VE-R
VE-R is an office for landscape architecture and urbanism based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. More than 20 years of working together in different settings, Berrie van Elderen and Remco Rolvink have strengthened their collaboration by starting VE-R. The office designs projects within and outside Europe, including the Netherlands and Belgium but also African countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria, as part of DASUDA (Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa). The projects, ranging from small-scale design interventions to larger-scale strategies and master plans, focus on contemporary challenges and with a sustainable approach to the built and unbuilt environment. Our main drivers are:
- Transitions to inclusive public spaces, urban developments and landscapes;
- Increasing and accelerating transition to renewable energy, biodiversity including and circular use of resources;
- Creating robust spatial frameworks with flexibility for infills and possibilities of changes in these infills over time while the continuity of the spatial frameworks remains;
- Develop new planning concepts such as the Urban Accelerator© concept for African citiesAim for implementation, because projects are not completed on paper;Collaborating with people, at project level, to make optimal use of all expertise;
- Involve users and stakeholders and plan together to create more ownership of areas to be developed.
