Rethinking a Parking Garage

Rethinking a Parking Garage: The City Hotel

Chiarito, Amabel (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

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

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

City Hotel

2021-07-01

The City Hotel is a building/landscape that is fruit of a re-adaptation of the Q-Park Bijenkorf in Amsterdam. It aims to be a place for Amsterdammers, small local businesses and tourists that acts as a community center for all. The building can be appropriated by its users and hosts many different functions under one roof. It does not only give, but also asks. It asks the visitors to be flexible and adapt to its environment, this adaptation can bring its users together to create a synergy. This project is an example of how a car parks with extraordinary conditions can be re-adapted into a place suitable for people, and that demolition is not the only solution. The Q-park is a monumental building with a very unique architectural form. It is poetic in its ambiguity, a perking garage that deserves to be seen as a monument building also in memory of an age made around the role of the car in cities. Perking garages are silent giants that can be awaken, this project shows it. Nothing about this project is conventional nor its wants to be.

Adaptive re-use
Parking Garage
city hotel
Multifunctional
Architectcture
interior building cities

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Student theses

master thesis

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