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Concept

NDSM/Kinetisch Noord plans to transform the wharf into a multidisciplinary and experimental working space for the visual arts, while retaining its cultural heritage within the shipdock. Their chosen growth model for the 80,000sqm is a combination of constructing functional and affordable space for international artists while continuously invigorating the area with local cultural activities.

As both entities have a strong presence in their own way, I have chosen to allow both to develop individually, and will investigate and explore the connectivity between both the international arts and the cultural arts.

As work places for the international artists and place setting for the cultural activities are mostly predefined, it is the interstitial spaces and spill areas that allows maximum opportunities for both entities to collide, exchange and collaborate. These areas, which are often overlooked and disregarded, should be explored further and used to enhance the cohesiveness and harmony of the area, inspiring both entities to meet and work together, which will result in an emergence of a single entity of that merges international art and local culture.

Images adapted from Siteless by Francois Blanciak

My budding ideas involves strands, straps and bundles, folding and parasitic architecture:

1) Strands and Straps and Bundles allow the build up of physical connection between buildings

2) Folding allows the unveiling of the buildings, exposing their works secretly to others, increasing its allureness

3) Parasitic allows one entity to feed off another, creating a symbiotic between both entities