ARCHELLO YOUR CONNECTION WITH ARCHITECTURE

The inundation canal in the city of Tiel seems to be a random canal at a random site. Inhabitants of Tiel might cross the canal every day, or may even use it: to fish, to cycle along it or to have a picknick on a sunny day. Few people will know why and when this canal was build. Even less people will know that this canal is a state monument and that it is part of the New Dutch Defense Line, a ingenious 19th century system of flooding part of Holland as part of a military strategy.

The inundation canal doesn’t need history to justify its existence. But as new city developments are often anchored to an old fortification wall, the 3 kilometer long military canal can be used to strengthen new housing, working, nature and traffic. In this research we present to strategies that give the canal a more meaningful place in the urban tissue of the city of Tiel.