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B NIEUWS 03 17 NOVEMBER 2014
THE ARCHIPRIX SELECTION
Among those who graduated from the faculty last year, nine alumni will be happy to receive some credits for what they have achieved at the TU Delft. Their projects stand out as the best graduation projects this year. Now they will represent themselves as designers and the TU Delft in the national Archiprix competition. BY DAPHNE BAKKER
On the October 30 2014, the lucky few Archiprix nominess - who were selected from the 32 submitted graduation projects - were announced. Based on their analysis, design concept, spatial quality, presentation, and the coherence between their ideas and executions, nine excellent projects were chosen. The projects will have to compete with other nominees from eight different architectural institutions in the upcoming National Archiprix competition. For more info: archiprix.nl
ATHENS - CITY OF CROSSROADS Dimitrios Sotiropoulos
AMSTERDAM ZUID STATION
The project investigates the shifting role that the Polykatoikia model (multistory apartment building) has played in the diverse socio-spatial transformations of the city of Athens. The research analyses the urban history of the Greek capital and reflects on the sociopolitical and economic factors that informed its urban growth. The design investigates an alternative urban logic based on mobility, accessibility and porosity and presents the architectural elements for the typology of the Groundscraper to evolve.
CHAIN HOUSING
Junwoo Lee
Chain Housing is the suggestion about a Housing Hybrid in the restricted space of Amsterdam. “Housing Hybrid” means that two conflicting programs such as private dwelling and public facilities should coexist in one building. To solve this dilemma, my design proposal is inspired by Dutch Structuralism, the study on harmony and balance of these two opposite natures by using Aldo van Eyck’s concept of Twin Phenomena. Dwelling and public programs are interconnected and this connection has deeply influenced the arrangement of programs, façade materialisation, and even of the load bearing system. Chain Housing is not only a solution for the present but also a preparation for the future of Amsterdam.
Matteo Meschiari
Train stations lead us from a place to another, becoming an important medium on an infrastructural level but also on a public and social level. Amsterdam Zuid station unifies the two public sides: a bridge, a crucial moment of connection and transition. Transition between the station and its surroundings, between the surroundings through the station. Therefore, the project almost anatomically orchestrates the movement that characterize a station and simultaneously defines a sequence of spaces that accompany those transitional moments typifying the locus.
RESPONSIVE SUBURBIA Maarten van Kesteren From 1941 until 1943 the Hollandsche Schouwburg was the center of the plan to annihilate the Jewish population of Amsterdam and its surroundings. Now a memorial and small museum reside within the remains of the once popular theatre on the Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam. The Joods Historisch Museum has plans to renew both. The proposed architecture is about the place itself and creating a dignified mood of contemplation. In order to get a measure of the horrific it reminds of the beatific moments of life.