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Mission Statement
To maintain the intimacy of the De Vries van Heytsplantsoen park while raising its awareness.
Client(s)
People who use (or would use) the De Vries van Heytsplansoen site regularly. A simple survey indicated that the park is used by very few people. Further analysis will give identity to the users of the park and thus identify our "client," under whose influence we will be designing.
Challenges
The site is underutilized and we hypothesize that this is because of a select few factors:
- Better allocation of useable space
- Accessibility
- Noise
Intervention(s)
The results from our research will give quantifiable data about the importance of each of these factors as experienced by each of our clients. From these (three) categories will come specific challenges that our design process will attempt address. In each case, the client will serve as the on/off switch for the system, which will accept inputs from the environment in order to solve our design challenges.
Impressions
The park seems to be a quiet and nicely abandoned place. This gives it a special atmosphere when you get into it; it belongs to you at this moment yet at the same time, one intuitively feels that you cannot see everything in the first moment. This abandonment makes the park hidden, which might make the guests curious. The park has so much inaccessible space, which would be nice to discover. And in this way to discover things in the nature relates to the botanic garden just next to the park. However here the way of discovering goes not into this academic way of a botanic garden, then much more into exploring the park. This may happen in different levels, or layers.
