New complex building in Zuidas: Zuid.as Destination

Hybrid buildings adapt to the needs of contemporary cities, mitigating the division between the private and the public realms. These buildings tend usually to be invasive in nature, proposing complexity in terms of form and functional diversity. They shatter the borders between architectural and urban scale, challenging pre-established notion of density and scale. The graduation studio of Hybrid buildings focuses on how architectural interventions can activate and contribute to the process of urban transformation, explores the Hybrid buildings as catalysts of urban transformations. In the studio, keyword of the design process is always the relation between urban and architectural scale. We investigate transportation nodes and architectural interventions into the framework of urban context, based on the hypothesis that architecture exists within its urban context, and vice versa. In the framework of the Hybrid graduation studio my design approaches to reconnect the infrastructural crack in the area reorganizing the current train station and adding a new cultural building on the top, transforming it finally to a new complex building that functioning as a catalyst for the area.Master of science in Architecture, Urbanism and Building sciencesArchitectureArchitectur