In the last six months the Flux-team has grown, we now have 4 new team members: landscape architect Kris Kersten, designer Casimir Smitsmans, designer Lianne Hendriks and administrative assistant and designer Rixt Meeuwissen. Flux now is a multidisciplinary office of 13 people with different designing backgrounds.
Team Kondor Wessels together with OZ en Flux landscape architecture wins compretion in the “Bakemabuurt”in Amsterdam. “De Baak” focuses on green, light and visibility on all sides.
In the spirit of the original plans for the 'Westelijke Tuinsteden', we consider green as a structural element in the urban design. The amount of collective green and the green wedges in which 'De Baak' is positioned, give the entire strip a park-like character. Our interpretation of the plot is aimed at reinforcing the presence of the park at this location and converting the fragmentation of green into more unity. By embedding 'De Baak' in the greenery, the building is placed in the middle of the park. This creates a unity that clearly shows how buildings and park go together in the 'Westerlijke Tuinsteden'. The grass carpet is characteristic of post-war neighborhoods. The greenery folds from the public and active plinth on the street side around the building and over the parking garage, to a park-like place with many trees and a collective atmosphere. Collective rooms surrounded by low hedges are designed in the grass carpet. The rooms are programmed by future residents of “De Baak”. In this way, a certain liveliness arises from the residents living in the block. They will feel ownership of a location where visitors are welcome.
Flux has been working on a water vision for Delfland in the past few months. The vision visualizes the watersystem, the most important water issues and other related issues. The water vision is set up as an interactive document that can be used in consultation with multiple parties.
Jonas Papenborg from Flux has given an interview in the Noordhollands Dagblad about the Wedges of Amsterdam project. This article argues a radical approach to maintaining and utilizing the quality of the wedges. The article discusses a study done for ARCAM. in which Flux worked on the Zaanse Wedge and Waterland Wedge.
Gerwin de Vries from Flux, together with Rens de Boer from Bureau Stadsnatuur, gave a lecture to the Municipality of The Hague about nature-inclusive building. This was followed by a discussion with employees of the municipality about a good integration of the ecological assignment and the densification assignment in the city of The Hague.
On Friday 13th December, the manifesto of the Scheggen of Amsterdam was presented in ARCAM (Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam) and handed over to alderman Marieke van Doorninck, Spatial Development and Sustainability of Amsterdam. In the manifesto, Flux landscape architecture, together with Boom landscape, Karres and Brands and LAMA landscape architects, presented their vision of the Wedges of Amsterdam, whereby the wedges can be maintained as the green counterpart of the city and at the same time can provide productive, ecological or economic added value. Until May 10th, 2020, the ARCAM exhibition on the Wedges of Amsterdam can be visited, in which the plans for the wedges can be viewed.
Team Heijmans with NL architects, Workshop architects and Flux landscape architecture have won the tender for plots F12a and F12b in Leidsche Rijn centre. With the winning plan ‘Bellevue’, Leidsche Rijn will have an ensemble of three components, each with its own character, but definitely forming a whole. In the project, the characteristic height difference is seen as an opportunity to make a distinctive plan.
On the south side of the plan is a green valley, which forms an almost barrier-free transition from the landscape to the housing by the stepped building with its lush roof landscape. By opening the blocks we created a large outdoor space with a series of collective gardens with different identities. In line with the cultural axis and located at the gatehouse, the ‘green balcony’ of Leidsche Rijn comes with a large grass staircase in the slope, a new place to stay with great quality for Leidsche Rijn centre and Utrecht.
The Werkspoorpad project has been selected for the Blauwe Kamer yearbook 2019 on urban design and landscape architecture. It is a design by Flux landscape architecture i.c.w. Charlotte Ernst and Gert-Jan Lith. The book contains the best plans from 2019, selected from 120 entries. The presentation of the book took place in the Werkspoorkwartier, where Flux has worked on the Werkspoorpad and the outer space of the Werkspoorkathedraal. Gerwin de Vries and Robert Kapel gave a tour of the area together with Charlotte Ernst.
"First life, then places, then buildings - the other way around never works". This vision of Jan Gehl has been an important starting point for the VDMA plan, on which Flux has been working on behalf of Synchroon and in collaboration with Cobe, Arup, Skonk and others. The aim was to create a pleasant, green area of the city where everyone feels at home and ‘where local meets global’. In VDMA we add next to the Eindhoven layer and the collection of towers, a third element: the Eindhoven Network. A green network consisting of two enclosed public squares and an accessible roof landscape. The Eindhoven Network is an important addition to the urban fabric of Eindhoven and gives an extra dimension to the city, where biodiversity, tranquility and dynamics come together.
It was an honor to work on this assignment within this team, congratulations to the winning team of Being development!
Team VDMA: Synchroon, Cobe, Arup, Flux landscape architecture, yoreM Verovert Online!, Skonk, De Wijde Blik Communicatie, Horeca Development B.V., bbn adviseurs, George&Harrison
Flux is looking for new interns per February/March 2020.