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The UID Cube – Amsterdam
The UID Cube – Amsterdam
Finalist, 2019 A+Awards, Commercial - Unbuilt Commercial
Project Featured on Feb 19, 2020
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The UID Cube – Amsterdam
Finalist, 2019 A+Awards, Commercial - Unbuilt Commercial
Project Featured on Feb 19, 2020
Situated at the entrance to Amsterdam’s new Urban Interactive District (UID), The Cube creates wonder and surprise in an otherwise generic and predicable context. The pedestrian-scaled podium anchors the building into its surroundings, while the rotated cube floats freely above, enveloped in a mysterious, metallic cloud. The cube is aligned with southern solar exposure, enabling sunlight to penetrate through a large atrium in its center, daylighting spaces on the north side of the volume.
The project is destined to become an iconic object for the new high-density district while simultaneously amplifying and framing the public realm. Its five-story commercial podium is an interactive grid-frame with color-coded civic inserts. Elevators and a wrapping staircase are carved out of the grid, providing public access to the sixth-floor roof commons, which acts as hinge between base and tower.
The Cube is designed to be the Netherlands’ most desired and energy efficient workplace. Starting with a well-crafted box, a façade of overlapping brass rods shades the volume of single- and multi-tenant office floors, and within, a complex “beehive” atrium of social spaces and stairways. Natural ventilation is incorporated extensively, a critical element in a suite of measures designed to achieve net-zero energy status.
Credits: Craig Schwitter BuroHappold Engineering, Erik Olsen Transsolar KlimaEngineering
Credits:
- Transsolar KlimaEngineering - Managing Partner (Energy + Systems Concept Consultant) - Erik Olsen
- BuroHappold Engineering - Partner (Structural Concept Consultant) - Craig Schwitter
The project is destined to become an iconic object for the new high-density district while simultaneously amplifying and framing the public realm. Its five-story commercial podium is an interactive grid-frame with color-coded civic inserts. Elevators and a wrapping staircase are carved out of the grid, providing public access to the sixth-floor roof commons, which acts as hinge between base and tower.
The Cube is designed to be the Netherlands’ most desired and energy efficient workplace. Starting with a well-crafted box, a façade of overlapping brass rods shades the volume of single- and multi-tenant office floors, and within, a complex “beehive” atrium of social spaces and stairways. Natural ventilation is incorporated extensively, a critical element in a suite of measures designed to achieve net-zero energy status.
Credits: Craig Schwitter BuroHappold Engineering, Erik Olsen Transsolar KlimaEngineering
Credits:
- Transsolar KlimaEngineering - Managing Partner (Energy + Systems Concept Consultant) - Erik Olsen
- BuroHappold Engineering - Partner (Structural Concept Consultant) - Craig Schwitter
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