PublicationsSchool as a base

Description

Realizable scenarios for quality education in the Northern Netherlands

This publication is expressly intended to start a dialogue. School and municipal administrators can become acquainted with a balanced set of instruments that decisions can be taken. Parents, teachers, children and residents can easily be involved in the process of building a new school or customizing a existing school.

See publicatiin for further information. Text only in Dutch.

PublicationsVoorland Hinterland

Description

Boundless prospects for the EU regions Eems-Dollard, Maas-Rijn and Scheldemond

  • Program
    Living, working, recreation, agriculture and infrastructure
  • Client
    ForeLand Hinterland is an initiative of De Zwarte Hond, Spacevalue en GIDZ.
  • Team
    Theo Hauben
    Jeroen de Willigen (DeZwarteHond)
  • Collaboration
    De Zwarte Hond, Spacevalue and GIDZ.
  • Location
    EU regions Eems-Dollard, Maas-Rijn and Scheldemond
  • Date
    2012-11-23
  • Editors
    Theo Hauben, Jeroen de Willigen
  • Author(s)
    Theo Hauben, Dennis Moet, Marty van de Klundert, Jeroen de Willigen
  • Website

This quick scan is a first step towards a design research into economic and spatial opportunities of the three Euroregions. With design solutions for various economic, social, cultural and environmental issues the research Foreland Hinterland generated knowledge about the Euroregion. The goal is to put large and small spatial tasks on the mental map. With appealing manner we can provide a substantive input into the debate on the Euroregions.

See: publicatie. Text only in Dutch.

PublicationsOut there #1

Description

Opdrachtformulerende stedenbouw en daadkrachtige open stedenbouw

  • Client
    De Zwarte Hond
  • Team
    Theo Hauben
    Jeroen de Willigen (DeZwarteHond)
  • Date
    2011-07-23
  • Editors
    Theo Hauben
  • Publisher
    De Zwarte Hond
  • ISBN
    9789081733908
  • Author(s)
    Theo Hauben, Jeroen de Willigen, Inge Hagenbeuk
  • Website

Text and editing cahier about urban design and architecture of De Zwarte Hond. The first issue concerns about assignment as task in urbanism and energetic open urbanism.

Order the publication on the website of De Zwarte Hond. Text only in Dutch.

DesignsGenealogy of the Klavertje

Description

Elaboration of spatial typology for a C2C shell

  • Program
    (logistics) business park, glasshouse horticulture, pig farm, infrastructure
  • Client
    Province of Limburg, GOB, Municipalities of Venlo, Horst aan de Maas, Sevenum en Maasbree
  • Team
    Theo Hauben
    Marco Vermeulen
    Mario Casciu
    Thijs van Spaandonk
    David Dooghe
  • Collaboration
    VHP
  • Location
    Venlo, Horst, Sevenum, Maasbree
  • Area
    562000 m2
  • Date
    2008-09-30
  • Website

In the Master Plan Klavertje 4, Spatial Design for the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) worklandscape for Greenport Venlo, the "clover" is the building block which can be deployed at a concrete scale level for the C2C objectives for the area in its entirety. The clover configuration as a spatial principle constitutes a strong logo (image) which companies can identify with and advertise. Yet the choice of the recognisable clover configuration is predominately determined by the spatial qualities. After extensive study into the possible configurations for the extremely large units that the logistics sector brings with it (halls tens of thousands of square metres in size) the configuration of a clover appears to form a good basis for spatial quality and for the application of C2C principles. These C2C principles include making the worklandscape as self-sufficient as possible as regards energy and water, the efficient flow of traffic and the creation of an attractive working environment. The clover offers possibilities for all these aspects in an integral design in which sub-solutions for water, energy and traffic reinforce each other. The clover in fact forms the C2C-shell at the urban configuration micro-scale and provides the facilities that make it possible to make companies that locate here C2C-proof. The objective of this study is to make explicit what the core values of the clover are and to clearly define where the limits of flexibility lie.

The most important qualities and characteristics of a clover are:
* A clover in principle comprises four, but a minimum of three and a maximum of six, business fields (clover leaves).
* A clover leaf is preferably rectangular and comprises a ready-for-allocation plot approximately 260 metres in breadth (logistics nave).
* The clover leaves are bordered by one-lane, one-way roads that, together with a central ring road, form the one-way traffic system of the clover.
* The clover leaves are arranged round an attractive central residential area with special functions such as shared facilities.
* The clover leaves are positioned at approximately a 20-degree angle to each other thereby creating wedge-shaped interspaces that open towards the landscape.
* The clover is bordered by bodies of soil creating balanced earthworks and embedding the clover in the landscape.
* In the clover, multifunctional land use is maximal.
* In the clover, colour application of the development is extremely limited.
* The clover is as self-sufficient as possible as regards water and it is not connected to the drinking-water supply.
* The clover purifies its own drinking water and it is not connected to the sewerage system.
* The clover is as self-sufficient as possible as regards energy and it makes no use of fossil fuels.
* In the clover the (building) materials and residues are recycled to a maximum.

DesignsClover 4 Venlo Master Plan

Description

Cradle to Cradle working landscape for Greenport

Venlo and the surrounding area want to be the first region in the world to apply the principles of Cradle to Cradle (C2C). Floriade 2012, the forthcoming world horticultural exhibition, serves as a precedent, but the existing (production) industry, logistics and agribusiness is pre-eminently suitable for the successful application of the C2C principles. Klavertje 4 (K4) is an area approximately 5,000 hectares in size to the northwest of Venlo, situated between the A73 and A67 motorways. A dynamic zone of logistics and agrarian activity should be developed in this extensive area without this leading to irreversible damage to the natural environment in which these activities are embedded. The new development should merge with the landscape giving rise to a harmonious and sustainable balance in the fusion between economy and ecology. In the master plan the various functions are geared to one another wherever possible, thus creating added value: the Agro Business Park. This combines a large number of logistics functions (distribution, trade, storage) with facilities for production and processing. The objective is not only the transportation of goods but also to add value, to trade this directly and to develop expertise in these areas. This means that combinations are created between auction and knowledge-intensive companies that are expected on the Floriade site. In addition to programmed combinations, other combinations can, of course, be sought in water management, energy systems and infrastructure.

The smallest building-block in the master plan is the clover leaf. This appears to be purely metaphorical, but it is not. After extensive study into the possible configurations for the extremely large units involved in the logistics sector, the configuration of a clover forms a good basis in which C2C objectives can be applied simply. The clover configuration makes it possible to optimise the traffic flows by means of a one-way system. The clover leaf has 70% land for issue and 30% as a collective area. We make these green zones functional for the infiltration of rainwater from the large roof planes of the warehouses and from the infrastructure. Because the built-up leaves of the clover are unfolded, the green area can penetrate deep into the working area, to the benefit and pleasure of the employees, but also for the realisation of a slow traffic network. The stem of the clover has a broad, green zone that is deployed for the purification of the polluted water from the surrounding buildings. Clean water that infiltrates into the soil can, via underground passages, serve as irrigation water for the glasshouses. This preserves the natural balance in the area. A central biomass energy plant in the intervention area converts waste from the glasshouses and the processing industry, pig manure and green waste from the landscape and surrounding villages into biogas. The biogas is fed into combined heat and power plants that supply electricity and heat to the work clusters via the warm water system.

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