The P3 is a progress review for the mentors and studio to show the ongoing design and research started in MSc3. This presentation shows all the work on the table. In this case the regional scale of Almere-East, with the water, urbanisation, infrastructural and landscape guiding principles.
The water system is designed together with a civil engineer, the so called urban engineering method. It is aimed to solve the current and future water assignments in the area and to guide the urbanisation.

P3 PowerPoint presentation

The P2 is an assessment review presentation for the mentors and studio. It presents the final planning of the graduation project and a part of the research work done so far. It is a mix between aims of the project, research conclusions and time planning. It concludes and assesses the first semester of the graduation track.
The outcome can be go or no-go, depending on the trust of the graduation committee in a succesfull ending of the project within the given time. This project has a green light and can continue to the P3 and P4.

The presentation can be presented in 20 minutes and the size of the thesis plan is 50 pages.

Thesis Plan / P2 Report	P2 PowerPoint presentation

Download: Urban development of New Towns related to water management

The forming of the Dutch polder city was based on different landscapes: peat reclamations, reclaimed land and polders. They resulted in different types of New Towns from the 17th to the 20th century and dealt differently with the existing water structure, because of different technologies or approach.  This paper reviewed urban development in New Towns related to water management. The main question is: what were the main water criteria guiding the design of New Towns in Dutch history? These towns ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, are the spatial image of the approach to water management issues in that time.

It is clear that the use of water as a design principle was different in the studied towns. Willemstad is positioned and outlined because of its place at the Hollands Diep and the desired control of water (Burke, 1956). Nagele and Hoofddorp find it’s centre in the (created) highlight of the water system, respectively a bent and a crossing. But they have nothing to do with controlling water levels, something which is done by machinery set up far outside the city. They are placed inside the polder, but use a highlight, polder grammar as context (Reh et al., 2007) and the design as one functional entity (Hemel and van Rossem, 1984).

Lelystad is in this case the exception, because of the complete lack of position and centrality and shows little relation with the landscape (van de Ven, 2008). This neglects water and the water system as a manmade genius loci and results in a city, characterized by Adriaan Geuze (2005) as:“A city without merits, far from the coast, yearning for the waterfront.”

The changing role of water in the urban expansions of Lelystad:
60's: Zuiderzeewijk	70's/80's: Schouw	90's: Bovenwater

Bibliography:

BROUWER, P. (1997) Van stad naar stedelijkheid; planning en planconceptie van Lelystad en Almere 1959-1974, Rotterdam, NAi Uitgevers.
BURKE, G. L. (1956) The Making of Dutch Towns, London, Cleaver-Hume.
GEUZE, A. & FEDDES, F. (2005) Polders!, Rotterdam, NAi Uitgevers.
HEMEL, Z. (1994) Het landschap van de IJsselmeerpolders, Rotterdam, NAi Uitgevers.
HEMEL, Z. & VAN ROSSEM, V. (1984) Nagele; een collectief ontwerp 1947-1957, Amsterdam, Nederlands Documentatiecentrum voor de Bouwkunst.
HOOIMEIJER, F., MEYER, H. & NIENHUIS, A. (2005) Atlas van de Nederlandse waterstad, Amsterdam, SUN.
HOOIMEIJER, F. & VAN DER TOORN VRIJTHOFF, W. (2007) More urban water: design and management of Dutch water cities, London, Taylor and Francis.
MASTRIGT, C. V. (17 December 2005) Stadsgeschiedenis 20e eeuw. http://www.heemkundekringdewillemstad.nl/geschiedenis/20e_eeuw.htm, Heemkundekring De Willemstad.
OOSTERBERG, W. (2006) Urbanization and flood risk management in vulnerable delta areas. Research on New Towns, First International Seminar 2006. Almere, International New Town Institute
PLANOLOGISCHE COMMISSIE LELYSTAD (1962) Notulen 6 maart 1962, Van Eesteren-archief.
REH, W., STEENBERGEN, C. & ATEN, D. (2007) Sea of land, Wormerveer-Zaanstad, Stichting Uitgeverij Noord-Holland.
VAN DE VEN, F. (2008) Interview about the structure of Lelystad related to water management on 2 June 2008. Almere, [internet] http://www.peterminnema.nl/img/graduation/interview.pdf [download].

The P1 is a progress review presentation for the mentors and studio. It presents the outline and planning of the graduation project.
Important elements are the research questions, the aims and the planned methods of research and design.

P1 PowerPoint presentation

My theory paper is about: Urban development of New Towns related to water management [abstract]

This paper aims to review urban development in New Towns related to water management. The main question is: which were the main water criteria guiding the design of New Towns in Dutch history? These towns ranging from the 17th to the 20th century, are the spatial image of the approach to water management issues in that time.

Willemstad	Hoofddorp	Nagele	Lelystad

The purpose of this presentation was to conclude the orientation phase into one poster stating your intention, motivation and approach. Of course was the presented work very general, because this was in the 3rd week of the semester. But making a poster forces one to make statements and be as clear as possible. Theme "I want to concentrate on re-exploring the borders between land and water and focus on a strategy on innovations like new islands/polders, living on the water and the redevelopment of old port areas." This project will operate on the regional, city and citydistrict scale. On a regional scale the project will meet political, technical, economical and environmental principles. Expansion of land mass has to go hand in hand with the creation of new nature or restoring disturbed nature. Technology facilitates these goals, like it always did in Dutch history. Outcomes of these studies will be presented in a regional design. The city and citydistrict scale will deal with social and spatial principles and present an urban plan. Motivation In the history of the Netherlands water was always a leading theme in spatial planning. Technical innovationd were triggered by the struggle of survival with water. Nowadays our country depends heavily on technology in order to keep dry feeth. In the future water is getting more and more important due to climate change and rising sealevels. At the same time, we are looking for areas to expand. It is time for a reconsideration of the historical shaped country as we know it. Experiments for living and working on the water are in progress and we now need to come with regional strategys with a clear view on old and new water and land mass. In the future we can continue to live up to our worldwide reputation and our tradition of technology-based planning.