The competition proposal is the fourth phase of the Hoge Rielen master plan. Building on the intentions of Secchi Viganò’s 2004 master plan, we analysed the assignment from three perspectives: military, educational and natural.

The spatial requirements for overnight accommodation are met within the existing ammunition storage areas. These are being renovated in accordance with various tactics inspired by the typology of military infrastructure. Light, reversible structures in and around the existing sheds provide contemporary comfort within the original structure. In terms of landscaping, we are focusing on robust developments that anticipate climate change, including heathland reinforcement, the partial filling of the Rulloop to raise the groundwater table and, in time, achieve peat formation, and a meandering pattern of mixed forest that creates maximum valuable forest edge.

The solution to the spatial requirements was found in existing elements, with all interventions embracing the beauty of what is already present on the site today.