ABSTRACT

The project Deltametropool joins several students and staff members of the Faculty of Architecture in Delft in an atelier for the graduating projects. The central theme of the atelier is design for the western part of The Netherlands by following the principles of 'INTERACTIVE CITY'. The idea of 'Interactive City' developed as a critic of ÔFragmented CityÕ which stands for a patchwork of villages, towns and cities mixed with a number of new formed urban growth entities, such as newly built housing areas, edge cities, aerovilles, technopoles, shopping malls etc. 'Interactive City' appears as a contrapunct to this segregation Ð it is interactively controlled and carefully managed dynamic composition of urban and rural components, where the synergy rests on an interrelated system of communications and transport. The conversion from the fragmented to the interactive city will occur through transformation of each of the four components of the spatial system of the Deltametropool: (1) the water of the delta, (2) the landscape, (3) the urban fabric and (4) the networks of connections.