The Discovery of Gouda Authors Dick van Gameren TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment Sjoerd Schaapveld Dick van Gameren Architecten Rasmus Hamann TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment Downloads Download PDF (Dutch) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/overholland.2008.7.1650 Published 2008-06-01 Issue OverHolland 7 Section Articles License Copyright (c) 2008 OverHolland This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. How to Cite The Discovery of Gouda. (2008). OverHolland, 4(7), 65-75. https://doi.org/10.7480/overholland.2008.7.1650 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver AMA Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Abstract Placing the railway that runs through Gouda underground means more than just removing a physical barrier in the city. While in other cities of this design research the rail path cuts through a more or less continuous structure, in Gouda the railway line at station level is simply a line separating different structures. Making the rails disappear from ground level will result in two entirely different districts, the historical and 19thcentury city on the one side and the postwar city on the other, which will suddenly confront one another. In the case of Gouda, a design study of the spatial possibilities of placing the railway line underground is actually research on a connection: how can a space that separates be converted into a space that connects?