Urban Nature

Team point of view

Assen municipality and big developers no longer have the resources to redevelop the harbour area top-down. We propose to involve existing landowners and renew the plots grain by grain. As the changes that occur are driven by personal demand rather than economic investment, change is achieved by a quiet accumulation of urban elements rooted in daily life. Existing building envelopes will become frameworks for new developments.
In addition to this slow grain development, a catalyst project will be proposed in the heart of the harbour, an urban infrastructure, programmatically and spatially rooted in the daily lives of its users. It accommodates housing, offices, floating restaurants and gardens. It gradually grows over time and can thus anticipate the demands of new users and investors.