Station Zuidas Amsterdam

Design of infrastructural node ZuidasDok in Amsterdam's Zuidas, which organizes the different flows of traffic, while offering freedoms for the pedestrian. The historical Zuidelijke Wandelweg that got demolished when the ground got prepared to construct Zuidas and Buitenveldert, is transformed and rebuilt and is now part of the public domain of...

Connecting The Zuidas

The way train stations are used in the Netherlands has been changing in recent years. Not only are they accumulating more functions, making them more public, we also see the introduction of the OV-chipcard and its gates which block off certain parts of the train stations, making them less public. The design for the new Amsterdam Zuid station...

The Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Centre

The Amsterdam Zuidas area is dominated by office buildings, which has a negative effect on the local atmosphere. Besides, the current station is not sufficient to process the increasing amount of passengers in the future. To mix functions and extend the station the integration of an innovation centre within the station will be realized. The...

Innovation Campus Zuidas: A New Public Interior

The Innovation Campus at Zuidas is a contemporary, flexible public interior designated for all present and future audiences. It occupies a former secondary street which is located on an embankment. This site can be considered a fringe zone between very heterogeneous parts and concepts of city tissue. In this situation, the newly introduced...

Bridging The Divide: Accommodating City Life in the Zuidas

Architecture & Dwelling Graduation Studio Project. A Mixed Use Dwelling Project located in the Amsterdam Zuidas. The project addresses the issues related to the site in terms of its monotone business usage and the social and programmatic divide that exists in the surrounding area. The design integrates a number of Public, Private and Communal...

Capacities of Zuidas

Dwelling studio in Amsterdam's Zuidas business district. Lowrise, high density and integration of library program into a cluster. Adaptation of an existing masterplan to create a meaningful public spaces, and a mediation between the Van Eesteren extension buildings, and the highrises implanted into the urban fabric. The projects develops one of...

Urban dwelling as a support for the public domain - De stadswoning als ondersteuning van het publieke domein

This graduation project contains a masterplan for the urban plot Gershwin, Amsterdam Zuidas, in answer to the economic problems of today that cause a lot of wasteland. To give the area a boost, I introduce hybrid buildings that include urban dwellings. Within a block of 140m x 40m I designed 85 dwellings, commercial units, offices and a parking...

Hybrid Building - Graduation Lab Zuidas

The goal of this project was to connect the VU Campus to the disused, isolated Beatrix Park through a shopping promenade between the roads of the A10, running through Station Zuid. This connection would turn the Zuidas from a patchwork of public spaces and iconic office buildings without any cohesion, to a cohesive neighborhood.

Architecture - Hybrid Buildings - High Speed Train Stations

Graduation project January 2011. Research for complex urban development at Amsterdam Zuidas. The existing 'dokmodel' is the main idea in the current development with all problems involved. My research focuses on the possibilities to come up with variable solutions. Hence my fascination for the urban borders like the transport of water in the...