Projects

Current Projects

Eemklooster - heritage redevelopment + area developement

Eemklooster is a convent built in the 1930's in the west of Amersfoort and a protected heritage site. At the end of 2020, Urban Frameworks was asked to join a development team to define a strategy for redevelopment.
More information will appear here as the project develops.

Client: ABC projectontwikkeling, EarthY, Plegt-Vos.
Partners: Zeep architecs & urban designers, DS Landschapsarchitecten
Status: design development

Amerberg - area development in historic context

The Amerberg a small scale but high-end development that is located in a historic (protecfed heritage) villa neighbourhood in Amersfoort, central Netherlands. The area was conceived using design principles from the English Garden around 1900 and was an early example of a private area development in the Netherlands. During the 20th century several plots, orignally intended for freestanding villas, were instead used by care institutions for large scale facilities. The Amerberg development consists of a reconversion of one of these sites and propeses a return to the original plot division, but this time with a larger diversity of building typologies and reinvigorating the orginal principles for the landscape.

Client: Amerberg VOF / EarthY
Partners: dprw architecten, bouwend projectmanagement, deltavormgroep landscape architects
Status: under construction

Tafelberg Campus - Housing for youthcare

The Tafelberg Campus consists of the redevelopment of a former youth prison into a campus for students, young professionals and youth with a background in youthcare. Working closely with Levvel Youthcare (a semi-public youthcare provider) and the city of Amsterdam, Urban Frameworks teamed up wit Fakton Captial and EarthY to translate social goals into the proces of real estate development.

Client: Levvel Youthcare, with EarthY
Partrners: NL architects (architects), Vorm/Jan Snel (contractor)
Status: design development

Eikenstein - Area development, Zeist

Eikenstein is an area development on the site of a former youth prison in Zeist. The historic core of this prison has heritage value and will kept and transformed into social appartments with room for inhabitants with a need for (mental) health care. Additional collective spaces form a new heart for the residential neighbourhood and extend into a collective garden. This 'social infrastructure' is designed to connect the different inhabitants of the neighbourhood and improve the outlook for the inhabitants with a mental health diagnosis. Around 200 appartments and (semi-) detached houses wil be realised.

Client: EarthY, Plegt-Vos
Partners: SVP (urbanism + architecture), DVG (landscape)

Past projects

Urban Development in Rome

Urban Frameworks was appointed, in joint venture with Fakton Consultancy, as strategy advisors for a the development of an 60 ha area in the south-east of Rome.

The commission, has been executed in three phases over a two year period, had the objective to define the optimal balance between residential and commercial functions within a new urban node that aimed to become a new point of reference for the south-east metropolitan area.

Smart Typologies in Urban Development

Foreseeing long development times in an urban development in Talinn, Estonia - Urban Frameworks proposed a small catalogue of housing typologies with a variety in footprints and density so that investment capabilities and demand could be matched along the way.

Developed in vertical strips, the initially unbuilt areas within the development would maintain a value as a landscape feature, where part of the surrounding nature would be allowed to enter the area.

Low cost housing in new agro-industrial settlements

The expansion of the railroad network in Venezuela that started around 2005, aimed to increase the decentralisation and development of the territory, not only for the extraction of natural resources, but also for the development of new agro-industrial areas.

Venezuela’s government initiated (in the period of 2004-2006) an concerted effort to achieve tangible results by planning new settlements that would at first support the construction of the railway and later evolve into agro-industrial settlements.

Limited availability of construction equipment (especially cranes) and building materials have defined the constraints for the housing typologies, which would have to cost less than 30k USD at the time. It had to be possible to erect the dwellings with a minimum use of heavy construction equipment.

Sistema Nacional - Railway lines in Venezuela

Urban Frameworks, in the role of project-coordinator for Italferr, the engineering firm of the italian railways, has coordinated the design development of 7 railway stations along the La Encrujicada - Puerto Cabello railway line. For two seperate railway lines, three prototypes were developed for the implementation of a further 18 railway stations for the 'Sitema Nacional' railway lines, which include the La Encrucijada - Cabruta line and the Chaguaramas -San Juan de los Morros line

Client:
IFE, Italferr
Year: 2004-2007

Urban Regeneration in Puerto Cabello

Puerto Cabello is one of the main points of access for freight shipping into Venezuela. In order to facilitate a complete remake of the port facilities, including a new container terminal, Urban Frameworks has created a an overall regeneration strategy that would integrate future infrastructure investments in the railway lines and port terminal facilities with the redevelopment of parts of residential areas and industrial zones.

Proposal for a new Container Hub in Latin America

Puerto Cabello, a harbor city in the north of Venezuela, has suffered from a neglect in basic investments to keep the port facilities competitive and up to date. An existing planning proposal foresaw a 140 m USD railway bridge to connect the existing railway lines to the site of a future container terminal.

Instead of designing the connecting infrastructure, we proposed to relocate the entire site of the future container terminal, reducing thereby the extra cost for the connecting infrastructure and guaranteeing accessibility to the facility by the latest generation of containerships, who would not have been able to access the site within the old port.