IDencity: Adaptive Reuse of Car Park Hakfort

"NEW HERITAGE” The studio New Heritage focuses on the existing housing stock within Amsterdam Zuidoost: „Many neighbourhoods face social problems of liveability and demographic changes. Moreover, this housing, like all of our stock, should meet the future standards of energy performance, which leads to an urgent need for...

Hoptille - from Stigma to Charisma: Image enhancing transformation of post-modern architecture while retaining its identity

This graduation thesis was executed within the studio New Heritage in which the question was raised whether postmodern architecture can be valued as heritage. Multiple postmodern neighbourhoods suffer from a stigma. Outsiders have a negative image where insiders are much more positive about their neighbourhood. This master thesis focusses on the...

Многоэтажные дома шестидесятых в Голландии: успех и неудача

During the 1960s, radical ideas emerged in Dutch urban planning. For the first time, the two major cities in the Netherlands engaged in building high-rise residential districts. If we understand this period as an experiment, then the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced opposite but exciting results. The uncompromising Amsterdam...

Sixties High-rise in Holland: Success and failure

During the 1960s, radical ideas emerged in Dutch urban planning. For the first time, the two major cities in the Netherlands engaged in building high-rise residential districts. If we understand this period as an experiment, then the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam produced opposite but exciting results. The uncompromising Amsterdam...

The renewal of what was tomorrow's idealistic city: Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer high-rise

One of the finest and best-known examples of a CIAM-planned area is the Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam, one of Europe’s leading examples of high-rise estates. Over the years, the Bijlmermeer has been a shining example of the high expectations and ideas of CIAM-planning, the disappointment, problems and stigma of numerous improvement trials and...

Stadterneuerung in Bijlmermeer und die Westlichen Gartenstadte in Amsterdam

ach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden viele Siedlungen als Gartenstadte entsprechend den Ideen der modernen Architekturkonzipiert. Amsterdam ist das herausragende Beispiel in denNiederlanden. Die Kommune plante ausgedehnte Wohnviertelin grosser Zahl, um die steigende Nachfrage zu befriedigen.In den 5Oer und 60er Jahren entstanden die "Westlichen...

Homo Ludens post Olympicum: A post-Olympic Livable stadium for the Bijlmermeer

Homo Ludens post Olympicum-a post-Olympic Livable stadium for the Bijlmermeer. see www.smartchitecture.nl

Integrierte Umstrukturierung einer Großsiedlung ; das Stadtumbauprogramm für Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer

Amsterdam-Bijlmermeer ist die modernste, idealistischste und meist diskutierte Siedlung der Niederlande. Sie ist außerdem eine der bekanntesten Großsiedlungen Europas. Aber Bijlmermeer wird schon bald nicht mehr Bijlmermeer sein. Die Siedlung wird baulich, sozial und ökonomisch umfassend erneuert. Im Jahr 2010 wird die Hälfte der wabenförmigen...

The integrated renewal of Amsterdam’s Bijlmermeer high-rise

In recent years, there has been a growing interest all over the world in improving the large housing estates of the 1960s and 1970s. Highrise estates are associated with problematic living conditions, deprived areas, isolated locations, a poor population, a negative image, social isolation, pollution and crime. In short: they are not the most...

Intensief beheer en participatie: Evaluatie proefproject leefbaarheid in de Bijlmermeer

Eindmeting project modelflats Bijlmermeer

Conciërges in de Bijlmermeer: Effect op criminaliteit, veiligheid en leefbaarheid