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OVER-BRUGGEN environmental spatial furniture design

OVER-BRUGGEN / BRIDGE THE GAP

The What if Lab (Dutch Design Foundation) and clients of the innovation team of the Program Bureau Bruggen & Kades of the Municipality of Amsterdam (PBK) selected and linked Florian Eckardt and Ivanka Bakker to neighborhood maker Arjen Heus, after which we set to work together to think about the refurbishment of various Amsterdam bridges.
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CONCEPT Amsterdam has about 1800 bridges. Many of them were never intended for the heavy traffic that goes over them today. One possibility to spare the bridges is
to close them for car and freight traffic. How do you transform freed space in Amsterdam centre, taking its residents into account.
We invited the people of Amsterdam to participate - brainstorming with them, not for them. That process surfaced valuable input, with a clear preference for social activity and a focus on lighting and greenery. We wove Amsterdam's voice directly into the design concept, developing a recognisable identity built on three concepts: modular and combinable, sustainable and low-maintenance.
These three concepts - living room, stories, and modular sitting & playing - along with their resulting designs, can be implemented across the city in varying compositions. Free spaces with easy chairs, stages and story frames emerge on the bridges, while a modular backbone separates bicycle traffic from the residential area. Together, they form a recognisable identity, true to the character of Amsterdam and shaped through local participation.

TEAM The What if Lab (Dutch Design Foundation) and clients of the innovation team of the Program Bureau Bruggen & Kades of the Municipality of Amsterdam (PBK)
selected and linked Florian Eckardt and Ivanka Bakker to neighborhood maker Arjen Heus, after which we set to work together to think about the refurbishment
of various Amsterdam bridges.

whatiflab.nl/amsterdamse-bruggen-voor-de-toekomst/