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

Combination of facades, and loose objects towards ring road.

Sector 4

Here the grid structure

of Linkeroever that

underlies the sector

policy of I.M.A.L.S.O is

visible. This pragmatism

created a sort of fusion

between the organic

structure of the

agglomeration and the

ordered structure of

city expansions.

Low-density, free standing

villas in this area.

Sector 3

Every sector seems

like a different world

with its own type of

architecture, desity,

and accessibility.

This secor holds

semi-detached

houses.

Sector 1

semi-detached

villas here.

Sector 3

mostly

amenities

with some

high-rise

housing.

Sector 4

This is Europark; a

plain with monumental

high rise flats. A final

effort to give

Linkeroever a

cityscape. Sector 4 is currently part

of a densification strategy

called InterGenerationeel

project LinkerOever (IGLO).

Purposed with bringing

more diversity to Linkeroever.

Sector 2

This sector has mostly

semi-detached or row

houses.

Sector Galgenweel

A new residential area

is being built here: Regatta.

A neighbourhood mostly

designed for families.

Sectors of Linkeroever

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