Booster
Type: Pumping station Location: Amsterdam Client: dRO Amsterdam Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Competition: Honourable mention First design: 2002-06-14
This is a design for a public utility building: a sewage-pumping station. Utilitarian buildings are junctions in the invisible infrastructure of a city and therefore crucial for its function. But since they house machines rather than people, they have no relation with people and thereby often have no relation with their surroundings.
In an attempt to create this relation between the building and the surroundings, we added a second function to the pumping station, that of skate landscape. The shape is the result of a superimposition of the sewer station and regular skate elements.
The functional form generates an attractive sculptural quality and represents the dynamics of the program, both inside and out.
