B(l)ooming Tourism

B(l)ooming Tourism: Evoking New Meaningful Connections in the Touristic City of Amsterdam

Oosterwoud, Chloë (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Milinović, S. (mentor)
Sioli, A. (mentor)
Speksnijder, F.J. (mentor)
Visscher, H.J. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2021-11-05

In recent years, overtourism has become a big problem for many European cities. In Amsterdam, tourism is changing the experience of place of its city centre, which negatively affects resident’s quality of life by causing feelings of alienation. As a result, more and more residents seem to retreat or move away from Amsterdam’s city centre, jeopardizing the livability and residential function of the city.

The aim of this research is to add architectural interventions in the city centre of Amsterdam, which will evoke new connections with the places overwhelmed by tourists, by mitigating feelings of alienation between residents and tourists. These connections must both be social, as well as to place, in order to introduce a new, more social, sustainable and liveable way of tourism.

In this research, the embodied experiences of Amsterdam's overwelming places such as the Jordaan, the Canal Belt, the Oudezijdse Burgwallen and the Lastage have been studied by means of narratives. These narratives were created from both the resident’s and the tourist’s perspective, in order to find out which (spacial) qualities of place evoke a sense of identification, belonging or connection among the residents and tourists. Ultimately, from the collection of narratives the users, activity, experience of place, structure and architectural atmosphere of the overwelmed places are defined, and together form a concept for the architectural interventions that will mitigate the feelings of alienation.

tourism
Narratives
experience of place
perception
embodied experiences
Alienation
Placemaking
social
Social Connection
connection
architectural interventions
temporary architecture
network
amsterdam
Amsterdam Centrum
Jordaan
livability
biodiversity

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Student theses

master thesis

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