Living at the hub

Living at the hub

Smekta?a, M.

Klijn, O. (mentor)
Cuperus, Y. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture & Dwelling

2013-06-27

The site of the project -Teleport O, is situated in strategic position for the whole Amsterdam: at the transport hub – Sloterdijk station, and in one of the “green fingers” of Amsterdam, reaching the city centre. The qualities of the location are not efficiently used. The “green finger” is interrupted with the office area, where a lot of building are vacant because of the crisis. The location does not have good conditions for dwelling, because of noise, mono-functionality and isolation. For these reasons, the challenges posed to the design are: incorporation of housing in mono-functional district and definition of the program with activities for the new coming dwellers, which will make the area pleasant to live. In this way, the Teleport can be potentially transformed from the mono-functional district into a new self-sufficient city centre, strongly related to whole Amsterdam town, located in its “green finger”. The intention of my design was the integration of station with the residential part of the project. The aim was to break the border between the public and private and provide more gradient between these spaces. In this way, the dwellers reach their houses passing from the big public square in front of the station, through the smaller square, then the collective, but open to public square and the closed collective space in the atriums. The typology of atrium also helps in achieving the gradient between public and private. The atrium balances the built and unbuilt space and provides shelter from noise, wind pollution and stimulates social interaction.

hub
station
tranportation
communication
Amsterdam
Sloterdijk
Teleport
public space

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Student theses

master thesis

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