‘A Campus is: a Place Where Everything You Need is at Hand’

Interview with André Snippe, developer Campus Diemen Zuid

Authors

  • Harald Mooij TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Before 2011, anyone walking from the Diemen-Zuid station into the Bergwijkpark district, just outside the ring road in the south-eastern section of the greater metropolis area of Amsterdam, could clearly see the impact of the economic crisis: office buildings no older than 10 to 40 years that were over 45 per cent vacant, drearily surrounded by barriers and empty parking lots. In September 2013, Campus Diemen Zuid opened here, a student campus in American fashion with 936 apartments and facilities of its own, the success of which is already having a positive influence on the rest of the district. Its initiator is André Snippe, whose office is a stone’s throw away. As we speak, some 500 students are already living here on campus and new facilities are being completed every week.

Author Biography

Harald Mooij, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Harald Mooij studied architecture and building technology at Delft University of Technology and at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV). He is an architect in The Hague and is currently involved in various projects, including housing. He has been a lecturer and researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling since 2004. He writes regularly for professional journals in the Netherlands and abroad, is co-editor of DASH and co-author of the book Housing Design: A Manual, published in 2008 (English edition in 2011).

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Published

2018-06-01

How to Cite

Mooij, H. (2018). ‘A Campus is: a Place Where Everything You Need is at Hand’: Interview with André Snippe, developer Campus Diemen Zuid. DASH | Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, 6(10), 46–51. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/dash/article/view/4898

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Housing the Student

Section

Interviews