VISSERIJPLEIN: Empowering the Productive City in an Urban Neighbourhood

  Creating a Multifunctional ‘hub’ in the Heart of a Multicultural Vulnerable Neighbourhood Visserijplein is a square in the heart of the multicultural and vulnerable neighborhood Bospolder and Tussendijken (BoTu). BoTu deals with great challenges in the realm of safety, working and living. The assignment is to empower the neighborhood by designing a multifunctional building…

Launch Five E15 Sites in Rotterdam

New Gateways to the Productive City Europan NL, Rotterdam Architecture Institute (AIR) and the municipality of Rotterdam are proud to propose five locations for Europan 15. All five have been designated ‘high potential’ development sites by the municipality. In Search of ‘Good Growth’ Rotterdam is growing. The city aims to build 50,000 new homes in…

“Winners Piarcoplein” Europan 14 – Productive Amsterdam

Authors: Federica Andreoni (IT), ArchitectAnna Chiara Bonora (IT), ArchitectValeria Lollobattista (IT), ArchitectMattia Biagi (IT), ArchitectMarco Mondello (IT), ArchitectValerio Socciarelli (IT), Architect Project Description Considering these premises, the proposal consists in a series of operations:-Liberating the space from cars to imagine a new kind of space for various and variable activities-Concentrating cars in two strategic points to…

“Winners Transformatorweg” Europan 14 – Productive Amsterdam

Authors: Aleksandr Zinovev (RU), ArchitectBudarin Konstantin (EE), JournalistShmeleva Irina (RU), Architect Dimitrii Andreev (RU), Movie DirectorElmira Kakabeava (KZ), Public Relations and Education Project Description MediaHub is a collection of spaces that offer various opportunities for education as well as for work. The architecture of the hub is a combination of the vertical and the horizontal. The…

“Winners Papaverdriehoek” Europan 14 – Productive Amsterdam

Authors: Alessandro Macaluso (IT), Architect UrbanistCarlotta Basoli (IT), Landscape ArchitectGiovanni Lavanna (IT), ArchitectAndrei Deacu (RO), Urban planner Project Description Amsterdam’s city centre is expanding and brings along development pressure on areas that possess social qualities. Our exploration starts from the tension between high density (and high rise buildings) needs and the local self built spirit. The…