Technische Botanie- Wandelroute TU Noord
Present: Botanical Garden with accommodation, publicly accessible Address: Poortlandplein 6 Year of construction: 1917 Botanical Garden, founder Gerrit van Iterson jr. Building Technical Botany 1919 on Poortlandplein 35, architect J.A.W. Vrijman
Cultural Garden for Technical Crops
Behind the building are the cultural garden and plant greenhouses, which are still open to the public today. Just under a hundred years ago, on 14 October 1917, the botanical garden was opened as the Cultural Garden for Technical Crops. The garden came into being at the insistence of Professor of Technical Botany Gerrit van Iterson jr.: "If the future engineer wants to fully understand the processes that are required to obtain such important products from the plant kingdom, he will have to be given the opportunity to study the plants, which are the basis for this, as they are offered to technology, in most cases in a living state.See also: Delft School of Microbiology.
Indonesia
Fibres, latex, gums, resins...
Cultural Garden for Technical Crops
Behind the building are the cultural garden and plant greenhouses, which are still open to the public today. Just under a hundred years ago, on 14 October 1917, the botanical garden was opened as the Cultural Garden for Technical Crops. The garden came into being at the insistence of Professor of Technical Botany Gerrit van Iterson jr.: "If the future engineer wants to fully understand the processes that are required to obtain such important products from the plant kingdom, he will have to be given the opportunity to study the plants, which are the basis for this, as they are offered to technology, in most cases in a living state.See also: Delft School of Microbiology.
Indonesia
Fibres, latex, gums, resins, wood, dyes mainly from Indonesia were unknown raw materials for new products. The garden became a supplier for new Dutch industry in Delft, such as the oil and peanut factory (Calvé), the Gutta Perscha (Apollo tyres) factory, the glue and yeast factory (Gist Brocades,). This boom period came to an end after World War II with the severing of ties between the Netherlands and Indonesia.
The Botanical Garden now
As then, the over 8000 plants in the Botanical Garden are still a source for new industrial developments, for example: the pink LED technology for multi-layer cultivation and efficient plant growth in greenhouses, the ultra fine dust capture system for air purification, fibres for new biological composites, Vetiver grasses as bank protection, etc. The Botanic Garden continues to be a source for bio-inspired technological innovations.