project14:Prototype project

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The Project in short

What follows is a short explanation of the project so far. For a more detailed description go to Challenge.

The NDSM Ecosystems

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The NDSM is an area that goes trough many stages in its development. After the shipyard had closed its gates the NDSM has already seen a variety of users come and, most of them, go. Over time those different users have claimed their parts at the NDSM. This resulted in a diverse group of users which has the potential to act together and have advantage like an ecosystem. Today however there is not so much of interaction between the different users which causes a lack of a feeling of attachment and a missed chance in cooperation. Meanwhile the vulnerable ecosystem is threatened by the big scale developers who are almost ready to take over the NDSM. In the comming 10 years the NDSM has to show that it is worth more than just a housing and offices site.



Problems and Opportunities

If you take a look at NDSM today from the outside, not much seems to be going on. Appearances are deceptive, inside the warehouses there is a lot of activity. The great walls of the hangars are not inviting to take a look. This might be one of the reasons why all of the users of the NDSM have so little of interaction.


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- As illustrated before the companies and institutions of the NDSM stay in their own environments and have almost no interaction. This causes the people to feel unattached and not at home.






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- Because each institution doesn’t look behind its walls a lot of opportunities are missed. As shown before different user-groups can strengthen each other in a good working ecosystem. If for example public and artists are brought together in certain place by means of exhibition space. It creates advantages for both parties. Same could be said about interaction between skatepark and redbull. MTV and redbull. Artists and inhabitants.





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+On a professional level a good working ecosystem with a lot of interaction between different user groups would greatly improve productivity, knowledge and image of the site.






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+If people would more interact and get to know more of their neighbors they will feel more at home and attached. This is an important aspect because right now the site is a hot and attractive but when this changes those who are only there for that reason and who do not feel attached will soon lose interest and go away.

+Feeling more attached and responsible for your neighborhood improves the community as a whole. Less violence, dirt, vandalism, etc. More friendly and happy people. :)




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+As a result of the economical crisis there is a lack of investors. This creates great opportunities for creative ideas that can be developed buttom-up instead of top-down. At the NDSM an opportunity arises for those who want to have a temporal space at a booming site.






The Project Concept: floating studio's

The temporal character and the need for interaction between different user groups have led to the idea of the floating studio's and it's facility islands.

The idea is that people can either rent or buy a studio and use it for whatever they like. Their needs will be monitored and will lead to the production of new facility islands with specific services. These facility islands can be used by a variety of users at the same time and will therefore lead to more interaction and cooperation.

The manufacturing of the studios will take place at the (former) shipyard of the NDSM. The techniques that will be used in production are cheap and possible at small scale commissions and therefore the project starts bottom up and the production can always answer on the relevant needs of it's users. The NDSM is changing a lot and will continue to change in the future as well with this in mind it is important to design for multiple activities and a diversity of users. One of the advantages of being on the water is that the platforms can always re-locate to any site they prefer. If the NDSM won't be artist-friendly anymore they can just pack up and move to ,for example, IJburg. Other advantages of floating property are it's adaptability, connectivity, no demolition and of course the fact that it is movable to almost anywhere.



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The Design

Because the studio's and the facility islands will house various activities that have different demands for properties like facilities, space, climateand others.

Because the design is parametric these parameters can be used as input for the manufacturing of the floating buildings. All other design decisions are generic and for every unit more or less the same. It is therefore the goal to design a framework in which the above parameters can differ. Generic design issues that have to be solved are: -The connection between units and others. -A suitable dynamic facade(constuction and skin). -A floating device.

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