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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This is the route of the planned
A102, the tunnel that is going to
lead the through traffic around
the city. The tunnel is also going
to include the new railway con
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route was originally part of the
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There is also no mention
of a possible role for the
(underground part) of the
planned A102 in the
polycentric plans of the
city.
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to Brecht
This is a proposed route for a tramline on top
of the Krijgsbaan, part of a long-term study plan
of Antwerp. There are no concrete plans as of
yet; the mobility plan of Antwerp simply
mentions that they are going to look into it at
some point in the future as it would lower the
pressure on the public transport in the city
centre.
It is unclear whether the city want to use the
road as a way to cater to their plan to become
a more polycentric city. The city's mobility plan
(2015) for 2030 predates the new Strategic
Spatial Structure Plan of 2018. And as we have
seen in the earlier drawings, the whole
operation is quite politically charged as the
road runs through multiple municipalities. Not to
mention the strong emotional reactions to
earlier plans for an underground highway
and/or railway under the Krijgsbaan.
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The new tramline along
the ring here will greatly
increase the accessibility of
the amenities along the ring.
To Nijlen
These dots represent
the three different
variants for the second
harbour railway.
the E34 to
Eindhoven
and Maastricht.
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The mobility
plan mentions
a possible new
P+R here.
The travel time visualisations show the
clear monocentric structure of Antwerp.
The public transport system of trams and
buses, and even the system of bicycle
highways are designed to get commuters
to and from the city, getting to other parts
of the suburbs, or to other economical focal
points, takes longer then 30 minutes.
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