INFORMATION
location:
Sluisbuurt, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
client:
Europan
year:
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!
