General
* Introduction
* Brief explanation of the project
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Plan Paul Toornend,
Allocated Grounds #05




This design latches on above all to the landscape character of Hoogvliet, which it thereby further enhances. A new embankment is proposed, starting from the green belt along the Oude Maas river, a green seam that links the green belt to the Aveling, where Toornend proposes making the Tidal Channel. From this green landscape arise five identical buildings, whose open floors and neutral facades make them usable for every imaginable programme. Three of them are intended for the schools and their common functions and two are to be developed commercially. Their facades, overrun with plant growth, extend the artificial landscape.
A large number of deadend streets, paths and routes are added to the existing residential estate, to form a cohesive spatial pattern of roads that connect the parts of the district to each other and also to the surrounding landscape. Communal gardens and allotments for a second pattern which, together with the building plots, yield a differentiated small-scale neighbourhood with a great variety of public, communal and private spaces.


Paul Toornend is an architect and urban designer in Amsterdam. In 2001 he won the basic prize at the Prix de Rome, in the Landscape Architecture section, and created a design for Parkstad, the restructuring of the western garden cities in Amsterdam.
Latest update: 23 mar 2004