Xmas & 2012 ahead!

andARCHITECTURE thanks you for an inspiring, jam-packed & challenging 2011! Enjoy the moment "between the years" & "glide well" into 2012!

Europan 11 Shared Transition

Unfortunately andARCHITECTURE's contribution to the Europan competition goes without award or mention. Our very down-to-earth proposal does the least to change the most. This is actually the urban implementation of our Student Para-Siting plan. A combination of several archipunctures, budget awareness, student eagerness and owner's open mindedness could cumulate forming a diverse student and working pioneering quarter with later changes to a more diverse basis. In several steps we provide interesting basic housing space for new-dwellers, improve the bicycle connections on a higher level, activate and attract amenities and improve the surroundings in a green way. We don't design icons, we don't touch private ground more than absolutely necessary and we are very eager to keep it feasible. Simple does it, but not in this case. You can see a slideshow of the concept to the left under urbanism>europan 11. We congratulate the winning teams and are excited to see the winning plans in the publication!
As we are not the only losers, have a look at this article on archined. Let's keep it with Beckett: Fail again, fail better!
Here are the winners!

Student Para-Siting

andARCHITECTURE wants to engage in further research on the possibilities of temporary housing concepts for students, using two problems (housing shortage amongst students & vacant office space) to make up one fantastic solution! 2 million square meters of vacant office space are momentarily unused - that is only in the Amsterdam region. We feel with the students craving for a place in the jam-packed Randstad cities, so we looked at a lot of details from building regulations to financial hinders and innovative material use and came up with solutions for affordable low-standard accommodations.

By means of do-it-yourself-building options (under supervision by craftsmen), a self-controlled management system (supervised by university and/or student organizations) and flexible, reversible interior components (bath cells, kitchen cores, electro trolleys) we want to make unused space accessible and instead of delivering a more or less glossy cell, create more of a shared living experience. If you want to keep updated on this issue, subscribe to our newsletter by sending a mail to Carst Abma. Please support our call at NewVenture and help us continue our research - for the benefit of the student population!
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Student Para-siting - Carst Abma from New Venture on Vimeo.