Nijmegen CS in-between plans: a plan cycle for discarded ideologies

Q2 report » Socio-Spatial Process in Urban Societies«

Nijmegen CS Square in-between plans

A Plan Cycle for Discarded Ideologiesby Aleksandrs Feltins 4188810email: [email protected]: Lei Qu,dr. Luisa Calabrese

Delft 2011/12

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* Discarded ideologies :

Ideology means the idea that leads the society and hence urban development; planners and urban designers are obedient to it anyway.

Though we are able to build new quality upon present spatial situation which is the result of previous, or discarded ideologies, present on a site of Nijmegen CS square.

The topic of this project is public realm and issues of its renewal.It means that this project builds upon evaluation and reconfiguration of previous steps

of formation and identifies profound base of the new urban life.Strategic design understood as a site planning, the palimpsest of forces from different

scales reshuffled on a surface of Nijmegen CS square.


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Contents

1. Group research: Infrastructure and landscape. 42. Choice of the location, plan-cycle, transformation issue 62.1 Qualitative questions, field trip and its conclusions 82.2 Research: Inter-modality 10Feature: Spui in Den Haag: »The Function of the Labyrinth« 113. Context for the design: problem statement 123.1 Design: Staging the Surface 143.2 Strategy 204. Strategy and Feasibility/Reflections 22Bibliography 23


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1. Group research: Infrastructure and landscape.

Boulevard initially intended as a landscape embedded in infrastructure. The function of providing access and space for the movement combined with spaces for recreation, slow pedestrian movement and representation of the city.

Currently there is a perpetual gridlock on the boulevard. This congestion influences how the city centre is now used for urban functions, and where major concentration of public life is concentrated.

In the beginning of the quarter, first research take was made in groups, covering general topics of Urbanism. Infrastructure in Nijmegen, the topic studied by our team, influenced the choice of the scope of this project.

The nature of infrastructure is twofold:» There is the ‘transportation machine’ in wh ich various modalities of conveying people and goods from one place to another are strictly separated and the networks are specialised. Movement and speed are prescribed unambiguously. Routes are stream-lined, and often come free from the ground. The connections between traffic and parcel, between street and address, are weakened or broken. On the larger scale, the transportation machine can realise very direct connections, but in its immediate surroundings it leads to the creation of barriers, the fragmentation of the ground and the formation of enclaves. Noise pollution and air contamination increase the conflict with its immediate environment.« (Palbloom, 2011)

Historical boulevard in Nijmegen, the part of the future ring, now is intenselly used for car traffic, as a major North-South connection and as a main access to the city centre for those who prefer automo-bile. Railway line, which crosses river Waal on the Eastern side of the historical core, defines central area very sharply.

Urban fabric with embedded infrastructure network represents this duality of infrastructure: the example of the Boulevard shows that modality and intensity of traffic changes over time. Thus, these slow changes at certain points of time define new agendas for transormation of urban structures.


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The third, often overlooked aspect of infrastructure, related to its users and capacity to concentrate people at certain places. In Nijmegen, such a place is Central station.

This project is about this social aspect of infrastructure: public realm sustained by different modali-ties, embedded in existing infrastructural networks. -->

The aspects of infrastructure related to the experience of the landscape: its lines as only ways to move through and perceive city and Waal.

The separation of this »transportation machine«, putting it above the landscape, makes infrastruc-ture as medium to communicate larger whole: city or region, state.

Since major infrastructure lines crosses the river Waal, they are the lines along which landscape is being perceived. Though one might argue, that they also limit our experience, because the estab-lished structure leaves not so much choices.

Albert HijnHighschoolMallplynth

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2. Choice of the location, plan-cycle, transformation issue

Ring roads as planning idea originate from US, as a measure to solve aggravating traffic problems in inner cities. Now, virtually every American town has one in the form of highway around downtown, though in some cities ring roads are considered to be a problem.

In Europe, ring roads are something between highway and the boulevard, regarding context and structure of the certain city. Usually, ring roads define the shape of the city centre, especially if city has grown from historical node outwards, in form of boulevards.

But what happens in Nijmegen? The new central area defined by the ring road is twice as big as historical core. At the same time, some segments of the new Ring are traced upon streets of question-able capacity. Hence its performance as a »roundabout with uniform traffic flow or quality is question-able.

Central Station and potentially important Northern station are at the nodes of the ring. In case of CS this importance as a node is not only geometrical, but also urban: it is place which all bus lines cross and is major pedestrian/cyclist entrance to the city centre and to the west.

Starting from late Nineteenth century till now, the place has been transformed numerous times. What now represents the central station area is complex landscape of urban and architectural inter-ventions on existing topographical terrain.

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»Vertexes« of the future ring. Central station as one of the major entrances to the city Northern station will gain similar importance in the fu-ture, when extensions of the city will be consolidated.

Architectural diversity gener-ated by overlapping plans: an intrigue combination to step in-between


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Plan-cycle » ... can be understood as a closed cycle or a combination of linked circles, an upward spiral, in the sense of increasing knowledge, understanding and overview [Hulsbergen and Kriens, 2000]

Urban regeneration is social task for urbanists, which can be understood as a deliberate operation intended to make fit form to certain process in the society.

Research methods in social sciences such as ethnography (qualitative research undertaken by anthropologists), also follows cyclical pattern, where eventually researcher arrives and departs from updated questions, which changes in time. [Spradley, 1980]

What helped to use (though interpreting) cyclical pattern during this studio, is the notion of the scope and qualitative questions for the research (and design in this occasion). The scope of the social situation studied by ethnographer can be understood as the specific aspect of the infrastructure as a provider of people in space. The qualitative questions should have been formulated to make the first and the most crucial insights in problems and opportunities of the location chosen.

Start formulate design objective on a base of the evaluation of the previously implemented regen-eration and urban development projects.-->

Landscape perception of the central station area and its relation to the centre

Plan-cycle and ethnographi-cal research cycle: comple-mentary methodologies shaped the process of design during this studio

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2.1 Qualitative questions, field trip and its conclusions


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To ascertain qualities, performance and social scope of the site, field trip was neccessary. In order to find out how the place actually works previous preparation was necessary.

Detailed site plan was prepared »indoors« on a scale 1:500, including existing »hardware« present on the square.

Secondly, some research qualitative questions had been brought on site. As Spradley suggests, if one follows ethnographical research cycle, it is neccessary to start with the broad descriptive ques-tions and then ascertain with more detailed observations.

The main question was, who’s on site: which actors are in play. Secondly, how the previous design stage this show of perfomance. And finally, how one can charactarize this relationship of user/actor and design.

Spatial setting formed mainly by urban design. Drawing, prepared before the field trip, serve as a base to depict qualitative actor/user/partici-pant observation.

Layer of use drawn on the previously prepared topo-graphical drawing. Qualitative conclusions summarized on a spread to the right.

The results of observations summarized on a table above. The spatial setting appeared to be rather complex than it seemed to be initially. Main actors on the site are busses; users are commuters by train, on a bus, cyclists and not-central-station related pedestrians as a minority.

Two important notions came out of the field trip.First of all, the modernist »transportation machine«, though very effective for its function, is strictly

separated from pedestrian space.Secondly, the use of square is driven by inter-modality: users change from train to bus, to bike or

on foot and vise versa.


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Functionalist structure used in urban way, with unexpected qualities and separated from other structures. How can we make structure not only functional (transport, change of the modes) to more urban and connected? -->

Places of inter-modality: what can we learn from reference studies? -->

Traffic organized on one level produces mere isolated pe-destrian »islands« occupied by mobile retailers. Those also speculate on absence of benches on the square.

Tourism information hardly finds appropriate place on the square. Though it used as a wind screen or understood as a partition wall.

The oldest urban design of the square, which originates from 1970s, still present on the site.

Tunnelweg, which initially seemed detached highway, used for pedestrian move-ment however: there’s a bus stop underneath and the only ramp which is used by the cyclists coming both from centre and western suburbs.

Exploded view:Three levels of square: the entrance to the station on top, bicycle parking in between, Tunnelweg on its base.

Inter-modality as a social potential: brings users to the site. Commuters are regarded as users, transportation machines and architecture/urban design as an active actor.

For reference studies, Spui underground was chosen and similar field trip undertaken. Impressions are summarized in »feature« on the page to the right.

The Souterain Infrastructure The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) designed the under-ground : the tram tunnel under Grote Marktstraat with two stations and a parking garage. During the construction, the Souterain was plagued by setbacks, especially by leakages. Now that the complex is in use, the criticism has fallen silent and the meaning of the Underground has become apparent. More than a kilometer of architecture, it is a building with links to the city’s heart on several levels. Cars and trams are elegantly served underground. Grote Marktstraat, a new traffic artery by Ber-lage dating from the 1920s, became the domain of the shopping public in 2004. [Meyer, van der Burg,2005]


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2.2 Research: Inter-modality as a social potential and reference (Spui in Den Haag)

The inter-modality diagram: the change of modes laid out on a three-dimensional Nijmegen CS square


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Feature: Spui in Den Haag: »The Function of the Labyrinth«

Den Haag has the biggest density of the OMA’s projects.The buildings by this firm represented the most ‘progressive’ architecture in the 1990ies, from at

least my personal point of view, a style of the time. In this city, the style is superfluous, and OMA’s masterpieces are now blurred with the bright architectural background in its center.

Den Haag, as Erik Pasveer has noted, spatially, not only socially, is an ‘open city’ — the grid which gives legible structure and also allows continuity. This simple and legible structure is though intervened by complexity of infrastructure — try to walk around Den Haag Centraal for example.

Spui underground tram station is least visible work of OMA I ever seen. It lies underneath busy Spui shopping area in front of Town Hall, Library, in between China Town and Dutch Parliament area.

Long, steep, stairs leads to the underground. Just below the street’s level one can see already trams, escalators and ticket machines — well, very similar to Ubahn in Cologne (which is tram-like means of public transportation.

But, it is not that generic: suddenly, one can notice cars, exhibited like in a saloon on strange in-between level, and neat exposition of political posters from 1990ies. The tram is still there, but one is already lost and tries to understand, weather he is in museum or parking garage.

The labyrinth from Tati’s urban movies comes in mind: the unexpected sights on mundane way to the tram stop. The feeling of lost is even amplified with finish of the surfaces: typically interior parquet and sculptural raw concrete with fill light from the theatre.

Took a walk through the parking: the typical layout of lanes is accentuated with green round-abouts, typical for Dutch town. And these steep stairs behind glass walls. Went out on the other side of Spui (recognized that I am still there thanks to the names of the shops which use Spui at every occasion). The entrance is hidden beneath timber-clad bridge, which doesn’t intersect any river though.

Why labyrinth? Well, probably we need medium to mitigate contrast of legibility and complexity of transpiration networks, which no longer follows any common sense.

--> How spatial structure can be improved to make better use of the inter-modality and to add new urban uses?

OMA’s section of Spui under-ground scaled vertically 10x. Tram track on the bottom, shopping street on top and two levels in-between.


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3. Context for the design: problem statement and urban objectives

On a city’s scale, square is both one of the major entrances to the historical core, and important east-west connection for all kinds of traffic.

It is important to note, that in 2012 the last project of regeneration of the historical core will be finished: parking garage underneath the segment of the boulevard which connects Roundabout and CS square.

The ongoing and yet to be finished renewal project, aims towards public realm. It was made fea-sible to implement involving provision of considerable amount of space for commerce/retail, thus sustaining public space both in terms of implementation and users. [Jaarboek landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw]

Development potential of the rail yard to the west should be taken into account as well — what kind of possibilities it brings?

Hence these aspects brings us to the next level of plan cycle’s spiral: it is impossible to neglect the previous and future development projects.

Nijmegen SC square within context of the city. To the right the diagram of almost finished regeneration project of central Nijmegen.

Well, it is possible to point out the »problems« which are stated as objectives for design, if one is willing.

1- The square as a main entrance for large amount of pedestrians. However, horizontal organiza-tion of traffic should be re-defined as soon as possible to make more sense of previous regeneration efforts in the historical core.

2- East-west connection, already existing as a Tunnelweg, may be coupled by the extension of the central station as a tunnel station. Though the existing potentials of Tunnelweg as profound base should be taken into account.

3- Railyard to the west may be developed in the future. The specific task should be given to the area in relation to connectivity and currently separated western suburbs and centre.


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What could sustain public life in the future? – connections between parts of the city, defined by infrastructure, public transportation, position in the intersection of the routes,temporality of events — how can we build public realm around these?

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3.1 Design: Staging the Surface

To be clear, design in this case was understood as site planning, hence the stratigis operation was designed by means of new site organization.

Consists of Scale of the square and urban scale. On this page above, the Site plan on intermedi-ate scale is presented.

Site plan on intermediate scale compared with exisiting site plan and objectives formulated on the previous spread .


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Major improvements by means of reorganization of the horizontal surface.1- Existing bus terminalhad been split to Southern and Northern part. Bicycle parking curently lo-

cated on Southern side had been put to the underground. 2-New entrance to the underground with bicycle parking and large retail programme from Tunnel-

weg. This would strategically improve situation with existing tunnel and exploit current movement of pedestrians.

3- Small improvements though crucial to organize urban life of the square (elaborated more in detail on following pages)

How can we implement this site plan? Is it a single project? Who may be involved?

Exisiting square reshaped. Plan of underground in the upper right corner with pe-destrian space highlited.

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New seamless square achieved by means of re-organizing its horizontal surface.Nevertheless also smallest detail of new urban design is crucial to improve qualities. The detail depicted on the page to the right serves as a solution to the seating »problem« currently persisting on a square, thus making space available for a longer and unsolicited stay. At the same time, this element marks the delineation of zones of movement and temporal activities in front of the big public program (possibly cinema).Underground level, connected with the square by two escalators and elevator accommodate en-larged bicycle parking and big retail program thus ensuring maximum use of inter-modality.

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Exploded view of the proposed design outcome: seamless pedestrian square grounded on additional programmes downstairs


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Design of the bench which accommodates all modes of temporary stay in convenient way plus separating pedes-trian flows on the square


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Vertical organization of movement transcends property lines above and brings stakeholders into one strategic project. Though who is involved and interested in regeneration of Nijmegen CS square? -->

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Pedestrian qualities of the existing boulevard are strengthened by means of addition of the program: villas may be used for public functions such as restaurants with outdoor terraces on the northern side; ground floor of the residential buildings on the Southern side may be extended with verandas for small retail on the ground floor and terrace for those from first floor

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Public realm and its improvement, or renewal, should be embedded in other development initia-tives. In this project, the solution was found in interest of NS to develop Nijmegen CS, and in poten-tially important development program on the other side of the square, which is currently vacant.

These two stake holders, namely NS and private investor, should be persuaded by the municipal-ity in importance of public realm for their programmes. Thus NS can benefit from better connection to the city investing either in Tunnelweg and/or new station tunnel. Private investor who would be a stakeholder in the underground development, may benefit from pedestrian flow from to Tunnelweg.

However, serious questins arise when one considers participation of NS: such big investment in infrastructure, such as new tunnel or improvement of exisitng, should be grounded or connected to the bigger economical goal, such as development of western brownfield-railyard.

Nevertheless some seemingly minor improvements, such as addition of new programme on the boulevard, improvemnt of street furniture on the square, or partial removal of traffic obstacles such as separated bus lane making it less congested will improve situation considerably.


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improving seating

multifunctional underground

multifunctional building

finish square

ground floorextension

southern busterminal

The outcome of the strategic project

The Bench 1:50

A-B 1:500 B-C 1:500

D-A 1:500

E-F 1:500

Plan Square1:1000

Plan Underground1:1000

The »problem« of seating


Bibliography

J. P. Spradley, Participant observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.

Technische Universiteit Delft. and L. Burg, In dienst van de stad : 25 jaar werk van de stedenbou-wkundige diensten van Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam = Working for the city : 25 years of work from the urban design departments of Amsterdam, The. Amsterdam: SUN, 2005.

F. Palmboom, Drawing the ground, landscape urbanism today : the work of Palmbout Urban Land-scapes. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2010.

Nijmegen CS in-between plans: a plan cycle for discarded ideologies

Documents

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