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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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Inundation area of the

estuarium of the

Scheldt River.

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The Netherlands

Belgium

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Fort Doel

1580-1885

Scheldt Forts

Fort

Oudendijk

Fort

Liefkenshoek

Fort de Perel

Fort

Sint-

Marie

Fortje

Hendric

Fort Lillo

Fort St.

Philippe

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Fort

Stabroek

Fortje

Corderen

Batterij

Wilm

Schans

Smoutakker

10 to 12 kilometres

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Fort Ertbrand

This an anti-tank ditch built b y Antwerp between 1937-193 9

4 km

Anti-Tank Fortification belt 1885-1939

5 kilometres

Fortje

Cappellen

Fort

Merxem

Schans

Drijhoek

Fort

Brasschaet

Fort

Schooten

to keep out the Germans.

Schans

Audaen

Fort 's

Gravenwezel

The Grote Omwalling 1859-1865

The Krijgsbaan extended to the left bank.

Left Bank of the Scheldt River

Defensive dyck

1870-1885

Fort van

Haesdonck

1906-1914

Schans

Landmolen

Fort

Bornhem

Schans

Puers

Schans

Halve

Maan

Fort van

Zwijndrecht

Schans

Lauwershoek

1906-1914

Fort van

Steendorp

Fort

Lierzele

Fort van

Cruybeke

Western Flank 1906-1914

Schans

Letterheide

Fort

Breendonck

Fort

Vlaamsch

Hoofd

4 km

Fort 8 Fort 7 Fort 6

Fort 5

Lunet

Deurne

Krijgsbaan, the current R11, connecting th e forts.

10 to 12 kilometres

Fort

Deurne

Fort 4

Fort

Waelhem

Fort 3

Fort 1

Fort van

Duffel

Inundation area of

the Small and Large

Schijn.

Fort 2

Brialmont Fortification belt 1859-1865

Eastern Flank 1870-1914

Schans

Boschhoek

Schans

Dorpveld

Fort

Kath-Waver

5 kilometres

Schans

Schilde

Fort

Oeleghem

Schans

Massenhoven

Fort

Broechem

Schans

Tallaert

Fort Lier

Fort

Koningshoyckt

Fort Kessel

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