Atlas of edges: regional analysis and representation

Abstract

In the second year of the courses urbanism and landschape architecture students are offered a research exetcise at the regional scale. The subject focuses on acquiting knowledge and skills regarding this specific planning scale, drawing and analysis techniques and the the specific regional planning issues in the Netherlands today in the discussion on the region, vagueness is always around the corner. The course requires student to create a hbit of visualizing what is hidden and choosing a specific angle no beating around the bush, just do it! In eight morning studios, students and specialists analyse the characteristics of one of the city edges of Amsterdam: the Diemerscheg. The results are combined into an atlas and discussed. The atlas explores the identity of the diemerscheg and brings potential design challenges to the surface