Stadspoort Amsterdam

dc.contributor.advisorWilliams, Isaac Sen_US
dc.contributor.advisorSchumacher, Thomas Len_US
dc.contributor.authorMarcelis, Ritsaart Jensen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-06T06:37:08Z
dc.date.available2009-10-06T06:37:08Z
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis will attempt to redevelop the immediate context of Amsterdam's central train station in order to reinvigorate the station's intended purpose of serving as a gateway to the city. Implicit in this goal is the need to examine the transportation and visitor functions housed on the site and to resolve them in a more urbanistically coherent way. However, the main focus of the thesis is to investigate the history and culture of the city and to synthesize them into a built form which is clearly evocative of Amsterdam's gestalt. Since architecture inherently reflects the attitudes of the community that produced it, it is hoped that much of this synthesis may be achieved by examining the tectonic approaches used in Amsterdam's recent and distant architectural past and then reinterpreting them for the twenty-first century. A secondary focus for the thesis is to attempt to repair the rift in the city's urban fabric that was caused by locating the station at Amsterdam's waterfront, effectively splitting the city in two. Although the primary area of interest is the plaza in front of the station, this secondary focus will necessitate interventions both in the station itself and on its waterfront edge. By means of these investigations and interventions it is hoped that the site can be reinvigorated as a culturally and urbanistically significant entryway to the city.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/9642
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledUrban and Regional Planningen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTransportationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAmsterdamen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcentraal stationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCuypersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledgatewayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledintermodalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransporten_US
dc.titleStadspoort Amsterdamen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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