Revision as of 10:16, 15 March 2012

Beginning

The NDSM warf is situated in Amsterdam. To be more specific in Amsterdam-North alongside the IJ-river. NDSM used to be a shipdock, but after its bankruptcy it became an abandoned industrial area. People from artist communities were drawn towards the site due to its character and established a new artist community at the warf. Nowadays more people and events are coming to the site. Commercial companies like MTV and RedBull have moved their workers to NDSM, not only because prices are cheaper than the city-center. NDSM has a vibrant constantly changing environment. The whole year round festivals are coming and going famous festivals like Valtifest and Voltt, the theater on the warf and the biggest flea market are held on site.

Due to its former function, the warf characteristics result in a great scale difference between big and small, open and closed. For a city like Amsterdam it is unique to still have such open space so close to the city.

NDSM is connected to the central station with a fifteen minute ferry trip. After the completion of the new subway, NDSM can be reached more often and faster from the city center of Amsterdam. Bikes and Cars can enter the site via Amsterdam North.

Eco System of NDSM

The challenge for the new design at the NDSM is to create an architectural intervention within the existing ecosystem, becoming part of this ecosystem. Before we can design this intervention we have to research the existing ecosystem. To identify this changing eco system we use a tool called protoTAG designed by Tomasz Jaskiewicz. People, objects and buildings are identified at the site and tagged. Each tag can be updated in order to keep te data up to date. Connections and relationships between tags can be made and broken. Clicking on the image below will show you the identified peoples and objects that are important for the project, most of the identifications have a link to the protoTAG eco system to discover the connections among each other.

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Inspire me to change is one of the 18 projects that are again part of one big masterplan. Inspire me to change is not a project on its own but has connections with the other projects. Three feasible connections are made with project 01, 14 and 18. The connections change from sharing data, providing services and exchanging square meters. Because each project is connected to others again, the 18 projects are a eco system as a whole. Because Inspire me to change strives to draw more people to the NDSM, invisible connections are made to all the projects, since the interventions provide more and different programs, these programs need to have people and demand in order to survive.

problems and opportunities

Initial design concept

coming soon

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