Project NL: No way to Escape —

Time and space are limits that condition our universe. Living inside those limits we perform our interests and activities, but time and space are relative, and sometimes one does not follow the other. A huge supermarket can feel claustrophobic, a small playground can feel huge for a kid, 2 hours can feel like 30 minutes, when you are in good company, and 10 minutes can feel like 30 in railway platform. In these disjointed spaces, peoples’ senses are amplified by the gap between limits. Altering people behaviours. A gap defined by the function of the space.
This gap is an opportunity for “the unexpected” to appropriate the space. Architecture cannot escape those given conditions, but work within their relativity.
A greenhouse in a platform is a productive social space in Utrecht, that reacts to the modernist and contemporary design. It reacts to the mono-functional limits of the platform by a multifunction space. These greenhouses are located at the ends of the platform, responding to commuter flows by spreading the crowds occupancy through time and space, blurring the rush hours with the non-rush hours.

Tutors: Sanne van den Breemer, Hugo Corbett, Salomon Frausto