Productive People - Happy People
Location: Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Starting Date: April 2017
Completion Date: July 2017
Team+: R.Gkaitatzis
Size: Large
Type: Competition - Europan14 (Shortlisted)
Typology: Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape
Key Words: Infrastructure Node, Urban Spine, Productive Space
Starting Date: April 2017
Completion Date: July 2017
Team+: R.Gkaitatzis
Size: Large
Type: Competition - Europan14 (Shortlisted)
Typology: Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape
Key Words: Infrastructure Node, Urban Spine, Productive Space
Modern ways of living, innovative materials, the millennials generation, new industrial sectors, contemporary productive and sharing spaces, new means of transportation and communication and the new “standards” in human relations and societal values, are gradually but strongly generating new urban images.
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. 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.
The transformation of the current programmatic needs (new housing, casino, Media College etc.) and socio-economic circumstances are also taken into consideration in pursuance of a flexible public space. There are no unattractive entrances in the area or undefined urban edges. New infrastructure focuses in connectivity while avoiding fragmentation of the existing and future urban fabric. At the same time, shifting from heavy infrastructure to “heavy” nature, the new green is not isolated but knitted with the existing and the future program. Redesigning democracy means in practice that our common city spaces, are the right place for a collaborative production of public life, goods and services. The flexibility in “including” is a key aspect for the long term prosperous continuity of an urban environment.
Publications:
Europan.nl
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. 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.
The transformation of the current programmatic needs (new housing, casino, Media College etc.) and socio-economic circumstances are also taken into consideration in pursuance of a flexible public space. There are no unattractive entrances in the area or undefined urban edges. New infrastructure focuses in connectivity while avoiding fragmentation of the existing and future urban fabric. At the same time, shifting from heavy infrastructure to “heavy” nature, the new green is not isolated but knitted with the existing and the future program. Redesigning democracy means in practice that our common city spaces, are the right place for a collaborative production of public life, goods and services. The flexibility in “including” is a key aspect for the long term prosperous continuity of an urban environment.
Publications:
Europan.nl