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Mission Statement
To maintain the intimacy of the De Vries van Heytsplantsoen park while increasing its identity and awareness.
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.
"Huh?"
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. Furthermore, the likelihood of this park being visited as opposed to the [much larger and more "natural"] Delftse Hout is small. 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."
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