In cities driven by economic gain, there is not much room for those who do not rightly fit within established structures. And even if they are given a spot, they are obliged to vacate it as soon as more profitable activities present themselves. The history of the NDSM shipyard in Amsterdam demonstrates the power of [&hellip… →
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NDSM Shipyard
For years, since the bankruptcy of the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw en Droogdok Maatschappij (NDSM, the Dutch Shipbuilding and Dry dock Company) in 1984, the NDSM Shipyard in the Northern part of Amsterdam stood abandoned. With the exception of the occasional flea market or show by the experimental theatre group Dogtroep, not much was happening on the [&hellip… →
Skate park Amsterdam
In 2005, Skatepark Amsterdam was built inside the shipbuilding hall, next to Kunststad (Art City). Skaters from Vrieshuis Amerika, one of the cleared squats along the river IJ, came together and applied themselves to building a new skate park in the NDSM hall. Eva helped them realize this project. She arranged financing and coached the skaters [&hellip… →
Cafe-restaurant Noorderlicht
A group of young women from Amsterdam once investigated building with straw bales and catering. They had built houses with recycled materials before, at Westerdok and the ADM terrain. Now, they turned to straw as building material. Stro & Co (Straw and Co.) was founded, and, after various straw-building projects across the world, they erected [&hellip… →
Garage Kempering
Exploring the possibilities of repurposing and temporary exploitation of the four floor garage, benefitting city gardening and small-scale businesses. Commissioned by Projectbureau Verniewing Bijlmermeer, District Amsterdam Zuidoost… →
Art City NDSM
In 2007, Kunststad arose inside the large shipbuilding hall of the NDSM Shipyard. Kunststad (Art City) is a city designed and built by the citizens themselves, with 80 studios and business premises, 12 large theatre workshops, and an indoor skate park. To get as much creative freedom and diversity as possible, it was decided to [&hellip… →
Layana Mokoginta
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Guild of Industrial Buildings along the river IJ
The Gilde van Werkgebouwen aan het IJ (the Guild of Industrial Buildings along the river IJ) was founded in 1993 in reaction to the project Manhattan aan het IJ: the large-scale redevelopment of the banks of the IJ by the city of Amsterdam and a consortium of property developers and banks (now the Zuidas). The [&hellip… →
Communual Space
The residents of Heesterveld felt a great need for a communal space. Eva held a competition for the interior, the entry send in by students of Rietveld Academy (the art academy) and residents of the building complex won, and the communal space H75 was realized. Eva helped with the development of the plans, the permits, [&hellip… →
The City as a Shell
“De Stad als Casco” (The City as a Shell) is a city development model based on a bottom-up approach (casco is a shell, a basic structure of a building or body of a ship). Goal is to create a lively city within this casco, in which people take up responsibility for their own environment thus [&hellip… →