Train Station in Almere Pampus

Train Station in Almere Pampus

Papadonikolaki, E.

Bier, H. (mentor)
Biloria, N. (mentor)
Sobota, M. (mentor)

Architecture

Architecture

Hyperbody Research Group

2012-10-30

The project deals with the creation of a new train station in Almere Pampus, which is now an empty undeveloped area, included in the Almere 2030 Vision. The first stage included analyses and criticism on the existing proposed context. The city of Almere is a relatively young city and up to today it serves as a “sleeping-city” for Amsterdam, which concentrates a great part of the economy and the services sector, and has a shortage in housing. Consequently the research was oriented towards a way to enhance the mix of functions in the area and reduce the phenomenon of “zoning”. The outcome of these ideas was to design a process of functional growth, which could provide a differentiated, highly connected and optimized urban constellation. This constellation was further evaluated through the development of a series of patterns of evaluation. The development of the design and the process were data-driven, inspired and guided from a variety of input: social, architectural, structural, formal and environmental. The method included a computational approach that embodied input of the relevant architectural intentions from the associating domains. Due to its indigenous nature and technical restrictions, a train station is merely a structural development. Consequently, the results of the structural analyses and evaluations were constantly informing the final configuration. Patterns either as analytical or as synthetic tools were again developed in order to control the variety of possible decisions. The further architectural gestures included a mixture of top-down and bottom-up approaches that represented important decisions for the project. The top-down decisions were for example, the relation between the station infrastructure, its functional and spatial demands and the surroundings. The bottom-up customized approaches refer to the functional distribution, internal circulation and accessibility analyses and the responsive character of the building to the environmental and contextual parameters. The project was developed in a variety of scales; in an adequate extend, from urban and social, to interior. In terms of architecture, the project addressed issues of environmental concerns in its most visible feature: the façade, in order to meet the current and also predict future requirements in respect to energy efficiency. The exterior skin of the building will be a new milieu for the generation of renewable energy. In general, the project contains an integrated and thorough impression of non-standard architecture that elaborates and responds to multi-scalar problems. It contains several levels of investigations evenly distributed among diverse but important fields of architecture.

Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture
hyperbody
train station
computational
pattern
megastructure

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:607fa427-2435-499a-9e67-d42ff07ec4bc

2012-10-31

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2012 Papadonikolaki, E.