Strootman Landschapsarchitecten made a plan for the eastern outskirts of Assen that interweaves the city with the countryside and brings the atmosphere and qualities of the Drentsche Aa region right into the centre of the city.
Strootman Landschapsarchitecten made a plan for the eastern outskirts of Assen that interweaves the city with the countryside and brings the atmosphere and qualities of the Drentsche Aa region right into the centre of the city.
Location
Assen, Drenthe
Principal
Gemeente Assen
Partners
Kenniscentrum Landschap van de RUG, Bureau PAU en Zanders Treasury & Finance Solutions en DLG.
Surface Area
1.500 ha
Design Year
2010-2011
Implementation
2012-
The city of Assen was founded on an upper course of the Drentsche Aa system in the thirteenth century. It enjoys the enviable position of sharing a border for a large part of its length with the Drentsche Aa region, one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Netherlands. Our plan for the eastern outskirts of Assen interweaves the city with the countryside and brings the atmosphere and qualities of the Drentsche Aa region right into the centre of the city. The fragments of brooks and brook gulleys are linked to create a structure of new green/blue fingers. These fingers restructure the urban fabric, connect urban and rural recreational networks with one another, provide an ecological network in the city, and take on an important function as an urban water storage facility. We also envisage strengthening the landscape quality, giving estates significance, and enriching the area with particular spots, such as small-scale recreational functions.
Our vision for the entire eastern outskirts has been elaborated in a book of projects and ideas. This has involved intensive cooperation with the local population, interest groups and local businesses. They have joined in determining the ingredients of the design and will also contribute to its implementation. This project is a real coproduction between our firm and a large number of staff of the Assen local authority, various other local government organisations, interest groups and residents of Assen. They have given the vision its particular character and are responsible for a large number of project proposals and ideas.
Green Vision for Assen
Making Nagele the polder village of the future again
A future-resistant public space for the villages of Oudeschild and De Koog on Texel
Design plan for the public area of De Stationstuinen in Barendrecht
Hembrug location
Climate adaptation for the Wadden Sea coast in the 21st century
A strong Lekdijk at Salmsteke
Green Groningen
Master Plan Getting Up Steam Goor
Waterfront and Kade 05 Harderwijk
Opportunities for a permanent green zone between Duiven and Westervoort
A wide avenue as green entrance to Amstelveen
Rotterdam in 2060
Selwerd – the Green Stamp
Lindehof
Leeuweplaats
Leeuwesteyn North
River Delta Programme
Ravenstein waterfront
West Flank Haarlemmermeer
Heiloo Zandzoom (local authority)
Haaksbergen Eibergsestraat
Haaksbergen structural vision 2030
Valley and Hillridge
Haarlem Italiëlaan
Aarplein
New village green for Ugchelen
Hengelose Es-North
Losser-Oldenzaal outskirts
Structural vision for Wijdemeren
Mill South spatial exploration
’t Kavelt, Mill and Sint Hubert
Village life on the Limmen Ribbons
City Boulevard Assen
Heiloo Zuiderloo
Buurse expansion
Nijverdal aan de Regge
High Sandy Ground Delta Plan
Regional vision for the Wadden Coast
The IJsselmeer Coast Delta Programme
Delta Programme IJsselmeer
The river as Tidal Park
Coast and Heritage Master Plan
Keldonk village centre
Zijtaart village centre
Langstraat
Meerstad Groningen
New country estate Steenbergen
Urban fringes of the Network City Twente
Bekkerslocation