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Mission Statement
To maintain the intimacy of the De Vries van Heytsplantsoen park in the coming year after 690 additional students move into the new DUWO building between Julianalaan and Meijnbouwstraat.
Client(s)
The student population of the TU Delft. A simple survey indicated that the park is used by very few people. This survey also indicated that most students prefer a park with nature and open green space.
Challenges
The survey conducted revealed some very interesting yet unsurprising results:
- "Nature" and "open green space" were the two most popular qualities of an "ideal" park.
- "Art" and "calm" were the next desires.
- Students, as a whole, said they visit parks for "leisure and relaxation."
Our interpretation of these results is:
- The site is already natural, yet it also has adequate open green space. Therefore, the site, as it stands, is enough to satisfy a large number of students. This leads to our Intervention Proposal, which will answer results number two and three.
Intervention(s)
If the park already meets the desires of students, how do we encourage them to use it? Currently, few people at all use the site. We are operating under the logical assumption that, in the future, more students will use the park. The question then becomes: "how do we maintain the intimacy of the site while accommodating an increased user load?."
The simple answer to that question is: "we don't." The challenge is not to simply accommodate more people, the challenge becomes how to monitor and control the amount of users allowed into the park. To do this, we propose the further isolation of the site through eliminating all but one or two strategic "entrance points." Concepts
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.
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