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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E34 to
Knokke-Heist
And Gent's
harbour
Chaussee
to Gent
22
Chaussee
to Tempse
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The radial development
is especially visible in the
more rural part of the
Waasland.
This is the ferry route.
Chaussee
to Brussels
Zwijndrecht
Burcht
Inside the ring will become
low-emission zone
This road will be disconnected
from the highway.
A bus
Chaussee
to Aartselaar
and tram
Chaussee to
Bergen op
Zoom
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Train to
Ghent
E17 to
Ghent
Legend
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Highway
Bicycle
Train
Ferry
This will become the main route after Antwerp's ring is completed.
Chaussee with
public transport
This is the
Liefkenshoektunnel.
A12 to
Bergen op
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There will be no
highway lid on the
left side. Here the
intersections will just
be made compacter.
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Main track going through the harbour.
You can clearly see that
Antwerp developed along
the radial axes of its
chaussees.
Train to
Brussels
Harbour
This is the Oosterweel-Link.
the Scheldt
bridge will
be built here
A12 to
Brussel
This is the
Kennedytunnel.
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line will
be
al ong the ring.
built
This
is the
R 11.
Chaussee
to Brussels
Chaussee to
Roosendaal
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This section
E19 to
Brussel
will
Train
to Roosendaal
This is the
still be quite
b usy.
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Train
to Breda
new A102 car & train
Chaussee
to Breda
Chaussee
to Brecht
Chaussee
to Turnhout
Chaussee
to Nijlen
The P+R system
follows the old
chaussees network.
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to Lier
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tunnel.
E19 to
Breda
E313 to
Eindhoven
and Maastricht
Three options for
the rail connection.
Train
to Lier
Train
to Lier
Train to
Mechelen &
Brussels
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