Theo Hauben

DesignsThe brilliant landscape

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Map with existing and new work environments

Impression of a new public domain | 1. Gamers paradise | 2. Bikers bar | 3. Wellness Fair | 4. Cowboys and millionaires

Brainport Southeast Brabant

Business context Southeast Brabant

New business park for the niche market: case Budel

New region-specific campus: case Zandoerle

Map with existing and new public domain

Map the high-speed network: economic support

Map with the slow network: recreational support

Map urbanization Southeast Brabant

New work environments

From company town Eindhoven

To Brainport Southeast Brabant

Best of both worlds

Mobility Culture

Research regions of knowledge: Actors in knowledge

Research regions of knowledge: Knowledge and context

Research regions of knowledge: Knowledge on scale

Knowledge Worker between 9am and 5pm and between 5pm and 9am

Map with steady reliable network: a dense network of region boulevards and ideal accessibility of the region

Description

Spatial scenarios for Brainport

Program
Work environment, living environment, public domain and accessibility
Client
Architecture Centre Eindhoven, Municipality of Eindhoven, Urban Development and Property Management Department
Team
Theo Hauben
Marco Vermeulen
Anniina Koskela
Karel Steller
Bas Driessen
Bruno Evers
Collaboration
-Scape
Location
Southeast Brabant
Area
1485000000 m2
Date
2007-03-02

In the struggle between innovative regions to win the favour of knowledge workers and knowledge-based companies and organisations, it is of great importance that each of these regions profiles itself on a European scale level. Specific regional characteristics and the territorial capital are also very important factors.

In the last century Eindhoven and the South-east Brabant region underwent a specific economic development whereby an important network of research establishments and knowledge-based businesses came into being. The spatial appearance of the present town and region is to a large extent based on developments and strategic choices of the past. The new economy seems, at least partially, to thrive on the heritage of another era. No new centre need be built to facilitate the knowledge economy.

Whereas the function zoning of the industrial revolution has resulted in a distinct separation of living and working environments, the knowledge economy can contribute to the intensive mix of the urban region, where living, working and recreation are intermingled. The knowledge economy benefits from a new form of spatial planning that makes this possible.

Having sketched the genesis of Brainport Zuidoost Brabant, a knowledge chapter on comparable regions in the world and, from this, distilled a mission for the Brainport, there is no single strategy that offers the ultimate solution in this study. The four future perspectives designed, however, do reveal that, on the basis of the mission for Brainport, many strategic, spatial agenda items can be drawn up that are well worth pursuing. Focusing on one scenario is not necessary, because complementarity and versatility enhance a Brainport.

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DesignsEast West at home in Son and Best

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Map scenario Frame Work

Map scenario Stepping Stone

Map scenario Hamlet

Scenario Frame Work: each his own driveway from the highway

Scenario Hamlet: each his own forest edge

Scenario Stepping Stones: each his own kingdom

Perspective scenario Stepping Stone

Perspective scenario Frame Work

Nieuwe Heide and Groene Woud | From connection to interwoven

Perspective scenario Hamlet

Transformation Landscape

Coulisse landscape

Location

Description

Exploring area developments in Nieuwe Woud

Program
Living environment and landscape development
Client
The City Region Eindhoven
Team
Bas Driessen
Bruno Evers
Marco Vermeulen
Theo Hauben
Collaboration
-Scape
Location
Best, Son en Breugel
Area
14430000 m2
Date
2006-11-07

Strategic area development provides a good opportunity to create a residential environment between Best and Son and Breugel that complements what already exists in the surrounding urban area. The key to the planning of the area is a balanced harmonisation and interweaving of red and green. There is an urgent need in the region for more (readily accessible) rural and green residential environments, whereby an integral approach in which the housing assignment is combined with landscape development, makes it possible to realise this ideal living in the Nieuwe Woud.

We demonstrate what this might look like in three spatial scenarios for the area, in the first of which, Stepping Stones, housing and landscape developments go hand in hand in the most direct form bringing the residents into 1:1 contact with the green living environment. Developments take place on the basis of availability of land and an elementary rule: half of the land to be developed should be planted with trees. The other half is for development.

In the second scenario, Framework, trees are planted along all the existing and planned roads. The degree of importance of a road in the access hierarchy, moreover, determines the number of rows of trees. In this way, in the course of time, a clear, strong landscape network is realised that divides the area into rooms. This will be accompanied by attractive diversity and variation arising between �living rooms� and rooms that retain an agrarian zoning.

In the third scenario, Hamlets, the housing programme is divided into twenty smaller units with a clear spatial boundary and at a sufficient distance from the other hamlet. The intervening area retains its agrarian zoning. Each hamlet has its own identity based on a specific living environment and housing typology.