Nature for Rent
The aim of the project is to revitalize the island landscape in the South-West of Holland (Noord Beveland).
My strategy is to transform the existing agriculture landscape into a natural dune landscape, providing opportunities for alternative ways of living and leisure, while at the same time creating a natural protection against the rising sea.
To preserve the natural feeling of the dune landscape I propose two interventions: the implementation of self-sufficient housing on an alternative allocation system. The latter is a system where the future residents rent a piece of land to build their own house. In order to preserve the open landscape, I define a circle of privacy, that must be kept uncultivated. The houses will be placed in the centre of this circle and the choice of design is free, only subjected to volumetric restrictions. This new landscape plan doesn’t show an apparent order in the traditional sense; no grid nor street pattern.  A computer script generates an allocation pattern based on the demand for variable plots and houses.  The script becomes a flexible tool to organise the land and visualise the possible outcome of this strategy.