Architecture studio
Space Encounters Amsterdam designed a housing complex located between the Tolhuis Canal and the IJ River in the center of Buiksloterham City-Plots, a post-industrial area in the north of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This area is being transformed and densified into a vibrant part of the city.
The Doors project is part of the Buiksloterham City-Plots Master Plan, one of the first urban transformation projects in this area, formerly made up of a landscape that used to be dominated by shipyards, dry docks, and powerful cranes.
The project carries out a careful approximation and integration with the existing buildings, a morphological set of buildings that are generating a dense and mixed-use neighborhood, hybridizing its language, architectural appearance, and spatial configuration.