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Developer Zadelhoff wants to preserve the social purpose of the former Slotervaart Hospital for the city of Amsterdam. Their objective is to maintain a social care function for the neighbourhood. To this end, the iconic cross building of the former Slotervaart Hospital in Amsterdam West is being regenerated into the Center for Care (CvZ), a cohesive and innovative care quarter.

Around this building, there is room for densification and the addition of program. This also fits within the vision of the Municipality of Amsterdam, which foresees a transformation of the district.

The heart of the development is the Center for Care: an institution focused on getting healthy. We propose to develop the healthiest neighbourhood in Amsterdam around it: a community with sustainable living, athletics and a healthy diet as self-evident elements.

Our proposal therefore has three programmatic carriers: sport, healthy food and sustainable living.We integrate these programmatic carriers into an urban framework which refers to the structure of the original ‘polder’ landscape: the Barcode. At the same time, this structure is also an ode to the open allotment of Van Eesteren’s AUP.

This ‘barcode’ is a flexible grid that is the framework of the development – spatially, programmatically and in terms of landscape. We organise the plot into tracks of 15m wide, in which we orient the volumes north-south. A diverse public space is created in between. The grid is a grand gesture that forms a ‘carpet’ around the cross building. At the same time, it is finely meshed to create diversity – in program, height, architecture.

Client: Zadelhoff
Program: 75.000 sqm; residential, office, retail, care
Design: 2021
Status: Concept (Invited Competition)

Team:
Daan Roggeveen
Ties Kweekel
Pedro Figueiredo
Carolina Pereira
Amelie Gaillet

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