OverHolland 5

This issue of OverHolland presents the results of the first part of the research project 5x5 – Projects for the Dutch City, which is being carried out at the Faculty of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology. With ‘Research by Design’, 5x5intends to research the cohesion between architectonic interventions and urban transformations of the station areas in the five smaller historical cities of Randstad Holland: Delft, Dordrecht, Gouda, Haar-lem, and Leiden. OverHolland 5 presents analyses of these locations, together with a problem statement that has been tentatively formulated for the design research. These locations serve as a starting point for the second part of the project, where fiveteams of architects will design the five station areas. The basic assumption here is that the railway in the city centre area will be built underground, following the Delft example. The results of this design research will be published in 2008.