Overseas Oasis 2020

Designing a community center for International Students

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (11)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Alexander

The Leaf Center

Сultural center that will help foreigners integrate into society.

People's Choice Award

1 Entry

Rachita and 3 others

Let's Tessellate

The intent of the design is to create a vibrant public realm which attracts people of various backgrounds, thus stitching the site to the city and its people, and hence creating a channel of communication between them and the international students housed on the site through these integrative spaces.

Editor's Choice

4 Entries

Magdalena

Overseas Oasis

The main idea was to design a landmark, fulfilled into surrounding. Community Center is characterized by sloped, green roof. Building has huge impact not only on adaptability and interaction between people but also on their product. The creation of the space will enable students from abroad to overlap with inhabitants and open gateways into local community.

Bogdan

The Layercake

The Layercake is composed of several layers of program which borrow characteristics from the surrounding neighbourhoods Plantage and OOst. Both of them have a very strong touristic feeling built over time as part of Amsterdam’s history.

Adam

Beneath the Surface

The design pays tribute to the local Dutch heritage while reflecting the city’s modern metropolis culture. A building that reveals what is beneath the general preconceptions.

Delovan

ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam

ICH conforms to The Czaar Peterbuurt area, and its environment, and to the needs of the people of Amsterdam’s city center and eastern dockyard too. its form does not imply the conventional understanding of form follows function, but comes with a more enhanced understanding of form follows community and environment.

Shortlisted

5 Entries

Dorota

Overseas Oasis

Community center for international students in Amsterdam. The place for international students interaction with main open space in the centre and other functions around.

Екатерина

The Home

The Home is a community center for International Students which helps them to adapt to a new way of living away from their homeland. The main concept of this project is to create a place where every student will feel welcome and comfortable. To create a place like home, away from home. The student community became a new big family for those who travel abroad

Daria and Anastasiya

POINT OF INCLUSION

The presented project is a reinterpretation of the organization of a flexible space adapted to the inter-communal interaction of international students and local residents within the surrounding urban context.