An alarming quantity of residual space has sprung up along motorways and traffic interchanges in the Netherlands, and each new motorway is only adding to it. The key issue in my final-year project is to redress the present lack of purpose of these vast empty areas with high-quality activities.

I chose to locate my project at the Amstel intersection on the A10 ring road in Amsterdam. This traffic interchange boasts nearly 19 hectares of empty space on the southern rim of a city suffering from a chronic shortage of land for new developments.

The design uses ground-breaking environmental techniques to construct an ecologically viable housing complex based on perimeter blocks along with leisure and commercial facilities.

The design not only responds spatially to the issue of architecture and mobility but also stresses that the two are functionally integrated.

Place of education: TU Delft
Specialization: architecture
Tutors: Anthony Hoete, Boudewijn Bach, Cees van Weeren