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kop zuidas render library interior by BETA and spaceandmatter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

Kop Zuidas

 

The design for Kop Zuidas is inspired by the characteristics of a good city: it hosts a diversity in program, is future proof through flexibility and sustainability concepts and is bound together by an attractive pedestrian space.

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  • kop zuidas scheme landscape by beta spaceandmatter
  • kop zuidas scheme shading sun by beta spaceandmatter
  • kop zuidas scheme access by beta spaceandmatter
The brief called for a design that could establish itself in the rapidly developing context of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district. Envisioned for multi-tenant use, the proposal contains a mix of housing, offices and urban amenities in a design that is best characterized as a continuation of the urban fabric.

The core concept of the design is to create a new layer of urbanity within a building. Its array of living and working typologies is connected by a thrilling public space, encouraging physical activity and fostering encounters between people. Filled with light, air and greenery, this expansive courtyard links a public library, co-working spaces, regular offices, parking and social housing in a single spatial gesture.

In the immediate vicinity of shiny and angular buildings by big-name offices such as BIG and OMA, the architectural elaboration of Kop Zuidas makes a contrasting reference back to the architecture of H.P. Berlage’s Plan Zuid.

site drawing of Zuidas area with Kop Zuidas drawn in black by BETA architects and space&matter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

kop zuidas render exterior fog by beta spaceandmatter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

ground floor plan of Kop Zuidas project by BETA architects space&matter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

fourth floor plan of Kop Zuidas project by BETA architects space&matter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

kop zuidas render interior courtyard by beta spaceandmatter Evert Klinkenberg Auguste Gus van Oppen

kokop zuidas render street by beta spaceandmatter

Project Data

year

2017

client

BPD

site

Zuidas district, Amsterdam

program

10.000 m2 housing, 7.000 m2 commercial, 4.000 m2 parking

status

concept design

collaborators

space&matter (co-architect), Metabolic (circularity), ARUP (engineering), Buro Bouwfysica (regulations)

team

Evert Klinkenberg, Auguste van Oppen, Ryan Dougan

renders

Vismo

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