DDW19: Strijp-S.

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This year i started from Strijp-S area, because the Press center is located here.

I like big objects so this wooden place in the middle of Stijp-S is very attractive. Let’s see what is there! And feel the mood.

The Netherlands faces a paradoxical challenge: to build more and emit less. Does building with wood offer the solution?

In order to solve the housing shortage, more than one million homes will have to be built in the Netherlands by 2050. But with our current way of building (mainly with concrete) this exceeds environmental standards. Can building with wood be the solution?

The pavilion gives architectural expression to the contribution that ‘building with trees’ can make to the reduction of CO2 and the reduction of nitrogen by replacing conventional building materials such as concrete with bio-based materials.

Where then do we get all that wood? The Netherlands has a total of 365,000 hectares of forest. 225,000 hectares of Dutch forests are now protected nature areas. The remaining 140,000 hectares of forest can be used for the sustainable production of wood, as is often the case in Scandinavia. This means that trees are harvested in a limited and selective way and replaced by young specimens of the same or different species. This yields an average wood harvest of 8m2 per hectare per year, with poplars even up to 15m3 per hectare per year. This amounts to an annual production of 1.12 million m2 of wood. An average of 50 m3 of wood is required for the construction of a home. That means that we can make 22,400 homes from Dutch wood every year and will require 45 years for the realization of 1 million “home-grown” homes. If we want to speed up production, or use the available wood for other purposes, we can import wood or plant more forests. Higher demand for wood, therefore, does not lead to the clearing, but to more and better forests! Perhaps we may even live in these new forests. Building with wood could make the Netherlands more beautiful!

Autumn and that means Dutch design week. Cozyyyy. Ketelhuisplein.

With the construction of 1 million homes with wood, CO3 emissions are zero and, in addition, 45 megatons of CO2 are stored. The carbon difference between traditional and biobased building is therefore 100 megatons!

About Klompen – Clogs are made from light and fast-growing poplar wood. Since the end of the fifteenth century, large production forests have been planted and dedicated to clog making. This poplar landscape is still visible around the towns of Veghel, Sint-Oedenrode, Schijndel, Boxtel and Udenhout. The poplar played an important role in everyday life. For example, it was common in farming families in this region that several poplars were planted immediately upon the birth of a daughter. These trees could then grow into the dowry and were ready for use in the clog industry as soon as the daughter became marriageable. The poplar landscape is therefore inextricably linked to the region and the production of clogs. Can this synergetic use of the landscape also apply for residential areas in the future? Perhaps we could even live inside the same forests that provide wood for our homes?

(1) The Growing Pavilion – A pavilion that consists entirely of biobased materials. Sourced as locally as possible, because the Brabant soil and knowledge are extremely rich.

(2) These walls are made with mushrooms, the color depends how long the material was in the oven. Mycelium are tiny fungal threads that produce mushrooms. It can grow on waste materials such as sawdust, used coffee or beer sludge. When the fungi are made inactive, the material that remains is a compact network of mycelium mixed with the substrate, which is extremely light and at the same time very strong: a combination with many possibilities. They combine this with the technique of vacuuming the material which adds extra strength to it.

(2) The seaweed from the aquarium serves as a food source and as an air filter. This floor made from canes.

(3) Chair from woven flax and Felted flax.

(4) You can come and eat mushrooms at 15 every day during harvesting.

(1, 4, 5) As one of the first projects in the railway zone, The Dutch Mountains is being realized at a prominent location on the Dommel brook valley, near TUe. Two towers with offices, houses and a hotel come together in a winter garden connected to the Dommel valley. A large portion of the building is constructed with biobased materials. A substantial amount of CO2 is stored at the same time within the large amount of wood used.

(2,3,6) Eindhoven City of Light – Contrary to what many people think, Eindhoven owes its nickname Lichtstad (City of Light) not to the production of light bulbs from Philips, but to the production of matches. In 1870, “Mennen & Keunen” was launched on Bergstraat in Eindhoven, the first large-scale match factory in the Netherlands. It was here the factory was built due to the abundance of poplars and cheap labor.

(7) The “courtyard” of Eindhoven, Den Bosch and Tilburg will receive the formal status of “National Park” in September 2020 and will be renamed Van Gogh National Park. The new visitor center will tower above the treetops and offer a beautiful view over the Brabant landscape. Just like the Biobasecamp, the visitor center will be made out of CLT and poplar trunks.