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With the entertainment industry having a significant role in our future society, video gaming will naturally be a part of our lives. Gaming has been a growing industry since its introduction in the 70s, however, this activity will be more than just a hobby in the year 2100. Video games will be considered to be the equivalent of physical sports, with professional leagues and large entertainment and merchandise branches, gaming will be a culture and lifestyle. New technologies such as augmented reality, holograms, and zero gravity machines will alter the spatial and social relationship we have nowadays. The screen where we see play video games on is extended as far as our vision reaches, and zero gravity makes it possible to utilize the vertical planes of spaces, resulting in new ways to experience and use our spaces. The formal social arrangement that exists in theatre and stage typologies which are commonly used for screening eSports competitions will get more blurred in the future because augmented technology extends the field of action to your whole field of vision and hologram technology will make it easier to emerge the spectator into the action itself. The future gaming hub will combine the competitive, production and consumer segments of the industry in one high tech building. The three different users can reinforce each other’s workflow creating a synergy of gaming in one place. Besides the building being the mecca for future gaming, it spatially plays a vital role in mediating travelers in the surrounding context. All in all, Game Grounds will be a landmark in Amstel City, connecting people and by providing a universe of gaming possibilities., Complex Projects, AMS Mid City, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

The research and design is about the future of transportation in Amsterdam Amstel and the large node in the area called the mid-city transport hub. Transportation will change in the Amstel area. How people will move through Amstel will change, the same is true for the connection of the Amstel area with other parts of Amsterdam or the Netherlands. The city will become too busy for the car, there will be an increasing use and demand of public transportation. Transportation is not only the transport of people but also the transport of goods. A current trend is that the delivery of goods in the city will increase, due to the increasing ordering of goods on the internet. A new system has to be implemented to accommodate these developments of goods delivery. A possible solution, to these two trends, is to combine them into one building, the mid-city transport hub. To know how this new building typology will work the following research question is raised: How will the future mid-city transport hub be in the Amstel area in the year 2100? In this research the conclusion is proposed that the future mid-city transport hub will be a combination between a node for human transport from Amstel to the rest of the city of Amsterdam and a fulfillment center for goods delivery in the Amstel area. It will have multiple roles to fulfill to become a gateway the Amsterdam Amstel., Complex Projects, AMS Mid City, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

In the coming 80 years, the rise of productivity will result in two main directions: first, decentralization of work and production; second, economy turns its focus to emotion and wellness. So we claim that “Pleasure and Leisure are becoming the next leading economy.” We envision Amstel to be a (P)Leisure City. Within this context, the Fun Universe is an entertainment complex dedicated to producing, presenting and broadcasting all types of social entertaining and visual augmented activities including cinematic experience, interactive performing arts, immersive gaming etc. It is an urban scale "Westworld", a vertical theme park that contains various popular destinations., Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

In the future, with the development of AI, robotics and medical technology, people have higher life expectancy and focus more on mental/spiritual experience. Amstel, as a developing Amsterdam sub-center, is expected to become an (P)Leisure area by 2100. However, not every future residents can live a happy life. With virtual technology addiction, widening wealth gap and rising unemployment rate, the number of NEETs (those who are Not in Education, Employment or Training) will grow significantly. How assist them to rebuild self confidence, learn skills, and return to society is a big problem. Detox Life Sharing Community is a unique future social housing for the rehabilitation of NEETs. The healing effect of greenery plays an important part in this community. Moreover, through a collective lifestyle, the NEETs are encouraged to leave their comfort zone and rebuild social relations. By working with urban farming(tradition of Amstel), NEETs gain knowledge and give back to the community, even creating economic benefits for the entire city. This community is not only the place where the NEETs detox, but also a cultural center of the locals., Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

When looking at the future we try to imagine what will be factors in life we value the most. When it comes to focussing on the main quality of life it comes down to our health. Health will grow into becoming a lifestyle and not only a clinical state. Within a city where the population count will grow towards 1.5 million inhabitants it is the task of the designer to preserve or enhance life quality. Engaging in social, mental and physical health in an everyday life will be the main focus in a growing city. Nowadays the level of medical possibilities is not equal to the system it is housed in. With the rise of technology within the medical field a new typology can develop to serve the public need to engage in health, which will be an everyday activity. The Amstel Health Base is the example of a decentralized connected healthcare network in the city of Amsterdam in 2100, where the care is provided towards the patient by experiencing a complete autonomous visit and exiting the building in a state of betterment. The building serves a strong public role, where all facets of health have a place., Complex Projects: AMS MID City, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

The spatial planning in the Amstel area can be attributed to its heavy infrastructure. As in the scenario for 2050 mobility takes on a smaller shape, the area becomes a far denser agglomeration of productive spaces focused on the experience of both the walker and the cyclist. Accessibility gains the upper hand over centrality, see also what happened to the Zuidas commercial district which the municipality originally wanted in the city center. As this development continues to evolve the A10 gets downgraded and opens up space for bigger program in the old highway exits. Where the neighborhoods and office parks where a product of homogenization in the past. Now these programs are melting into singular entities where the multiplicity of uses generates public space and productive collective. It will provide space for both individual expressions and unified ambitions. The resulting program looks to incorporate living and working and a stimulative environment for productivity with offices centered around an atrium and housing around an elevated courtyard. The downgraded A10 has a significant role in the determination of the public space which surrounds the block, it contrasts the collective enclosed spaces with the open and freely accessible boulevard. Aided by densification of the boulevard by buildings on similar scale, the street life climbs up onto the activity route and onto the courtyard. Further research explores the possibilities of materializing the architectural design in a way that reduces waste. Recycling and design for deconstruction are not the only methods to deal with the waste stream produced by the building industry. The reconfiguration of materials does not guarantee the best quality. Material longevity adds to the character of the building and shows the users behavior through its wear on surfaces, this adds a familiarity. As is evidenced by the appreciation for the patina on old buildings. Durable materials can take priority over temporary const, AMS Mid City, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

As one of the most important and attractive city in Europe, Amsterdam has seen a great growth of its residents in the recent years. How to offer enough houses for the new arrivals will be a continuous question for the managers of the city. The densification process has already started. Wasted lands like abandoned houses and old industrial areas are transformed into new residential and working areas. This process leads to the questions: How can we densify Amsterdam in a sustainable way? What kind of built environment is necessary to benefit the urban fabric and create local values? The main aim of my graduation project is to create a space that could help connect the different groups of people and benefit the local creative production. The building is a headquarter of the guild of creative industry of Amsterdam. The building includes four exhibition halls, workshops, working space, a hostel, a shopping street and a public park. The building is located beside new city boulevard (which will be downgraded from the current A10 highway), with the shopping street and the park connecting both sides. My project provides an answer to the question how the creative production could help rebuild the social connection in the future context of densified city fabric. The project could inspire the city planners to reconsidering the relationships between the production and the citizens, which will be quite meaningful for a healthy and sustainable deification process in Amsterdam and other large cities., Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

Amsterdam Overamstel is a site in rapid transition from an area which is anno 2018 mainly focused on low value commercial spaces and infrastructure. Especially this infrastructure has a fragmenting effect on the location. These fragments do not have clear connections and a hierarchy inbetween. Combined with the planned densification this could lead to serious nuisance and possible unequal development. In order to tackle this problem and densify in a sustainable way new connections and a new hierarchy has to be implemented. AORTA does this by making the public transport hub (a metro station) the center to the newly build neighborhood. In order to not just be a monofunctional hub, the station is combined with another public function. In this case a library. The envelope of a library combined with a station asks for a recognizable and autonomous building. This goal is reached with the facade and shape of it. The facade is constructed of a LED screen al around with a gradient in it. This way the public functions inside still have a nice view over the location and the square in front., CP_AMS_MID_CITY, Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Complex Projects

The subject of the project ("Personality and Anonymity: Dwelling in Public dominated City Environment") is a subset of Studio's theme ("At Home in the City"). The project denotes the primary trait of home as its personality (understood as dwelling's susceptibility to semiotic changes imposed by its user). Consequently, one of project's main challenges was to implement dwelling typologies susceptible to user personalisation into anonymous, public-dominated city environment of Van Der Kunbuurt (site designated by the studio assignment). However, such implementation was not to be achieved on expense of public domain's quality and but on the contrary - it should lead to an improved coexistence of public and private realms, which both are constituting living in the city., Architecture and Dwelling, Architecure, Architecture and The Built Environment

The Amstel oil field is located in block Q13a in the Dutch southern North Sea about 13 km off the coast of Scheveningen. The oil is trapped in an Early Cretaceous reservoir which is informally named Amstel Sandstone. At present, the production license of the field is held by Gaz de France Suez, TAQA Energy has a 10% share. The Amstel field is divided into four blocks (north, east, south and the central + west block, which are connected in the present study). The south, central and north block of the Amstel field are pop-up structures and are heavily faulted internally, thereby sub-seismic faults are likely to exist. The east block is more like an anticline containing few faults. The seismic top reservoir surface and faults are provided by the previous operator and are quality checked, matched to well markers and modified for modeling purposes. The structure of the Amstel field was found to be too complex for Petrel which is why Jewelsuite is used which allows the exact representation of the Amstel structure. The Amstel Member is interpreted to represent a barrier bar complex including barrier bars, tidal inlet channels, a back-barrier lagoon and washovers. The facies and property modeling is performed in Petrel (on a model without structure) and consequently imported into Jewelsuite. Using the truncated Gaussian simulation method, belt models are created for each zone in the Amstel field. The transgressive character of the sequence is modeled with marine distal facies belts to the north northwest and coastal proximal facies belts to the south southeast. Multiple belt models are created and merged to mimic the different transitions between the belts. The belts are filled with facies found in each belt individually and tidal channels are superimposed. Facies and zone dependent porosity distributions are used to populate the model. Net-to-gross and saturations are modeled subsequently. Facies dependent porosity-permeability relationships are proposed and are used in th, Section Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering and Geosciences