XXX:Resexifying Amsterdam's Red Light District
August 2022,Graduation project Master's Architecture Amsterdam Academie van Bouwkunst
Committee: Hiroki Matsuura (mentor), Dafne Wiegers and Chiara Dorbolò 
XXX playfully provides a fresh answer to the city’s current controversial questioning on how to deal with its evolving Red Light district. This intervention unapologetically gives back the city to sex workers by inhabiting and densifying the inner roofscape of a typical Amsterdam city block – Blauwlakkenblok – which once hosted a myriad of sex work windows. It recognises the variety of sex workers’ needs by providing new qualitative workspaces and communal facilities to sex workers.
Through its design, XXX alternates intimate courtyards of fresh vegetation, delicate lighting and layers of flowing veilings with larger, breathing and resting public spaces for the city.
The result is a project that offers sex workers and the city’s users a delightfully slow-paced, mysterious Red Light experience and honours the key role sex workers play in our society.
