What if…?
Amsterdam is a beautiful city. Still today. Although a part of the glory days has been lost as a result of the intensive use of space and the mobility demands that come with it. This at the expense of the liveability in large parts of the city. What can we again be doing if streets were freed from all the vehicles? What kind of functions can we bring back if all areas of parking lots and –garages will be vacant? How much green can be brought back to the city? What if …?

Improving the living environment
AMFORA presents the opportunity to realise the so desired improvement of the living environment, without compromising the mobility demands. Through a system of underground spaces, which have entrances and exits at several places along the ring way A10, different functions can be relocated below the ground. Examples are shops, parking spaces, sports facilities, cinemas, supply, archives, bomb shelters, cables and ducts, personnel transport, the possibilities are many. AMFORA is as it were a “City beneath the City”. And by relocating different functions underground, opportunities emerge for spatial development on the surface level! When special attention is given to the energy concept and environmental impact, AMFORA forms an integral and sustainable solution for the challenges the city of Amsterdam is up against.

Not just a pipe dream
That AMFORA does not have to be an idealistic view of the far future, is shown by technical and economical feasibility studies that have been carried out. The state of the art technologies in the area of 3D modelling, safety systems, traffic control, lighting and projection techniques and energy- and interior climate concepts, are incorporated.

AMFORA is a solution with far-reaching potentials, highly innovative, a sustainable solution for the living environment in Amsterdam, and not to say the least, technical and economical feasible. It brings back some of the glory days of the experience of the city of Amsterdam, without compromising the mobility demands of this era.