XVW architectuur designed Parkeergarage A1, a 250-space community car park incorporating a health centre at ground level in the north of Amsterdam. The design question was how this transport infrastructure building could find its rightful place in its largely new dense mixed-use neighbourhood? How does a car park relate to the houses and apartments built next to it?
Xander Vermeulen Windsant, founder of XVW architectuur will be a speaker at the ΕΣΩ conference that will take place on 15.06.2022 at Onassis Stegi.
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XVW architectuur has completed a 250-space community car park incorporating a health centre at ground level in Buiksloterham in the north of Amsterdam. The design of Parkeergarage A1 had to answer the question of how this transport infrastructure building could find its rightful place in its largely new dense mixed-use neighbourhood. How does a car park relate to the houses and apartments built next to it?
The quality of the steel mesh diagrid elevations of Parkeergarage A1 addresses this question by making it read less like a car park per se and more like an entrance to the neighbourhood. The relief pattern of the façade catches the light and animates its form in ways that break down the volume of the building while playing on the industrial past of its context and its particular building typologies, like the non-descript sheds that give little indication of what is contained within them.
On the street level, timber slatted cladding introduces a warmer, tactile and more human interface. The natural wooden finish contrasts with the cooler sleek steel architecture above.
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Xander Vermeulen Windsant, founder of XVW architectuur will be a speaker at the ΕΣΩ conference that will take place on 15.06.2022 at Onassis Stegi.
Book your tickets and learn more about this year’s ESO conference.
Credits & Details
Client: Huber Car Parking Systems for De Alliantie Ontwikkeling
Function: 245 x car parking, health care center
Location: Amsterdam, NL
Date: 2016-2019
Status: Completed
Area: 7500 m²
Design Team: Xander Vermeulen Windsant, Bartjan van ‘t Slot
Consultants: Peutz, Perree
Type of commission: Direct
Method of construction: Steel frame, steel concrete deck, metal penal facade, prefab concrete staircases
Photographers: Isabel Nabuurs, Marcel van der Burg
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