Print Email Facebook Twitter Factory farmed communities Title Factory farmed communities Author Carati, R. Contributor Bruyns, G.J.B. (mentor) Plomp, H. (mentor) Spulvelda, D. (mentor) Faculty Architecture Department Architecture Programme DSD-Urban asymmetries Date 2012-04-19 Abstract Today, the university plays central role in the knowledge based economies a as the starting point from which develop the opportunity of re-balance the “segregations” in the area, the formers are today evident in the strict division of the spaces and of the programs, both in social and spatial manners, and to minimize the impact of the future inhabitants of Zuidas district. The “VU Knowledge district” is an existing project for the new VU campus, and is part of the Zuidas master-plan. Its aim, as stated in the document of the “Knowledge district”3, is to offer a top-class site for students and university where to stimulate the interaction between education and financial activities and businesses in a synergistic cycle. The VU Hortus Botanicus, is one of the facilities of the VU campus, part of the faculty of Earth and Life sciences, but today is facing destruction (and the reconstruction is excluded) under the pressure of the economically more productive typologies with whom to develop the new campus.The VU-Hortus is instead one of the most appreciated areas of the district of the Buitenveldert and the place where all the social actors of the area converge in their free time, Moreover, the role of the botanical gardens in Amsterdam is economically quite important: the other botanic garden of the Plantage, is listed as one of the many tourist attractions of the historical city of Amsterdam. Subject AmsterdamBotanic Garden To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6ec8302c-2cf7-4986-bfb8-eeb6f06efe47 Embargo date 2013-04-19 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2012 Carati, R. Files PDF P5_presentation_repository.pdf 87.64 MB PDF p5_Panels_A0.pdf 9.59 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6ec8302c-2cf7-4986-bfb8-eeb6f06efe47/datastream/OBJ1/view