Freeport Amsterdam

Freeport Amsterdam

Freeport Amsterdam makes use of the vast amount of temporarily vacant space in the western harbour area as an experimental breeding ground for the city’s underground. Precisely the nuisance contours that rule out housing — such as noise and smell — create ideal conditions for other, essential urban forms of use.

The Port of Amsterdam opens up its massively underused temporary free space to subcultural initiatives in disused warehouses, halls, offices, harbour basins, boats, and sites. A mysterious UFO fleet of old, for-now purposeless oil rigs hovers above the harbour and acts as a movable generator for the new Freeport, just behind the city centre and Westerpark.