The stream revived

Development of the river Aa catchment area to contribute to Mid-Brabant as a National Landscape Park

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

W. Koolhaas Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

E.A.J. Luiten Landscape Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
M. Lub Urban Design - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

21-06-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The Aa is a channelized stream system with an out-of-balance hydrological system. Being too dry in the summer and having no room for water during the winter. There is also no room for natural processes and the biodiversity is low. This together with the intensively large-scale agricultural landscape makes the Aa an unattractive landscape. To change this in order to make the Aa resilient and attractive component of the Van Gogh National Park, is the landscape studied through three lenses; hydrological, nature, and recreation. In the area three landscape types are identified as having the potential to contribute to a resilient and attractive landscape; these are the stream, the wet areas, and the higher grounds. Looking at the three landscape types through the three lenses yields nine elements which together make an illustrative masterplan which is detailed in zoom-ins. The nine elements are called Meandering, Retention, Infiltration, Beekprik, Boomkikker, Boommarter (BBB), Kano, Boots, and Mountainbike.