Regina Klinger

Regina Klinger is a junior researcher at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, in the department of History, Form & Aesthetics. She holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from TU Delft and a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture and Planning from TU Munich. She has gained international design experience working for offices in Singapore, Zurich, and Munich. 

 

She focuses on the role of landscape infrastructures, particularly water, in dense urban environments and UNESCO World Heritage sites. She is interested in how the presence or absence of water influences public space, collective memory, human and non-human behavior along water edges. For the past year, Regina dedicated her research to Naples, Italy, on how subterranean water infrastructures could reconnect vertically with the surface to create three-dimensional heritage and public space, providing a basis for future city adaptation. 

 

Regina is currently involved in Work Package 7 Heritage of the national Groeifonds project Multifunctional Urban Waterfronts, led by the UNESCO Chair in Water, Ports and Historic Cities. In this role, she contributes to developing heritage methodologies and making narratives transferable from archival knowledge to contemporary design practice. She emphasizes contextualization as a way to reduce ambiguity around heritage and to inform sustainable interventions in the Amsterdam Canal District. 

 

Publication:

Klinger, R., Vollmer, N., & Yazici, A. (2025). Designing with Sound as a Methodology to Reconnect Water, Culture and Heritage in Tetouan, Morocco. Blue Papers, 4(1), 144–57. https://doi.org/10.58981/bluepapers.2025.1.10