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Why | To find alternative solutions to the complex problem of traffic jams in the Netherlands
What | Multi-analyse + process development + concepts + communication
Where | The Netherlands
With | ABL2
Who | For Rijkswaterstaat
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We facilitated a collaborative process, translated ideas into concepts and edited a book that present process, ideas and inspiring results.
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Why | To transform a floating building into an office and give it a role in the haven
What | Multi-analyse + programmation + concept + feasibility study
Where | Lloydkwartier, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
With | ABL2
Who | For VDM+Dataview
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VDM+Dataview is a successful company looking for a new creative inspiring bigger place for its employees. The owner of the company has bought the Omnia, a floating workplace from 1938 that was used as the office and restaurant of Holland Diving. He would actually like to use it for his company and to place it in a old haven that became a vibrant area in Rotterdam: the brand new Lloydkwartier district. ABL2 was asked to make a whole study for that case: context analysis, concept development and feasibility studies: for the wished place or for some alternative places in case the first case is revealed too difficult to achieve.
After few interviews and meetings with the different parties, it was decided that the Omnia, if placed in this district, should also have a public function because it would quite central and significant. Moreover opening the office of VDM+Dataviewis representative of the vision of the company: the behaviour of the people is central. By welcoming the population of the district and Rotterdam, both of parties would win: VDM+Dataviewis highlighted, Lloydkwartier has a symbol to sell, the multi-cultural population a new hype place to explore.
Here is the concept: De Nieuwe Wereld (The New World) “Unconventional, multifunctional and experimental”, a “creative stopping place that would be the beginning and ending of the creative sector in the Lloydkwartier, where water and port serve as source of inspiration”.
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Why | To renew an industrial area at the university of Delft
What | Multi-analyse + organic tranformation strategy + program + concept + masterplans of scenarios
Where | Delft, the Netherlands
With | ABL2
Who | For city of Delft
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The Brownfield Schieoevers is a dated district. But, it is very close to the centre and the Technical University of Delft and is 100 ha big. The local council ambitions are to use the potential of it, to make it lively and sustainable economically. Different parties, TCN a property developer and two housing corporations convinced the city to start the renewal of that area all together. ABL2 could start to manage the process of this enormous project.
The first goal was to establish a common vision of the area, a transformation strategy and a approach plan. The district will become full of vitality, will get urban qualities, and will be well linked to the rest of Delft. It will be transformed few by few, naturally, following the concept of “organic urbanism”. “Hotspots” are defined as motors of the project.
A first hotspot is chosen, close to an old and unhandy train station and a beautiful piece of heritage: het Kruithuis. I took part at the “4D-analysis”: urban structure, market context, stakeholders, political situation to be able to create a SWOT table of the area. Then we had the basics to think of the concept “Blauw” (Blue like the Blue Delft) with as theme: Pioneering Dynamic. The spot will target young professionals and students that are creative, initiator and want to develop themselves. I realized several atmosphere’s montages and a conceptual Masterplan. Then it has been made a feasibility study regarding the process, the financial and the social side of the project.
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