EUROPAN 2018

INFORMATION

location:

Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

client:

Europan

year:

2017



status:

competition entry

program:

Urban Planning

total area:

7.000m2

competition team:

Marina Kounavi
Karolina Szóstkiewicz
Irgen Salianji
Harris Siaravas
Marco De Vincentiis
Maria Akrivou
Antonis Athanasiou








DESCRIPTION

The Hybrid City

The discussion and criticism about the contemporary city’s continuous sprawl has increased over the last decades, alongside the inherited alienation and rigid functional zoning that the modern urban planning has imposed. Such urban planning failures in the Netherlands are numerous, including Almere and other housing areas that have been transformed into “ghost cities” due to the lack of mixed functions.  We strongly believe that this is a result of the following two facts: firstly, the mono-functional character of an area and secondly, its aging population. In the case of Amsterdam, urban expansion is also limited by its historical substance and rigid form, making the creation of new land on the Ij river the only option for densification and architectural experimentation.
The productive city is all about cooperation, start-ups, sharing knowledge and immaterial production. We propose vertical programmatic hybrids within the same building, so that housing and working can overlap and the sense of community can become omnipresent. We propose a Hybrid City!