Innovation Campus Zuidas: A New Public Interior

Innovation Campus Zuidas: A New Public Interior

Tashiro, I.

Pimlott, M. (mentor)
Zeinstra, J.S. (mentor)
Parravicini, M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Interiors

2014-10-31

The Innovation Campus at Zuidas is a contemporary, flexible public interior designated for all present and future audiences. It occupies a former secondary street which is located on an embankment. This site can be considered a fringe zone between very heterogeneous parts and concepts of city tissue. In this situation, the newly introduced public interior tries to reorganize streams and flows of pedestrian traffic from and to the different points of interest and to create relationships, interfaces and networks between them. On all levels, programmatic, organizational as well as the architectural, all constituents of Zuidas, namely the station, the residential zones, the different educational facilities, the office towers and their existing semi-public lobbies as well as the sequence of existing exterior axes and squares, can profit from synergistic relationships with the new Innovation Campus. The different users will find an interior that takes programmatic quotations from all kinds of existing public institutions and functions such as the museum, the library, the passage, the mall, the school, the university, etc. fusing them together to form a new common public interior ground on which a large variety of activities can happen. The Innovation Campus at Zuidas proudly takes projects such as Cedric Price´s unbuilt Fun Palace (1961), the Kulturhus (1974) in Stockholm by Peter Celsing or the community centers designed by Frank van Klingeren as historical precedents for public interiors that facilitate contingent encounters and serendipity between different user groups.

public interiors
community center
Zuidas

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:895d9924-6ea6-41c3-b064-2762eb8c2154

2015-01-01

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Tashiro, I.