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SeARCH
ITINERARY Bjarne Mastenbroek won Europan 2 in 1991, “Living in the city”, teamed with Dick van Gameren on the Nijmegen site (NL) . This competition project has been followed by an implementation of 57 housing units with a parking on the roof. Bjarne Mastenbroek graduated from TU Delft Faculty of Architecture in 1989. After having opening his own office together with Dick van Gameren and other architects, Bjarne Mastenbroek founded SeARCH bv in 2002. Outside his professional practice, Bjarne Mastenbroek started lecturing at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in Barcelona in 2006. |
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PARKING AND PUBLIC SPACE Researching parking solution to create car-free public space. |
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Leidsche Rijn (NL) - Car-free neighbourhoodThe brief for this project pre-scribed an eight-storey apartment complex adjacent to a residential park with a reduced traffic flow. By cutting the building in two and placing the parts side-by-side, the capacity of the garage underneath was doubled. The parking zone planned for the centre of the project to be shifted underneath the apartments, let a practically car-free environment. The space between the two linear volumes and above the garage, was then used to create an open courtyard and vehicular access road loops through the residential park’ beginning and ending in the garage. By organising the project in this way, an improved relationship between the two elements of the project, and their different housing typologies, is created. The height of the apartment block is halved so it no longer screens the sun from the park dwellings. |
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EMPTINESS Is true architecture not the design of emptiness: the space between walls, floors and ceilings, between the materials themselves? Does the opposite not lead inevitably to flamboyance and ostentation, to something that aspires to be more than it actually is? |
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Amsterdam (NL) - IdentityCeremonial traditions and rituals present few recognisable reference points for a synagogue’s physical expression. In this project, a neutral rectilinear volume is formed through the optimally efficient use of both site and budget. The hollowing out of this mass, suggests the ‘emptiness’ of the great Sjoel, and lends the building its identity. The Sjoel consists of a large central space, with low extensions on either side under two-tiered balconies. |
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INTENSE STREET Interconnected fragments: from the steet, all functions can be accessed and each one receives frontage on the street. |
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Enschede (NL) - Culture clusterA pedestrian bridge connects the tower to the warehouse on the opposite side of the ‘culture street’. The new building, is also connected to the warehouse via an underground connection. This subterranean link, with the bridge above, creates a loop between the new building, the warehouse and back, negating the necessity to cover the street, and enclose 1000m2 of inefficient floor space. All functions, including the residential accommodation, can now be accessed from the street. |
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MULTI MOBILITY Interlink of the urban programme with the surrounding neighbourhood by means of a series of public spaces and stratified streets. Parking and programmes further assist in the integration with the public domain. |
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Leuven (B) - Stratified public spacesA mixed-use development is planned on an elongated site to the north of the train station in Leuven. The intensively used passage under the railway tracks flows into a new public space on the Kessel-Lo side of the tracks. This open space flows under the busy road and slopes steadily up to connect with an important non-vehicular circulation route. The plan comprises offices, apartments, commercial spaces, a multiplex, 2 hotels, 2000 bicycles storage and a car park for 900 cars. |
Europan Generation, The reinterpreted city Catalogue (including postage) |