Living in the Crafts Wharf

In Amsterdam the house prices are raising to unaffordable heights for an average person, creating a housing shortage for a large range of target groups. This puts a lot of pressure on the already ongoing growing city; it forces Amsterdam to expand its built environment and rise the urban density to be able to keep up with the request for affordable housing for the increasing population. Transformation of existing buildings is one way of dealing with this issue. Amsterdam has a vibrant live-work character and especially the former Marine Terrain is pointed out to be the new, creative, start-up district for young professionals. The adjacent neighbourhood Kattenburg offers great potential for transformation and densification to go along with the ideas for the Marine Terrain. As well, the historical background of Kattenburg shows us a tradition of working and living on the island and current developments demand for a denser, diverse, vibrant, urban neighbourhood¬ with combined working and living on different scale levels and in different ways. This means that the design shows the relation between ‘working and living’ on urban, building and dwelling scale. Especially the work-live dwelling is further analysed in a personal research and had a great impact on the design process.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentArchitecture & DwellingDutch Housing Studi