project04:Challenge
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Challenge
The NDSM wharf is a combination of history, creative vibes, and organic development and recently housing and new companies arise.
The history as a shipyard is clearly present. Everything is just there. Big pilots and huge slopes are out of function nowadays. Standing there, quietly waiting. There is no rush here, its calm, and people come here to relaxed.
(atmosphere movies)
But behind this all a lot is happening. Inside the big hall, the resound of skateboards run by (young) skaters (TAG) fill the space. Small (creative) companies make use of the construction created by the municipality and form together the Kunststad(TAG). The restaurant Noorderlicht(TAG), situated behind the big slope is fully packed on a sunny weekend day. On the big slope, spray painters (TAG) create their latest work and photographers (TAG) make use of this and the water as background. On the West side companies like HEMA (TAG) appear and on the east side Red Bull (TAG) and MTV(TAG) are located.
(atmosphere movies)
This location has a lot to offer. The special vibe of freedom (TAG) is unique in a city like Amsterdam. People can sit everywhere, touch everything and add things. Rules (TAG) are here as less as possible applied (Frank Alsema, director stichting NDSM Werf oost). And the organic development (TAG) of the NDSM wharf contributes to the attractiveness for artists. Also typical about the space is the interaction between public and private. Next to the big slope people work in their garden and fixing their caravan. It feels like they live there looking to the way they treat the place. Those people have a bond with this particular space. Another example are the two artiste I saw painting next to the water in a kind of closed part, especially because they put their car in front of the entrance to this outdoor space. They had a fire and listened to music coming out of their car. I walked to them to look what they were making and also here it felt like I was on someone’s property. Everyone can do this here. Go to a place, store your stuff and start to paint. This atmosphere attracts inquisitives, people who go there, walk around, see what’s happening and make things. This area stimulates the creative mind.
(picture gardener and movie painters)
(movie explorer kid and picture)
But as the time passes by the monumental objects needs to be restored and the location close to the city attracts companies, housing corporations and more and more people. The high costs for maintenance and sanitation but also the increasing pressure of users and visitors make it necessary to organize things better on the wharf (hoofddocument ib).
The challenge on the site is to combine those different layers. This can be physical as non-physical ones, in physical and non physical way.
Red carpet
The 'red carpet' project in St. Gallen, Swiss, by Carlos Martinez [[1]] and Pipolotti Rist [[2]] is an example of the connection made between buildings by creating an outside livingroom. The office district becomes this way one area in staid of devided buildings.
The NDSM wharf already kind of has this connection. The streetart and old constrcutions point out. The thing is they needs to be isolated.
quality site
- the NDSM area is isolated from but close to the centre
- one is free to do what he wants, not as much rules as in the city centre
- the history from the place
- next to the water 't IJ
- open space
- name as cultural incubator
structure plan
The structure of the building should adapt to the surrounding and the people. It is an undefined object (like an alga) where people don't know what to do with. They are free to move, add or transform the object. They will eventually give the object it's function.
landscape building
