BREATHING | AMSTERDAM
Project: Future 2040
Location: IJ, Amsterdam
Client: Arcam
Team: Dingeman Deijs and Delva Landscape Architects
Start glimpse of the `` Breathing is the IJ: once the front of Amsterdam, now the back, soon the heart of the city.
Outside North Amsterdam transforms into a self-sustaining recreational archipelago city, the result of creating an energetic underwater landscape.
Urban energy landscape
Netherlands has a rich history in the field of energy landscapes. First there were the peat mining (physical manifestation of energy production) which suggested a strong connection between human energy and landscape. By the second generation energy landscapes - with its underground cables and pipes - this was all lost.
With this glimpse, we give you an idea how we thorough third generation energy landscapes: a durable machine pressed into the hinterland, but physically in the city. Shaping the energy landscape leads to the new urban configuration of the district: 'New Amsterdam'.
Self-sufficiency
New Amsterdam, an area as large as the canal, providing for the future both themselves and the old center of sustainable renewable energy.
Thoughtful modulation of the underwater landscape creates a continuous flow and diversity in depths.
Buildings provide for their warmth or cooling requirements by the temperature differences in the various water depths of the IJ. The underground soil acts as storage.
The IJ is used as a major ecological purification. The cane fields, along with the floating islands food purify the polluted water. `New` Amsterdam provides himself that way of drinking water and basic nutrition.
Energy Storage
For the energy synchronized smoothly with the amount of renewable energy generated, located in Amsterdam `New` some atoll islands. These are pumped with energy surplus and are empty at high energy (surfing the waves). Also get some new buildings large basins on the roof. When this energy surplus pumped and demand for energy is made use of (waterfall). They are renewable energy machines that have a huge impact on the recreational potential of this new city district.
Climate
Besides the basic energy facilities provides 'New Amsterdam' for the necessary security to climate change for example by increasing the water storage capacity and the reception of large fluctuations. Residential areas are above the NAP (New Amsterdams level) to lie. The city has again breathing space.
Breathing Space
In the urban energy landscape 'New Amsterdam' creates opportunities for nature, ecology, recreation and economy
Delva with Dingeman Deijstake take water as their starting point and use the IJ estuary as a generator for energy. In doing so, they have (like other Amsterdam proposals) shifted the city centre. They have used the IJ as a 'heart' as such, pumping energy around to support the city.
Application to Paddington. Seeing as Paddington is an inner city suburb, it can't be pushed to be the hub of city activities. What can be done however, is take our concept of dispersed nuclei around the land from the first project, and allow Paddington Central become the 'beating heart' as such.
Application to Paddington. Seeing as Paddington is an inner city suburb, it can't be pushed to be the hub of city activities. What can be done however, is take our concept of dispersed nuclei around the land from the first project, and allow Paddington Central become the 'beating heart' as such.
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