Samenvatting

The large measures of the CIAM-based Bijlmermeer district still exert their influence on the living environment and infrastructure, making it difficult for the population to create facilities which meet their way of life. In close contact with inhabitants of Kraaiennest a new program is set up to provide community spaces, ranging from markets to workspaces and mixed-use event space (including a replacement for the present mosque and church). This program relates to a new multilevel approach to the Kraainnest metro station. The total design reacts to the original infrastructural architecture of the metro line and the surroundings strips of flats and apartments blocks but adds a new scale of use to the city floor and the upper layers. The design improves the urban space and connects with the unique Bijlmer culture through new mediating architectural strategies