Location number four, "gronddepot in gemeente Bergschenhoek"
Jeroen Bruls, Krijn Christiaansen Eindhoven'03, NL Box of Bricks.
Op deze locatie manifesteert de HSL zich op topsnelheid in het Nederlandse
landschap. Vooral omdat de HSL groot geraas veroorzaakt, streeft het ontwerp
Box of bricks ernaar deze inbreuk te temperen en aan te passen een de menselijke
maat.
Geïnspireerd op de Nederlandse testgebieden op bedrijfsterreinen, waar
materialen en producten blootgesteld worden aan de weerscondities, wordt
Box of bricks een testgebied voor de treinpassagiers en de inwoners van
dit gebied. Het geaccidenteerde gebied van 2,5 kilometer lang en zestig
meter breed wordt in blokken verdeeld. Elk blok heeft specifieke eigenschappen:
hoogte (maximaal 5 meter, minimaal -0,5 meter), helling, maat, richting
(ten opzichte van zon, regen en andere weerscondities) en kleur varieert
per blok.
Dit testpark, in de vorm van een doos met stenen, zal als showroom fungeren
voor de Universiteit van Wageningen of andere geïnteresseerde instellingen
en bedrijven. Het toont de treinpassagier – bij een snelheid van driehonderd
kilometer per uur – in dertig seconden een grote variatie van planten,
bomen, bloemen en minilandschappen. De bewoners kunnen deze plek gebruiken
als een park om de hogesnelheidslijn (vanaf de promenade) of de soorten
planten tijdens de seizoenen te zien. Op deze manier wordt het landschap
aangepast aan de inbreuk die de HSL maakt op dit deel van het traject.
Motivation;
why this location?
The location number four at Bergschenhoek is a large
rectangle shaped area, which gives an experience to the train passenger
for about thirty seconds. Given length and width gives the trainspotter
and the neighbours of this area a possibility to have a nice walk for about
thirty minutes. At this location the high-speed-train will manifest itself
at top speed in the Dutch-landscape. A big clash in the environment conducts
an even bigger motivation to adapt and temper it to human scale.
Explanation project:
The introduction of this competition predicts big impact on the surrounding
landscape due to the HSL-line. The program of demands of the HSL-atelier-competition
tries to hide this. The demand for location one and two conducts proposals
to reinforce the mix of the track and his environment. In location three,
the planned water is protecting the value of the existing landscape. The
one hundred kilometres high-speed track crossing the Netherlands is allowed
to have as less as possible affect on the given ground (transparent bridges,
parcelling out kept visible, etc.). It seems that the train passenger should
be served an impression of the Dutch landscape during his short trip, without
realising which impact this rail-track has for the landscape.
While travelling through the Netherlands we discovered the test-areas in
the backyard of companies. Materials and products are exposed to weather
conditions. They try to keep their colour and strength cause a showroom
as well. At the University of Agriculture in Wageningen they test on vegetation,
plants and trees. On test-fields, new types are cultivated to increase the
output or to replace chemical products, used against diseases, for biological
ones. We propose for location number four, "gronddepot Bergschenhoek",
a test-area/test-park for the train-passenger and the neighbours of this
area. The folded field of two and a half kilometres and sixty-kilometre
width is divided in blocks. Each block has specific properties; Height (maximum
five meters, minimum minus half a meter), Slope, Size, Direction (to sun,
rain and other weather conditions) and colour vary for each block.
Due to these specific conditions every block is overgrown with different
plants, trees or flowers. At 5 metres above ground level you’ll find
for example pine-trees that can grow under dry circumstances. But at minus
half a meter only the alder can survive in the water. The slope of the block
exposes a gradient of colours, flourishing period and humidity. At the shadow
side of the block shadow plants can be found.
This test-park with the form of a block of bricks will be a showroom for
the University of Wageningen or other interested companies. It shows the
train passenger in thirty seconds (by a speed of three hundred kilometres
an hour) a huge variation of plants, trees, flowers and mini landscapes.
The inhabitants can use this place as a park to see the high-speed train
(from the promenade) or to see all species of plants during the seasons.
We’d like to adapt the landscape in this way to the clash that the
HSL-line will make at this part of the track.
