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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People with higher income tend to
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Including the north part of
the Krijgsbaan here, can be
the final piece in the
urbanisation of the
Brialmont belt. On the
long-term it can form the
edge of the suburban
region; short-term it can
create a connection to the
industrial area and harbour.
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The Krijgsbaan on the
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the urban fabric of the
suburban region in the
long-term.
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here, as developement in
terms of density and
amenities is further along
here.
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density is comparable to that
of the villages surrounding the
suburban region.
The city is
thinking about
redeveloping
these industrial
areas after the
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These two sectors hold the highest
number of social rent dwellings in all
of Antwerp, around 3300 units. All of
these dwellings are contained with
the high-rise slabs, most of which
are two room apartments.
A high concentration
of social housing in
this section of the
suburban region.
There is a
large contrast
between rich
and poor here
in Linkeroever.
The new Scheldt
bridge will come here.
The ring park is not
defined by
morphology here.
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social rent dwellings
in the high-rise here
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