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visit website NEXT 11/83 Architects 100% Block City

Type: 157 ha / 1.3 million m2 for residential use Location: Moscow Russia Client: Masshtab Development Company Team: Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Bart Reuser with Daniel Aw, Jurrian Knijtijzer, Joost Lemmens and Paulo Borlido (NEXT architects) and Ruurd Gietema, Han van den Born with Michael Trinkner (projectleader), Kristina Knauf, Javier Inigo Moreno-Ventas, Sofia Fernandes, Isabel Granados Mesa, Vincent Hector, Matteo Bettoni, Nadya Nilina, Alexandra Merkulova (all KCAP) Collaborator / associate: KCAP architects & Planners Competition: Invited Competition / 2nd prize Status: concept

2011-02-02 invited competition

The design concept of KCAP/NEXT - 100% Block City- proposes a lively alternative to the monotonous drudgery of the late socialist housing style. It creates an attractive, high-quality and comfortable everyday environment in which individual elements effortlessly add up to the harmony of the whole. As hybrid environment 100% Block City brings together and combines the best qualities of various urban typologies the standard perimeter block, the housing slab and towers. It gives privilege to the pedestrian, promotes urban density and offers best orientation, attractive views and proximity to the green.

100% Block City, refers to the character of the site which is strongly influenced by its landscape surroundings. It embraces these site-specific qualities with a superimposed generic grid. The concept envisions both, the city and the landscape, as a series of blocks within the grid, whether as built or green blocks. Within the logic of the block city grid green rooms are created as integral elements. This also contributes to the larger urban structure which connects the competition area with its surrounding context.

The masterplan demonstrates a flexible approach that is able to react to the demographic and economic developments. The infrastructural system and the equilibrium between urban and green blocks guaranty that the city is \'complete\' at every stage of its development. This makes 100% Block City a malleable strategy that can adapt to the uncertainty of the future. Canalzone Purmerend

Type: Urban plan Location: Purmerend Client: Municipality Purmerend Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Ronald Rietveld, Jurriaan Hillerstrm, Agathe Osika, Betty Aarts, Michel

Mandersloot Collaborator / associate: Ronald Rietveld Floor area / size: 150.000 sqm Construction: Ingenieurs Bureau Amsterdam (IBA) en ABT adviesbureau voor Bouwtechniek Status: Preliminary Design

The starting point for this design was the commission to tie the new centre, the Kop van West, to the old historical centre of Purmerend.

To do so we developed a three-element coupling, embedding the new canal area into the existing context. The Nieuwe Haven, Theaterplein and Mart Stamplein are connected to each other by a boardwalk and two new bridges.

These six elements are coherent as far as character and materiality are concerned and together create the identity of Purmerends new waterfront. Similar principles and materials were used for the two bridges and this univocal effect further strengthens the unity of the canal area.

The pedestrian decks of both bridges reach a height of over 12 m, which provides a beautiful view over Purmerend and makes the connection between the old and the new visually perceptible. Overamstel

Type: Urban plan Location: Overamstel, Amsterdam Client: Department of Spatial Planning, Municipality of Amsterdam Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Jurriaan Hillerstrm, Ieda Alvarez Dogo, Bouke Veurman Floor area / size: 150.000m2

At the invitation of the Amsterdam urban planning department we developed a strategy for the development of the southern section of OverAmstel, the NUON grounds.

NEXT architects started from this contrast and also used it typologically. The result is a concept for a type of building block shaped like a U that surrounds an area of earthbound houses with stacked housing blocks.

The open shape faces south: the sunny side and also the side on which the existing canal can enhance the quality of the environment. Folding the envelope of the stacked houses in at the passages accents the entries, differentiates the public spaces inside the block and also extends the programmatic capacity.

Routes and layout mark the transitions between the public and the private domain. The different levels created by the parking facilities bring the inner area into relief and divide it into different types of collective spaces, such as alleys, streets, gardens and squares. Bos and Lommer Triangle

Type: Urban plan Location: Amsterdam Client: De Principaal Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Waterwith Joost Lemmens, Maria Salinas

This project is a study of the building prospects of the Scholendriehoek area in the Amsterdam Bos en Lommer district.

Essentially, the proposal contains a combination of low-rise two- or three-storey buildings accentuated by eight-storey high-rises. In this way a living environment is created that feels relaxed and village-like, but nevertheless has the density that befits its urban location.

The usual Bos en Lommer building height five storeys is expressly avoided, so that the area contrasts positively with its direct environment. Building lines and building heights within the plan vary subtly, creating a smaller size and scale.

On an urban planning level, however, the area is connected with its immediate surroundings in various ways. Sight lines from the adjacent streets are continued inside the area, for instance, and the plan has the flexibility to absorb existing buildings.

Spaarnehof

Type: urban planning Location: Scheepmakerskwartier Haarlem Client: Heijmans BV, Proper Stok Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers with Joost Lemmens, Jeroen Bos, Federico Caputo and Rolf Pederson Collaborator / associate: Rudy Uytenhaak Architectenbureau

Property developers Heijmans and Proper Stok invited NEXT architects to compete for the development of a beautiful site adjacent to Haarlems city centre. The challenge was to build compactly without obstructing the view of important buildings in the vicinity, like the famous panopticon.

The design, called Het Spaarnehof, shows an enclosed residential area: a route of narrow passages over the entire length of the area that opens up in unexpected locations where small squares, courtyards and views of the water appear.

There are clearings on the whimsical waterfront that refer to its shipbuilding past. Where possible, the compact buildings have high features. This results in a strong connection between the houses and the public area and, at the same time, in apartments with a wonderful view. Unblocked

RE-CYCLI

Client: Platform Gras Groningen Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Duzan Doepel, Jeroen Weijs en Gernout Erens (Innovaders) Collaborator / associate: Duzan Doepel / ADD en Innovaders, Amsterdam Competition: honorable mention Status: Competition, honourable mention Strategy for an environmentally sustainable business park

The starting point for the development of the Milieu Boulevard (Environment Boulevard) was the natural cycle that makes it possible for any transformation to turn back to its initial situation: it is a characteristic industrial estate that never reaches a final situation but is always in the process of transforming.

The entire area can be seen as an ecosystem, with ever-changing cycles on each lot. Within a fixed length of time the lot will return to its initial situation. Each lot has a different time frame, from several days for storage, to a season for crops, to decades for buildings. We distinguished different cycles: the knowledge cycles, the resources cycles, the recycling cycles, the storage cycles and the surplus cycles.

The changing dynamics are used to set up the area. Its basis is the low dynamic functions within the body of the granted land (lots) and the water structure that goes with it.

An adjoining light ringway with buildings for the knowledge infrastructure lends access to all of the lots. The lots are the supporters within which faster changes take place.

Inside, the body is continuously changing. Some things change fast (crops that alternate and bloom every season), others slowly (long-term waste storage).

WOW

Type: Masterplan reconstruction Location: Woensel West, Eindhoven Client: Stichting Trudo woningcorporatie en Dienst Stedelijke Ontwikkeling en Beheer Eindhoven Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Erik Wiersema, Jeroen Bos Collaborator / associate: ADP Architecten Status: In progress

In Eindhovens Woensel West district, NEXT architects is working as an urban designer. This 1930s neighbourhood has many social and spatial problems and is about to undergo a major transformation.

As it is essential to preserve the quality of the current neighbourhoods during this transformation, an urban design for gradual district renovation was realized through an intensive process with resident workshops, complying with the wishes formulated for the living environment.

Determining a broad viewpoint that is open to different interpretations is central to the approach, and in addition we developed a tool box with very concrete interventions. The overall vision was provided with the name Omdat smaken verschillen (Because Tastes Differ) because we want to emphasize the wide variety both in the neighbourhood and of its residents. In it, the district is divided into neighbourhoods, lines and places with different identities.

The strength of the plan is that the various projects can be set up separately, which enables a decisive approach. Several parts of the project are currently being carried out, including a community school and a residential nucleus of approximately 100 houses. Sense of Place, The Atlas of Cultural Ecology of Rotterdam

Type: Research Location: Rotterdam Client: High Rise Team Rotterdam Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water, Jan van Teeffelen, Iris Dudock, Arnold Reijndorp with Frank Hornis Collaborator / associate: Department of Housing and Town Planning (dS+V) Material: Publication, 60 pag. full-color, ISBN 90-72498-18-6 and CD-rom with interactive computer program

The Atlas of Cultural Ecology of Rotterdam was commissioned by the High-Rise Team and has been drawn up by Arnold Reijndorp, urban sociologist at Rotterdam and member of the High-Rise Team, bureau NEXT Architects from Amsterdam and the Department of Housing and Town Planning (dS+V), working in combination. The High-Rise Team was set up by the city of Rotterdam to further the spatial and programmatic quality of the planned high-rise and other large-scale developments in the city centre. The atlas, being a new instrument, plays an important role in this process.

After more than 50 years of rebuilding, the centre of Rotterdam starts to show the appetites of a real inner city. The cultural dynamics are driven from within, and are no longer the result of planning and project development. This atlas tries to capture the new sense of place in Rotterdam, which is the result of spontaneous and informal developments. It shows a series of maps that reveal the city in different formal and informal layers.

The project aims to inspire policy makers, urban designers and developers to become more sensitive to the fact that urban areas are ever-changing organisms; new developments should be finely tuned to suit to their surroundings. Hortus Conclusus

Type: Urban plan Location: Kortrijk, Belgium Client: Municipality of Kortrijk Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Completion: September 2000 Status: Competition, honourable mention

In this urban design for an abandoned factory site, the existing factory wall is doubled and the required programme is positioned in the cavity in between. As a result, it is now feasible for a large part of the vacuum that the departure of the textile factory left in the building block to remain empty. The new wall is used as a framework that organizes the new programme. In addition to houses, this new programme consists of parking space and a number of specific outdoor spaces such as a sports garden and a rose garden.

The existing English garden is naturally incorporated within the new framework. The remnant of the factory complex that is central to the unprogrammed space left at the heart of the plan will be equipped as a community centre.

Holland Layer by Layer

Type: Research Client: Bouwfonds Nederland Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk Status: Competition, 2nd prize, first prize Archiprix First Prize Archiprix 2000

Accessibility is a basic condition of urban development. Accessibility as an article of faith has resulted in one-way thinking: the more connections, the merrier. More and more the Netherlands, dominated by fast means of transport, is turning into a thoroughfare. It is dragged along in the wake of acceleration and slowly, the question is arising of whether there is any place left to stand still. We raise spectres: will the Netherlands soon be exactly the same everywhere? The same shops, the same houses, the same people?

As a result of the increased accessibility of the big cities in the Randstad, the relative distances between the centres themselves have dwindled over the years. Now that ever more connections completely invalidate the concept of distance, perhaps the question is if we should discard the geographical notion randstad and reintroduce time as a spatial element in the cartographic exercise.

The 2030 Tempographic Map of all movements paints a tempting picture of Holland Layer by Layer. It illustrates the possibility to use both acceleration and deceleration to make progress. If we vary accessibility, we can equip a country of extremes: a land of metro-poles that contrast sharply with rural

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Project published in Density projects The proposed building layout interprets the master plan guidelines maximizing the positive interaction between the existing structure of the city, the new sequence of buildings and public spaces, the pursuit of urban quality and the creation of a residential complex of high environmental quality. The disposition of the building masses and the inner terraced profile follow the path of the sun and the views from and toward the collective amenities.

The confirmation of the historical imprint of the perimeter block is enriched by new features, creating a contemporary environment which conjugates the resources of inner city living with the spatial needs of contemporary lifestyles. The articulation of the outer fronts generate a rich urban texture, where the relationship with the ground and the sky orientates a series of living solutions watching a plurality of private outdoor spaces. The design of the inner common garden treasures Milans deeply rooted historical tradition of the inner courtyard. A careful study on dimensions, distribution, structure and technical installations generates the very high flexibility and living quality of the apartments, whose partition can strongly vary over time. The choice of materials and construction details remarks the high attention for comfort and environmental sustainability criteria.

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reVision Dallas / Entangled Bank

30 Jul 2009 By Karen Cilento Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,News ,Sustainability , Entangled Bank, Little, Re:Vision Dallas Competition Favorite

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The Re: Vision Dallas competition named three winners, two of which we previously featured on AD (DB + P and Atelier Data + Moov). The third winner is Little, a studio based in North Carolina, with their Entangled Bank proposal. Entangled Bank combines heavy duty technological prowess with artistic integration of systems. The building is designed as a holistic, integrated designThe Entangled Bank entry materials was incredibly impressive Each unit type was designed, completed with suggested sale price and amount of energy consumption. A wide array of green collar job programs were provided that work with the design of the building to engage residents and educate visitors. All of the jurors were struck by the thorough and joyous submission of Entangled Bank, explained juror Eric Corey Freed.

More about the project (including a great video) after the break.

Entangled Bank is a series of complex networks connecting various elements in the community. Similar to how a natural bank itself is meant to sustain and offer every opportunity for its constituents to succeed, the same notion can be related to the social landscape of Dallas. This project offers the opportunity to develop a network that supports those that flourishbut also rehabilitates those that have withered, explained the architects.

The project utilizes innovative sustainable strategies to improve the natural environment. The south facing solar facade is seamlessly woven together with vertical wind turbines and an onsite biogas plant. The tower is on the south side to be self shading to the courtyard below, and sculpted by the angles of the sun. The east face of the tower is a folded plate living wall, incorporating the units for maximum day-lighting control, not revenue.

Yet, the architects went a step further and began to wonder if perhaps this project will seek to sustain what might be our richest and most influential resourcethe human. All too often we focus on hanging the effect without reviewing the cause. Inspired by the entangle bank metaphor, the project developed into a space that will fertilize an old parking lot in the hopes that dormant seeds of retail, commercial, residential and social equality if given water, in the form of education and teaching, and sunlight, represented in the sustainable movement of nature and man, can encourage this bank to flourish and grow beyond its original footprint. In doing so, the proposal hopes to transform the city block into not just a newer city or country, but eventually create a world that can sustain itself and also rehabilitate and support the people that are a part of that network.

FIRM: Little