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Marcanti Island, Marcanti College and The Pyramids,
Amsterdam, 1996>2006
The Marcanti Island is a secluded, triangular area in
Amsterdam-West that was largely built up with staggered rows of houses in the
late 1970s. The original plan, designed by Sier van Rhijn, was symmetrical in
layout but remained partly unfinished, because an old temporary school and
sport halls still stood on the site.
The
brief called for giving this striking spot in the city an identity and
expanding it with housing and a new school. It was decided to complete the
design from the 1970s. Demolishing the old school and the sport halls created
space to add two linked four-storey housing strips, literally in keeping with
Van Rhijn’s architecture. The Marcanti College was built in the same idiom in
the curve of the Jan van Galenstraat, a stepped school building with an atrium
in the middle. The school, like the new residential buildings, dovetail with
the existing urban-design typology: it mirrors the block structure around the
axis of the island and completes the originally intended symmetry.
On
the axis of the triangular island, perpendicular to the Jan van Galenstraat,
space was created for a high and large building. The first design for this
building consisted of a single pyramidal tower, 75 metres high. The city found
this too tall, and so instead of one tall tower, two shorter, interlocking
triangular towers with stepped sides were created. They stand on a raised plaza
with a parking garage underneath.
The
pyramidal shape of the towers mirrors the triangular shape of the island. The
towers also give the Marcanti Island a symbol that refers to the Berlage urban
design in the vicinity, in which at crucial points the normal height of four to
five storeys is interrupted by a tall building.
The
Pyramids are different on every side. The stepped sides gave the apartments
amazing terraces. The stepped shape also makes for a good transition to the
surrounding four-storey dwellings. The shoulders of the building are the same
height as the existing buildings, and from there the towers increase in
distance and height. This makes them less dominant.
Amsterdam, 1996>2006
The Marcanti Island is a secluded, triangular area in
Amsterdam-West that was largely built up with staggered rows of houses in the
late 1970s. The original plan, designed by Sier van Rhijn, was symmetrical in
layout but remained partly unfinished, because an old temporary school and
sport halls still stood on the site.
The
brief called for giving this striking spot in the city an identity and
expanding it with housing and a new school. It was decided to complete the
design from the 1970s. Demolishing the old school and the sport halls created
space to add two linked four-storey housing strips, literally in keeping with
Van Rhijn’s architecture. The Marcanti College was built in the same idiom in
the curve of the Jan van Galenstraat, a stepped school building with an atrium
in the middle. The school, like the new residential buildings, dovetail with
the existing urban-design typology: it mirrors the block structure around the
axis of the island and completes the originally intended symmetry.
On
the axis of the triangular island, perpendicular to the Jan van Galenstraat,
space was created for a high and large building. The first design for this
building consisted of a single pyramidal tower, 75 metres high. The city found
this too tall, and so instead of one tall tower, two shorter, interlocking
triangular towers with stepped sides were created. They stand on a raised plaza
with a parking garage underneath.
The
pyramidal shape of the towers mirrors the triangular shape of the island. The
towers also give the Marcanti Island a symbol that refers to the Berlage urban
design in the vicinity, in which at crucial points the normal height of four to
five storeys is interrupted by a tall building.
The
Pyramids are different on every side. The stepped sides gave the apartments
amazing terraces. The stepped shape also makes for a good transition to the
surrounding four-storey dwellings. The shoulders of the building are the same
height as the existing buildings, and from there the towers increase in
distance and height. This makes them less dominant.
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