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The Rampart, The Traffic Artery, and the Park; Designing for the city regions of Antwerp

Through a close reading of Antwerp’s current spatial and socio-economic composition, and the introduction of the interplay between the city’s three defining paradigms – abstracted to ‘The Rampart, the Traffic Artery, and the Park’ – this study tries to sketch a unifying strategy for Antwerp’s metropole. A strategy that embeds residential, economic, cultural, recreational, climatic, and historical motives within the different city regions. Thereby improving the connection between the left and right side of the river; transitioning the suburban region to a more polycentric structure while maintaining a spatial relation to the city; and explicitly manages the horizontal growth of the periphery. But that most importantly, captures the metropole in a single narrative from its inner-city to its outer edges. Graduation thesis prepared for the master’s degree in urban design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

Through a close reading of Antwerp’s current spatial and socio-economic composition, and the introduction of the interplay between the city’s three defining paradigms – abstracted to ‘The Rampart, the Traffic Artery, and the Park’ – this study tries to sketch a unifying strategy for Antwerp’s metropole. A strategy that embeds residential, economic, cultural, recreational, climatic, and historical motives within the different city regions. Thereby improving the connection between the left and right side of the river; transitioning the suburban region to a more polycentric structure while maintaining a spatial relation to the city; and explicitly manages the horizontal growth of the periphery. But that most importantly, captures the metropole in a single narrative from its inner-city to its outer edges.

Graduation thesis prepared for the master’s degree in urban design at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Scheldt Estuary

Bicycle highway and

public transport route

establishing a link

between the

Brialmont belt and the

industrial areas there,

and closing the

fortification spiral for

recreational purposes.

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The Brialmont belt will

become a public tranport

and cycle boulevard

linking the different

industrial and cultural

activities on the left and

right bank; stimulating

desification.

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The new industrial

axis here will also

loop the fortification

spiral back to

Antwerp via the

Chaussee to Ghent,

ending in Linkeroever

with a line of sight to

the Cathedral.

Agricultural radial to forest

Industrial development will

remain along the important

infrastructural arteries in the

final section of the spiral. The

areas will be connected to

Antwerp via three radials: the

canal to the east, the chaussee

to Linkeroever to the west, and

the A12 (to the right)

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Incorporating elements of

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accentuate the spiral

in the city. The water

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contemporary

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Bicycle highway along the

anti-tank ditch for recreational

purposes and forming a

tangential connection between

the villages.

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the third structuring

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between the radial and

concentric system.

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Each of element of Antwerp is

defined by a green ring or

belt; the inner-city by the Ring

Park, the suburban region by

the Brialmont fortification

belt, and the metropolitan

region by the river valley of

the Rupel, Nete, and Dijle, and

the Northern Parks.

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Inner-city fabric

Suburban region

Low density linear

development

Industrial areas

Forest or

agricultural area

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Bicycle highway on the

other side of the river

valley providing better

access to the industrial

areas and fortification

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