A clearing amidst movement

A clearing amidst movement

Treffers, Nils (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Pimlott, M. (mentor)
Koskamp, G. (graduation committee)
Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

2020-08-31

Traffic square and station Marconiplein, the project site, has become a cacophony of highly controlled and isolated traffic domains which one wants to passage and exit as quickly as possible. Like many other metrostation in Rotterdam the passage of time dominates the passage of place and the notion of the station as real-estate prevails over it being a public landscape. This project translate an agency for architecture to merely materialise the real-estate for traveling consumers into an interest and potential agency for landscape and infrastructure to establish a more shared and public experience amongst strangers. The proposal re-establishes a sense of place, of arrival somewhere specific and significant. Crucial approaches to establish this are (1) a re-organisation of the site based on the re-introduction of historically present qualities and characteristics and (2) both the act of clearing and the clearing as physical interior to experience. In the proposal Marconiplein has become both park and station linked to bigger networks of transport and green fragments on a much bigger scale. Is has become a central public space, cleared from transport systems and framed by a bridge and tree canopies. The bridge and trees provide a functional route and shelter between all transport platforms whilst acting as decor of movement unfolding behind, up and underneath it. A carpet of different ground floor materialisations address different uses and complexities as a critical means of operating without fences, walls or buffer zones. Canopy and carpet together create a clearing and a series of different urban interiors around it that address the very different urban fragments surrounding the site. It has become a place where the station and parks benefit from and open up to each-others surprise and quality.

Station
Park
Transport
place
public space
infrastructure

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master thesis

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