The plan introduces a new use form for the endangered buffer landscape of Duivenvoordse Polder between The Hague and Leiden. Its spine is a boardwalk from Zoetermeer to the North Sea coast linking the dunelands with the 'Green Serpentine'.

The first programme component, the hill, makes a natural bridge over the railway between The Hague and Leiden. One and a half kilometres long, it provides an uninterrupted landscape and a platform for a large number of functions including overlooks, recreation grounds, a vineyard and paths for pedestrians and cyclists.
An existing cemetery has been extended up the hill. Visitors to this parklike extension look out over the polder.

In the north-west, on the other side of the polder, the boardwalk reaches another unique landscape: the deserted Wassenaar Zoo. This luxuriously overgrown environment does duty as a retail park and a recreation park. The barrier of the through traffic road chopping Wassenaar in two is itself crossed by a landscaping element, a park-bridge. The Asian embassies across the road can use this bridge to get to the new congress centre.

The sculpture museum is projected in the heart of the former zoo. Visitors can reach the museum either along the boardwalk or across the water. Inside, the three distinct landscape qualities each create their own ambience. The entrance building opens to the water, the tower is oriented to the trees and the underground space shows geological remains from the Pleistocene.

Place of education: TU Delft
Specialization: architectuur
Tutors: Tony Fretton, Deborah Hauptmann & Rogier Verbeek