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BOOK: DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
"TETTERODE" SQUAT 1981-/COLLECTIVE 1986 to-- - p12(of 13)
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APARTMENTS
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BILDERDIJK: HOMES & STUDIO-APTS - cont ...
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BILDERDIJK:
bd-L3
ENCLAVE ...
in process
When I was first taken there in
1990, the
top floor of the Bilderdijk block - the largest enclave in Tetterode - gave me a feeling of an anarchically independent realm: 'agressive' graffiti,
'loud' music, a reputation for huge parties and a disorienting plan of spaces,
apts, corridors and corners flung around the central windowed hole of the
Glazed-Court's light-well. Relatively isolated on the top of all the rest - up 'its own' narrow steep enclosed
stair directly from the street - with no obligation to be aware of any
of the rest of Tetterode except an
optional passing glimpse of the Glazed-Court through the small windows of its
landing door. The enclave has
adopted a linear corridor around only one side of the intrusive L2 light-well -
two apts on the east side have claimed the whole width and butt against its
edge, closing a space that should perhaps, at least for a sense of ease, been
encircled. Entering across the bridge from Dacostakade one faces a spacious
common hall, undifferentiated but for two foci: a telephone desk and a sitting
place encased by vitally energetic 'graffiti'. The calm 'emptiness' of this
glowing space, lit through skylights and a wall of light-well windows, is the enclave's
antidote to the tortuous angularity of its corridors and rather oppressively packed
apartments. Shown first are
shared parts of the enclave and then 7 examples from its 12 apts:
[written: 2006]
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BRIDGE: FROM dc-L3 TO THE bd-L3 ENCLAVE |
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BRIDGE: bd-L3 ENCLAVE ENTRY DOORS |
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE (in 1993 / 94)
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: CORRIDOR FROM BRIDGE TO ENTRY HALL
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: CORRIDOR FROM BRIDGE TO ENTRY HALL |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL Looking back across the square hall towards its bridge entry; at the far left a corridor opens to apts and services at the north-end. Throughout this topmost enclave there are roof windows |
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL The Hall extends as a large square space to the west and as a wide corridor to the north-end.
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bd-L3 ENCLAVE:
NORTH CORRIDOR - FROM ENTRY HALL The corridor to the north end serves two east-side apts opposite a shared wc and wash-room, and round the far corner a workshop and finally a kitchen. |
bd-L3 ENCLAVE:
NORTH CORRIDOR - SHARED WASH ROOM
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bd-L3 ENCLAVE:
NORTH CORRIDOR - SHARED KITCHEN
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL - DOORS TO N-STAIR
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL - TELEPHONE TABLES & NOTICE-BOARD
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL - DOORS TO N-STAIR & PARTY-DECOR Next to the enclave's N-stair doors a huge item of party-decor was propped against the telephone tables like a hearth complete with cat. (Coincidentally the ladder seems to channel a camera light-leak!) |
bd-L3 ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL - SOUTH WALL (pic
8-8-93 / to SE) The Hall's wall paintings were for the 1986/87 annual party. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL SIT-PLACE |
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ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL SIT PLACE SCREEN-WALL
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ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL The openings in the west wall access the main corridor. The whole west side of the Hall - at right the N-stair doors and in the far wall two entries into the enclave's main corridor. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE: ENTRY HALL SW CORNER
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bd-L3
ENCLAVE: MAIN CORRIDOR - FROM NEAR THE NORTH END The left wall bounds the upper part of the Glazed-Court. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE: MAIN CORRIDOR - SOUTH CORNER Here the corridor turns to follow the south perimeter of the Glazed-Court. On the right is the entry to the enclave's intended common social space and guest room. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE LIVING-ROOM / 'GUEST ROOM' [W-side
S-cntr - 1-bay] Intended as a shared living-room and/or guest-room, this had become more of a junk-room and the workshop of a TV-mending entrepreneur. In 2008, when this space was next visited, it was an apartment [ref below CHRIS BAATEN]. |
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ENCLAVE LIVING-ROOM / 'GUEST ROOM' [W-side
S-cntr - 1-bay] |
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ENCLAVE: MAIN CORRIDOR - SOUTH SEGMENT The main corridor here skirts the south end of the Glazed-Court. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE: MAIN CORRIDOR - SOUTH SEGMENT - WINDOW VIEW Both north and south ends of the Glazed-Court are windowed - here we look towards its north end from the main corridor. |
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bd-L3 ENCLAVE: MAIN CORRIDOR - S STAIR & WEST BRANCH View from kitchen of the S-stair's doored and glazed enclosure. Its adjoining corridor accesses two apts (Desirée, et al) and their shared kitchen. The main corridor continues left to its termination at the south wash room/wc. |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE
KITCHEN |
bd-L3
ENCLAVE KITCHEN: WATER-HEATER & SINK |
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bd-L3 ENCLAVE
KITCHEN: WINDOW COURTYARD VIEW |
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KITCHEN: WINDOW COURTYARD VIEW Kettle, coffee-filter, milk-saucepan: ubiquitous kitchen tool-set. |
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THE BILDERDIJK bd-L3 ENCLAVE APTS
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in process
[NB: the apts are given the names of their
occupiers who are not necessarily their makers]
Shown below are 9 examples from the enclave's 13 apts:
LOES APT
- [recorded: 2008]
SABINE DEN TOOM APT - [recorded: 1993]
THEO VERBOOM APT - [recorded: 1993]
TONY THISSEN APT - [recorded: 1993] / INGE
WILLEMS APT - [recorded: 2008]
HENK STEUNENBURG APT - [recorded: 1993]
GÉ HUISMANS APT - [recorded: 2011]
CHRIS BAATEN APT
- [recorded: 2008]
DESIRÉE VAN HOEK APT - [recorded: 1993] /
DIRK STELER
APT - [recorded: 2008]
CORA BUIS APT - [recorded: 2008]
ROEL ENDENDIJK APT
- [recorded: 1993]
Almost all of the apts shown below are of the most common Tetterode type: 1 to 1½ window-bay-wide rectangles, entered at their inner end and lit through tall windows at the other; their height of at least 4.3m hardly less than their (approx) 5m width, evoking and easily enabling a width-spanning bed-platform at their darker end.
During the 2008 visit I was able to visit only five apts and re-visit only two, however both with new occupiers. It was thus impossible to gauge the development of any individuals' living-spaces. The visited apts all evinced the practical resourcefulness and types of solutions for maximising spatial use that have always typified Tetterode living-spaces. Overall the visited apts exceeded the complexity and elaboration of needs that generally prevailed in the mid-90s and were commensurate in this regard with those in the other Tetterode buildings.
In 1993 the most amazing L3 home (at E-side centre) was barred to photography - glimpsed from the doorway it seemed filled with very original and decorative 'kitsch' inventions, and its maker claimed that "photos take away something" - it has not been visited since.
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LOES APT (2006 - ) (in 2008) [bd-L3 / E-side N-end - 2 bays] ... in process
This apt-space was not visited until 2008.
This apt is is in one of the few wider-than-deep spaces - its orientation precluding the easy and ubiquitous entry-end-platform solution which in the usual narrow spaces seems inevitable and innate. Its small mezzanine is more like a large item of furniture squeezed across its south-east corner.
Loes began living in this already-formed apt in 2006 and made minor structural additions: she laid a wooden floor on an existing steel platform structure, re-installed electricity cables/sockets, re-coloured the walls, and imposed on the existing space her own pragmatic style.
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THEO VERBOOM APT (19## -) (in 1993) [bd-L3 / E-side N-end - 1 bay]
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SABINE DEN TOOM APT (19## -) (in 1993) [bd-L3 / E-side cntr - 1 bay]
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SABINE APT: BED-PLATFORM |
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TONY
THIJSSEN APT (19## -) (in
1993) [bd-L3 / W-side
N-cntr - 1 +1(small) bays]
This apt-space was recorded in 1993 when occupied by Tony Thijssen and
again in 2008 when occupied by Inge Willems - the latter version is shown below. . INGE WILLEMS APT (c. 2000 -) (in 2008) [bd-L3 / W-side
N-cntr - 1 +1(small) bays]
When I re-recorded
Tony Thijssen's apt-space
[see above] in 2008 it was lived in by Inge Willems - her version of this
space is shown below. Inge has modified the secondary, but left the primary
structures of Tony's mezzanine platforms unchanged. The big south mezzanine
(which extends back over the enclave passage) projected about 2m into Tony's
living-room. She has made a new wall flush with its front edge, enclosing the
narrow space, resited his intrusive mezzanine stair inside it and made a new wc
in its south end. The stair now rises next to the apt's entry door offering an
immediate choice of destinations; however it awkwardly occupies the space
assigned to it and obstructs a tempting storage volume! The south mezzanine is
now a lavish bath place, its old facade replaced with a glass wall protecting
the stair-top and a portholed wall screening the new bath. The north
mezzanine - that almost completely covers the small north sitting-space
(previously a store and office) - has acquired a new stair (replacing the
previous ladder). . GÉ
HUISMANS APT
(2009 -) [bd-L3 / W-side S-cntr - 1 bay] [recorded 2011] Between
Inge [see previous apt] and Gé is a single-bay space which they share as a
studio - Inge uses the north half and Gé the south
mezzanine. GÉ
APT: GÉ APT:
. HENK
STEUNENBURG APT
(19##
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CHRIS BAATEN APT (10-2006 -) (in 2008) [bd-L3 / W-side
S-cntr - 1 bay + E extension] ...
in process
This
space is one of a row of four along the west facade's four central bays, each
claiming one of their large windows. The space is identical to its three 5m-wide
by 6.8m-deep companions except for an extra 3.4m-width which extends back 5m
along the E-W arm of the enclave passage (it has a similarly proportioned plan
to the ubiquitous 'ground floor with back-extension' of the UK's Victorian
mass-built terrace houses). When first recorded in 1993
this space was intended to be the enclave's shared living-room and guest-room, in fact it had already devolved into a junk-room and TV
repair-shop [pics]; "several people have lived in here since the TV era" [Chris B]. The
next time I visited this space was in 2008. Chris
Baaten had taken it over in october 2006 and made major additions and
improvements. He plastered walls and ceiling, replaced the furniture and fittings
of the kitchen, and because of the exceptional depth of the (existing) mezzanine was able to convert its front portion into a sound-proofed
music-studio and use its narrower rear portion as a bedroom. . DESIRÉE
VAN HOEK APT (19## -) (in
1993) [bd-L3 / W-side S - 1½ (small) bays]
This apt-space was recorded in 1993 when occupied by
Desirée van
Hoek and
again in 2008 when occupied by Dirk Steler - the latter version is shown below. .
DIRK STELER APT (#### -) (in
2008) [bd-L3 / W-side S - 1½ (small)
bays]
...
in process When I
re-recorded Desirée van Hoek's apt-space [see above] in 2008 it was lived in by Dirk Steler - his
version of this space is shown below: The
building's large square SW corner has three window bays - its awkward division
into two L-shaped apts has resulted in an unequal apportioning of windows.
Dirk's apt is the wider, its boundry captures two, squeezing much of Cora's into
the width of the remaining one. Their right-angular dividing wall is one
solution to the division of these large square north-/south-end spaces that
'butress' Bilderdijks grand 4-bay central show-room. An alternative diagonal
wall divides L-2's analogous (north end) space [ref: Bd-L2
"Glazed-Court" enclave]. . CORA BUIS APT (1994 -) (in 2008) [bd-L3 / W-side
S-end - 1½ (small) bays]
Cora's apt is confined in a uniquely narrow L-shaped space whose long axis is
fronted with one tall window. The narrow length of this main space imparts a
directionality towards this window like a trip through a tunnel. The small mezzanine
projects beyond the apt space and partly ceilings the shared kitchen, its main bed-portion is across the apt's NE extension
and is (strangly) reached via a walkway across the apt's east end to a complex
stair at the centre of its south wall. . DESIRÉE & ####
APTS' SHARED
KITCHEN (19## -) (in
1993)
[bd-L3 / S-end cntr]
. DIRK & CORA APTS'
SHARED
KITCHEN (c
1996 -) (in 2008) [bd-L3 / S-end cntr]
...
in process
DIRK & CORA
APTS' SHARED KITCHEN DIRK & CORA
APTS' SHARED KITCHEN . ROEL
ENDENDIJK APT (19## -)
[bd-L3 / E-side - 3 (small) bays]
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(pic 15-10-2011 / to NE)
(pic 15-10-2011 / to W)
(pic 8-93 / to NE)
(pic
(pic
28-4-08 / to SE)
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