Amsterdam’s Zero-Waste City Ho(s)tel

Amsterdam’s Zero-Waste City Ho(s)tel: Re-imagining the building materials industry to meet the challenges of the 21st century

Jones, Thomas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

De Vocht, S. (graduation committee)
Klooster, M.W. (graduation committee)
Rosbottom, D.J. (graduation committee)
Pimlott, Mark (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

City Hotel

2021-09-14

Jordaan’s Driehoekstraat Hostel targets a group of people that are intent on learning more about material consumption and shared knowledge potentials for more sustainable living. The building and its architecture aims to underline the sustainable values that will lead Amsterdam and various other European cities into a new circular economy. Its guests will co-habit and join together as part of a learning experience that explores a new route into
sustainable tourism.

A strong emphasis on reuse of building products and materials is imperative to show the public and necessary organisations that there is an urgent need for a shift in the resource efficiency discourse in the Netherlands. By reusing and repurposing different elements and materials, buildings, such as Hotels or Hostels, can be justified for their implementation into city models. The chosen site (Driehoekstraat, Jordaan) was intentional to show how such a building could operate and influence the conditions of a neighbourhood and its attitude towards its new economic system.

Architecture
Zero-Waste
Cradle-to-cradle
Amsterdam
Hostel
City Hotel

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Student theses

master thesis

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