2. My background in architecture, focused in the smaller scale and immediate surroundings has
been enriched with landscape architectural lenses that widen its scope.
Research as a tool for understanding design problems as well as informing design has been
inherited from Wageningen University, and the awareness with larger scale issues have widened
my design frame and vocabulary.
Initiated in a path that faces climate change issues, energy landscapes, shrinking areas, or
cultural landscapes, such as the dike landscapes, the intention is to give creative solutions
to existing problems. And the ultimate goal, to turn every single landscape into a memorable
experience.
My most recent work has focused on processes and dynamics that conform the dike landscape,
their material manifestation and representation, and the relationship with the aesthetic
experience they provide, setting a new language for landscape design.
Name_ Naiara Valcarlos
Live_ Netherlands-Spain
Telephone_
(NL)+31 (0) 616 301 454
(SP) +34 688 684 700
e-Mail_ naiara.valcarlos@gmail.com
Skype_ naiara.valcarlos
Website_naiara.valcarlo@weebly.com (in construction)
3. _. education
MSc Landscape Architecture and Planning, Major: Landscape Architecture; 2010-2014
MSc Thesis: Phenomenological approach to ecological restoration, supervised in
collaboration with Pieter Veen from Vista Landschaparchitecten en Stedenbouw,
2012-2014
Bachelor degree in Architecture of construction, June 2008
Architectural Studies Year Abroad, Erasmus Program in Bruxelles, Belgium, 2004-2005
(In conjunction with Architecture School of San Sebastian), Landscape Atelier.
_. professional experience
landscape architecture intern. Amsterdam. (NL)
_Co-development design competition for nature area including idea generation and sketching
Vijkerburg,
_Assisted in digital document selection & preparation for book publication
`Strootman: Strategies for the sublime´
_Assisted in regional vision and specific local scale design: mapping and visualization of
landscape program proposals
* Research in vision generation of a region embedded in participatory planning process, case
study of Assen AA
landscape architecture intern. Wageningen. (NL)
_Assisted in interior office design Daesung Corporate Headquarters in Korea
_Assisted in project work at various phases including schematic design, design development,
material and furniture selection, 3d visualisations
architect. Tolsoa (SP)
_Development of design proposal, schematic design, material selection, construction details,
document arrangement for irrigation pond
_According to client requirements, arrangement of involved professionals
architect assistant. San Sebastian (SP)
_Produced permitting documents, monetary plans and LEED documentation for new projects
_Arrangement of existing plans to new regulation, revising and adapting their documentation
_Meeting clients for project development and arranging presentation
_Types of projects include single housing, sports facilities, housing blocks, hotel, commercial
buildings, as well as new construction plans or refurbishment of existing buildings
internship as architect, in conjunction with Estudio A architects, Tolosa (SP)
_Architectural data gathering within`Recovery of Historical Housing´, initiative of the
municipality of Aia, urbanism department
_Co-designed detailed plans of house typologies, including sections and required
construction details
_Participative approach to document restoration process by interviews to house owners
_Presented complete project outcome with team to municipality
internship as architect, Tolosa (SP)
_Assisted in project work at various phases including schematic design, design development,
construction documentation, and material selection
_Assisted in design-build construction work including demolition, framing, roofing, concrete,
welding, siding, and finishing
Toledo architects, San Sebastian (SP)
_Architectural data gathering for`Restoration Plan of Historical Housing´ Basque Government
CCoCouGovernment
- Co-designed detailed plans of house typologies, including sections and completed original
urbanism plan
- Participative approach to document restoration process by interviews to house owners
- Presented complete project outcome with team to municipality, with graphic presentations
_. research & publication
_Murmur of limits: evoking the sensuous encounter between ecological phenomena
and humans. MSc thesis. Wageningen University. 2014
http://edepot.wur.nl/310609
_Phenomenological analysis: Aesthetic embodiment of the southern coast of
Schouwen-Duiveland. Wageningen University. 2014
_Instilling human scale to the limit: evoking metaphors. Toposa Online Magazine. 2015
http://www.toposonline.nl/2015/murmur-of-limits-evoking-the-sensuous-encounter-
between-ecological-phenomena-and-humans-2/
_. awards & honors
- ARCHIPRIX 2015; annual best landscape architecture plan by students in the Netherlands.
Candidate by Wageningen University.
- De Folkert Hellinga MSc Award van het Netwerk Land en Water 2014, 1st Prize,
Wageningen University, NL
- WUF-KLV Thesis Awards 2013-2014, candidate by Landscape Architecture and Planning
Chairgroup, Wageningen University, NL
_. skills
Windows - Mac
Autocad. V-Ray. 3D Max. Sketchup Pro.
Adobe package: Photoshop. Illustrator. Indesign. Acrobat Pro.
MS Office: Word Excel, Powerpoint
Spanish and Basque mother tongue
English proficient
French intermediate
Dutch beginner
Sketching. Physical modelling. Collage. Pottery.
_. workshops, lectures,
courses & conference
_Art and Architecture as Tools to Rethink Participative Planning Approach in the
Social Milieu, organized by M-etxea, Lur Paisajistak, Recetas Urbanas y Straddle3, assisted by
Hiria Kolektiboa, Todo por la Praxis, and Hackitectura, Pasaia (SP), July 2010 .
_‘Architecture and Art’ workshop ISAI. Brussels (BE). 2005
_‘The City and its Current Mutations’ Summer Lectures by Carlos Ferrater, University of the
Basque Country. San Sebastian (SP). August 2005.
Archiprix 2015, Delft University. (NL). February 2015
Murmur of limits: Interweaving the rhythms of nature. Municipality of Zierikzee.
Coming September-October 2015 (NL)
Network Ecologies: exploring relations between environmental art, science and
activism, Hull University, Scarborugh (UK).
`Aesthetic concepts, metaphors and phenomenology enhancing ecology expressive of
cultural values´. June (4-6) , 2015.
Wagenigen University
Netherlands
Architecture School of San Sebastian
Spain
Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre
Horta Belgium
Strootman Landschaparchitecten
February - June 2011
Oikos Landsape Architects
June 2011-August 2011
Freelance
2009-2010
Ansa Architects
February 2008-August 2008
Municipality of Aia
January - October 2007
Estudio A architects
October 2006 - October 2007
Toledo architects,
June - September 2006
Toledo architects, June - September
- Architectural data gathering
Academic
Professional Magazine
design
research
Software
Languages
Physical
workshops
lectures
exhibitions
conference
Curriculum
Vitae
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Locks
Seneffe
Ronquieres
Island-peninsula
Territory
_. An area of prosperous industrial activity is decaying and
asks for a new reinterpretation for its revitalization.
_. The sensuous analysis, detecting concepts that
conform our sensuous experience, understands this
landscape as a sum of sensuous constrasts worth of
being heighlighted.
_. The analysis goes narrowing down from majure lines,
main function of the landscape, until coming up with
concepts under which the landsape is recognized, and an
architectural project suggested.
Type_ Landscape Atelier, in collaboration
with Université Livre de Bruxelles
Location, Date_ La Louviére, Belgium, 2008
Team_ Christophe Lengrand, Alina Popescu,
Naiara Valcarlos
Scope of the project_Reinterpreting
elements of the landscape and their
aesthetic expression for its revitalization
A canal landscape. Ancienne and new canal.
Island - Peninsula territory. Dynamic and Static
Water-Land.
CanaI Bruxelles-Charleroi_ Part of a north-south
axis of water transport in Belgium, whereby the
north of France and important waterways in the
south of Belgium are connected.
Canal centre_ Links the waterways of the Meuse
and Scheldt rivers. It connects the artificial lake
Grand Large near Nimy, with the Brussels-Charleroi
Canal near Seneffe.
Both canals draw an island-peninsula territory.
Together with the hydraulic engineering elements,
they make visible its infrastructural purpose.
Hydraulic system. Boat lift and locks
Ronquieresinclinedplan
ThieuBoatlift
Houdeng
-Goegnies
Houdeng
-Aimeries
Strépy
-Bracquegnies
1898
Bruxelles
Mons
new
canal du Centre
newcanalCharleroi-Brussels
ancienn
e cana
lcharleroibrussel
canal du
centreBoat
lifts
New canal
Charleroi-Brussel
Old canal
Charleroi-Brussel
l= 10,4 km
height dif= 88 m
l= 14,8 km
3-4
3-4
New canal centre
Old canal centre
l= 7,5 km
height dif= 66 m
l= 6,79 km
1-2
1-2
LaLouviére
Thieu
1885-1888
1917-1919
1917-1919
1917-1919
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2
3
4
canal
locks
historical boat lift
modern boat lift
5. 1
2 3
4
Density
4 %
12 %
18 %
43 %
85%
dynamic_urban
static_idyllic
25%
Arquennes
Ronquieres
Feluy
Seneffe
11 %
63 %
Analysis. Concepts.
Analysis. Functions.
Peninsular belt. Cherry trees
Peninsular walking structure. Pedestrian
Contrast analysis
canal du centre
canal charleroi
Inland
Peninsula
canal du centre
canal charleroi
Duferco
Houdeng Goegnies
La Louviére
Strepy Bracquegnies Houdeng Aimeries
Highway/Pedestrian
End paved/
Green
Steep belt line/
Horizontal canal
Dense Industry/Vacuun fields
Historical
lifts
Silence
Sound
Air containing specificity
of landscape function
Density
Light/High
Lines providing relief
Morphology
Encounter
past and present
Time
Movement
through landscape
Dynamism
Industry
Agriculture
Urban
6. 0 0,5 1km
Landscape and
environemntal art center
_. The steep cherry peninsular promenade and the canal
linked and giving entrance inland by means of a public
slope.
_. The building contains three main areas: workshop
and art residence rooms, the inner museum containing
indoor art pieces and an auditorium, and public space
articulating both, from inside the building, and from
outside.
_. The outdoors landscape recovers local species: forest
and agricultural production plantation for biodiversity,
educational and leisure purposes. Empty land is provided
for site related environmental art projects.
An empty land, with no specific function in an urban
and industrial setting surrounded by a canal turning
the land into a peninsula.
Water infratructure shaping an area that asks for its
revitalization by engaging community and bringing
new insights.
A landsape and environmental art museum is
proposed. Grasslands accommodate the outside
laboratory, creating an active landsape. The
building, with its public space welcomes the visitors.
A contrast peninsular landscape.
Dense Industry - Empty land.
Steep vegetation belt - Smooth slope inland grasslands.
Dynamic peripheral - Static inland
Idillyc - Neglected
Cherry trees peninsular belt
Type_ BA Diploma
Location, Date_ La Louviére, Belgium, 2008
Scope of the project_Revitalization of
idylique but neglected area
7. 0 5 10 m
1.
1
2
3
4.
5.
1. Workshop rooms
2. Art residence studios
3. Public space
4. Cafe and restaurant
5. Museum entry
6. Museum offices
7. Museum
8. Auditorium
Landspe and Environmental Art
Museum
Outdoors Museum
9. Botanical forest
10. Culture fields
11. Environmental art
open museum
4.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
8. 0
0´
1
2
1´
2´
Building view . Back-side elevation.
Section . Landscape atelier rooms.
Details . Art residence rooms.
Details . Cafe-Restaurant roof and floor.
9. Public space. Wooden platform. Overcomes the height difference.
Access to the public areas: cafe-restaurant.
Furniture facing canal and inland botanical forest,
cultural fields and environmental art pieces
Public space. Roof terrace. Connection between canal and inland.
1. Slope connecting roof terrace
2. Panorama towards canal
3. Up Roof terrace
4. Private spaces in roof terrace
5. Open square of roof terrace.
Vegetated
6. Access to open air museum
7. Cafeteria
Roof Terrace
Roof access - panorama
Entrance land art museum
Roof terrace
1
2
3
4.
5.
6
7
entrance
building
10. _. The municipality of Nijmegen in collaboration
with Wageningen University aims to develop a future
scenario and design solutions for its adaptation to
climate change
_. The railroad climatope, with open land allowing
strong winds and drawing a gap withing the urban
framework becomes an interesting spot.
_. The objective implies to adapt and improve the
urban quality.
Railroad climatope_ Strong wind
Warm Tº during the day
Quick cooling in the evening
Urban Functions _ Cycling and pedestrian.
Empty, exposed green areas
Urban Dis-Fuctions _Poor connectivity
between neighborhoods
Type_ MSc Design Atelier, Wageningen
Location, Date_ Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010
Client_ Municipality of Nijmegen
Scope of the project_Adapting the city to
climate change
UHI. City or metropolitan area significantly warmer than its surrounding
due to human activities. Surfaces store short wave readiation, water runoff.
Most noticeable in summer and winter.
Effects. Warmer Tº, Heavy rain showers, Strong winds
Design tools
Trees for shadow evapotranspiration
Trees /Buildings for wind blocking effect
Water retention areas
Climate Change
S_E main wind direction
0 50 100m
increasing wind speed and cooling effect
smoothed
slope
artifically raised
Greening rails.
Combating Warm Tº
/ Strong Winds.Strategy of slopes and trees.
Planting trees
strategically
bufferzone
bufferzone
bufferzone
11. View
2
4
5
4
1
winter
Study of shadow pattern. Winter and Summer.
Morning, noon, afternoon
summer
Vegetated walls. Cooling effect.
Connecting down area and square
UHI. Changing building configuration for adaption.
Existing situation Proposal
Alley.Building blocking wind in winter. Trees cooling in spring-summer.View of connection .Opened space.
Vegetated roofs
Cooling effect
Water retention
Water retention. Vegetations stretches. Room for ponds
12. phase2
phase1
Concrete perforation
with plants.
Little islands in
movement
Sandy
Hill
r= 3mm
h=3 m
d= 3,5m
d=10cm
Casserie Aans_ Former industrial site. A new garden
is developed within the existing walls. The entry
has to be designed and the assignment asked for
a fence to be delicate, meaningful, suggestive and
welcoming.
`Le petit paradise´. `Small paradise´. Romantic. Delicate
Atmospheres. Green rooms. Rock garden.
Type_ Internship Strootman landscape
architects, garden design
Location, Date_ La Casserie, France, 2011
Scope of the project_Design the entrance
fence
LA CASSERIE
Gallery:
Transformation of facades.
Reuse of Metallic carpentry
for flowery pergola .
Behind wall:
Grassed or flowery Hills
Entry closed at night
Garden of rocky ground.
Parts of the existing paving stones integrated
to the project, combined with plants.
Existing situations. Ground plan.
Proposal. Ground plan.
13. Ancient washing
pond
Allotment
gardens
Project area
Farm_ Familiar house with productive allotment
gardens and supply of fresh water directly from the
mountains.
Garden_ Fallen in misuse, the clients wanted to
enlarge the existing water pond. Turn the green
garden into water garden. Larger surface for pleisure,
and division with allotment gardens.
Countryside farm.
Allotmen gardens.
Type_ Pond design, freelance garden
Location, Date_ Mekola, Spain, 2008-09
Scope of the project_Enlarge existing water
retention and irrigation pond
IRRIGATION
POND
200 m
20 m
10m
1. Existing water retention
2. Water running element
3. Filtering water to pond
4. Water pool with different heights
5. Water channel for irrigations
6. Stone walls
7. Irrigation water for allotment gardens
Existing water drainage
2. New water pipes connecting to
existing system, discharging to the river
Ground plan.
1
2
4
3
6
7
5
Proposal. Ground plan and sections.
14. Catalyzing
the border
1
2
3
Former
Mining
activity
Abandoned mining
train rails
BorderNetherlands
`echoes´ catalizer zone:
abandoned train line
Active
Mining
activity
250 500 m
Goal: work in traverse.
development of
`echoed´ elements
in time
Detect Catalyzing element
establishing different
activities along catalizer element:
dynamics
Establish `echoes´
Unifying landscape through and along
the catalizer-border zone
Train lines. Structure to cover with wood.
Catalizing
the border
_. The international student competition asked for
reflecting upon the borders and their potentials.
_. A design strategy that understand the border as a zone
intends to unify it, and create a transboundary connection.
_. The infrastructure fallen in lack of use due to shrinkage
process in the area is reinterpreted as design material and
diverse activities to be developed in time suggested.
Eygelshoven, located in the south of the
Netherlands, surrounded by Natura 2000 and with
abandoned infrastructure, a border zone with
Germany.
Strong mining activity in both sides of the border:
the dutch site stopped its activity, meanwhile the
german border still keeps it partially active.
With the border placed in Natura 2000 protected
area the border is illegible, remains difficult to
access, and lacks any attractive purpose.
A shrinking area.
Population decrease.
Oversized urban structure.
Former mining activity. Vacant land and infrastructure
Border. Zone, area. Illegible and undefined area.
Type_ IFLA student competition
Location, Date_ Eygelshoven, Netherlands,
2011
Scope of the project_ Conceptual design
for border areas
Recovering the train lines
Urban Settlement
around mining areas
Border and water
active mining activity
former mining
activity
former mining
activity
former mining
activity
natura 2000
water structure
border
miningtrainrails
15. New cycling routes _
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16
development of echoed elements
establishing dynamics unifying landscape
through train line
Dynamics in the
landsape
The entrance to the city is redesigned. Allotment gardens relocated. Train lines integrated with
the vacant land and planted for immersion with the train parcour.
Cleared partially the dense vegetation, the field welcomes leisure activities that
revitalize the backside of the city, now opened by means of the old train lines:
contemplation, gathering for concerts, games
the vegetation grows spontaneously, and partly maintained
Willows for biomass production due to
the vicinity of water. Solar panels are
implemented.
The area can become an educational park
and laboratory.
Slow dynamics. Energy park.
Mid dynamics. Platform for public events.
High dynamics. Anchor point in the train lines.
OPEN
FIELDFORACTIVITIES:FESTIVALSANDMARKETS
ENER
GYPARK:WILLOW,SOLARPANELS,WATERRETETNTION
Character of space
Walking path and
cycling route
Nature 2000
protected area
Empty green_
connecting urban/train
Proximity to train
lines No specific function
Urba allotments
Entrance to backyards
HiGH
Middle
SlOW
Transboundary
traffic/pedestrian
Establishing dynamics:
Functions to develop in the
urban areas that connect
with the old train lines
ALLOTMENTGARDENS,ENTRANCETONATUREANDCITY,PUBLICSPACE
vacant lots
16. murmur of
Limits
_. Aesthetic concepts: Limit and Rhythm
_. Aesthetic strategy: Focus on the processes and
dynamics existent in site. Enhance the aesthetic
experience to its maximum supported by aesthetic
metaphors.
_. Aesthetic metaphors:
Voices of the water, voices of the wind
Murmur of culture and nature
Embodying the horizon
Plan Tureluur_ construction of inner dike nature
reserve areas along the Oosterschelde, preservation
of sandbars and marshes against erosion, and
eventually the conservation of inner dike brackish
marsh.
Cultural understanding of nature_Ecological
understanding of nature
Experiences that nature affords us and their
essence as relevant as ecological knowledge for
the development of new nature in XXIst century.
Type_ MSc Thesis
Location, Date_ Schouwen, Nethrelands,
2014
Scope of the project_Ecology expressive of
human experience for nature development
* The dike is an aesthetic limit.
* ‘key spatial configuration in aesthetic
expressiveness of the landscape’(Casey, 2011)
* facilitator of different perceivable phenomena,
manifested in rhythms
Its materiality involves:
* interweaving diverse rhythms
in which nature manifests:
infinitesimal, ephemeral, tidal, seasonal, geological
* the materiality of the dike provides specific
rhythm to the embodiment of the dike,
framing our aesthetic experience
* facilitates the
murmur of limits:
interaction of the rhythms of nature
in close relationship with the landscape
Limit and rhythm: aesthetic concepts
17. aesthetic
metaphors as design material
A dike landscape. Equally shaped by both the forces of nature and
human intention,`tangible meeting point between culture and nature´.
New nature development. Plan Tureluur.1200 Ha.
tidal rhythm
Primary Dike line
Inlaag/Karrevelden dike
seasonal rhythmbrackish
ecosystem
seepage
foams and waves
voices of the water, voices of the wind
Aesthetic metaphors.
[1] Voices of the water, voices of the wind
[2] Murmur of rhythms, culture and nature
[3] Embodiment of the horizon
horizon, the limit of our site experience
seasonal rhythm
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rather than exposing us, now, it protects us, that becomes closely tactile, making the voices o
water and the winds to reveal only in their aurial expression, becoming echo, remote, and, in
not embodied as a visual or tactile phenomena: the transposition of the visual landscape to t
aurial and new tactile space.
What we see, is, the sky and the grass.
But the dike becomes a sequence (300 meters long): it is narrow, focused on the sky and the
tactiliy, and we walk through it, in sort of canyon, enclosed space, until it widens, opens, the l
breaths, in order to open towards a space that reveals to us as a panorama. The limit comes t
embrace the space, to indeed determine it, in an ellipse, continuing to protect us, but also all
us simultaneously the perception of the seasonal rhythm, with the big water elements on on
and the tidal rhythm on the other. Both as a visual phenomena again.
We come to sit on the stairs, in order to look at the sea, exposed again to the wind, to the sea
its foams and waves, and discovering the dike break that lies down. We go down the stairs, an
we lead towards the path, wooden path that guides us until the end of the dike break. The ro
located on both sides of the broken dike enhance the waves and the foams, so the voices of t
water get enhanced, and we get to the end of the path, in order to be in the midst of the sea
In overall we impose over the given material, we provide a new relief that enhances the expe
of the voices of the water and the winds and we give them a new expression, allowing differe
intensities.
before
after
_. The limit, the dike, is given a new outline, a new
widened relief: heightened following the existing slope,
provided with a second walking path, immersed in the
dike.
_. This gives the possibility to either walk exposed to the
winds, the sound of the sea, the foams, the movement of
the grass, with open horizon, on the side of the dike; or to
walk on top, immersed in the dike, revealing the dike as
an element that now protects us.
_. Closely tactile, voices of the water and the winds
revealing only in their aurial expression in this new
relief, they become echoed and remote.
The dike in this stretch is highest, as response to the
strong north-east winds. The dike relief dates back
to 1856, with continuous reconstruction due to dike
failures. A compilation of historical dates.
The deep water, in combination with strong
winds, expresses very vividly, making the stretch a
extremely harsh and exposed area.
The sea arm getting immersed in the sea is the
remnant of a fortmer dike that disappeared under
the waves; generates new dynamics, allowing the
gathering of sediments.
A dike landscape. Material manifestation of the encounter between forces of nature and
human intention .
Cultural landscape. Dynamic transformation with land retreating.
Voices of the water, Voices
of the wind
19. creating openness
widening dike
s1 s1´
Dike profile. Transformation introducing force line.
Exposed-Enclosed. Vivid sound-Echo.
Tidal rhythm-Seasonal rhythm. Tactile
Open Sea
s2
s3
s1
water
inland
dike profile
opening space_expanding tactly
current
profile
creating
encloseness
diggint out space
reinforcement
heightening the dike
dike
canyon
tactile
20. s1
s3’s3
s2’s2
Sequence of sections. Dike canyon widens creating space.
Expanded dike. Nature conquers it slowly. Wind, sand, water, birds.
Rhythms of nature. The dike expands allowing the mixity
of rhythms and a halt on the dike: different intensities of voices
The open space face to the sea catches the sand, and new ecologies can grow through time.
It works as a platform for performances.
21. Construction Drawing . Sea arm.
dike
reinforcement
dike
reinforcement
walking line. width 3.00 m.
concrete stairs on top of
reinforced concrete
change existing
replenishment with clay
concrete body reinforced
with stone .
rubble
sand replenishment.
wooden structure. widht 1.5m.
rubble
reinforced concrete
with stones
depth 0.45 m
walking
path
big stones: reinforcement and
enhancement voices of the water rubble
depth 0.35 m
asfaltsmall stone basalt
* technical detail adapted from official documents for dike reinforcement:
http://www.zeeweringenwiki.nl/mediawiki/images/7/73/Werkbestek_-_alle_tekeningen_(incl._NvI_3).pdf
1
1´
1´1
basaltlarge stone
concrete dike body
reinforced with stone
rubble. small stones
rubble. large stones
dike
reinforcement
N.A.P. + 1.45
N.A.P. + 0.00
22. sea/inland
tidal rhythm/ sea-
sonal rhythm
Inner land
Open sea
N 59
Secondary road
Primary dike line and walking line
Inlaag dike accessible
Inlaag
Karrevelden
sluice
Farm unit
Gravel path
Wooden path
Wooden path on karrevelden
Wooden path karrevelden access
Access to dike by stairs
Grass path
N
1.250 2.5
Kilometers
Scale
Farm unit
N
1.250 2.5
Kilometers
Scale
Site structure . 1. Dike system and road. 2. Water and farm units.
_. Minimal interventions in historical karrevelden whose
major changes manifest in seasonal rhythm become
partially perceivable.
_. Saline and flowery grasslands, and small-scale
pioneering vegetation become accessible by wooden
paths that draw a laberynth pattern.
_. The dike becomes a new limit of our sight experience,
announcing the tidal landscape.
The remnants of the ancient battle against water
and humans in Schouwen.
Inlaag dike_ Secondary dike line protecting the
land in case the first primary dike failed.
Inlagen_ The characteristic areas between two
dikes, usually dug out for salt or clay winning
purpose
karrevelden_ Low-lying areas directly behind the
dikes.
The LIFE-Nature project Brackish Marsh Nature
contributes to the conservation of 178 hectares of
nature. It concerns the conservation of former creeks
and brackish marsh nature.
`karrevelden´`inlagen´Old Low lying areas. Brackish nature
Tidal - Seasonal Rhythm. The dike as
transposition element
Water-Land. Cultural-nature.
Rhythms of culture
and nature
23. Seasonal rhythm. Water fluctuation and brackish nature.
Seasonal rhythm_Tidal rhythm. Approaching tidal landscape.
We cross the dike, perpendicularly, opening the wide panorama and revealing the tidal rhythm.
winter level
-1.90 meters
summer level
-2.30 meters
Tactile nature. Low lying landscape. Sensing reddish brackish grasslands with strawberry clover and scattered
small-scale pioneering vegetation. The root vole, terns, waders and geese the most important animal species.
24. P
Legend
Parking lot
Mussel pole paths unit
New seawards extended dike line
Sluice
Entries to the dike
Harbour
Viewpoint in historical sublime
Existing dike line and walking line
Existing mudflats
Karrevelden and inlagen
N 59
‘Heerenkeet’Cafe
Farm unit
*
*
*
*
0 125 250 500
Scale
Meters
N
Open Sea
Nature development
Nature
development NAP
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
7.5
5.0
1.40 m
-1.00 m
Legend
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Average high/low tide: 1.40 - -1.00meters
10 200
Meters
Scale
12
72 m
98 m
3.50
42
1/12
33.70
12.75
NAP 1.40 m
2.10 m
1.60 m
0.30 m
-1.00 m
7.5
5.0
98
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Mussel growing poles
Average high/lowtide: 1.40 - -1.00 meters
Legend
4.5m
0.4 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
1.60 m
3.5 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
2.10 m
3.0 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
Platform 0.40 Platform 1.60 Platform 2.10
NAP
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
7.5
5.0
1.40 m
-1.00 m
Legend
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Average high/low tide: 1.40 - -1.00meters
10 200
Meters
Scale
12
72 m
98 m
3.50
42
1/12
33.70
12.75
NAP 1.40 m
2.10 m
1.60 m
0.30 m
-1.00 m
7.5
5.0
98
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Mussel growing poles
Average high/lowtide: 1.40 - -1.00 meters
Legend
4.5m
0.4 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
1.60 m
3.5 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
2.10 m
3.0 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
Platform 0.40 Platform 1.60 Platform 2.10
NAP
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
7.5
5.0
1.40 m
-1.00 m
Legend
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Average high/low tide: 1.40 - -1.00meters
10 200
Meters
Scale
12
72 m
98 m
3.50
42
1/12
33.70
12.75
NAP 1.40 m
2.10 m
1.60 m
0.30 m
-1.00 m
7.5
5.0
98
NAP
average high tide
average low tide
NAP
New dike profile
Former dike profile
Nature to be developed
Mussel growing poles
Average high/lowtide: 1.40 - -1.00 meters
Legend
4.5m
0.4 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
1.60 m
3.5 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
2.10 m
3.0 m
NAP
H. tide
L. tide
Platform 0.40 Platform 1.60 Platform 2.10
2,30 m
1,40 m
tidal fluctuation
The dike, former inlaag dike and now primary dike,
with softer water dynamics and the non existence
of deep channels make this dike stretch a smooth
walking line.
Exposure to tidal rhythm and a wide and far horizon.
Mud flats, bordering the dike, exposed to the tidal
fluctuation register this diurnal rhythmic dynamic.
Embodying the horizon _. The line is distracted and expanded.
_. Wooden paths are placed in the midst of mussel poles
and linked to the dike slope at different heights.
_. It allows the embodiment of the horizon:
Tidal rhythm and embodiment of the horizon tightly
bound
_. Paths submerged under the waves, exposed with the
tidal rhythm, delimiting our situation on the dike.
_. The mussel avenues enhance the flattened
horizontaliy leading us towards its encounter.
25. 150 m
4,5 m
3,5 m
3,0 m
0 25 50m
Legend
Delimitation of rocks
Walking
Former dike profile
Panoramas
Dike body
Mussel poles
Entry
Mussel pole under high tide
Viewpoints
Sea
Wooden platforms
10 20 30 400 50
Meters
Scale
Plan. Wooden paths and connections to the dike.
Embodying the horizon. Our position conditioned by the tide.
26. Flattened horizontality. Mussel poles enhancing its experience.
Active landscapeEdible. Mussel harvesting.
high tide
+ 1,40 meters
low tide
-1.00 meters
