Land to Water, Water to Live, Transformation of the Dutch polder landscape in order to adapt to climate change

The main research question for the graduation project is: What safe, sustainable and qualitative urban living typology can be designed in order to adapt to climate change in the Dutch polder landscape? The focus in the living with water research is on the design requirements and qualitative characteristics of an urban living environment. The study also concerns the creation of a safe and sustainable living area. The design requirements deal with the spatial, formal and functional requirements of living with water and will be integrated in the urban living typology. The living with water will be on the scale of the architectural object and the neighbourhood area. The sub-questions concerning this topic are: what is living what water and what are its spatial, formal and functional requirements? What existing living typology with water are designed and implemented and how do they function? What is the role of water in the urban area and in relation to the architectural object? The climate change focuses on the important aspects of the current and future changes and the requirements to the urban design. A study will be done on the changes on a global scale and the specific changes in the Netherlands and to the Dutch polder landscape. This topic also focuses on the environmental aspects for the sustainable development. The study also concerns the urban requirements of the integration of urban planning and flood risk management. The sub-questions for this topic are: What are the future changes in climate on a global and national scale to deal with within the project? What urban adaptation to the climate change of the Dutch polder landscape is needed? What are existing sustainable urban developments and what are there functional and formal requirements? To what extent can urban planning contribute to flood risk management? The third topic is the Commandeurspolder, the context. The focus in this research is on the spatial, functional and formal aspects of the current situation of the Commandeurspolder, with themes like landscape, water, buildings, infrastructure, leisure, etc. The urban requirements for the Commandeurspolder will be mainly on the scale of the polder. The study will also lead to two possible location for the implementation of he urban living typology. The sub-question for this theme are: What is the existing formal, spatial and functional situation of the Commandeurspolder? What are the future plans and visions of the city council, provincial government and the water board? What are of the polder can be used for the implementation and what are its specific needs? These three main topics should be combined to answer the main question. What safe, sustainable and qualitative urban living typology can be designed in order to adapt to climate change? The answer of this question is the design of the urban living typology which will be checked with the urban requirements of the theory paper, which focus on the contribution of urban planning to flood risk management. To check and proof the possibilities of the urban living typology this answer will be connected to the context. By doing this, the strengths and weaknesses of the urban living typology will be clear and the urban living typology can be ad justed to this specific location. This creates an overview of the general and location specific aspects of the design. To what extent can we implement the safe, sustainable and qualitative urban living typology in the two cases of the Commandeurspolder? The answer to these research questions is used to design the safe, sustainable and qualitative urban living typology, which will be able to adapt to climate change in the Dutch polder landscape.Architectur