Innovative Lely Campus

Maassluis, Netherlands

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Innovative Lely Campus

Maassluis, Netherlands

Firm

plein06

Type

Commercial › Office Showroom
Hospitality + Sport › Restaurant
Educational › Auditorium
Industrial › Factory Laboratory Power Plant Research Facility Farm
Landscape + Planning › Urban Green Space Waterway/Wetland Masterplan
Transport + Infrastructure › Bridge

YEAR

2013

Photos

Robbert Jan van der Veen (5)

In the outskirts of the City of the future the working landscapes are integrally designed and offer a great and healthy working atmosphere. Logistics and business areas are completed within closed lifecycles. Natural resources, a strenghtened biodiversity, generating sustainable energy,
a healthy and inspiring working environment, the use of local materials and local social benefits are the fundamental ideas of the innovative and highly sustainable Lely Campus in Maassluis, The Netherlands.

plein06 Landscape Architects and ConsortArchitects have been commissioned by the Lely Group to be leading in the Urban Design and Landscape Design of the Lely Campus in the Dijkpolder Maassluis. This 7,5 ha area development consists of roadlanes, bridges, bike and footpaths, logistic areas, rooftop gardens, innergardens and natural and ecological zones. This Area Development is certified with BREEAM Outstanding as first Campus in Europe and is integrally designed within a team of ecologists, traffic engineers, construction
engineers, water(energy) experts and smart outdoor lighting solutions.

Strengthening the ecology has been one of the leading principles within this area development. The whole Lely Campus is surrounded by a 10 meter wide and extra deep water-structure embedded by an
ecological slope on the outside. These slopes attract many species to forage, hide, rest and multiply.

These natural and ecological areas are accessible by bridges and in the future also to the public. In our vision nature, logistics, business and human experience can be combined into an attractive composition of
contradistinctions.

The design of the Lely Campus is based on logic, profit and beauty. Every design decision has a multi-layered meaning.

The 22.500 m2 roof on top of the new assembly hall gives place to 600 parking-places, a sport-field, terraces and save
footpaths along green planting areas. These green areas are paused by little viewing plateaus with cosy seating to have a rest or a chat.

The planting areas are constructed with the newest techniques of water-storage, this in combination with the right choice of grasses and plants, no irrigation is needed. The choice of a variation of Nectar-plantation attracts insects and butterflies. Lighting is integrally designed with ground-spots to prevent lighting pollution in the surrounding area.