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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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Noorderpark

This section will

receive a

combination of lids

and earthen walls.

Scheldepark

According to the

plans, Linkeroever

is also going to

get a defined

edge.

Earthen walls will be

built along the parts

of the highway that

are staying exposed.

Parts of

Zwijndrecht

and Burcht

are also going

to get

densified.

Linkeroever's nature

is still divided by the

highway in the current

plans.

Antwerp wants

to create a more

robust connection

between city and

suburb, by turning

streets into

avenues.

Antwerp is using

the covering of

the ring as a way

of densifying the

city.

Schijnvalley

Stream valley of

the kleine and grote

Schijn.

All the suburbs

will get a defined

edge ones the ring

is covered.

Legend

Highway

26

Green street

Morphology with defined edge

Ring Park

Contours suburb or village

Zuiderpark

The green ring of

Antwerp connects

to four larger ecological

zones to the west, north,

east and south.

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