Rethinking a Parking Garage

The City Hotel

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

A.S. Chiarito Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

Mark Pimlott Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
M. Parravicini Building Product Innovation - Architecture and the Built Environment (graduation committee member)
D.J. Rosbottom Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
S. De Vocht Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment, Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2021 Amabel Chiarito
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Published Date

01-07-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

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.