HUMAM: Hub for Urban Mobility for Amsterdam Metropolitan area

This project is the result of the research for the graduation project of Project HUMAM; Hub for Urban Mobility for the Amsterdam Metropolitan area. The project focuses on the future demands of the Amsterdam Municipality in which they expect an increase of 70.000 new households and 50.000 new working areas over the coming 30 - 40 years in...

ARthouse Sloterdijk: Een nieuwe schouwburg als bestemming aan de A10 boulevard van Amsterdam 2050

In light of the huge growth in population and tourism that Amsterdam will encounter in the future, the city might have to work towards a polycentral urban setup in which multiple city centers can contribute to the (social-, cultural-, economic-) wellbeing of the overall city. In this project we find that the likelihood of Sloterdijk, a place...

Slotermarket: an inclusive center for a gardencity 2.0

The prognosis for Amsterdam is that the population will grow until almost one million inhabitants in 2040 which leads to the fact that densification is needed to house all these people. Another prediction is that migration flows will increase, which means that diversity still will be a big topic in the future. Nowadays Amsterdam houses many...

Green-House: Aquaponic farm and green residence

Metropoles around the world are projected to keep growing in the coming years. Their population is increasing and with it the size and density of the city. Amsterdam is no exception to this projected growth with a population estimated to be larger than one million around 2050. As a consequence, we can see the housing and land prices skyrocket...

Future Node: Amsterdam Sloterdijk 2050

Amsterdam Sloterdijk currently can be best described as a desolate office-area next to a major multi-modal mobility hub. At the same time amsterdam at large is facing challenges it has never seen before. The city is getting over-crowded, housing prices have increased sharply, and the limits of it's mobility network are already reached....

The potential of Art: De potentie van Kunst

The number of tourists is a daily struggle the inner city of Amsterdam has to deal with. Thereby the inner city is loveable but not livable. Quick measures must be taken otherwise Amsterdam will disneyficate. <br/><br/>On the other hand, Sloterdijk is one of the underdeveloped neighborhoods of Amsterdam. A big part of the population consists of...

Deconstructive re-use

Deconstructive re-use is a proposed strategy to meet the spatial needs of society in times of financial omission. As the crisis hit the profession of the architect appeared to have become superfluous. Work is scarce, as are raw materials and affordable housing, therefor challenges for the architect are not scarce at all. This research...

Algae Architecture

With rising energy consumption in the world and the depletion of fossil fuels in the near future, we have to make sure that energy security is guaranteed when conventional energy sources are depleted (BP, 2012). Nowadays, the energy we use is from fossil fuel sources and the generation of energy releases the greenhouse gas CO2 and energy is...

Re-occupy Teleport

Sloterdijk, a decentralized area in Amsterdam, faces problems of unoccupied office buildings and mono-functionality. I will propose an area strategy to reverse the process of unoccupied offices in the Teleport area. Temporality and transformation are the key words. The elements found from the research will be used to transform this decentralized...

Living at the hub

The site of the project -Teleport O, is situated in strategic position for the whole Amsterdam: at the transport hub – Sloterdijk station, and in one of the “green fingers” of Amsterdam, reaching the city centre. The qualities of the location are not efficiently used. The “green finger” is interrupted with the office area, where a lot of...