Michael de Beer

Urban design / Design quality

Stadshart Zuidwest

Stadshart Zuidwest · Heerhugowaard · Spatial vision, 2025

The plan connects new housing and health services with greener streets, public spaces and pedestrian routes. Design-quality principles guide the relationship between new buildings and their surroundings.

Urban design sketch plan for Stadshart Zuidwest in Heerhugowaard
Spatial vision and public-space sketch plan · January 2025 · Gemeente Dijk en Waard / KuiperCompagnons

The design question

How can new housing and a health centre contribute to a greener, coherent and welcoming city centre?

My contribution

At KuiperCompagnons, I worked on the urban design plan and design-quality plans for Stadshart Zuidwest. The spatial vision brings planned development together with public-space improvements around the Middenweg, Middenwaard and Huygens College.

The value

The plan connects new housing and health services with greener streets, public spaces and pedestrian routes. Design-quality principles guide the relationship between new buildings and their surroundings.

KuiperCompagnons, with Gemeente Dijk en Waard and the wider project team. My contribution: urban design and design-quality plans. The illustration shows the January 2025 spatial vision, not a completed scheme.

Read the spatial vision · January 2025 ↗Municipality project page ↗
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