Together with the municipality of Breda, Barcode Architects and Rho Adviseurs, Flux held an information evening in February for the plan on the Markendaalseweg in Breda. Flux designs the adjacent public space, courtyard and roof garden of the new building blocks. The information evening provided a lot of interesting input for the further elaboration of the project.
Commissioned by Kondor Wessels, Flux is working on the outdoor space of Lumen, a new residential building designed by OZ architects. The building will be realized on the former location of the office of Rijkswaterstaat, at the Vuurtorenweg in Scheveningen. The landscape surrounding it, forms a natural part of the coastal landscape. A unique location to live with an uninterrupted sea view.
Together with Mei architects and commissioned by Stichting DUWO, Flux is working on the landscape of two unique residential buildings in Sluisbuurt Amsterdam. Flux is designing on a nature inclusive and climate-proof design of the courtyards and roof gardens on plots 5A2 and 6B2. The buildings, in which housing for students and youngsters will be realized, are located in the heart of the neighborhood and will serve as catalysator for further green and sustainable developments in Sluisbuurt.
Team Vorm wins tender Houtrak for the plots 11 G&H in Amsterdam Oostenburg, located on the edge of the Oostenburgervaart. Commissioned by Vorm and in collaboration with Workshop architects, Marcel Lok Architect, CD20 bv and Buro bouwfysica, Flux designed the outdoor spaces. The nature inclusive design makes an important contribution to both human wellbeing and local ecology, created by an abundance of trees and perennial plants.
Commissioned by Boelens de Gruyter and in collaboration with OZ architects, Flux will work on the design of the urban densification at the Overschiestraat in Amsterdam. In the project the design of a food-forest will take place in the centre of the buildingsblocks.
Flux is working on a green vision for the city centre of Eindhoven. Ten spots have been looked at closely, in search for opportunities to make them more green. For example roads, courtyards, facades, roofs and more. This may result in climate squares, a city park or edible roof landscapes. Relevant themes as the urban heat stress, water storage during heavy rains and the strengthening of the biodiversity are explicitly part of the vision. One of the ten projects is the Wilhelmina square, whereby the first sketches have been discussed with residents. You can read more about the Green Vision in the daily mail of Eindhoven.
Image: impression of how the Wilhelmina square might look in the future
On Thursday the 10th of February, Gerwin de Vries of Flux landscape architecture will give a lecture for Arcam about sustainability and nature inclusiveness in the Sluisbuurt Amsterdam. High ambitions have been formulated for the development of the Sluisbuurt, in terms of liveability, living quality, sustainability and architectural quality and reachability. Gerwin will, together with Raymond van Sabben (Paul de Ruiter architects), speak about the new sustainable icon for the Sluisbuurt: Horizons. A residential building that has been designed with the cycle of nature and the functioning of the human body as inspiration source; it breathes, thinks and feels.
Don’t want to miss this lecture? Take a look at Arcam Winterlectures
Or read more about Horizons
In collaboration with Orange architects and commissioned by AM and Heijmans, Flux will work on the design of three building blocks in the urban plan Feyenoord City.
Image: Orange architects
Commissioned by the Provincial Advisor Spatial Quality (PARK) Noël van Dooren, of the Province of Zuid-Holland, Flux conducted a design research into the changing use of the public space during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings have both been translated into interventions and improvements during a pandemic as well into long term goals for the improvement of the public space in the Province. The design research Towards a Resilient Public Space shows that interventions on short term, often can be used as catalyst for improvements on the long term. With a firm and connected green-structure we will be better prepared on a following pandemic and furthermore an attractive public space shall ensure positive health effects and can thereby be seen as an important preventive measure. Flux proposes, in the design research, to take the green-structure from street to the countryside in consideration, to make the streets greener, the countryside better and more widely accessible, to activate unused green in post-war districts and to zone our cityparks in a better way, so that we can absorb peaks in use. Urhahn has, as part of the project, been working on a research into changes of our work environment.
Would you like to know more? Take a look at the projectpage:
After corona
Or take a look into the report of the research:
Towards a Resilient Public Space
In the past months the Flux-team has grown, we now have 4 new team members: landscape architect Inge Kersten, architect and urban designer Elisa Boscarato, landscape designer Coen Pronk and architect and urban Nur Zayat. Flux is a multidisciplinary office of 18 people with different designing backgrounds.
Photos by Mark Prins