indhoven evolved from a collection of six villages into a dispersed collection of urban patches only related to each other by their proximity and similar car accessibility. The result of oversized train tracks, parkways, canals and motorways reproduce an overdevelopment model of urbanization and produces loosening of the patches creating the image of a carpet city.
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Infrastructures increase the separation of patches by their functional in-between spaces, these in-between spaces provide a conceptual and spatial opportunity to rethink the city.
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Stiches are urban interventions that contribute to waving the carpet city, they value the complexity of Eindhoven and introduce new interactions within the city as mediating figures between infrastructures, urban destinations, open space, urban tissue and their activities (the patches).
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The transformation of the image of the city through stiches is explored in the PSV football stadium. The stadium stich presents a strategic opportunity to work in an intermediate and yet urban scale so as to show of the importance of these in-between spaces.
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Stitching does not automatically imply connecting every patch on different scale levels. The separation between the stadium and the small scale residential neighbourhood north of the railway is strengthened valuing differentiation in the carpet city as a quality.
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The main operations in the project consist in opening and enlarging the existing fenced rail platform of the stadium by converting this barrier into an artificial public slope with patches of vegetation. The avenue connecting urban destinations (train station, stadium, stripe S) is framed with vegetation and new buildings and profiled in order to enhance the linear link and provide a sense of direction.
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A spine of open space, new buildings and vegetation defines the new structure replacing the oversized leftover spaces of the car based avenue.