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