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FELIXX SELECTED FOR FUTURE-PROOF DESIGN OF THE EUROPAWEG

Europaea Arboretum

Commissioned by the municipality of Haarlem, Felixx was chosen to realize a landscape street design for the Europaweg in collaboration with the consultants of Antea Group. The road is located on the south side of the historic city centre, in the pre-war district of Schalkwijk. The municipality of Haarlem shows a high ambition to transform the area into a diverse urban living environment. With the Europaweg zone and adjacent area developments, this is given substance with a new place in the city where living, working, care, accommodation and relaxation come together.

 

City Street Europaweg

From a green polder with a recognizable waterway, to a post-war district with an outdoor space dominated by mobility today: as a remnant of modernist urban expansions, the layout of the Europaweg in Haarlem is harsh, and the terrain of the adjacent areas lacks any grandeur.

The opportunity to improve the quality of the stay lies in rethinking the mobility challenge and the dominant position of the car in the area. Felixx sees the assignment as a special opportunity to focus on the landscape and public space as a catalyst for the further development of the Europaweg-zone. “With City Street Europaweg we design for people. It is important that we start seeing public space again as 'a shared space', a place for people instead of functional connections. It is not based on a one-dimensional perspective on the street, but a multidimensional design method is applied, wherein different aspects together create the public space.”

Europaea Arboretum

Infrastructure takes up a lot of space for mobility, but at the same time these major mobility carriers fulfill a double function as an ecological green structure. Nevertheless, these green structure carriers have a limited ecological value, because they often consist of avenues of trees of one type. Due to increasing disease pressure among several species, gaps are appearing in the green structures or they are disappearing completely from the cityscape. In addition, the climate is changing and we are regularly confronted with extreme peak showers, longer periods of drought and sustained periods of high temperatures. These aspects require a different approach to the landscaping and design of our streets.

Current situation Europaweg, Haarlem. Photo: Felixx Landscape Architects and Planners, 2023 

The multidimensional and climate-adaptive layout of the Europaweg and the planting of a diverse range of disease-resistant trees – which are also more resistant to changing climate conditions – create a future-proof and robust ecologically valuable green structure. With the addition of different species of trees from all over Europe, a new biodiverse linear arboretum is created.

Europaea Arboretum will be a future-proof identity carrier within the Europaweg-zone that is not only attractive to direct users, but also to residents of surrounding neighborhoods.

Year

2023

Location

Haarlem, Europaweg

Type

Research, Infrastructure, Public Space

Client

Municipality Haarlem

Publications

Gemeente Haarlem

Team & partners

Michiel van Driessche
Deborah Lambert
Marnix Vink
John de Groot
Marloes Willemsen
ANTEA GROUP

List
  1. JONAS NOMINATED FOR AMSTERDAM ARCHITECTURE PRIZE 2023
  2. LIV HOSPITALITY DESIGN AWARD FOR THE UNBOUND
  3. FELIXX SELECTED FOR FUTURE-PROOF DESIGN OF THE EUROPAWEG
  4. WATER AS LEVERAGE CARTAGENA
  5. Tree planting day
  6. Brainport Industries Campus
  7. Almere Centre Vision 2040
  8. Gufunes competition published
  9. Healthy Ageing Campus Groningen
  10. Jonas Wins Again
  11. BSD featured in New York Times
  12. Eemsdelta Campus ready for construction
  13. Blokker-site Gouda redeveloped into a mixed-use urban district
  14. East Dike Shenzhen’s demonstration zone open to public
  15. Heading towards completion!
  16. Felixx works online!
  17. Tree planting event in Rijnvliet Zuid!
  18. Jonas has won two BREEAM Awards 2020!
  19. Rapid progress of the construction of our East Dike project in Shenzhen!
  20. Selected for the strategic development plan of Bodø!
  21. Construction works of Shenzhen's East Dike is progressing successfully!
  22. Construction Jonas has started!
  23. News from the nursery
  24. KCAP + Felixx win competition to ‘typhoon-proof’ Shenzhen’s East coast
  25. Felixx presents Isle of Dikes
  26. Construction has started at Tuinen van West, Amsterdam
  27. Spatenstich in Alpen!
  28. Brainport Smart District launched!
  29. Team De Unie+Felixx designs the Eemsdelta Campus as an integrated educational landscape
  30. Definitive Design for Jonas Approved
  31. Felixx contributing to Dutch pavilion for Dubai Expo 2020
  32. Felixx part of the UNStudio team envisaging The City of the Future
  33. 'Dutch architects plant trees into huge 3D printed sample tubes'
  34. Start test phase 3D printed tree pots for Food Innovation Strip
  35. Felixx part of the team to develop Floating Gardens
  36. Selected for the Brainport Smart District
  37. Construction in Alpen will start soon
  38. Closure New Town Lab
  39. Transformation Silk Factory
  40. New Town Lab
  41. Presentation Results Darmstadt 2030+
  42. First Mock-Up 3D Pot
  43. Start 3D printing
  44. Green Icons
  45. Development Strategy Schiekwartier
  46. Food Innovation Strip
  47. Darmstadt 2030+
  48. Felixx presented 1/1 scale models of the special designed furniture
  49. Felixx and MLA+ selected for regeneration Buji River
  50. Open oproep 003401
  51. Het Eiland van Dordrecht
  52. FELIXX + CITYFÖRSTER selected for the competition for Dietenbach
  53. Felixx en Afrique!
  54. Featured in Garten+Landschaft
  55. Public space design guidelines for Food Innovation Strip in Ede-Wageningen approved
  56. Construction in progress
  57. Reinventing Dharavi published
  58. S4 Highway
  59. Book publication ‘BNA Licht Verdicht’
  60. New cultural center in Tiel is nearing completion
  61. Selected for the Open Call: Urban Planning for extremes!
  62. Selected for 2nd round in ‘Who Cares’ competition
  63. COA Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers in Ter Apel officially opened
  64. Felixx in Wuhan
  65. Russian Open at Pakhuis de Zwijger
  66. Open Oproep 0032-07
  67. Realisation of bird island in Rijnvliet
  68. de Architekten Cie. + FELIXX have won the competition for the spatial development strategy
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