Field trip Limburg

The new masters students of Landscape Architecture embarked upon the first of, what will soon be, many adventures studying the diverse dutch landscape. The first excursion took the students south from Delft and into the beautiful landscape of Limburg. Limburg offered an entirely different view of the dutch landscape, rolling hills and vineyards were the…

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Institute of Poldering – Landscape under construction

  ‘Institute of Poldering – Landscape under construction’ is a project produced by students of the Faculty of Architecture for the Expedition program of Oerol 2015, Terschelling.1 The chair of Landscape Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and Oerol have worked together for a couple of years already on the theme ā€˜Sense of Place’ of…

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TU experimental garden

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 generousĀ subsidyĀ of the NHBos Foundation. It wasĀ a hands-on workshop in a real life situation addressing the practical skill of planting design, a basic skill for any landscape…

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Oerol 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…

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A 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.…

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Topos – 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…

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Oerol 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 Ā Terschellings’ landscape and places. The results will be returned through a website with a map…

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Oerol 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 ā€œLandscape Architecture ON Site, Being Part of Oerol 2013,ā€ will be constructed on the festival site – the island of Terschelling. The aim of the project is to express the…

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Mapping the unexpected

ā€œAll perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.ā€ 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…

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Pioneers 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)…

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