Jeroa Amanupunnjo

NEXUS, Building for Digital Space

The distance between digital and physical worlds are becoming smaller by the day. Children are growing up in a society filled with technological advances and are constantly stimulated with screens all over the place. The industry behind this is growing at a rapid pace, and is developing a branch of professional content creators, e-athletes and gamers worldwide. The Esports scene is changing fast, both in innovation, people involved and revenue. But up until now it didn’t have its own purpose-built building. Until now. 

Exploring the depths of digitally created worlds with their limitless powers, to imagine every scenario possible and presenting them to the greater public that can experience these shaped environments in their own way, has always been a personal interest for me, inside and outside the field of architecture.  

Extremely rich storylines in games that take the protagonist from A to B -as opposed to movies- the player is in control of which path leads there. Discovering (un-)intentional interactions with the environment and people that roam the same distant world in their own way sparks my creativity to visualize spaces that have the same effect on the ones that enter.  

This project started with my fascination of people that tread these imaginary worlds every single day, as part of their job. Small creators that just started streaming their first game or famous internet celebrities and I even had the privilege of designing for and building the official headquarters of the largest esports team of the world. Having seen multiple levels of digital environments that have physical implementations, my immediate reaction to this was to design a space where these fragmented users could have their own purpose-built place. 

Time for the world of gaming to connect to the real world. 



Afstudeerdatum: 25 februari 2025 
Afstudeercommissie: Jeroen van Mechelen (mentor), Kamiel Klaasse, Jan Maarten Mulder  
Toegevoegde leden t.b.v. het examen: Ira Koers, Victor Muñoz Sanz