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Why | To know if the station area is better to sell or to develop = asset scan
What | Multi-analyse + strategies + scenarios + design + costs
Where | Groningen, the Netherlands
With | ABL2
Who | For Prorail
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Groningen is the capital of the North-East region of the Netherlands. At the back of the station, there is a dated area, used extensively. Prorail owns a part of this site and wanted to know what its value is. Continue reading
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Why | To convert a part of a military zone by creating a thematic cluster
What | Multi-analyse + process development + vision + scenarios + masterplan + visualisations
Where | Woensdrecht, the Netherlands
With | ABL2 + TCN Property Projects
Who | For Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij
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In the Region West-Brabant, an idea was born: Making West-Brabant the most competitive region of Europe specialized in maintenance “The Maintenance Valley” and create at the same time sustainable jobs and businesses. Local actors already have the network, The World Class Maintenance but no physical project is out of the ground yet. In 2008 it has been decided to launch a competition for the very first project that will be the motor of the Maintenance Valley: The Aviolanda Aviation Park, an old industrial and military park with a little airport.
Together with TCN Property Projects, we analyzed integrally the area, the stakeholders and the market. We build a common vision and decided about the strategies (marketing, management, spatial qualities). We chose a program together and made the ideas spatially concrete. We found solutions about how to mix private and military activities, and how to mix people, trucks and planes traffic while enhancing the experience of the place.
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Why | To revitalise a whole shrinking region
What | Analysis + strategies
Where | Balagne, Corsica, France
With | ENSAPL
Who | For Communauté de Communes de Balagne
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Within a team, we analysed an entire shrinking region (activities, landscape, population, infrastructure) and conceived a strategy for integral revitalisation.
The goals were to analyse the region, to reveal its entities, its strengths and weaknesses in the aim to suggest a strategy to the Communauté de Communes de Calvi. Indeed, the Haute-Balagne region sees its population moving to the continent because it cannot offer means to dwell in, work and to entertain all year long. Many sites lack access and several inhabitants living in villages are very much isolated. Tourism is not only almost the only activity of the region, but it runs only 4 months a year and concentrates on the coast close to the big cities (Calvi and Ile-Rousse).
Nevertheless, the area possesses lots of potentials. Great rich plains stretch from the mountain, the climate is ideal every season, living in small suspended villages provides a great quality of life, quiet, healthy and close to the nature. The recent creation of the Community of municipalities is an important motor to revitalize the region. It allows the development revolving around 3 main trends: Exchanging and connecting, Diversifying the activity, Revealing the territory.
In concrete terms, every entity reveals its natural asset with the help of new infrastructures and activities staging its qualities.
The balance is made between the mountain villages and the coast cities by the implantation of complementary activities like green tourism, biologic agriculture, cultural centres, alternative energies research centres… The region will become attractive and not dependent on the continent anymore. As a result, its population is aware of the common heritage of their country and tends to valorise and to re-appropriate it (meeting places, associations house, auditorium, care centre, library…).
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