Cycle and pedestrian tunnel at Amsterdam Central Station by Benthem Crouwel Architects

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阿姆斯特丹政府委托Benthem Crouwel Architects设计的阿姆斯特丹中央火车站自行车和行人新隧道在2015年年底已开放，目前每天的人流量达到一万五千人。这个隧道的墙壁上采用了八万块代尔夫特蓝瓷砖以打造地道的荷兰壁画景象。

Cuyperspassage is the name of the new tunnel at Amsterdam Central Station that connects the city and the waters of the IJ-river. Since the end of 2015 it has been used by large numbers of cyclists, some 15,000 daily, and pedestrians 24 hours a day. This ‘slow traffic corridor’ was exactly what many users of the city felt was lacking. What once was by necessity a left or right turn is now, at long last, straight ahead. The tunnel is clad on one side by nearly 80,000 Delft Blue tiles: a true Dutch spectacle at a central spot in Amsterdam.

隧道长110米，宽10米，高3米。路面一分为二，一侧是自行车专用道，另一侧是人行专用道。为了保证人行专用道的安全，人行专用道的路面标高明显高于自行车道，墙面采用釉面瓷砖精心装饰，地面和天花也是明亮的白色瓷砖。而另一半的自行车道色调较淡，路面是黑色吸音沥青，墙面和天花是深色金属格柵，沿路配置的led指示灯强调速度。在自行车道的墙面采用金属格柵还可以防止有人贴垃圾海报，传单，以及在墙面上进行涂鸦。

A clear division
The tunnel is 110 metres long, ten metres wide and three metres high. Its design makes a clear division between the two modes of travel. By making the pedestrian level appreciably higher than the cycleway, pedestrians know where they have to be and feel safe there. Cyclists enjoy the spatial sensation of a rapid through route, accompanied by a continuous run of LED lamps along the raised edge of the footpath. The pedestrian path has a smooth finish of handmade glazed ceramic tiles. The cycleway by contrast has a rougher, open finish of black sound-absorbing asphalt and steel gratings. This is to enhance user comfort, given the tunnel’s concrete structure and great length. The gratings are impossible to litter with posters and flyers and their open structure reduces the risk of graffiti.

瓷砖图像在阿姆斯特丹瓷砖画家Cornelis Boumeester (1652-1733)的作品基础上结合隧道实际情况进行了再创作。Cornelis Boumeester 的这幅作品收藏于阿姆斯特丹国家博物馆，描绘了海浪中的战舰和舰队。在快要到火车站的一侧，建筑师让画像消失在一片深蓝色的抽象图案中，按时骑自行车的人要进入车站，需要减慢速度。巨像使用了13厘米见方的传统荷兰瓷砖，采用了46000块墙砖和33000块地砖，历时5年打造完成。

这个隧道是阿姆斯特丹中央火车站整体规划的一部分，也是一个安全舒适的城市公共空间。

Urban room
Along the footpath wall is a tile tableau designed by Irma Boom Office. The design steps off from a restored work by the Rotterdam tile painter Cornelis Boumeester (1652-1733). His tile panel depicting the Warship Rotterdam and the Herring Fleet is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Irma Boom replaced the original crest on the stern with the Amsterdam coat of arms. The cyclist or pedestrian leaves the old historic part of Amsterdam through Cuyperspassage and heads towards ‘new Amsterdam’ in the north, or vice versa. The tableau fades away towards the IJ-river, the lines of the original work gradually dissolving. Then it builds up again in an abstract form from light to dark blue, as if encouraging cyclists to slow down as the ferry comes into view. Its drawn lines and pixels also visualize the transition in art from the old to the new. The ceramic company, Royal Tichelaar Makkum, spent five years making the 46,000 wall tiles for the tableau, as well as 33,000 floor tiles, in the traditional Dutch tile size of 13 x 13 cm. In it, we see large and small merchant vessels, herring busses with nets in place, churning waves, gulls. The whole recalls old kitchens in Amsterdam canal houses, so that the tunnel is experienced as a safe place – as an urban room.

The Cuyperspassage is part of the overall master plan for Amsterdam Central Station – a project by Benthem Crouwel Architects, commissioned by the Municipality of Amsterdam, ProRail and Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

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