Antwerp, city of tomorrow - REGIONAL DESIGN LAB€¦ · City of Antwerp makes her own trajectory – trying to do it smart, to inspire, and start from a need.. 4. Population growth

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Introtothecongress

1. RegionalplanninginFlandersis‘fuzz’-asasharedconclusionofsomeofthespeakers–apatchworkwithsomesuccessesbutevenmorefailures(fromtheimplementationview)

2. Thereisnoplanningonthelevelofametropolis,evennotonthelevelofthecityregion(agglomeration)

3. CityofAntwerpmakesherowntrajectory–tryingtodoitsmart,toinspire,andstartfromaneed..

4. PopulationgrowthandCityofStreams(watermobilityairpollution)makeuslookatthecloseneigbours/theagglomeration

5. Specificallyinthesouthbecauseoffthesoilconditionsandthepublictrafficnetworkopportunities

6. Workingonaninter-municipalcoöperationwith13municipalitiessince2015

7. Almostpoliticalcoherence

Introtothecongress

7. Mainactivities=

• sharingknowledge,

• cityofAntwerpsupportsresearchbydesign

• Pilottingprojects

8. NostrategicplanYET

9. StrategicplanformetropolitanareaFlorence“integrationofthewidernetworktobecomemorecapabletoreceivethemetropolitanchallenges”=inspiringforAntwerparea(similarscale)

10. MeanwhiletheFlemishgovernmentstartedarenewaloftheprocess(lesshierarchical),bystimulatingtheco-workingbetweenmunicipalities

11. Asoftbottomupapproach

12. Althoughthemunicipalitiesaskmoreclearguidelinesandguaranties(aframeasinFranceandItalyperhaps?)

Outline

1. CityofAntwerp/AtypicalAntwerp–facts!

2. Thedevelopmentofthecity

3. TheevolutionofplanninginAntwerp

4. Therenewalofthestrategicplanning–behindtheborders

1. LivingCity-growth

2. WorkingCity(andtogetherwithothermunicipalities)

3. Cityofstreams

5. Illustrationofanintegratedapproach:NieuwZuid

CITY OF ANTWERP

The city is home to more than 500.000

people of 173 different nationalities.

Antwerp is centrally situated

in North West Europe.

Brussels is 25 miles away.

Global cities such as

Amsterdam, Paris or London

can be reached within 3

hours by high speed train. http://www.freevectormaps.com/?ref=atr

CITY OF ANTWERP

The ‘Flemish Diamond’ – the urbanised

area between the historical cities of

Antwerp, Brussels, Leuven (Louvain) and

Ghent – has almost dissolved into one

diffuse city, as urban sprawl. The Port of Antwerp is a

major regional and

national economic engine.

80 km inland, it is a

uniquely situated sea port.

It is the 2nd largest port in

Europe and the 5th largest

in the world.

CREATIVE CITY

IN N O V A T IV E KNOWLEDGECITY

AHUMAN-SCALE

METROPOLIS CITY B Y TH E RIV ER

ANTW ERP IS A C ITY UNITEDBYONEMAIN

BELIEF:

IT’SALWAYSPOSSIBLETODOTHINGSALITTLEBIT

DIFFERENTLY

CREATIVE CITY

AntwerpFashionFestival.byShariRuzzi,designbyPlastikGoodiesJanCrab

SigridSpinnox

WalterSaenen

THE ECONOMIC AND SPATIAL

DEVELOPMENT OF ANTWERP

HAS ALWAYS BEEN CLOSELY

LINKED TO THE RIVER SCHELDT

AND HAS IN GREAT PART BEEN

DETERMINED BY SYSTEMATIC

POPULATION GROWTH AND A

SUCCESSION OF PORT

EXPANSIONS.

THEDEVELOPMENTOFTHECITY/URBAN

DEVELOPMENT

Part2

What was once a settlement in a curve

of the Scheldt, started to develop into a

city from the Middle Ages onwards.

With each enlargement new defence

canals or walls were established. The

first docks were ordered by Napoleon in

the early 19th cent..

Citywall

Port

Scheldt

THE DEVELO PM ENT OF TH E CITY

AN TW ER P B EFO R E TH E STR A IG H TEN IN G O F TH E RIV ER SC H ELD T ,C A .1801–1805:CLEM EN T ;VA N D EN BER G H E ;ALLEB E ́©

In the late 1800s the Scheldt was

straightened to accommodate heavy

port infrastructure. In 1923, Left Bank

was added.

LeftBankPortexpansions

ScheldtQuays


GROTE MARKT ON A MARKET DAY,SEEN FROM THE

CATHEDRAL TOWER,WITH AN UNDEVELOPED LINKEROEVER

IN THE BACKGROUND (1883).©STADSARCHIEF

ANTWERPEN

Residualspace

Barrier

Districts

In the 1950s the former Brialmont

defence walls were dismantled to

accommodate the Small Ring Road.

Protests in the region prevented the

completion of the Great Ring road and

the 1960s Small Ring Road simply

became ‘the’ Ring Road.


THE RING ROAD WAS WELCOMED WITH MUCH ENTHUSIASM IN THE 1960S ©STADSARCHIEF ANTWERPEN

The great projects of progress of the

1960s soon revealed their downsides.

Further port expansions caused former

port areas in the inner city to fall into

decline and the new Ring road soon

clogged with congestion.

Sailor’sQuarter1973


UR B A N D EC A Y IN SC H IP P ER SK W A R T IER ,C O R N ER B U ILD IN G B ETW EEN FA LC O N P LE IN A N D SC H IP P ER SSTR A A T (1973).©STA D SA R C H IEF A N TW ER P EN

In the 1970s and 1980s the city of

Antwerp, like other European cities,

faced urban flight and decay..

Wilrijk 1983


Kring voor heemkunde v.z.w.Wilrica

At the end of the 1980s, civil society

organisation ‘City on the Stream’

strongly appealed to the city

administration to take action, pressing

for the renewal of neglected port areas

such as Eilandje (‘Islet’), Scheldekaaien

(‘the Scheldt quays’) and Nieuw Zuid

(‘New South’).

Eilandje 1990


EILA N D JE IN 1990,B ETW EEN KA TTEN D IJK D O K A N D NA P ELSSTR A A T .©STADSARCHIEFANTWERPEN

The city initially went along with ‘City on

the Stream’. An international design

contest resulted in proposals by several

designers. But time was not ripe and in

1994 the city cancelled the means in the

city budget.

ManuelDeSolà-Morales

URBAN DEVELO PM ENT IN ANTW ERP

AD ES IG N B Y MA N U EL D E SO LÀ -MO R A LESFO R NA P ELSSTR A A T ATEILANDJE(1988–1994).©STADSARCHIEFANTWERPEN

Federalfunds

In the mid-1990s urban development in

Antwerp reached a turning point.

Europe and the Belgian and Flemish

governments established funds for

urban development. Antwerp took these

opportunities with both hands, and

mostly invested the acquired funds in

‘impulse’ projects with strong social

aspects.

Europeanfunds

Flemishfunds

URBAN DEVELO PM ENT IN ANTW ERP

STRATEG IC SPAT IA L STRUCTURE PLAN

FlemishzoningplanforAntwerp

Up to the mid-1990s, Flemish spatial policy

consisted mainly of static zoning plans, but

with the 1997 Spatial Structure Plan for

Flanders (RSV), the Flemish government

made a clear choice for structure planning.

The Flemish provinces and municipalities

were obliged to draft long- term visions for

their own territory.

TOWARDS STRATEGIC PLANNING


Strategicmaps-RSA

The 2006 strategic Spatial Structure Plan for

Antwerp (s-RSA) (Bernardo Secchi and Paola

Vigano)̀ introduced a three-tier strategy for

a renovatiourbis: the renewal of the city

through punctual interventions in public

space.

MegaCity

The generic policy produces ‘timeless’

city-wide guidelines for every (spatial)

policy decision and project through

seven ‘inspiring images’ that refer to

Antwerp’s collective memory.

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PortCityWaterCity

EcoCityPorousCityRailwayCityVillagesandMetropolis


LivelyCanal GreenSingel

The specific policy uniquely combines

and translates the integrated and

comprehensive spatial vision and

strategy for the city in five strategic

spaces.


HardSpine

LowerNetwork

andUrban

Centres

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The active policy intervenes at the

project level in the fields of housing,

public space, public functions and

mobility through the maintenance,

renewal and construction of streets,

squares, parks, playgrounds, sites and

buildings.

DesigncenterWinkelhaak

‘IM PU LSE ’PRO JECTS (EXAM PLES )Subsidised by Eu and Flanders,

Prostitution houses in the Central

Station Quarter were replaced with

Designcenter De Winkelhaak in 2002.

The new ‘Health House’ for prostitutes

has become a vital part of Sailor’s

Quarter. An abandoned railway yard

was transformed into Park Spoor Noord

(2005-2009).

Gezondheidshuis

ParkSpoorNoord

INSTRUM ENTS

After decades of urban planning, the

city has developed a great variety of

instruments, such as the land and

property policy, the stadsbouwmeester,

the urban block policy, innovative

public-private partnerships,

participation programmes and

participation charters.

AN TW ER P

CITY O F TO M O R R O W

LIV IN G IN TH E CITYOFTOMORROW

WORKING TOGETHER

ON THE CITY OF

TOMORROW

TH E STR EA M S IN THECITYOFTOMORROW

AFTER 10Y OF STRUCTURE PLANNING,ANTWERPIS

THINKING,DEBATINGANDEXPERIMENTINGTOGETHER

WITHITSCITIZENS,ENTREPRENEURSANDMANY

OTHERPARTNERS,INSEARCHOF‘THE C ITY OF TOMORROW’.

NE IGHBOURHOOD MUNICIPALITIESJOIN

THERENEWALOFURBANRENEWAL

Livinginthecityoftomorrow

IN THE C ITY OF TOM ORROW ,PEO PLE L IVE AND W ORK INLIVELYCITYQUARTERSANDNEIGHBOURHOODS.PUBLICSPACEISBEAUTIFULANDINVITING.ANDAMIDSTALLTHISSPLENDOUR,OURHERITAGESHINESONCEAGAIN.

PUBLIC SPACE

ASAREDCARPET

LIV ELY C ITY

QUARTERSAND

NEIGHBOURHOODS

AFUTURE FOR

OUR PAST

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Lively city quarters and neighbourhoods

GRO EN KW ART IER


CADIX QUARTER


EUROPARK

Public space as a red carpet

LIGHTPLAN


BERCHEM DISTR ICT SQUARE


MOORKEN SPLE IN

A future for our past

HARM ON IE PARK HARMONIEPARK IS A 1.8-HECTARE PARK IN THE RESIDENTIAL

HARMONIE QUARTER IN THE DISTRICT OF ANTWERP.IT IS

SURROUNDED BY 19TH-CENTURY TOWN HOUSES IN-BETWEEN

WHICH APARTMENT BUILDINGS,A HOSPITAL AND THE

PROVINCIAL HEADQUARTERS WHERE ADDED OVER TIME.IN THE

PARK LIES HARMONIE HALL,WHERE MANY CONCERTS HAVE

BEEN ORGANISED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.THE TYPICAL

ELEMENTS OF A 19TH-CENTURY LANDSCAPE PARK WERE PARTLY

PRESERVED AND WERE ALSO CHERISHED IN THE NEW DESIGN.

THE DESIGN EMPHASISES NEW CONNECTIONS WITH THE

QUARTER.WITHOUT LOSING THE ENCLOSED FEELING OF THE

PARK,TWO NEW ENTRANCES WERE PROVIDED.AFTER A

THOROUGH RENOVATION,HARMONY HALL WILL BEGIN A NEW

CHAPTER AS THE DISTRICT SERVICE CENTRE.

A future for our past

OPERAPLE IN /KIPDORPPOORT

Workingtogetheronthecityoftomorrow

URBAN REN EW AL SPREAD S OUT OVER THE RING ROAD ANDEVENOVERTHEBORDERS.RESIDENTSANDENTREPRENEURSBRINGINNOVATIONANDPRODUCTIONBACKTOTHECITY.ANDEVERYPROJECT–SMALLORLARGE,PUBLICORPRIVATE–CONTRIBUTESTOTHECITYOFTOMORROW.

BU ILD ING

THECITY

TOGETHER

OPT ING FO R

THE20TH

CENTURYBELT

THE CITY AS A

LIVING

LABORATORY

Opting for the 20th-century belt

LAB XX

Palmbout UrbanLandscapes,DeNijl

Architecten,Blauwdruk Stedenbouw,Feddes

Olthof Landschapsarchitecten

maat,posad,3e

andshinshekaiBuur&

Futureproofed

51n4e,

connect&

transform


MASTERPLANFORHOBOKEN

The city as a living laboratory

LAB XX_WORK


ZILVERKW ART IER


LAGEWEG


CITY LAB 2050

Building the city together

INNOVATIVEHOUSINGFORMS


ECOHU IS


GRO ENPLAATS

The streams in the city of tomorrow

GREEN AND WATER TAKE CENTRE STAGE IN THE CITY OF TOMORROW.PEOPLE CAN COUNT ON

SMOOTH AND SAFE MOBILITY OPTIONS.CITY,RESIDENTS AND ENTREPRENEURS WORK TOGETHER ON

CLOSING THE URBAN STREAMS OF ENERGY,MATERIALS AND WASTE IN A CLIMATE-RESILIENT CITY.

THE COOPERATION WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD

MUNICIPALITIES IS NECESSARY.GREEN AND W ATER AS A

BLUEPRINT

STRONG NETW ORKS

FORANACCESSIBLECITY

CIR CU LAR C ITY

Green and water as a blueprint

LIV ELY LANDSCAPE :GREEN PLAN


MASTER PLAN FOR THE SHELDT QUAYS


SIN T -ANNEKE


Strong networks for an accessible city

RING AND SINGEL ZONE


IJZERLAAN


PARK &RID E -BU ILD ING S

Knowledgebuildingthroughnewcoalitions

- Workingtogetherwith12municipalitiesintheAntwerp

regionaboutcommonconcerns.

- Europeanprojects:

- Urbact“re-inventingthefringe”

- Interreg“bluegreeninfrastructurebysocial

innovation”

Strong networks for a regional city

CITY REG ION –EUROPEAN NETWORK

The circular city

ENERGY RENOVAT ION TRAJECTORIES

The circular city

ALBERT CANAL INDUSTRIAL ZONE

The circular city

BLU E GATE ANTW ERP

The circular city

WASTE CO LLECT ION AND SEPARATION

Integrated approach: Nieuw Zuid

• ABANDONEDRAILWAYYARDBETWEENTHERIVER

SCHELDT AND THE RING ROAD

• JUSTSOUTHOFTHECITYCENTRE


MIXING AND SHARING

• MASTER PLAN :BERNARDO SECCH IAND PAO LA

VIG ANO ̀

• 2.000NEW DW ELLING S

• 20.000TO 40.000SQUARE M ETRES OF LO CAL

AMENITIES

• 40.000TO 70.000SQUARE M ETRES OF SU PRA

LOCALFUNCTIONS(INCLUDINGOFFICES)

• 20.000SQUARE M ETRES OF LO CAL SHOPS AND

SERVICES

.


STREAMINGQUARTER• HEATNETWORK

• PIONEERINGPROJECTINBELGIUM

• 5K ILOM ETRES

• FIRSTSTEPTOWARDSACITY-WIDEHEATNETWORK

ALANDSCAPED H ILL IN TEGRATES THE LO CAL

POWERPLANTANBUFFERSNOISEFROMTHERINGROAD.


PARTNERSANDPARTICIPATION

• SUSTAINABLECOMMUNITYBUILDINGMETHOD

• BASEDON3PILLARS:LISTENING,INFORMINGAND

INVOLVING.AJOINTTRAJECTORYDURINGTHEDEVELOPMENT

FORAJOINTSUSTAINABILITY‘CULTURE’.


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