A green future for the Elfde Linie campus

The City of Hasselt asked Antea Group to draft a Spatial Implementation Plan (RUP) to realize the ambitions for the Elfde Linie campus. The goal: to develop an attractive educational campus with space for greenery and sustainable mobility. The request was to design a flexible, future-oriented campus structure that integrates educational institutions and urban functions within one overarching framework.

Antea Group translated the city’s ambitious plans into a practically feasible Spatial Implementation Plan (RUP). This plan lays the foundation for a green, accessible, and future-proof campus. Our approach focused on three core aspects, developed through various participation processes with stakeholders and educational institutions:

1. Green design and depaving: We designed a park structure as the backbone of the campus. Large areas of current pavement will be replaced by green space and water retention, with wide berms and swales, more room for the Demer river, a no-build zone, and two main east-west routes.
2. Smart mobility: The redesign of Elfde Liniestraat plays a key role in sustainable mobility. We created a car-free street, safe cycling and walking connections, peripheral parking, limited car access on campus, and strong promotion of cycling.
3. Flexible education clusters and infrastructure: We developed a flexible campus model allowing educational institutions to grow in clusters, with compact and dense building forms, while maintaining room for expansion and a campus park to connect the buildings.

Together with BUUR (Part of Sweco), we worked on this challenging project. BUUR conducted the design research, while Antea Group handled the RUP development and mobility study.