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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Green City Ring

Metropolitan Antwerp

2030 - 2045 2027 - 2050+

- The Ring Park has now been constructed on the

entirety of the capped; ring left and right;

- Linkeroever has transitioned from suburb to part of

the inner-city of Antwerp, and hosts the culmination

of the Ring Park;

- The city and the suburbs facing the Ring Park have

been densified to create a defined edge;

- A new public transport ring has been added on top

of the A102 tunnel and the R11 - the road of the

fortification belt - to better connect the

transit-oriented development;

- The spatial strategy that limits the growth of the

peripheral regions has been implemented.

- The P+R have now developed to fully functioning

polycentric nodes;

- The public transport ring of the fortification belt has

been extended on the left bank to connect to Burch,

Zwijndrecht, and Beveren, following the fort belt

there;

- The areas in the suburbs facing the Ring Park have

received further densification;

- Zwijndrecht and Burcht have become suburbs of

Antwerp;

- The habour areas along the Ring Park have been

redeveloped to residential areas;

- A part of the industrial area to the north of

Zwijdrecht has also been redeveloped to a

residential area; The Ring Park is now completely

defined by morphology.

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