Commercial Fulfillment Center

Renovation of Passage de Molenpoort in Nijmegen

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

Y. SUN Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
J.D. Fokkinga Architectural Engineering - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
L.G.A.J. Reinders Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
M.J. van Dorst Urban Studies - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Renovation Bricolage Retail Architecture
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Published Date

25-06-2021

Language

English

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Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Bricolage is a way of thinking, researching and designing. From the perspective of architect, we build our realm using the existing constructing logic and limited materials, to make something new from the old, which seems to be a low-key but efficient way for renovation of Passage de Molenpoort. Date back to 1972, the popularity of the American shopping mall gave birth to de Molenpoort in Nijmegen, the first shopping mall in Europe. Because it is a product of emulation, the Molenpoort did not take root in the city, but isolated from the context and grew savagely in the city center. On the one hand, ignoring the problems and simply protect it as a heritage building make no contribution to the rebirth of “dead mall”. On the other hand, totally replace the Molenpoort with another building will also be a loss for Nijmegen. In my proposal, I step back and review the whole evolution history as well as thinking over the existing problems hiding in the Molenpoort. And then I use all the materials in hand and all the ideas in my mind, to bricolage a Commercial Fulfillment Center, which is not only a solution to reinvent the "dead passage", but also a transitional product between retail architecture and public realm aiming at returning our public life back to the urban realm.