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The Archi-Factory

author(s):Chao Wang

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Narrative

TRANSITION 1

The NDSM wharf is a former shipyard located on the banks of the river IJ in Amsterdam Noord. Boasting grounds exceeding the size of ten football pitch combined, it represents the past success and achievements of Dutch shipping industry in the early of 20th century. In the 1970’s the ship building companies that dominated the harbor area of Amsterdam collapsed. In the 1980’s, the NDSM Wharf (the site of the project) bankrupted. The city of Amsterdam North applied for EU-subsidies in order to promote alternative industries and made in 1992 a contract with industrial companies for renting the NDSM hall. When parts of the hall started to become a breeding ground for criminal activities the city of Amsterdam North stopped the contract in 1998. At that point they had to face the problem of finding a new use for the wharf and keeping the threat away of ‘losing’ the wharf to the by-now professionally organized squatters network.

In 1999, a group of artists, theatre producers, skaters and architects banded together under the name Kinetisch Noord (Kinetic North) to present a plan to the council for the redevelopment of the former shipyard. A full strategy was developed by 2002 and the group is well on their way to elevating the NDSM Wharf to the position of the largest cultural breeding ground in the Netherlands. And from now on, this former shipyard transforms itself into an enormous subcultural Mecca. It offers facilities for a number of artistic disciplines and small crafts. The wharf has also become a sanctuary for individual artists and craftspeople as well as for independent organizations, both established and less known, to cooperate, inspire and create.


ARCHITECTURE and CRISIS

Before I go to NDSM, I search on the Internet and find some general information about the site. There is fun fact that intriguing a lot: two years before, a fire accident happened in the north part of the NDSM area.Go to protoTAG Two old factory buildings were turned down and new buildings were planned to be built within the site because of this crisis.

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Architecture and crisis are not incompatible. Destruction is an inescapable beginning of all construction. Extermination and reconstruction accelerate the urban development, upgrade the architecture and will never cease to act during our civilization progress.

The conventional buildings, once they are built, will stop to develop. While our civilization which includes science and technology level keeps growing in an non-linear way. Architecture can’t always keep in pace with the technological development. It means that what is refinement one moment will be barbarism the next.

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To cope with this situation, renovation is the first concept that comes to my mind. In the initial sketch, an additional building is designed and attached to a structure in order to improve the condition of existing factory building.


INDUSTRIAL AESTHETICS

During the field trip, I saw some of the current situation of NDSM. The transition from industrial area to culture centre has already stimulated the renovation of the existing building. The approach of renovation mostly focuses on using the heritages of the shipyard to generate the industrial aesthetics. The icons and elements of industry are kept only as decorations and form the current landscape.

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CORPSE

Inside of the building, there is a small yellow box intriguing me a lot. It used to be the controlling booth to operate all the cranes and coordinate the workflows within the factory. It is the brain of this huge mechanical body. But now, there is no access to the box and no program in the box. It becomes nothing but a decoration.Go to protoTAG The brain is dead. The building becomes a corpse of industrialization. The redevelopment did not make the corpse revived but only parasitized.

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ARCHITECTURE AND MACHINE

“Reference to the world of the machine is reference to the only significant contemporary reality.” The machine is second nature, connecting man to nature as an enhanced vernacular-giving form to man’s understanding of natural forces.



TRANSITION 2

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This giant blue gate may be a starting point and the vertical site for my project.Go to protoTAG Inside the gate is the history of industrialization age, while outside is the reality of post-industrialization and information age; Inside the gate is the static controllable architectural space, while outside is the constantly changing urban environment;

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Through my design project, using the advanced building science and technology, I hope to turn this unmeaning giant gate into a dynamic section which can connect and coordinate the relationships of both sides, renovate the condition of the existing building, and define a new progress of transition for NDSM.
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