world heritage site in a bustling environment
cultural planning
The Defence Line of Amsterdam is included in the proud list of world heritage sites. But today it often also appears like forgotten line around a bustling city, and doesn’t give up its stories easily. Even though tourism and recreation go hand in hand with cultural history nowadays. And then the A4 has to be widened, the N201 re-routed and Schiphol expanded. All in the same place. In short, a development project on a national scale.
To address this challenge successfully, a ‘cultural planning’ approach is being employed. This involves taking culture as the starting point for the development of the landscape. Tinker has been given the task of ensuring that the Defence Line’s heritage is brought to life in the new plans. With careful supervision of the processes, vision and inspiration.