The longest park unfolds through city and country
South Holland is in great need of new, accessible green space, for people, animals and plants. This applies to the densifying city, the intensifying agricultural area and the vast business or industrial estates.
Zuid-Holland needs more trees, to provide shade, create new biodiversity, small-scale wood harvesting and a public picking landscape.
South Holland needs a system of high-quality connections that can unfold independently of major highways and railways.
South Holland needs a counter-landscape where you can be ‘away’ for a while.
Walking as an ecological project: explore city-country connections. Case study in Delft - Midden-Delfland - Schiedam
We propose to develop an ecological and metropolitan path based on 3 actions:
Walking
To rediscover South Holland, create new connections between places, neighbourhoods, people and stories inside and outside the city.
To rediscover South Holland, create new connections between places, neighbourhoods, people and stories inside and outside the city.
Plant
To develop an accessible green network above and below ground, as a source of biodiversity in South Holland.
To develop an accessible green network above and below ground, as a source of biodiversity in South Holland.
Growing Together
To maintain, develop and adapt together an ecological and metropolitan path as a first response to current urban and climate challenges.
To maintain, develop and adapt together an ecological and metropolitan path as a first response to current urban and climate challenges.
Project Data
Location
Province of South Holland
Assignment
Develop the South Holland walking network while establishing better ecological links between existing nature reserves and cities
Client
As part of the 'Young Innovators' programma 2023
