Fuzziness of the Edge Code PSC004 The "Fuzziness of the Edge" is the quality of transcending the static notions of place. Occupying the treshold will make us realize the changing qualities behind the momentary identity of a space. The project uses ephemeral conditions of space in time to create an experiential promenade between water and land. The project choses a morphologic situation typical for the coast of the Netherlands. Due to the interlocking of exposed land mass and an enclosed body of water, the straightness of the coastline is broken up and the meeting of sea and main land becomes a sequence of spaces and places. The chinese term for landscape (shan-shui = Mountain-Water) describes the composition of a site as a formal synthesis of land and water. The anonymous peninsula and the prototypical bay are topographicly excluded from their initial space and shaped by specific boundaries. Therefore they become places with a strong notion of identity. The frontiers of both places do not exist as clear demarkation lines, but more as zones with different belonging to the one or the other. This undecided spacial definition occurs through the fluctuating identity in time caused by nature and men. Without an own identity the edge becomes a treshhold, a non-place. The project develops the bluryness of the rim as main theme of the design process. The southwestern part of the island and bay serves as a "natural reserve", a nontreated corresponding comparison to the project. As if injected with a contrasting fluid, the percieved themes read in the landscape are decipherd and translated in the other half. Four spaces of treshhold situations arise from the site, different in space and functional behaviour. Like landscape corridors they offer a coastal park theme origining at the connection of the peninsula to the mainland and fixed by architectonic means at their ending points. As urban edges as well as as landscape corridors and architectonic installations they articulate the bluryness of the "in between zones" and put into scene the spacial phenomenons related to time. The Sanatorium , hidden in the womb of the earth, is revealed through the lifting of the veil in a century's time. The erosion of layer after layer of the cliffs face. The Research Community, drifting on the treshhold of the floodplains, belongs to the sea as much as the toland. Locked in a perpetual cicle it is taken and given back. The Campground, ducked behind the dyke on the softness of the marsh, is discovered in its hiding place by the storms. The flapping doors in the dyke and drainage systems are driven by the wind. The Village, a sleepy settlement at the bottleneck between island and sea, is occupied by the ephemeral hordes of tourists in summer season. As boatpeople they live on a temporary floating city forming a symbiosis with the permanent town. The visitor, allthough only present for a moment in time, reads the tracks of past and future changes and through the understanding of a longer period of time will come closer to the harmony of land and water. The "Joy for the Sea" becomes the memory of the future.