DeTower

Nicole Mechkaroff, Agnieszka Sekula, Alex Falk, Andreas Zingerle & Sietse Dols Academic Student Team Rotterdam, Scale 1:50

 

Location: Intersection West-Kruiskade + Westersingel; one of the 3 sites along the Westersingel intervening with significant urban conditions in need of more social interaction and diversity.

 

Topic: Green and sustainable architecture

 

This site holds an important location close to Rotterdam Central Station, Chinatown and a business area. A vertical stack of observation and information areas invites the pedestrian or cycler into a maze of columns at ground level, displaying text of online blogging, tagging and twittering activity posted by the people of Rotterdam. There is also a view the nearby canal and access to other types of underground information. DeTower becomes an interactive information system that is changing due to the local community's input and not necessarily the big companies around it.