Off to Amsterdam
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I'm in Amsterdam until Tuesday evening. Tonight, i'll be at the Mediamatic Salon. The programme is quite exciting: Hehe will present their reverse engineering projects, students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy will talk about the games they developed for Playtime, a project based on the idea that all situations are potential spaces for play and interaction and artists Brian McKenna and Robyn Moody will try to contact their "recently departed" friend, Denton Fredrickson, by opening a communication channel to "the other side".
On Tuesday, i'll be at the RFID & the Internet of Things workshop, still at Mediamatic. Looking forward to meet or see again other speakers: Matthew Karau (former researcher at MIT MediaLab), Heiko Hansen, Matthijs Kouw from the University of Amsterdam, Malcom McCullough and Rob van Kranenburg. Anyone has an idea of what that structure i saw last month in front of Amsterdam Central station can be? |
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The structure in front of central station has to do with the new subway line they're building through town. I think it might be there to mix concrete or possibly a way to build presure for the mix to be piped to the right spot.
Looking forward to your talks!
that structure is probably the beginning of the new subway tunnel. They are building a temporariry shaft through which they will lower an enormous underground drill that will drill the new subway tunnel.
The stucture you saw is something utterly weird. They are building an underground metro station (also called tube) and for that they are using a special technique. They build overground and then suck away the ground below the buildingin order to sink it down. The building itself rests on a pillow of air so it sinks equally on all sides. What is on your picture might be used for pumping or compensating pressure.
If you are referring to the structure on the picture I'd say it has something to do with the renovations to 'het ij' (the water next to the station).
If else, then goto dontknow.
Have fun at MM!
hey! thanks everyone for the information.
well, obviously non of us are too sure about anything, great help we are... gotta be the tube line/station though.
Yup, it's the new subway "Noord|Zuidlijn" (North|Southline).
Pics can be found here (www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl). They even have some animations about the project, which will last until 2013, but I haven't gotten them to work in my browser.
Last year they had a cool art-projection setup on this location. A part of the subterranean structure was lit as it was built and slowly sank below the surface, making the projected artwork gradually disappear.
hey
sorry i missed you in amsterdam...
lets hook up next time?
blakkbyrd