Flux’ design of the NPD area in Utrecht, is in progress. The urban, dynamic side combined with the lee green quality, provides important starting notions for the design in which energetic, inspiring, socially sustainable places and encounters, and the local economy are central. Commissioned by AM and in collaboration with NL architects, Paul de Ruiter architects and the municipality of Utrecht.
For more information, take a look at: Project NPD
The area between Nieuwegein, Houten and Utrecht (known as the A12 zone) is threatened to be developed as a new housing location. Flux presents an alternative plan for the area, in which the potential as landscape park and ‘green lung’ for the metropole region of Utrecht will be fully exploited. Flux presents this alternative (and unrequested) plan through the newsletter of the Utrecht Provincial Advisor Spatial Quality (PARK) Paul Roncken.
For more information, take a look at: Park Laagraven
Team FSD, with VMX and Flux landscape architecture, wins the tender for Coolhaven Rotterdam. The project area of 'Coolbase' will be developed into a green park at the Coolhaven in Rotterdam. The team has developed a design, including a new housing program and a high-quality waterfront park with an industrial character.
For more information, take a look at: Coolbase
For the project Maanwijk in Leusden, Robert Kapel from Flux has given an interview. Maanwijk is a new neighbourhood in the south of Leusden. The green layout and integration of the landscape are essential in the design of the neighborhood. Based on the themes of green, sustainability, health and social cohesion, a vision has been developed for the urban plan and the public space design.
Commissioned by Heijmans and in collaboration with Molenaar & Co. Interview by Redactiegasten.
In the past months the Flux-team has grown, we now have 4 new team members: landscape designer Kasper Neeleman, landscape- and urban designer David de Boer, landscape architect Tom van Heeswijk and landscape designer Tim Gämperle. Flux is a multidisciplinary office of 15 people with different designing backgrounds.
Photos by Mark Prins
Flux is looking for new interns per February/March 2021
In collaboration with Braaksma & Roos architects, Flux is working on a spatial vision and design of the outdoor areas of the Nozema zendstation, a former transmitting station in Lopikerkapel. Considering the transformation of this National Monument to a multifunctional location, Flux will research how this cultural historical (transmitting)landscape will look in the future.
Photo: Archief Omroep Zendermuseum
How can we make a better deal between farmers and society? In 3 regions teams of designers did research on how agriculture can be landscape-inclusive, commissioned by, and in collaboration with College van Rijksadviseurs. One of these regions is De Marne, where Flux landscape architecture, together with the Louis Bolk Institute and Kennis Centrum Landschap of the Rijksuniversity Groningen did research on. In the project local farmers and partners were involved, with whom the perspective ‘landschapsinclusieve landbouw Marne 2050’ has been formed. A perspective that makes a clever link between agriculture, nature and landscape.
For more information see: De Marne
Flux landscape architecture, in collaboration with Shift architecture, Bureau Stadsnatuur, Acacia Water and Except wins the tender Panorama Lokaal, for the location of Vlaardingen Westwijk! This winning plan has been chosen out of 35 submissions. The tender is organized by the College van Rijksadviseurs and the coalition for this assignment consists of the municipality of Vlaardingen, Waterweg Wonen, Synchroon and the Klankbordgroep West.
The winning proposal ‘Westwijk Rooted’ is about a neighbourhood that is connected to the adjacent polder landscape, it’s reconstruction, the peaty soil, the new metrostation, and of course, the existing and new inhabitants. A new ground level that’s based on a wet soil condition forms the landscape framework of the plan. It makes the neighbourhood climate adaptive, water-robust and biodiverse, while at the same time the ideal conditions for attractive new living environments are created, anchored in the ground level. The plan is constructed on the light and open existing urban structure of Van Tijen and, at the same time, is breaking radically with some original assumptions. Hereby Westwijk is ‘Rooted’ in the landscape and in history.
For more information look at: Project Westwijk Rooted