Project: ‘Oe moe me noe’ (awarded competition entry, public’s prize, 2007)

Competition: ‘Nieuw Tij’
Site: Zeeland, the Netherlands
Participants: Studio Troost, Thijs Bouwman

With Thijs Bouwman we participated in a competition for Zeeland, calling for ideas for large scale housingprojects in the rural landscape on the islands. Instead of concentrating houses in any kind of urban plan, we did a study into the spreading pattern of farm buildings. This resulted in a model, relating the openness of the landscape to the amount of farms per square km. When we projected this model upon the island of Schouwen-Duiveland, we found that we could build 20.000 family houses without transforming the landscape, following the design of a typical footprint in order to maintain the openness of the landscape.