LIVING IN THE PARK
Project type: Urban Design | Landscape UrbanismYear: 2022Location: Leuven, Belgium Team: Nhung Pham, Shinta KusumawardaniLIVING IN THE PARK
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The Leuven flooding system is mitigated by a system of ponds from upstream of the Dyle and Voor river and the KU Leuven Arenberg campus, which is playing the role of a temporary flood control area for the city. To unveil and make use of the best potential from this important role, to transform the city and the university campus, the project’s ambition is to turn the whole campus into a large wetland park not only helping the city face the risk of climate change but also connecting the city and university life. Other fragmented greenery areas throughout the strip will also be connected to this wetland by a blue and green corridors system to create a parks system for the whole area. The challenge of the concept is how to connect the two rivers: the Voor and the Dyle with the fact that they have different cotes, therefore the solution is to create a level-changing water system, to transform the whole floodable area into a permanent wetland park. Thanks to this, the biodiversity and ecosystem services of Leuven will be strengthened with different landscape scenarios for both nature and human beings, open the door to a new dynamic univercity area where human can live harmonically with nature.
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