Print Email Facebook Twitter The Park District Town Hall Title The Park District Town Hall Author Boon, A. Contributor Garritzmann, U. (mentor) Linnemann, M. (mentor) Klein, T. (mentor) Faculty Architecture Date 2006-07-07 Abstract Graduation laboratory: Decorated Diagram Assignment: The design is of a district town hall for Osdorp (Amsterdam West) situated at the edge of Osdorp Park. The district town hall has some kind of presence in the area and addresses certain issues in relation to the location and the program. The issue of representation should be present and dealt with in some specific way. In this design for a district town hall in Osdorp, Amsterdam I will address the issue of representation by using the park as a special element in the sequences of use in and around the building and thus creating different ceremonial spaces. I want to emphasize that which unites the population of Osdorp; that which they have in common. The park is that which the people of Amsterdam-West have in common and adds a pleasant and important space, which softens the hard transition from private to public space which exists in Amsterdam West. The district town hall rises out of the ground and is "decorated" with natural stone and grass. This envelopes the diagram of a new state bureaucracy that is created in Osdorp Park. The state and the people should be represented in a city hall. The "ground" of Amsterdam West is special and out of it rises: the city hall. The park enters the building in many different ways, some more literal than others. There are more than two ceremonial spaces in a town hall. There are not just the Wedding Hall and the Council Hall, but in my opinion the Central (entrance) Hall and circulation spaces are also ceremonial spaces and should be treated as such. There are of course differences between the spaces, but making visitors and civil workers feel important through making spaces special is essential in a good town hall. Subject interiorarchitecturestadsdeelkantoorOsdorpspace To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7592fbf9-a4b3-48b3-b9ef-2d72507fa1ac Publisher TU Delft, Architecture, Architecture Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2006 Boon, A. Files PDF arc_boon_20060707.pdf 5.84 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7592fbf9-a4b3-48b3-b9ef-2d72507fa1ac/datastream/OBJ/view