E17 Sites that deserve your attention: Etten-Leur (NL)

Etten-Leur (NL)

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Location Etten-Leur shopping center
Scale L/S
Site Family Imagine a Second Life! / Transforming neighbourhoods and buildings towards an inclusive milieu

Commission after competition The concepts, typologies and/or approaches generated in the competition may lead to commissioning of further studies. Follow up research by design assignment at the project site or a site with similar challenges may be commissioned by the municipality of Breda and/or private partners. All Dutch locations are situated in the urban region called SRBT. Each sites represents prototypical design challenges within this region.

Inhabited milieu's challenges
The challenge is to develop a spatial strategy implementing a new mix of functions in the middle of active shopping area, conceptualizing an experience of shopping to reflect moving away from consumption-only mentality towards a future where local production and mid-sized town character is integrated. And thus, reflective of circularity as an essential part of climate adaptable future. Reinvent this mono-functional shopping to become a place buzzing with activity all through the week. Carefully designing community oriented housing typologies, new facilities for the twenty first century dweller.

Two main design tasks for Etten-Leur:
1. Develop a Architectural design strategy to implement a new mix of functions to the existing shopping centre.
2. Carefully designing community oriented housing typologies, new facilities for the twenty first century dweller.