The first sketches for the Fensterrein in Eindhoven have been presented. The Fensterrein in Eindhoven is being transformed from a car park into a green and climate-proof city square. Flux is designing a place where cooling, water storage and biodiversity come together with space for sports, play and recreation. This will create a lively public space in the heart of the city centre that connects the city and nature. Commissioned by the Municipality of Eindhoven.
The province of Utrecht faces major spatial challenges. Climate change makes it clear that designing from the perspective of the water and soil system will form the basis for a future-proof landscape. Flux has mapped out this water and soil system, thereby providing insight into the relationship between above-ground and below-ground and upstream and downstream space claims.
The results have been translated into a five-metre-long cross-section that depicts the water system of the entire province. Two extremes are central: prolonged drought and extreme precipitation. This illustrates the consequences for water quality, safety, natural values, salinisation, freshwater availability and drinking water extraction.
The exhibition will be travelling to the Utrecht Provincial Government building, municipalities and water boards in the coming period and invites visitors to design from the subsurface as the foundation for a resilient province.
Goudsesingel Rotterdam, from city boulevard to sponge park
At the 2025 Stadmakerscongres (City Makers Congress), Flux will present its design research on the Goudsesingel in Rotterdam: From City Boulevard to Sponge Park.
Extreme heat, drought, and flooding call for a radical greening of Rotterdam's city center. By rethinking mobility, the wide city boulevards from Van Traa's Basic Plan can play a key role in the transition to a green, cool, and healthy city. The Goudsesingel is a pioneer in this process: its transformation into a linear sponge park offers space for water storage, cooling, biodiversity, and urban development.
During this workshop at the Stadmakerscongres, we will discuss the vision for 2125 and explore the steps needed to develop the street into a linear park where a robust water system collects and stores rainwater while simultaneously contributing to a healthy living environment for people, plants, and animals. The Goudsesingel design research project was commissioned by the Municipality of Rotterdam, and the Stadmakerscongres is organized by AIR - Architecture Institute Rotterdam.
Would you like to attend the Stadmakerscongres? Register via the website.
Date: Friday, November 14
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Location: Theater Rotterdam
Utrecht scenario study presented
In the summer of 2025, Flux presented the results of the Utrecht 2100 scenario study to the Provincial Council Committee. Four integrated future scenarios for the year 2100 were developed and compared with the existing Environmental Vision. Using maps, systemic cross-sections and inspiring atmospheric images, spatial opportunities and bottlenecks were identified, highly and low-dynamic areas were identified, and no-regret measures for water and soil management were formulated. The study produced clear recommendations for the seven themes from the Environmental Vision and offers policymakers indispensable tools to make the province of Utrecht climate-adaptive, circular and economically vital, and to further refine the Environmental Vision for 2050. Commissioned by the Provincie Utrecht.
Flux went on excursion to Brabant! The team visited 25 different projects in Tilburg, Den Bosch and Eindhoven, including the Spoorpark, Stadhuisplein in Tilburg, Tramkade Den Bosch, the NRE site in Eindhoven and the Flux projects Wilhelminaplein and Stadsdommel in Eindhoven.
In Den Bosch, the team was welcomed at the city office, where an inspiring presentation on the vision of the urban development for the city was given by Gido Ten Dolle (director of Urban Development for the Municipality 's-Hertogenbosch) and Hanneke Straver (urban planner for the Municipality of 's-Hertogenbosch).
In Eindhoven Strijp-S and Strijp-R were visited with a guided tour by Bram van Ekeren (architect and urban designer at diederendirrix architects) and a tour through the Veemgebouw and Space-S with Danny Meijer (architect at diederendirrix), where we gained a good insight into the development of these sites.
The excursion included a wonderful mix of urban and rural projects, ranging from older developments to brand-new plans and construction sites. An excursion full of inspiration for our next projects!
Flux wins two WLA Awards!
Let's celebrate! Flux has won two World Landscape Architecture Awards. The Almere Highnote and Stadspark Dordrecht XXL projects were both honoured with the “Outstanding Award”. The international jury selected the projects from more than 300 entries worldwide.
Dordrecht is committed to the growth of the city and wants to utilise and strengthen all its existing qualities. The Dordtwijk zone, with its many sports fields and facilities, and its sometimes hidden, park-like and scenic character, provides opportunities to transform this zone into a new city park.
In Flux's vision, the sports fields, the park-like landscape and connections to the surrounding area come together to form a lively and green heart of the city: the new Dordrecht City Park. The park offers space for relaxation, sports, nature experiences and biodiversity. A central role is reserved for the 10-kilometre-long park loop: a wide, smooth path suitable for walking, cycling, running and skating.
Flux was commissioned by the Municipality of Dordrecht to develop the vision and details of the park design, with a focus on routes, greenery, water, programme and objects. The integration of sports facilities, more nature and water makes the park more robust and climate-proof.
Let's celebrate! Flux has won two World Landscape Architecture Awards. The Almere Highnote and Stadspark Dordrecht XXL projects were both honoured with the “Outstanding Award”. The international jury selected the projects from more than 300 entries worldwide.
The Highnote apartment complex, a collaboration between Flux and Studioninedots, commissioned by AM Gebiedsontwikkeling, was completed in October 2023. The building features a large open plinth connected to a green industrial yard, a green and water-buffering courtyard and a communal roof garden, all linked by the surrounding colonnade.
Stadsflora The Hague: the potential of green in the compact city district
Flux has recently been working on several case studies for the design research project Stadsflora. One of the cases is The Hague: In The Hague, there is a greening challenge at neighbourhood and block level. In streets and on pavements, paving can be converted to green in many places. Often these are residual spots, pavements with excess paving or traffic-driven and paved public spaces. The surfaces of these green spaces are relatively small and fragmented, but the sum of all green spaces together does contribute to improving the quality of life and the climate-adaptive design of the city. The potential of this type of green space in The Hague's compact city districts is the focus of the case study.
Stadsflora is a design research project, initiated by Flux, aimed at developing sustainable planting plans for urban areas. Among other things, the research focuses on the resilience of planting, how future climate conditions can be effectively addressed, and how a natural approach to urban planting can be translated into inspiring design principles. It also explores how greening cities can go hand in hand with affordable maintenance solutions.
Flux is working on a spatial perspective for the young reclaimed landscape east of the Mariapeel. In this intensively used agricultural area, between vulnerable raised bog nature and tourist crowds, we are looking for a robust landscape structure in which nature, agriculture, energy and recreation reinforce each other.
The assignment formulates a long-term vision in which the carrying capacity of the natural system is leading. Climate resilience, new landscape building blocks and a long-term perspective for farmers form the core of the plan. Commissioned by Municipality of Horst aan de Maas
The project is part of the NOVEX area De Peel, for which Flux previously developed a future vision. Read more about the De Peel 2050
Preliminary Design Hoefkwartier approved
The preliminary design (VO) of the Hoefkwartier Amersfoort public space has been approved by the board. Flux is working on behalf of the municipality of Amersfoort on the design for the public space Hoefkwartier Amersfoort. In the coming years, the area will change from an office environment to a lively city district. 3,500 to 4,000 new homes will be built here, in addition to existing educational institutions and workplaces. The ambition is to make the Hoefkwartier a place where living, working and learning come together in a new green and sustainable public space. Now that the VO has been approved, the first sub-areas are further elaborated in a DO.