The thesis focusses on the architectural investigation of modern food production techniques. Feeding our cities becomes an increasing train on our environment and our society has never been as much disconnected from the origins of the nutrition as in our current time.

The thesis proposes a food production laboratory at the border of Amsterdam. Good infrastructural connections and the proximity to a high density city stimulate the interaction with the way our food is grown and locally accessible.

The focus of the graduation studio AMS MID CITY is creating future scenarios through architectural design with as a testing ground the city of Amsterdam in 2050. The posed problem I encountered during my research on work in the future and the city is that the pace of the revolution of works grows faster than ever. So individuals have been forced to adapt to social progress and technological development. A lot of new business will start during the transition period. However, a lot of people working in traditional, lowskilled jobs will lose their job because of replacing by robots.

The ambition of my project is to help people adapting to the new age in terms of the job (re)start-ups.

Our group site location is on Zeeburgereisland, the outskirt of the central Amsterdam, isolated to the mainland for decades. In our group vision we are going to make it isolated but well-connected, a pilot and self-sufficient. In our site, there are 40% of social housing out of the whole housing amounts. It means a lot of people living on the island are lowerclass. They are mainly engaged in low-skilled jobs (about to be replaced by technology in the future), due to their limited educational resources. In 2050, a large proportion of people will need the occupation transition.

The design brief resulted in the design of “an [Re]startup Hub”. A future [Re]start-up hub, which works on educating and integrating the skills and abilities of different people, so that they can learn from each other, and create job opportunities. The value of places will shift to the promotion of networking, socializing, collaboration, hyper-individualized learning, and will be spaces where serendipity, unplanned encounters, unanticipated opportunities, and coincidences can occur, encouraging diversity activities, communication, and creativity.

With several years’ development, the architecture discipline has reached a bottle neck that the traditional space design cannot follow the society’s improvement and meet with people’s expectation due to lifestyle’s change, there appears many new kinds of intervention based on building technology such as water building, 3D print building and also buildings with cross-discipline such as wearable architecture with fashion design, integration design of architecture and infrastructure. Water lock built in the 19th century utilized grand structure to monumentalize the ingenuity of man. This project is trying to test the potential of transforming the traditional hydraulic infrastructure into a new water public space based on time horizon 2050.

Today it would be unimaginable to think of a world without cars. It was this very invention that since its introduction in 1885 brought societies together, gave people freedom, and brought prosperity to economies. After more than one hundred thirty years, the car has become an integral component of modern life, to such an extent that it is part of the urban fabric. Cities have been reimagined to facilitate this means of transport. Tremendous road networks have been constructed. New building typologies were designed. As a result, there are now an estimated 600 million cars on this planet, with numerous projections suggesting this will increase to a billion by 2030. However the car and its physical by-products, such as infrastructure and parking facilities, have become increasingly unpopular due to the polluting effect on our environment and experience of the city. Nowadays we are
told, we must abandon the car and break ourselves of decades of dependency. But despite all protests against the car and its effects, people still love to drive. To condemn the car from the road, denies most people of their everyday amusement. Hence a more thought out solution is needed
Arguing that the presence and use of car mobility will not change drastically, the demand for its amenities will likely increase. Thanks to the island’s high connectivity, it has a large traffic flow of personal car mobility. Where the inner districts of the city are becoming more car restricted, the island is the right place to facilitate this traffic flow, and relief these restricted zones. Therefore a transitional place will erect, where car commuters and visitors to the city can swap from their personal owned cars to a other form of transport. In short Zeeburgereiland, despite being an island, will function as a prime mobility centre what serves the whole region of Amsterdam.

The project is a transformable architecture that has three different configurations. For each configuration there is a specific purpose-festival, theater school and cinema. Floating on the water facilitates the process of transformation from one scheme to another. Socially, locating on the Baaibuurten block, Zeeburgereiland, the building will serve the community especially for people's cultural and leisure life in 2050.

How will we spend our days in 2050? when rethinking all parts of our current daily routines, we may ask ourselves why we spend it the way we do. i want to state that we should base our future daily routines on intervals of work and rest, consuming our prosperity as free time. my project stimulates these new routines and thereby offers a system of mentral breaks, as a socially accepted part of our future routines, and part of the urban structure.

the design is based on an ensemble of a tower, a square and a block. these volumes don't only respond to their direct surroundings, but also relate to the human poses 'standing', 'laying' and 'sitting'. these poses then again stand for the type of functions they host. the tower of talks is the standing and active one, hosting social functions such as room for debate. the square is the laying one, hosting baths and space for contemplation. house of rituals is the sitting one, offering treatments. When you are moving through the complex, the experience is an important part of it. Looking at the city from a different perspective- the city becomes somewhat unreal. The layers of materialisation show this distanciation, but also the contrast between the human scale, and the imposing spaces, referring to the ancient bathhouse. It is claiming back room for human relaxation and mental rest.

We can handle the good life, if only we take the time.