Revision as of 13:01, 15 March 2012

Excursion

The first excursion was a terrible day because of the weather that was really cold. Everyone was looking for someone to tag and also an object. The first thing which grabs my attention was the atmosphere of the site, artistic. Due to graffiti, sculptures and the most noticeable point were the artistic offices in the site especially Mtv & Redbull offices.

The next visit of the site was in a nice day with a big chance to meet Frank Alsema director of the site. Everyone can verify their concept with their place and also discuss with Frank would be show the right way to us.

Challenge

Infrastructure

It’s a kind of multi layers landscape with possibility to change and figure related to the function which is require. It would be a kind of movable surface as an audience space around a circle building which include a stage on top of that and some supportive spaces under that. The building includes some supportive rooms for concert and fashion show and also some studio to provide some facilities for recording or live show in closed or semi open space. It would be present some utilities to audiences during the concert or fashion show. When it comes to fashion show the place of audiences and stage will be inverse. The building has a kind of ring around itself which change to stage for model and audiences will seat on top of that building.

History of the site It was a kind of shipbuilding area and because of that it was recognized as an industrial area. You can see the huge slope (hole) as a place of construction and big and old tower to support it. Nowadays, it is going to be an artistic area because of some offices such as Mtv & Redbull and also number of artistic workshop & offices in the building which is located in the north of the site. Besides, the current director of the site wants to keep this feeling as an artistic atmosphere.

Site character The site is located 10 min far from Amsterdam central station by ferry. Nearness to the water would be one of the attractive facts of the site. Furthermore, it is a kind of historical area especially at this project’s place and it would be better to preserve its soul as its director wants. This project not only doesn’t like to demolish this character but also wants to bring tourists there to observe this quality and also new function of it.

Function: festival, concert stage, fashion stage, supportive activities, park….

It’s a kind of specific infrastructure to provide some possibilities to establish such functions. Audience: special guests, tourists, children &..

The difficulty is how to connect these audiences. There are two category of audiences, special guests & tourists in one group and children on the other side. There is a possibilities to divide these two categories as a matter of using time.

Benefit These functions would be beneficial for construction cost and also maintaining such a expensive systems.

Connection Project01: Max; Festival: Vahid; Velcro: Sjors; It will be able to connect to other project regarding their function. it will be connected to the Max's project physically and also to Vahid and Sjors to sharing users and information. Besides, considering the atmosphere of the site (artistic character) it can absorb current users.

Site character As we can see because of two important offices, Mtv & Redbull the atmosphere is a kind of artistic. Furthermore, majority of the walls is change to a kind of billboard to exhibit graffiti. We can use it to change the environment to the new function.

Landscape It would be able to provide number of environment considering the users. Although it should be observe its history, it can change and present new atmosphere according to users and time of using.

In & Output

first sketches

[Graphical Map]

Inspiration

Brain Storming

It is a kind of isolated site from the Amsterdam Central although it is accessible by 10 min boating. There are more possibilities in order to grow this site. Do we want to keep it isolated? Is it logical to put some different activities to this site to absorb more audiences? What is the problem to do such this strategy? Gathering number of activities together to this site has pros and cons. It causes interaction between different kind of people to increase. It would be a space to establish some contemporary events to bring population to site. It not only helps to keep the site alive but also helps to improve the quality of the site during the time.

Eco cluster The Eco Cluster Amsterdam is open to all companies, organisations and municipalities in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area. The City of Amsterdam works together with the Amsterdam Innovation Motor to promote and enhance the Eco Cluster Amsterdam, to create new business and look for new opportunities for the region. The Eco Cluster is divided into sub-clusters, see ‘Sustainable clusters’.