Our portfolio consists of mixed use urban areas, city centers, new towns, as well as landscape and regional design, regeneration of former industrial areas, leisure, retail- and business parks. For each case we are able tot create a specific solution in which planning, energy, water en social aspects are integrated. In this way we reach the base for a sustainable growth or reconstruction on different scale and context.
We delivered projects in the Netherlands as well as other countries like South Africa, Ethiopia, Iraq, Germany and India. Our clients includes both governments and authorities as property developers.
Wissing Principles
1 Regional planning 
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2 Mixed use areas (2 pages, 202.7 Kb)
3 Reconstruction (2 pages, 211.8 Kb)
4 Affordable housing (2 pages, 230.4 Kb)
5 Energy and sustainability (2 pages, 178.3 Kb)
6 Public space (2 pages, 204.3 Kb)
7 Infrastructure (2 pages, 193.9 Kb)
8 Tourism and Leisure (2 pages, 191.7 Kb)
9 Neighbourhood (2 pages, 221.1 Kb)
10 Corporate social responsibility (2 pages, 312.9 Kb)
Duncan Village, South Africa
Type of project: Regeneration
Programme: 1.800 houses
For Duncan Village to be properly connected to the centre of East-London, the character of D.S. Highway should be fundamentally changed from highway to a pedestrian - oriented artery. Cars should be allowed (taxi buses etc), but should not be dominant. D.S. Highway should become D.S. Mainstreet, with wide sidewalks, lined with trees, houses, apartments, shops, offices, etc.
As to the location of multi-story housing the area of Douglas Smit highway and the higher grounds of C-section and Duncan Village proper, overlooking the area, seem to be most appropriate. The areas in between could be used for one and twostorey housing still in relatively high densities.
Awassa, Ethiopia
Type of project: Regeneration
Programme: 90 houses
In the spring of 2007 Wissing made, in cooperation with Intervolve (NGO), an urban redevelopmentplan for a neighbourhood in Awassa, Ethiopia. Through an integral approach the living circumstances in the neighbourhood are being lifted to a higher level. This approach is aimed at project concerning employment, education, healthcare and dwelling. Inhabitants participated on a voluntary base.
Limmer Wasserstadt, Hannover, Germany
Client: Norddeutsche Gesellschaft fur Landesentwicklung
Type of project: Urban transformation
Programme: 600 houses, shopping centre and workshops
Wissing was asked to participate in a design competition for the location "Wasserstadt" in Hannover, Germany. This former industrial area partly built with industrial monuments, is located in between two canals. These canals determine the triangular shape of this urban peninsula.
The living environments consists of a great variety of houses situated along the water, both in and over inlets from the canals. Houses are situated either within a calm, garden village atmosphere or an urban environment more in connection to the surrounding urban areas.
Thus a variety of housing conditions was created in which a central park with a new shopping centre and workshops is the main public space.
European Technology Park, New Delhi, India
Initiator: Bouwfonds
Type of project: Masterplan
Programme: Housing, offices and leisure
The city of New Delhi is expending fast. This is partly because of emigrants returning from Europe. Educated and experienced in Europe, they like to live and work in a European-like surrounding in the heart of India. For this purpose Wissing designed a European Technology Park with houses, offices and leisure facilities on a central spot south of New Delhi. The Park is located near the new international airport as well as in the vicinity of the new ring road.
The Park is situated on the lakes and valleys of the Araballi mountains. The valley views gives the estate a high environmental quality. We made use of the unstable water levels of the rivers coming from the mountains into the valley. The design can incorporate low, medium as well as high levels of rainwater. In each stage the residential areas and the city centre gain their spatial quality from this environmental context.
