Masterplan Tilburg University

This masterplan for Tilburg University has been developed by the design based research group Bauhütte with a bilateral aim: a) to provide Tilburg University with a long-term vision on the development of the campus into a coherent whole and b) to achieve a qualitative integration of envisioned building schemes within the campus. Its formal status is that the masterplan will serve as a framework for future zoning plan alterations (bestemmingsplanwijzigingen).
The campus of Tilburg University, formerly known as the Katholieke Universiteit Tilburg, is the most compact greenfield campus within The Netherlands. The landscaping and existing building stock of the campus is of high quality, mainly reflected within the work by Jos. Bedaux, such as the Cobbenhagen building which gained the status of Rijksmonument (national heritage site). The masterplan reconstructs and evaluates the growth of the campus and assesses the historical influence of distinguished architects and landscapers, such as Jos. Bedaux, Jan van der Laan, Hugh Maaskant and Pieter Buys to more recent interventions by architects Martien Jansen and Christian Kieckens.
The “Masterplan Tilburg University” thus contains an overview of architectural, landscaping and urban guidelines to coherently and qualitatively integrate future building schemes within the campus.