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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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The water could

go u n der

t h e tracks.

Fort

Merxem

The water could go al the way to here.

3 kilometre

Scho oten

b eek

This area was clled the Schijn inundatie area.

Kleine

Schijn

Fort 1 was built between the

inundation areas of the Grote and

Kleine Schijn, on 1,5 kilometres

from Wijnegem.

Fort 1

3 kilometre

(1887-1914)

The stream valleys of the Kleine and

Grote Schijn ensured that the northern part

of Antwerp could inundate.

Fort

Deurne

The stream "Grote

Schijn”.

2 kilometre

Fort 2

Grote Omw alling

Lunette

Deurne

between the Grote Omwalling and the

t belt could also be used to position

case of an impending attack.

ont Fortification

Fort 6

2 kilometre

3 kilometre

Belt

Fort 5

2 kilometre

(1859-1865)

2 kilometre

Fort 4

Fortification

this is because

belts

a fort is

2 kilo metre

Fort 3

always need to follow a straight or curved line,

most vulnerable when attacked from the sides.

The Brialmont belt was built only to

the south side of the city because the

landscape could no be inundated here.

When the plans were drawn-up,

the position of Fort 4 was decided

first. Along with forts 1 and 8, Fort

4 held important positions in the

fortification belt.

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