Park Overbos
Prinsenbeek, Breda
The original park on Prinsenbeek's outskirts served primarily as a buffer zone between the A16 highway and the town. It also happened to be on the route of the high-speed rail link between Amsterdam and Paris. The park was redesigned to include two 100 metre wide viaducts, which flowed over the highway and railway line. These created an interesting topography: pronounced changes in height. The park took on a rural woodland identity: intimate, rustic, and romantic -in sharp contrast to the harsh concrete and asphalt of the highway.
Vision themes
Projects details
Status:
Realised
Location:
Breda
Client:
Gemeente Breda
Enigneering:
Plan3 civil engineers
Trees:
BSI
Area:
13ha
Construction:
2006
Design:
2003
Categories:
The park took on a rural woodland identity with the height differences in topography as special characteristic
There is a pleasant tension in the contrast between the intimate romantic park and the technical concrete and asphalt of the infrastructure
