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BOTTROP SHINES, Revitalised City-Centre

Why | To revitalise and make safe the centre of a shrinking city
What | Multi-analyse + strategies + masterplan + design
Where | Bottrop, Germany
With | COLOKi
Who | competition EUROPAN 10

Bottrop is a small city of the Ruhr area with a relative dynamic town centre. But there are lots of vacant and cheap bargain shops, a declining and aging population, and unsafe peripheral car traffic. What the centre needs is more green public spaces, a new attractive inner city living concept and activities for the youth.
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TOWNHOUSES, Promotion Book

Why | To promote an alternative way of densifying in Lille Metropolis
What | Selection, analyse, presentation
Where | Lille Metropolis, France

Many houses built since the seventies in Lille Metropolis are the ones located in the middle of their garden. This typology created urban sprawl and is harmful consequences: rural and natural spaces reduced, traffic jams, sleepy and insecure areas… In the same time many surveys shows that a house is what French people prefer. They like to be independent and to have privacy. They like to have a garden and their own gateway. Continue reading

IN YOUR ELEMENT, Wellness Island

Why | To add value to a peninsula and its context / leisure lake Hanzeland
What | Multi-analyse, concept development, integration, visualisations
Where | Hanzeland, the Netherlands
With | COLOKi + Zooow!-Building formats

Hanzeland is a beloved but aging leisure water park without prestige. Marinas, camps, hotels, water sport facilities, just like any other lake in the region. But in the middle of the lake, there is a free peninsula. What a potential! Maybe something to give an impulse to the whole lake and surroundings? Arcadis, Property owner uit®waarde and property developer Loostad are convinced about the fact that a new place created around a sauna complex can develop. Continue reading

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