water + land

Pieter Schengenga is a Senior Landscape Architect and Director at H+N+S Landscape Architects. His strives to fully integrate functionality and aesthetics in one plan. He connects his love of the Dutch landscape to his fascination for technique: the functioning of the system. 

He has experience (and special interest) in projects in the field of water and design. The commitment to ‘Room for the River’ is a continuum in Peter’s work. From the long-term vision and future scenarios (2003), through planning studies near Zutphen and Kampen, to the actual implementation and realisation of Room for the Waal in Nijmegen, the IJsseldelta, and the dike reinforcements along the lower Rhine and Lek. Pieter exported this landscape based approach to New Orleans and Long Island after hurricanes Katrine and Sandy.

Pieter is aware of the different roles a landscape architect can play in such long-term complex projects for clients (during the planning phase), and for contractors during tenders and execution. He can therefore empathize with these different interests and knows how to incorporate the spatial aspirations of the successive phases.

Pieter's focus

Water + Space:

• Isala Delta, manager spatial quality (Room for the River IJsseldelta)
• Kampen, Room for the River: masterplan, design, spatial quality
• Dike reinforcement Hagestein-Opheusden, writing of handbook spatial quality, manager spatial quality at implementation
• Future perspectives and long-term vision Room for the River
• ‘Nederland InZicht’, analyses for the Dutch National Waterplan

Sustainable Region:

• Wind energy Wieringermeer, spatial quality
• Wind energy Zuid-Holland, exploration of sites in relation to national landscapes
• Wind energy Drenthe

Pieter's partners

• Architecture and urban design: Palmbout, Bosch Slabbers, Simon Dona Stedenbouw
• Engineering firms: Deltares, RoyalHaskoning DHV, Rebel Group
• Cultural history : Marinus Kooiman

Pieter's clients

• Province of Zuid-Holland
• Province of Overijssel
• Dutch Water Authority Rivierenland
• Isala Delta (consortium Room for the River IJsseldelta)
• Besix