Families in Amsterdam

Abstract

This graduation project focuses on creating small yet spacious dwellings. Offering unique dwellings to live in. Designed and build with a robotic design and assembly strategy. Creating commercial areas on the ground floor, with dwellings above it. Separating dwellings for these families from the public and increasing the feel of safety for them. While still maintaining a strong connection with the park on the south. The volumes of these dwellings have been distributed by a computational model, based on solar and view performances. Locating sleeping areas in climatic colder regions, while placing the living areas opposite of that. The interior offers an acoustically optimized wall to reduce noise. Integrating the interior paneling with that of the exterior with a spiderweb-like structure. This structure is optimized by their local forces, and thereby minimizing a material need. Throughout this structure the windows are placed that line up in between the steel tubes. Thereby providing sufficient daylight for all the spaces. Certain windows are still being able to be opened and closed manually, thereby increasing living comfort. The negative spaces between the dwellings are used for routing the electrical, pluming and ventilation. Integrating a high degree of customization with the practical needs associated with building dwellings. As last a robotic assembly strategy is being shown in combination with a local optimized node. Integrating a ‘off the shelve’ solution combined with a customized 3D printed node.