MODERN WAYS OF LIVING, INNOVATIVE MATERIALS, MILLENNIALS GENERATION, NEW INDUSTRIAL SECTORS, CONTEMPORARY PRODUCTIVE & SHARING SPACES, NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION & COMMUNICATION AND THE NEW "STANDARDS" IN HUMAN RELATIONS & SOCIETAL VALUES, ARE GRADUALLY BUT STRONGLY GENERATING NEW URBAN IMAGES.
The shortlisted project in Amsterdam Piarcoplein (NL), Productive People, Happy People, introduces experimental stages into the process of conversion of the car parks, but does not necessarily incorporate the results of the experiments into the subsequent development of the project. As a result, the scenario is ready to adjust to the unexpected, by absorbing and accepting the outcome of a first phase of construction. This project-process, approached in terms of a "conceptual driver", can then freely assimilate different scenarios, since it is not fixed. The risk in proposals of this kind lies in the capacity to convince clients to move forward with a project that they cannot fully visualize. The project strategy must therefore be sufficiently robust to assimilate the fact that the construction and self-construction of the project follow a predefined processual vision, but a vision that can also be altered, adjusted to the events that transpire in the course of transformation. THE MAIN ADVANTAGE OF THESE PROJECT-PROCESSES IS THAT THEIR POTENTIAL FOR FEASABILITY IS EMBEDDED IN THE PROJECT ITSELF. Is it time for clients to overcome their fear of the unknown in order to pursue more processual projects on their territories? .
Jury Comment, February 2018
Jury Comment, February 2018
NEW INFRASTRUCTURE FOCUSES IN CONNECTIVITY WHILE AVOIDING FRAGMENTATION OF THE EXISTING & FUTURE URBN FABRIC.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CURRENT PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS
(NEW HOUSING, CASINO, MEDIA COLLEGE ETC.) AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN PURSUANCE OF A FLEXIBLE PUBLIC SPACE.
(NEW HOUSING, CASINO, MEDIA COLLEGE ETC.) AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN PURSUANCE OF A FLEXIBLE PUBLIC SPACE.
SHIFTING FROM HEAVY INFRASTRUCTURE TO "HEAVY" NATURE, THE NEW GREEN IS NOT ISOLATED BUT KNOTTED WITH THE EXISTING & FUTURE PROGRAMM.
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Location: AMSTERDAM (NL)
Starting Date: APRIL 2017 Status: COMPLETED Team+: R.GKAITATZIS, V.GKEROU Type: COMPETITION - EUROPAN 14 |
Focusing on the train station, as the primal factor and generator of the urban environments in the area, our strategy develops between the three existing urban squares. The pedestrian and cycling flows and functions meet the transition that happens firstly through the station and secondly through elements of space that need to be adjusted and integrated in the urban fabric. The new developments in the area and the future goals, impose a new character that creates a fertile ground for urbanity and form the base for a long-term vitality.
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The strategic long-term design, regarding the new connections, negotiate between those elements that can be fixed and integrated (pedestrian bridge) and those elements that need to stay flexible to anticipate future changes (new station, new tracks etc.) Therefore, a new identity is established, based on the extension of the surroundings and street networks but also reinforced with new programmatic clusters, green and new visual connections.
REDESIGNING DEMOCRACY (OR DEMOCRATIC SPACES), MEANS IN PRACTICE THAT OUR COMMON CITY SPACES ARE THE RIGHT PLACE FOR A COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC LIFE, GOODS & SERVICES. THE FLEXIBILITY IN "INCLUDING" IS A KEY ASPECT FOR THE LONG TERM PROSPEROUS CONTINUITY OF AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
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