Nomadic Hub

Abstract

The Amsterdam is currently facing a housing crisis, which, especially in the center, is party caused with people moving to Amsterdam of short period of time. The temporariness of housing will be even more present in the future. The researched characteristics of year 2100 will be globalization, fast transportation, flexibility in terms of work and housing. Moreover, the climate change, causing rising water level and air temperature, together with political crisis will result in unavoidable migrations. Migration, therefore, will become one of the crucial human’s rights. Combining all aforementioned future factors, I come up to conclusion that in year 2100 we will face a new nomadic lifestyle. Nomads will be people who, rather than living in one place, will be in constant move, as the technology and political situation around the world will allow for that. The project, which emerged from a formation of new nomadic lifestyle, is a design for a Nomadic Hub, located in the north part of Amsterdam Centraal, in year 2100. It will allow it users for relocation between different destinations, while living in their personalized unit - pod. For pod's relocation the project assumes the use of upcoming global network of Hyper-loop combined with a metro. The project consist of two parts: permanent, built on site structure, which hosts public and shared functions for co-living, and the other part of the building, which is a dynamically changing arrangement of plug-in private pods. Pods enter the building through the underground distribution system, are lifted up by pods elevators and plug-in to the permanent structure. The Nomadic Hub is an architectural experiment, which makes this unique, futuristic housing experience possible to happen.