is given to the overflow knots. In my opinion these are crucial to make the plan work because at these points the connection fails or succeeds.Another point is the closer scale on street level. Here the details can strengthen the plan as a whole. In the project I didnt work much on this scale.

As for myself I notion that I have problems with losing in detailing stuff which is not important to the content of scale Im working on. Due to this I lose a lot of time without going forwards. This is a point where I have to work on or pay attention to in future projects.

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The east edge of Haarlem has two entrances, the Amsterdamseweg and the Schipholwel. The fo-cus of this masterplan lies on the area around the Schipholweg.

Out of the cityscale analysis can be concluded that Haarlem has a lot of different urban patches that separate the city. The city needs structure in this variaty of urban patches. The open space can pro-vide the conditions to structurise the city of Haar-lem.

The open space around the Schipholweg can pro-vide the conditions to zip Schalkwijk to the scat-tered city. Reorganizing the open space around the Schipholweg brings structure to this part of the city that has influence on the hole city form of Haarlem.

The green structure will be used to connect the urban city with the green city of Haarlem. The east border of Haarlem stores a lot of different green-functions. The open space between the urban pat-terns suggest seperation and isolation of urban fragments.

Focus

The space around the Schipholweg can store new dwelling program and new slow/fast infrastructure connection.

East entrance of Haar lem


S T R AT E G Y

Goal Reorganize the Open Space around the Schiphol weg to zip Schalkwijk to the scattered city of Haarlem, and bring structure this district.

Tools Adding new program and changing the existing program. Connections between city and landscape. Seaerating slow and fast infrastructure to create a continues line through the green zone.

Method Reorganization of the existing program between the Schipholweg and the Boerhaavelaan. Create new connections and improve the existing connec tions between the urban city and the green city of Haarlem.

SCHIPHOLWEG ZONE: ZIPP SCHALKWIJK TO THE CITY BY USING THE OPEN SPACE.

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Open Space

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S T R AT E G YHow to reach the s tatements1. Reorganize the Open Space: (greenstructure).

2. Reconnect the build areas with the Open Space (greenstructure).

3. Reorganize the infrastructure along the Schiphol Zone:

- Schipholweg.

- Boerhaavelaan.

1. Use the potential of the Open Space: (structuring the green) 2. Create a potential development area for new program. 3. Create new and improve existing connections with the Open Space

- Schipholweg

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Project Envelope Green zone Green zone


A N A LY S I SExisting Situation The existing functions in the Open Space is fragmentating the city form the landscape. The undivined space has no function that is situated along an important entrance road of Haarlem. The sport-functions and allotments separating Schalkwijk from the eastern part of Haarlem.

Reorganizing Open Space & City GreenBy reorganizing the functions in the Open Space, creates space for a new potential development area. The Sportfunctions will be relocated to the undivined space in the existing situation. The new sportfunction can collaborate with the swimming pool and hostipal as a sport and revalidation centre. The allotments are re-located under the existing allotments in the green edge of Haar-lem. By concentrating the allotments together potentials for new program are created.

New Development AreaThe new development area creates the possibility to reconnect the city with the landscape. How to fill in the new development will be determined by the connecting factor to zip the urban city with the green city.

Slow Infrastructure connectionsNew slow infrastructural connections connect the city with the landscape without disturbing the fast infrastructural connections.By creating new connections the green city becomes more open for inhabitants of the city. The new connections bring structure to the green city of Haarlem in a way that all the green functions are accesable by people.

Green structure connectionsBy extending the existing tree-structure and changing the street-profiles by adding more green, we create a clear routing trough the city. On the scale of the neighbourhood the green will be used to connect the city with bigger green structure.

ConclusionsAll the new connections provide the potentials to zip the scat-tered city together by using program, green, blue and gray struc-tures.

Haar lem

Exist ing s i tuat ion R eorganiz ing Open Space & Ci t y Green

New D evelopment Area Slow I nf rast ruc ture Connec t ions

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Reconnected to the landscape

Visionplan Schipholweg

Reorganizing and reconnecting the existing city by a new development area, has influence to the city form of Haarlem. The open space is not longer separating the city in different fragments, but is used as a zipper to zip the scattered fragment of the city together. Structurizing the open space makes the green zones of the city more acccesible, quality and potentials. The green edge of Haarlem gets a boots by the new and improved connections. The city of Haarlem become attractive again for tourist, because of the potentials of the Open Space and the connectings with the city.

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S ec t ion over the Par k

Neighbour hood Par k

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Street v iew

3D prof i le over the Par k .

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M aster plan


M A S T E R P L A N

The Masterplan shows how to deal with the area around the Schipholweg. The undivined area to the north of the hospital is now filled in with sport functions. This area will function as a sport and revalidation centre. A collaboration between swimming pool, Soccer club, Baseball club and hospital can do this. Relocating the allotments to the east of Schalkwijk next to the existing allotments in the green zone. create a new development space for new program. This space will function as the zipper to connect Schalkwijk with the landscape of Haarlem. The park in the neighbourhood is the green connection between the urban city and the green city. The new dwelling program stores a part of the dwelling program of the city of Haarlem. A diverse variaty of housing typologies create a diverse liging environment. With new and improved connections brings quality to the neighbourhood.

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New development program

245 familie homes66 double homes 218 apartments80 assisted living apartment

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Family homes

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C R U C I A L D E TA I LThe masterplan in based on the idea of zipping Haar-lem together by bringing structure to the open spaces.

In this way the patterns of Haarlem will be recontected to the underlaying landscape and to the city as a hole.

The stamp that is made by man, by building Schalk-wijk, on top of the landscape without concidering the landscape, is why Schalkwijk is disconnected from the city.

The new masterplan will function as the structure to reconnect the city with the landscape. The transforma-tion of the green zone will have influence to the city form.

The Zoomed-In node shows how the city is connected to the landscape. The tree structure in the neighbour-hood gives direction and a nice living environment. The tree structure connects to the open green space of the neighbourhood that is connected to the bigger green structure of the city.

The new diversity of dwelling can bring new people to Schalkwijk. The diversity has something for everybody. The family homes are provided with a lot of green space in the area what will attract families with chil-dren to the neighbourhood. The row houses and dou-ble homes also gives a choise in the way of living.

The primary school is located at the egde of the green sstructuren in the neighbourhood. In this way the school can organize a lot of outdoor excursions. The slow infrastructure of the green zone make it a save area for children to play in.

The fast infrastructure is not crossing the green zone. If poeple want to enjoy the green, they are stimulated to use the bike or walk trough it which is good for there health.

The water storage in the park is used to store rainwa-ter. The new neighbourhood will have a gray water system what is good for the environment. The fluctua-tion in the waterlevel creates each time a new land-scape. The grasland on the waterbanks will change by the fluctuation of the water.

The slow infrastructure network trough the park can be the tool for all the other green zones in the city to make them good accesible and good to use by the inhabitants of the city.

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Gray water storageThe lake has the function as gray water storage. In this way there is a lot of fluctuation in the waterlevel which make that the nature in the park is changing during time.

Green connection with the neighbourhoodThe green zone is part of the neighbourhood. From your home you can enter the green zone which brings you to the larger scale park in the neighbourhood that continues in the green structure of Haarlem.

Slow infrastructure routesThe green zones will be provided by a good network of slow infrastruc-ture of byciclepaths and sidewalks for pedestrians. By creating a good network with a good accesibility between the urban city and the green city of Haarlem let people realy enjoy the landscape of the city.

S low inf rast ruc ture routes

Green connec t ion with the neighbour hoodGray water s torage


E V A L U AT I O NThe vision for the Schipholweg can be interpret for the total vi-sion of Haarlem. The green structure is use to zipp the different urban patterns together to make the city as a hole. Connections are very important to make the city important again for new in-habitants and tourist that come to the city.

By connecting the greenstructure we connect two different land-scapes together. The dune landscape on the west created by na-ture true time and on the east the polder landscape created by man. On the lower scale the urban landscape is connecting with the city green landscape.

The slow infrastructure network functions as the active connector between the urban and cityg green landscape. The accesibility of the green zone creates a better living environment and answers the need for more green in the city. Inhabitants enter the green-structure that brings them through whole city.

The variaty of different green zones makes it also interesting to walk or cycle through it. City and landscape becoming one again after the detatchement of the city after the 2e World War.

To conclude; making use of the potentials of the Open Space, that can function as the missing link, to zipp the scattered city togeth-er.

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R E F I N E D V I S I O NAfter elaborating the envelopes on a smaller scale, we are able to refine the vision that we made on the whole city. The most important change are the infrastructural routes, drawn in orange. The road on the North-west bank of the Spaarne can be downgraded, thanks to the new road from the Amsterdamseweg through the Waarderpolder.Furthermore the entrance point of Haarlem were reconsidered. And the image is changed graphically to make it easier to understand.

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city entrance markers

connecting high density trac roads

transfer from high to low density trac roads

slow grey structure bicycles

connecting patches by development in open space

connecting patches by design in patches

blue Spaarne transition zone

green transition zone

connecting green patches as a chain by slow infra

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Haarlemcity entrance markers

connecting high density trac roads

transfer from high to low density trac roads

slow grey structure bicycles

connecting patches by development in open space

connecting patches by design in patches

blue Spaarne transition zone

green transition zone

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Ruud HoekstraI think Ruud is a good urbanist, especially when I consider the fact that this was his first project in urbanism. He is critical to himself, he is eager to learn and also able to learn very quickly. With this attitude he unfolds himself quickly and he can come far.

Richard de RuiterI know Richard from a project of MSc2. We are both people who like to have an overview on what we are working on, so in advance I expected this could lead to discussions and disgreements. Nothing was farther from the thruth, we could work together very well. He is a hard worker and talks easy in front of public. I think he could learn more if he would be a bit more critical to his own work.

Qiu YeI think it is a good thing that she can be critical to the work and can have a clear view on all aspects we should consider. However, with the little experience she has, she can not estimate what is possible in the time frame. Her work attitude is very different from ours and I found this a big problem in the cooperation. She was negligent and did not show willingness to make efforts for the group.

GroupThe cooperation with the guys was very effective. With Qiu Ye it was a bit harder, although she could shake us awake when we were overlook-ing something, which was useful.We had a lot of good discussions, and could also laugh together. It was great that the guys and I all liked to work at the faculty, so we saw each other every day. All little things could be talked about easily, this made the cooperation succesful.

Tutor PhD can. Steffen NijhuisSteffen focused on good analysis, with a consistent story and beautiful, legible images. I liked working that way. He gave useful comments, and made an effort to keep the group motivated.Sometimes I had the feeling that he wanted to steer the student in a certain direction. I felt he was unconsiously not so openminded for different directions.

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Ruud Hoekstra

Robin BoelsumsTrustable person, hard workingWorking along the big Lines and later in dept detailing. This way of working saves a lot of time and makes Robin a very effective person. In the visual presentation some improvements can be made. These are effective but in the visual content can these improve the story.

Richard de RuiterA hard worker where you can rely on. Make appointments and sticks to it when necessary.Also a strong point is to conclude or summarize the data to overlook the process. In this way of working the missing links can be found or by doing a step backwards the good direction can be chosen.A natural speaker and good in presenting oral. A point of attention can be the visual aspects of the contents. If these are just as good as the oral presentation it will strengthen each other and lift the total to a higher level.

Qiu YeA person who is critical to the content. In this way unclear parts come above and later can be adapted to make a coherent story.Not always following appointments and in the last part of the studio mostley not present for the group work. Sometimes a bit cocky which has two sides a positive side to not just accept what is told but rejecting questions and so making things sharp. On the other side it becomes a barrier by hardly accepting thoughts which can result in a weaker content since critics are not imbedded in it.

As a groupWe could work professional to each other. There was time for critics and time for a laugh. Two members who already did a master studio and therefore I could learn a lot from them. A lot of input from tree group members and unfortunately one group member that was hardly present the 2nd part of the studio. There was hardly input from Qui ye in the general parts of the final presentation, posters and booklet.

Tutor PhD can. Steffen NijhuisSteffen Nijhuis teaches how to do analyses based on form. Also we were pointed at the relation between build environment and landscape the two analyses combined shows interesting relations in the history of the content.

R E F L E C T I O N

Since he has a history as landscape designer this discipline comes back in the individual designs. In the past then weeks we had a tutor who motivates you to continue whether it goes bad or good. A tutor who was calm and a listener to your ideas, after a presentation with a written reflection on your work. In all this weve developed a strong set of tools for analyzing in future projects.


R E F L E C T I O NR ichard de Rui terResearch & Design Studio AR1U090.Reflecting to the R&D Studio and looking to the Study goals:

1. Be able to critically understand the defining components of a given city using different analytical techniques2. Be able to identify positive spatial characteristics and diag nose urban problems with respect to urban form3. Be able to experiment possible transformations of city form using the method of research-by-design4. Be able to develop a city master plan addressing the trans formation of the key components5. Be able to resolve the proposal at city scale to the level of its component parts and its critical details6. Be able to position the proposal within the larger spatial context of a given city7. Develop an understanding of the environmental issues relating to the development of sustainable city form8. Be able to use apply proper visualization techniques of urbanism and urban landscape; and sufficient presentation skills9. Be able to relate the urban proposals to relevant historical and theoretical framework10. Be able to work efficiently in group and independently by individual.

If I look back to the Study goals for this quarter in the Masters of Urbanism, i think i have reached the most of them. By making the analysis of the historical development and the relation to the land-scape and infrastructure, i could understand the city form and the different spacial characters of the city.

If i look to the presentation skills i have learned a lot this project. The workshop where very helpfull, so thanks for that. Also i would like to thank my groupmembers for learning me new things and tricks in the different Adobe programs.

Looking to my zoomed-in masterplan, i would liked to had more time for it. I wanted to go more into dept in understanding different liv-ing environments and the use of green and water in different scales.

The groupwork:As a group we had some struggle in a way of communication with one of our groupmember. As a group we made a nice project on which i think we can be proud of. We realy focused on the purpose of this studio. Identify the spatial characteristics of the city and make a urbanplan out of it. We have discussed on a professional level to another, everybody good have his input during the discussions. Unfortunately we made the booklet with the 3 of us, that also is showned in the work of the booklet. The input of Qiu Ye is maybe 5% and that can not be right in my eyes.

Robin van Boelsums: It was very pleasent to work together with Robin. I know Robins work out of the Master 2, that we both have done already I wanted to work together with Robin because of her analytical qualities and approaches. From that i knew in the beginning i could learn from her on that point. I would like to work with you anytime.

Ruud Hoekstra:His first project in the Masters of Urbanism and i think he did well. In the beginning he was a little bit scared i think for the scale but that changed rapidly. I work together with Ruud almost during the hole project. It was pleasent to work together with him. If i may give you an advise: also try to make the design the other way around. First draw and than analysis the design. You will see you come to different thinks. Good luck during your Masters of Urbanism and your are welcome anytime to work with me.

Qiu Ye:The communication during the project was difficult, that had to do with two thinks i believe: 1) the present during the groupwork in the studio, i had the feeling you wanted to work more on your own. 2) The commu-nication over the content was hard because of your present / absence. I would suggest for the future, if the group meats at a surtain time, please make sure you are also their on time. Sometime that was a problem and we had to do the group discussion twice. I wish you al the best in your study of Urbanism.

Tutor Steffen Nijhuis PhD-can.:I would like to thank Steffen Nijhuis for his knowhow and input during this project. His approache as a Landscape Architect was very interesting. He showed how to analysis the importance of understanding the city on its underlaying landscape. Steffen thanks and i hope to work with you again sometime in the future.

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Spaarne North - Haarlem (booklet)

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