Energy for the future, rooted in the landscape
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The Stedendriehoek region is committed to a cleaner future, with a focus on the energy transition, climate adaptation, sustainable mobility, attractive living environments and sustainable economic opportunities. Studio D was asked to explore, through design research, how these ambitions can take shape along the A1 corridor.
How do we reconcile the energy transition and urbanisation with the preservation of landscape qualities?
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Along the A1, a spatial rhythm of view corridors unfolds, revealing the landscape in its many expressions.
Our spatial quality map identifies what should be preserved, while also highlighting opportunities to strengthen the landscape.
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The aim is landscape enhancement while maintaining openness: restoring rooms and corridors, developing water-related energy in the IJssel Valley, and creating space in reclamation landscapes for solar fields and carefully integrated wind parks.
It is essential to embed new energy landscapes in a way that reinforces the area’s identity. Green rooms and corridors not only function as ecological connections, but also as spatial frameworks in which energy functions can be carefully interwoven. With attention to sightlines, scale and interconnections, a layered landscape emerges.
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Our ambition is to strengthen the landscape framework and restore variation. In doing so, we increase the landscape’s capacity for energy generation while investing in the region’s core qualities.
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New, contemporary interventions do not need to be concealed; they can be visible, provided they are in balance with the landscape.
Strengthening the landscape with contemporary innovations, without concealing its natural beauty
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By linking nature development to energy generation, creating recreational routes along new landscape structures, and connecting heritage with innovative technology, a region emerges that is both future-proof and recognisable.
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