Over the next three to four decades, current harbor (Nyhavna) activities are due to be relocated in stages, leaving new and central areas open for development. Strandveikaia is the important first step in a gradual transformation of the harbor into a contemporary neighborhood where living, working, culture, leisure and education can perfectly coexist. In our strategic plan we emphasize the role of the individual initiatives and ideas in this area. For any cohesive and sustainable development it is necessary that these initiatives are able to connect with and find their ‘natural habitat’ within the framework. Our proposal illustrates the potential of the area as a whole, extrapolating the cohesive effects of current initiatives in the harbor, but is not per definition showing the desired end result.
Harbor. City. Transition.
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Sustainable (re-)development strategy
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Status: competition 2015 (Europan 13)
Team: Johan de Wachter, Andrius Kalinauskas, Mikas Kauzonas
Collaboration: MMAP – Martynas Marozas, Viktorija Gailiūtė
Client: Trondheim municipality
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Team: Johan de Wachter, Andrius Kalinauskas, Mikas Kauzonas
Collaboration: MMAP – Martynas Marozas, Viktorija Gailiūtė
Client: Trondheim municipality
Location: Trondheim, Norway
Harbor. City. Transition.
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Johan De Wachter
Johan de Wachter is an architect and founding partner at Woonwerk Architecten. He came to Rotterdam after his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) and worked from 2000 to 2004 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/Rem Koolhaas) on various urban planning and architecture projects and competitions. In 2003 he founded Fün Design Consultancy and was a partner until 2005. In 2005 he founded Johan De Wachter Architecten and in 2011 he started 2DVW Architecten in Antwerp together with Rik De Vooght. In 2023, the agencies are given a new name. With the establishment of Woonwerk Architecten, the collaboration is given further shape. With Woonwerk, Johan works on projects at home and abroad.
Johan regularly teaches and has been, among others, a guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. He was appointed associate professor of urban design at Kaunas University of Technology in 2015. Here he leads the design studios with a specific focus on the integral transformation of former soviet residential areas (microrayons). Johan De Wachter was selected in 2014 for the “Europe 40 Under 40 Award”. This award recognized Johan as one of the 40 leading young design talents from Europe.
In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, Johan regularly sits on various committees and juries in the Netherlands and abroad. He is currently a member of the spatial quality committee in Breda (NL) and of the environmental committee in Tilburg (NL).
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