Brainport Smart District
By
UNSTUDIO
In
Helmond, Brandevoort,
The Netherlands
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Author
UNSTUDIO
City
Helmond, Brandevoort
Country
The Netherlands
Year
2023
Program
Smart District
Technical Info
Site area
1500000 sqm
Gfa
0
sqm
Density
0 far
Population density
3200
inh/ha
Home Units:
1500
Jobs
0
Streetsroad:
0
%
Buildup:
0
%
NonBuild-up:
0 %
Residential
0 %
Business
0
%
Commercial
0
%
Civic
0
%
Description
- A flexible, responsive urban vision designed around the inhabitants' needs.
- Residents play a central role in shaping their living environment.
- The project follows a step-by-step development process guided by users over the next 10 years.
- Construction of 1,500 homes and 12 hectares of business premises.
- Focus on building a sustainable, circular, and socially cohesive neighborhood.
- Key features include joint energy generation, food production, water management, digital data management, and revolutionary transport systems.
- Utilizes the latest technologies and knowledge, creating a 'living lab' for innovation.
- Seeking early adopters for experimentation in living and working practices.
- Encouraging communal resource schemes like shared energy generation and land cultivation.
- Businesses in the area will focus on innovative research.
- A technology universe will serve as a framework for data sharing and seamless connectivity.
- Aiming to establish a new relationship between buildings and landscape, where both strengthen each other.
- The site features north-to-south strips dividing the area into different zones.
- A Central Park spanning 12 hectares will be at the heart of the district, including gardens, natural landscape, and sports grounds.
- The neighborhood will consist of mixed residential spaces around the central park, surrounded by business spaces and nature reserves.
- The landscape will be used for food production, energy generation, water management, waste processing, and biodiversity enhancement.
- A flexible framework will allow for incremental density growth.
- The site is divided into ten parts with varying urban and landscape densities and uses.
- The project translates its high ambitions into a framework focused on climate adaptation and circularity.
- Early incorporation of circular economic strategies in materials, energy use, climate adaptation, biodiversity, human health, and economic opportunities.
- The goal is to harness synergies between innovative solutions across multiple scales.
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