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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

BYE BIKES, Shared Station Square

Why | To solve bikes parking problems + unlock the square’s potential
What | Multi-analysis + process design + placemaking inspiration + masterplan sketch
Where | Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Who | For One Planet

I have been asked, together with partners from Zooow! Building Formats and Hogeschool Utrecht to help start the integral and sustainable improvement of the station square in Amersfoort. Very typical issue in the Netherlands: bike parking. There is not enough and it is not leaving any space on the square for other activities like dwelling, sitting, meeting, relaxing, waching performances or eating and drinking.

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