Downtown Delft gets a new sight! Adjacent to the historical inner-city a modern borough arises, the new train station functions as joint. The railway that dissected the city for years, now runs underground; its track will transform into a new park.
A development from no-man’s-land to Delfsland: what would that look like?
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The Van Leeuwenhoekpark is a park different from all other Delft parks. While at the same time, it is a true Delft park. A park with Delft DNA.
Historically inspired and innovative; diverse and pleasantly green-blue. A potential showcase of urban climate adaptation, an outdoor laboratory for climate proof novelties. A fine place to live and to visit.
Most defining is the extremely narrow shape of the Van Leeuwenhoekpark. This shape sides the park with a family of characteristic urban lines, like the Oude Delft canal. The challenge of this outspoken space is to look for landscape architectural solutions that create surprising places and a unique experience.
LANDLAB searches for the ingredients of the Delft DNA, climate adaptive opportunities and spatial possibilities. The ingredients translate into a series of building blocks that create a strong framework for a distinctive park with flexible programme.
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![LANDLAB Van Leeuwenhoekpark Delft 4. concept](/sites/default/files/styles/page/public/2017-12/LANDLAB%20Van%20Leeuwenhoekpark%20Delft%204.%20concept.jpg?itok=6oexnVNM)
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