project04:Design Proposal
Design Proposal
Currently we are faceing various environmental problems. The way we have been exploiting our planet in order to gain has lead to problems like mineral depletion and climate change. Every day we experience the consequences of our planetal exploitation. More and more people are trying to change the way we explote our planet. One of these things is changing the way we produce products. Not just using green energy for production but also changing the product flows from linear flows to circulair flows. As well as developping bio based alteratives for materials with large negative impacts for our planet.
Currently the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam is due for renovation and transformation. The AMC is a massive hospital building in Amsterdam often describe as a city due to it's large size. This hospital houses three key function, a working environment for doctors and nurses, a recovery area for patients and a working environment for education and research from the university of Amsterdam. Within these functions the AMC holds many more specialalities, research centers, drugstores and shops.
With the AMC containing so many functions it shows a lot of potential for transformation with many possiblities. It is there where I want to offer a solution. I believe the future to be bio-based and circulair. Therefor I would like to redesign a part of the AMC into a coherent state of the art hospital. In my opinion that would mean the hospital is has circulair waste streams and procoduces as much as it consumes. That would mean the hospital should produce it's own food, it's own antibiotics, it's own building materials. These three aspects have one thing in common which is that they can all be produced out of fungi.
It is the potential of this material I will push to boundries in order to create the hospital section. The proposed section will include, patient rooms, silent areas, family meeting rooms, antibiotic laboratories, restaurants, fungi farms and threatment rooms. Combining all these will result in an project proposol which I would like to call the blueAMC.
