Last summer students of the Master track Landscape Architecture of the TU Delft could follow a summer course in the Tuinen Mien Ruys in Dedemsvaart, made possible by a generous subsidy of the NHBos Foundation. It was a hands-on workshop in a real life situation addressing the practical skill of planting design, a basic skill for any landscape…
Read MoreOerol 2014 – location, process and project
The location The chair of Landscape Architecture of the Delft University of Technology is for the fourth time contributing to the Oerol festival – Sense of Place. This year we are located on the Eastern part of Terschelling, at Kaapsduin. Kaapsduin is part of a dune complex which has been stabilized by planting natural vegetation…
Read MoreA study of Polders in Felt
In February 2013, MSc students of Landscape Architecture were taken to the Nieuwland Museum in Leystad for a three day workshop, led by an artist. Cora Jongsma, who has worked extensively with felt, introduced students to the fascinating similarities between two seemingly incongruent occurrences: the creation of felt from wool and the creation of polders.…
Read MoreTopos – the nature of the Dutch landscape
From all over the world master students come to the TU in Delft to study. Of the 24 students of the master track urban landscape architecture there are 15 students from abroad, mostly Asian, but also a few other nationalities. They come from cities like Bangkok and have to settle in a small town like…
Read MoreOerol 2013 – The Project
The Institute of Place Making finds out and makes visible what the notion of place is about and how it evolves. It will do this by mapping, categorising and analysing feedback of visitors and inhabitants on their experience with Terschellings’ landscape and places. The results will be returned through a website with a map…
Read MoreOerol 2013 – Design Process, Structure and Methods
This year the chair of Landscape Architecture of the Delft University of Technology is for the third time annually contributing to Oerol. The project, named “Landscape Architecture ON Site, Being Part of Oerol 2013,” will be constructed on the festival site – the island of Terschelling. The aim of the project is to express the…
Read MoreMapping the unexpected
“All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.” This quote of Rudolf Arnheim was the starting point of the 4 hour mapping workshop for graduate students [1]. Two landscape types, graphite, paper, cups and silverwork were the means to explore mapping as a tool in landscape architecture. The…
Read MorePioneers on Newborn Wadden Sea Island
Our Growing Island at Oerol 2012 with it’s Design & Build Expedition Team (from foreground to background): Ole & Daniel Jauslin (Son & Lecturer TU Delft Landscape Architecture ), Nikolaos Margaritis , Anna Iannidou, Roel Muselaers , Marc Souverein, Beatrice Reinbacher, Michiel van der Drift, Lisanne van Niekerk (Master Students TU Delft Landscape Architecture)…
Read MoreTU Garden live at Oerol
After 5 days of hard work in the Garden our 7 students accomplished as it was planned, with help of some visitors and generous support by our hosts Oerol and Centrum voor Natuur en Landschap. Now still 8 of 10 days of Oerol Festival to build a Wadden Sea island with sand and wind in…
Read MoreExpedition Oerol started
This week a group of 13 Master Students of Landscape Architecture from TU Delft went on Expedition over the Wadden Sea to discover the Landscape of Terschelling and it’s curious and inspiring artistic producers of Oerol Festival. Oerol – meaning everywhere in Terschelling’s Friesian dialect- is an annual festival of landscape or site-specific theatre and…
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