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Lanxmeer is the name of an ecological neighbourhood (240 houses) built from 1994 to 2009 in the town of Culemborg in the Facts of French Ministry of Ecology on the EVA-Lanxmeer project
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Marleen Kaptein
believed that creating neighbourhoods with the inhabitants was both possible and necessary. She gathered a group of people motivated to create the project. She thought that a critical threshold of 200 to 400 houses must be reached. To do it, they needed land of more than 20ha (49.4 acres). After that she created a foundation called the International Forum Mann and foundation structures to promote organic architecture and she gathered a group of friends which included various scientists and university intellectuals with the goal of creating a city or a district they would dream to live in.
''Lanxmeer'' is the name of the neighbourhood, which lies in an area that was once a land reclamation area with a settlement called Lanxmeer. The residents association of modern-day Lanxmeer is called ''EVA-Lanxmeer''. It originates from an information centre (Dutch: "Ecologisch Centrum voor Educatie, Voorlichting en Advies") made to promote integration of ecology in architecture and town.
Website of the residents association EVA-Lanxmeer
Information about Lanxmeer on the website of the municipality of Culemborg
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Lanxmeer is the name of an ecological neighbourhood (240 houses) built from 1994 to 2009 in the town of Culemborg in the Netherlands
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. It is an environmentally friendly housing development.
It was initiated by Marleen Kaptein, who was looking for a more sustainable way of building housing in urban areas. The project was a strong partnership between future inhabitants and the city of Culemborg, consultants and other people.
It incorporates many of the principles of high environmental quality and eco-towns
Eco-towns are a government-sponsored programme of new towns to be built in England, which are intended to achieve exemplary standards of sustainability.
In 2007, the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) announced a competition t ...
, but its principal originality is the promotion of the constant participation of the inhabitants. Indeed, this neighbourhood (except for its ''masterplan'') was designed and conducted with representatives of future residents in a creative process (''bottom-up''; from bottom to top and not imposed by management or administration), and is often regarded as a model in several areas (for example in Europe by Energie-Cités
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and in France by the Department of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea/ref>). It has therefore become an international reference, regularly visited by
architect
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s, urbans planners, developers, futurists or groups interested in sustainability
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, from European countries, and sometimes the United States, Japan, etc..
Creation of the project
In 1990Marleen Kaptein
believed that creating neighbourhoods with the inhabitants was both possible and necessary. She gathered a group of people motivated to create the project. She thought that a critical threshold of 200 to 400 houses must be reached. To do it, they needed land of more than 20ha (49.4 acres). After that she created a foundation called the International Forum Mann and foundation structures to promote organic architecture and she gathered a group of friends which included various scientists and university intellectuals with the goal of creating a city or a district they would dream to live in.
Name
''Lanxmeer'' is the name of the neighbourhood, which lies in an area that was once a land reclamation area with a settlement called Lanxmeer. The residents association of modern-day Lanxmeer is called ''EVA-Lanxmeer''. It originates from an information centre (Dutch: "Ecologisch Centrum voor Educatie, Voorlichting en Advies") made to promote integration of ecology in architecture and town.
See also
*Energy efficiency in British housing
Domestic housing in the United Kingdom presents a possible opportunity for achieving the 20% overall cut in UK greenhouse gas emissions targeted by the Government for 2010. However, the process of achieving that drop is proving problematic given t ...
* Passive solar building design
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unli ...
* BioRegional
References
External links
Website of the residents association EVA-Lanxmeer
Information about Lanxmeer on the website of the municipality of Culemborg
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