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BOOK: DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
"TETTERODE" SQUAT 1981-/COLLECTIVE 1986 to-- -p1(of 13)
NOTE:
A large scale re-organisation of this TETTERODE section is underway - due to the addition of recordings made in 2008 of previously unrecorded parts of the Collective and of living-spaces previously recorded in the mid 1990s. This will cause (temporary) disorders in the links, information arrangement, uniformity of presentation.
An aspect of these 2008 additions is the opportunity to assess the
development of some of Tetterode's living-spaces - a seemingly inexorable
complexification and growth often consequent on changes in its social life,
especially the onset of families.
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TETTERODE - p1: INTRODUCTION
> TETTERODE - p2: PUBLIC-USE &
WORK-SPACES >
> TETTERODE - p3: DACOSTAKADE BUILDINGS: MERKELBACH & HARTCAMP >
> TETTERODE - p4: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS >
> TETTERODE - p5: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS >
> TETTERODE - p5-1: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS >
> TETTERODE - p6: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS >
> TETTERODE - p7: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS >
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> TETTERODE - p8-2: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS >
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TETTERODE - BILDERDIJKSTRAAT FACADE (pic 8-95 / to NW) |
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TETTERODE: INTRODUCTION
THE
FACTORY, THE SQUAT, THE COLLECTIVE
THE
SITE AND PATTERN OF OCCUPATION
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THE FACTORY, THE SQUAT,
THE COLLECTIVE
Nicholas Tetterode opened his ‘Lettergieterij’
(making cast-lead printing type) on the Bloemgracht in 1856. In 1901 the
architect J.W.F.Hartkamp designed their new Bilderdijkstraat building (famous
for its enlightened ‘humanitarian’ provisions for the workers) and added a
third floor in 1906 - initiating the factory that the firm occupied until 1981,
when it began its radical transformation by ‘squatters’ into housing.
The whole site was extended in
1912 and the factory acquired two street-fronts with another J.W.F.Hartkamp
block on Dacostakade (156A to 164). In 1921 there was an internal
expansion, and a Hartcamp re-vamp of the Bilderdijk building that acquired its
de Lugt designed marble-floored and panelled entrance-hall. The final site
enlargement began in 1941 with Dacostakade’s northern extension (to number
152) as a single
level repair shop, that in 1949 grew upwards into Merkelbach, Karsten and
Elling’s graceful concrete and
glass block. Internally the junction of the
1912 and the 1949 buildings is a common stair and lift - externally the
older building is at last afforded a role: its dull solidness enhances by
contrast the light transparency and
delicate poise of Merkelbach’s ‘Functionalist’
facade, which binds the other to it by releasing rhythms implied in its
repetitive fenestration, and finally (in 1963) by reaching out along its top as
a glass pavilioned penthouse (the directors’ dining-suite - since 1981 a studio
and home). In 1981 the Tetterode company
merged with another and moved its factory elsewhere. The empty Tetterode was
sold to a building contractor whose ‘re-development’ ambitions were
intentionally frustrated by squatters. Tetterode was ‘cracked’ on
the 17th of October 1981 after two weeks observing the routines of the security
guards. These guards and
the carpenters who were dismantling valuable wood
panelling and fittings in the admin and
public areas of the buildings to take
to the company’s new premises, were made to leave by the squatters. Thus the
decor of the company’s ‘impressive’ Bilderdijkstraat Entry-Hall is still
almost complete, though the famous Library (now the DijkTheatre) and the
Directors’ Dining-Room (Dacostakade’s Merkelbach ‘penthouse’...the only
space squatted at this early stage still used by its first occupier), had
already been completely stripped. During the early stage squatters
and security guards changed places several times, until the High Court ruled
in favour of the squatters’ right to be there. Many people were involved in this
initial phase of squatting - participating for different reasons, very few
intending to permanently live there. A local neighbourhood group of 30 or so
squatted to preserve the buildings and camped in them, another 7 or 8 squatted
as a political action. Of the many involved only about 10 participated in the
eventual clearing and building of services and living-spaces. In spring ‘82 a second phase of
squatting began, a ‘domestic’ occupation of the Dacostakade building which
later spread to the Bilderdijkstraat side. The latter building’s inner
courtyard-front had been sealed for defence by the first squatters and its huge
potential living-space was ‘rediscovered’ only when entered from its
3rd-level access bridge. With the re-development plans of
its new owner legally blocked the site was re-sold in 1982 to a Pension Fund
that was apparently happy to rent it to the squatters but is said to have been
“authoritarian and
patronising” and the relationship failed (it is
estimated that their involvement with Tetterode eventually lost them some
12,000,000 Guilders!). It was sold yet again to even less scrupulous speculators
and eventually, after more legal wrangling bought by the City Council. The
City had no development plans for the Tetterode neighbourhood and
had never
objected to its occupation. As its interface with Tetterode it appointed a
non-profit philanthropic housing-corporation with an interest in low-income
housing: the ‘Voningbouwvereniging het Oosten’ (with which the squatters had
already held positive discussions) with the aim of negotiating the terms of a
mutually acceptable contract. In 1982 the Tetterode squatters
had become a legal ‘Collective’ properly constituted with director,
treasurer and
secretary: the “Vereniging Ruimschoots” (loose translation:
‘Collective Lots and
Lots’) - as this collective entity they “paid
electricity bills and
represented themselves”. In 1986 a contract between
Het Oosten and
the ‘Collective Lots and
Lots’ was successfully
negotiated and
signed - to meet its requirements the Collective’s structure
had been revised to include in its terms the whole building and
each tenant,
whether resident or renters of work-space - from then on the occupation of
Tetterode is a normal residency. The parties decided on a ‘Casco rent model’
- ‘casco’ (a ship’s ‘hull’) here refers to the basic carcass of the
building: structural walls, roof, foundations, floors, electricity supply from
street to meter: the Collective would rent Tetterode’s ‘casco’ from Het
Oosten (for 264,000 Guilders per year - reviewed every 15 years and Het Osten
(with City finance of 2·4 million Guilders) would renovate and
maintain it.
If they did not contravene safety regs the residents retained their former
planning independence. The casco scheme was considered “ideal for young
low-income resourceful self-help people” [1]. The renovation was not only
expensive for the City but also for the tenants of the Collective - its new
status required conformity to various regs, few of which concerned the ‘casco’:
the ageing factory cabling (bandaged copper in steel tubes!) must be replaced and
inspected; gas be fitted by contractors; fire regs satisfied with changes
to enclosures and
exits: removal of the courtyard-covering roof for escape to
the open air, separate workshops and
living-spaces (‘studio-apartments’ a
wrangled exception!). Three years before the contract
was due the squatters had begun to pay into their Collective the higher rent
anticipated from Het Oosten, using this accumulation to initiate certain
renovations themselves - which risky investment (it is claimed) so persuaded Het
Oosten of their seriousness that it positively induced the latter to sign. Tetterode’s new legalised
security provoked an influx of aspiring residents [2], and higher rents forced many
who only worked there to move their homes inside. Building was energetic and
cheap - the outer walls of living-spaces and
all other shared aspects of
Tetterode are financed from Collective rents and
the new activity was boosted
by an unforeseen Het Oosten grant [3] for internal renovations - everywhere
dividing of floors was planned and
finalised with the ubiquitous cement-block
walls. During four years or so after ‘86 (especially on the Dacostakade side -
previously almost all studios) the physical and
social environment rapidly
changed and
Tetterode acquired its present form. The huge domestic structure of
about 80 residents in 65 living-spaces and studios is piled on top of
a busy work environment. Throughout Tetterode’s ground floors and
basement, and in the Merkelbach L-1
"entresol" are work-places: around 55 spaces are
rented to outside businesses (there is a waiting list!) - thus the lower
parts of Tetterode are ‘connected to the city’ by way of a population of
commuters! Foot-Notes
: Quote:
in
process
...
Only the Collective can give notice or approve aspiring residents - though in
practice it’s usually enough to be invited by a floor-enclave. Interest from a delayed use of the ‘Casco’ fund (see above: legalisation).
Merkelbach’s
basement was converted in 1992. “De
Trut” is in the semi-basement of Bilderdijk, under the Lettermagazijn. When
renovated the kindergarten acquired a new playground, designed and made by
Rein van der Vliet (1995). Sources
:
Company and Building History: “Tetterode
Nederland Amsterdam” archive: courtesy of Mr.
Wim W Timmer (Jan ‘95).
General
info: Book; “Tetterode Complex”, Peter Sap, pub: De Balie - S.E.V - WV.
Het Oosten.
‘Casco’ and rental info: Tetterode: Vereniging admin (Rein van der Vliet, ‘95). .
TETTERODE'S
TWO EXTERIOR FACADES
DA COSTAKADE EAST-FACE OF TETTERODE (paste-up
2-pics
9-94 /
to WWN) The
east side of Tetterode fronts the tree-fringed Dacostakade, its canal edged with
house-boats that sometimes spread small
gardens on the pavement - a peaceful idyll.
DA COSTAKADE EAST-FACE OF TETTERODE (pic 8-95 /
to WWS) Tetterode’s first
Dacostakade building was the 1921 Hartcamp; in 1949 the factory expanded again with the elegant concrete
and glass 7-level Merkelbach block; finally in 1963 Merkelbach's
steel and glass 'penthouse' was extended across the top of Hartcamp.
DA COSTAKADE EAST-
FACE OF TETTERODE
(pic
8-95 / to NW) At
the south end the Hartcamp
building's big factory/vehicle entrance opens directly into the central courtyard's SE corner;
its six large windows were the erstwhile Company Library, now the Dijk
Theatre; its north door serves the whole block's main stair/lift and a
nexus of routes that ramify through the
whole Tetterode site. North of Hartcamp Merkelbach's building fronts the street
with its four workshops.
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT WEST-FACE OF
TETTERODE
(pic 9-94 / to N)
On its west side Tetterode’s street-front merges
with the busy Biderdijkstraat, a traffic infested major
shopping street, serving with the Kinkerstraat the populous suburb of the
Kinkerbuurt.
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT WEST-FACE OF
TETTERODE: OLD BUILDING
(pic 9-94 / to SE)
Hartkamp's 1901 building initiated
the Tetterode company on this site.
People passing by need hardly know this as a squat (unless they remember the political
and neighbourhood activity of its youth). Tetterode’s own entrances interleave unnoticeably with shops
and café, and its big 1901 Jungenstijl street level windows
comfortably transit from factory to commercial art gallery and clothes
shop.
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT WEST-FACE OF
TETTERODE: ALL FROM NORTH END
(pic 17-4-08 / to SE)
This is the whole Bilderdijkstaat facade, from the north end of the old
building's north extensions. Parts of these were squatted in the late
1980s: their street level offices: three arched bays [pic: rt] and the two
crudely renovated street-windows [pic:lt], plus the floor above the
latter.
TETTERODE:
SECTION - FROM BILDERDIJK NORTH-BUILDING (bdN) ACROSS N-END WORKSHOPS TO
DA COSTAKADE MERKELBACH (mb)
(Architect-Drawing c1984 / section WWS to EEN)
TETTERODE:
SECTION - FROM BILDERDIJK OLD-BUILDING (bd) ACROSS COURTYARD TO DACOSTAKADE
HARTCAMP (hc)
(Architect-Drawing 4-1984 / section WWS to EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 01 (BASEMENT)
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 0 (GROUND)
(Architect-Drawing 1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 1 ("ENTRESOL")
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 2
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 3
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 4
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 5
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 6 ("PENTHOUSE")
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
TETTERODE:
PLAN - LEVEL 7 (ROOF & "LOOKOUT") & LEVEL 8 ("LOOKOUT"
ROOF)
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
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THE
SITE AND PATTERN OF OCCUPATION
Tetterode spans a city-block - a big rectangular
castle with a 20m square central courtyard, its ends closed by workshops and its sides by two huge
apartment buildings, both fronting streets. The
east faces the charmed tree-lined calm of the house-boat fringed
Dacostakade, the west faces the busy shopper-thronged tram-clanking
Bilderdijkstraat. Enter Tetterode at either side and exit on the other into a
different city!
The buildings’ conventional layers of big
(typically around 400m2) unobstructed floors (already cleared of
machines, but often cluttered with debris) presented few obstacles to apt
building. Apart from the need in
such a large scattered site for a sense of social identity and security, the
formation of enclaves was an almost inevitable consequence of the buildings’
structural division into doored workshop-floors, accessed from main stairs -
each easily sub-divided into a group of apts (sharing a shower/wc & kitchen)
opening onto an internal passage [1],
or in the less regular Bilderdijk building, a communal-hall space.
One of the characteristics of a visit to Tetterode is
that - in spite of its atmosphere of active social community, the sense of
manifold yet contained activity one gets in an isolated village - the whole
place is extremely fragmented and neither entry or internal exploration is
possible without keys. The
devolution into enclaves intensified after the ‘86 legalisation when, during
work by outside building contractors, street doors were often open and there
were many thefts by interlopers - thus some of the cross-passages and ways
around and through, that had bound together the huge set of buildings and maintained the sense, in spite of its enclaves, of a single warren-like
community - were blocked or locked. Even
the site’s single (if convoluted) main circulation system which (except for
two apts opening onto local entry-stairs) reaches all the enclaves [2] and the
scatter of single apts and workshops, may be obstructed: recently both the
large residential blocks had locked their exits into the central court,
segmenting one of the two main routes that wind across the site from one
street-front to the other, confining keyless visitors to a single block -
increasing to the scale of whole buildings the sense of social divisions.
If it’s
hard to get around inside it’s also hard to choose a way in - Tetterode
castle's first defense is to confuse entry intentions. On its two street fronts Tetterode
has 18 doors. 8 doors access ‘public cul-de-sacs’: single spaces entered directly from the street
with no public access to the Collective's 'castle'; most of these,
such as Bilderdijk's shops visibly
serve only the street, however two (Bilderdijk’s night-club and Dacostakade’s
Dijktheatre) confusingly resemble residential doors
and open into passageways. 10 doors access the Collective's semi-public and residential spaces: 2 of these (one for vehicles) lead straight and visibly
into the central courtyard; 4 are the street-doors of Merkelbach L0 workshops; and 5
access semi-public and domestic residential domains - 2 of these into mazes of routes and
junctions [3] and 3 to a local enclave and enclave-accessing stairs.
The Dacostakade side lacks the open public face of Bilderdijkstraat.
At its north end are the private school and rented Merkelbach workshops. Near the block’s centre,
next to the Dijktheatre door, is the main residential entrance (framed in
labelled bells) into a tunnel-like passage to the main stair and a ramifying
confusion of routes throughout the whole site. At the extreme south end
through a little-used door, one may access a dirty foyer under a towering mesh of
rusty lift-shaft; slog up the labour of its circling 'north-stair' - each landing
presents the locked ‘rear-end’ of a floor-enclave - and, if the climber persists enough to reach the apparently blocked final flight
and penetrate a
seemingly private maze-like route through fragments of an occupied apt [4],
emerge onto one of Tetterode’s strangest
locations: the “Sky-Lawn” [5], a little ‘suburban’ garden cultivated on the
building’s terminating terrace 25 metres above the inner court. Adjoining
this 'north-stair' door is
Tetterode’s vehicle entrance, (often used by commuters who rent work-spaces
here); fronted by big
'castle-like' gates this is the Collective's most obvious ingress - a short straight tunnel
under the bulk of
the 1912 building and one is out into the bright courtyard.
In
this inclosed court the delicate trees and small garden features,
children’s’ playground structures, seats, bikes, bakfiets, and signs of
work in progress, would all be ‘out of place’ in a well-regulated factory
let alone a large hotel. More warm and home-like than a ‘housing-scheme’: the social ambience is somehow too
relaxed, even in the deserted courtyard - signalled in a myriad unobtrusive
details: a possession unattended, a domestic chair, a cup with tea, a silvered
window, a glimpse of structures built inside the rooms. The overlooking windows seem friendly
and active; one is led by the details of collectively shared domesticity to
remember that behind none of them are sterile suburban strained attempts to
out-do neighbours and upbringing, to mimic perfection or wealth; or the death-empty
average of hotel rooms; but the rich multiplicity of individuality and choice
expressed.
At
each end the courtyard presents a dramatic view-event framed between the big
slabs of living-spaces. Above the
south side workshops a remarkable row of super-sharp 19th century
house gables like the lower jaw of a trap, threatens the square of sky held down
between the flanking blocks - this stage-like setting is bisected by a thin tall
chimney. Opposite, on the north side, the space is closed as if by a huge slatted wall: the workshops
extend upwards as two flat-sided windowed bridges perched on legs like stacked
coaches, joining Merkelbach and Bilderdijk.
Foot-Notes
: Most
emphatic in the Dacostakade buildings whose regular stacks of rectangular
doored-floors branch from the central stair/lift like locked cul-de-sacs. All
enclaves except the narrow, domestic-style building that extends the
Bilderdijkstraat
frontage northwards
from the main 1901 Hartkamp factory block. [In mid 90s I had hardly begun to record
this partially squatted building (or the workshops and kindergarten behind
it that constitute Tetterode's 'North-end') [3-2008]]. The
least specialised of Tetterode's 2 main routes gathers almost all the others
- from the N-end workshops, the whole east side, the
central Court, and thus (rather indirectly) the west side -
like tributaries into the
becalmed lake of the panelled Company Reception Hall, from which, after
circling its central column, they pour into the Bilderdijkstraat through the
erstwhile Tetterode Company's admin
entrance [see below].
The
apt in question has ‘burst its bounds’: grown across a Collective
corridor which now resembles ‘private-space’, seemingly cut-off the 'Sky-Lawn' from shared use,
and via a platform even invaded the (redundant)
lift-shaft! “Sky-Lawn”
is my name for this little garden with no horizon but its handrail & the
sky.
TETTERODE
ENTRANCES: PUBLIC AND RESIDENTIAL -
PLAN - LEVEL 0 1:
'Front-Doors' into
the Collective: used by residents and outsiders who rent work spaces. 2:
Entries into public-use 'cul-de-sacs': shops, disco, theatre, etc..
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ENCLOSED
SPACES: THE CENTRAL COURTYARD AND TETTERODE'S INTERIOR FACADES
COURTYARD:
MAIN ENTRY -
DACOSTAKADE VEHICLE ENTRY [5A] (pic
12-4-06 / to W)
COURTYARD: FROM HARTCAMP'S
LEVEL 6 TERRACE
(pic 8-93 / to WWS)
Looking down into the
central courtyard from 25 metres up on the south-west corner terrace ( my ‘Sky-Lawn’)
of the Dacostakade
Hartcamp building [hc-L6].
When squatted the court was a roofed garage - on legalisation
fire-regs required an open-air escape space.
The windows of the "Lettermagazijn"
enclave [bd-L1] face across the court; on the left are metal workshops, to the right, above
more workshops, the bridge to the 'Glazed-Court' enclave [bd-L2].
Between
Rein van der Vliet’s central seat & the front-door of his
tool-hire/metal-workshop, objects and plant-troughs, in association
with the veranda roof-frame, are perhaps beginning to define an enclosure
- in such ‘free’ environments architectural features grow with use!
COURTYARD E-FACADE: DACOSTAKADE BUILDINGS (HARTCAMP) WITH
MAIN ENTRY [5A] TUNNEL
(pic 8-93 / to
NE)
COURTYARD E-FACADE: DACOSTAKADE BUILDINGS (HARTCAMP)
(pic 8-93 / to
NE)
The courtyard's east facade is the
1921 Hartkamp building
[hc], continuous with the the 1949 Merkelbach building
[mb] that overlooks the roofs of the N-side workshops beyond the bridges. Markelbach's
1963 penthouse caps them both.
At ground level [hc-L0] are the Dijktheatre offices, a shop, and the dark
vehicle-entrance tunnel from Dacostakade.
All
windows above this ground level are apartments - five apt-enclaves and the
single-apt 'penthouse' [hc-L0/L1"Entresol"/L2/L3/L4/L5/L6]
COURTYARD
W-FACADE: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT BUILDING
(pic 8-93 /
to WWS)
The
courtyard's west facade is the
old Bilderdijk building [bd] (Hartkamp 1901
and 1906), now
an apartment building. The lowest window-row is the strangely isolated
"Lettermagazijn" enclave [bd-L1]; the centre row are apts of the 'Glazed-Court'
enclave [bd-L2]; the top row, apts of bd-L3 enclave.
COURTYARD N-FACADE: WORKSHOPS &
BRIDGES
(pic 8-93 / to NW)
Workshops
& bridges between Dacostakade's centre lift/stair & the old Bilderdijk
building. The lower bridge leads from stair-landing dc-L2 directly into the bd-L2 'Glazed-Court' enclave; the upper
from stair-landing dc-L3
directly into bd-L3 enclave.
COURTYARD S-FACADE:
WORKSHOPS
(pic 8-93 / to SE)
Workshops
with Tetterode's chimney; backed by astonishingly sharply gabled
Kinkerstraat houses.
IN
THE COURTYARD, UNDER THE VERANDA
(pic 8-93 / to WWS)
Objects
unconsciously ‘arranged’: the perfection of the order of convenience; a
demo of the equation of practical-usage=design.
Childrens’ play-objects (including Rein’s fibreglass
slide); a bakfiets, an (almost) arithmetical pile of wall-building
cement-blocks - all posed on the pavement-grid like bad Surrealism or a
Renaissance space-sketch.
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ENCLOSED
SPACES: THE
PRINCIPAL ROUTE ACROSS THE SITE FROM WEST TO EAST
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT
COMPANY ADMIN
ENTRY 165B (pic
1-5-08 / to WWS)
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT
COMPANY ADMIN
ENTRY: HALLWAY (pic
19-5-08 / to EEN)
THE
COMPANY RECEPTION HALL: TO THE BILDERDIJKSTRAAT ENTRANCE (pic
8-93 / to WWS) The
strangest and grandest of the three Bilderdijk street entries is the 1921
‘management entrance’. One
is ushered by mirrors over marble into a once lavishly panelled (now mostly
stripped) 11m x 8m reception hall, centred on a 7m-high feature: a Doric
pillar springing like a (- kitsch inevitably invites mixed similes -) giant
pistil from a petalled mahogany ‘salad-bowl’ skirted with a showcase
like a glass tutu (for displaying Company memorabilia?).
THE COMPANY RECEPTION HALL: TO THE N-END PASSAGE
(pic 8-93 /
to SSW)
[written
c1994: direct impressions]
From this magnificence there is now nowhere suitable to go - a narrow
boarded passage exits from its rear into the tangle of workshops behind
Merkelbach. With no present
intention to power its pomposity it has become a cavity of the past - an
almost empty place, restful, dreamy, stained with nostalgia - its spacious
silence evaporates the tension of the busy street - an ante-room to the
interior world of Tetterode: huge domestic and working pueblo.
THE N-END PASSAGE FROM THE RECEPTION HALL TO
THE EAST SIDE
(pic
12-4-06 / to EEN)
The passage from the rear of the Co. hall enables a walk through the whole site from Bilderdijkstraat to
Dacostakade - passing between the two blocks of workshops (of the North-end
and the Courtyard) and joining tributary routes that ultimately access the whole of
Tetterode.
THE N-END PASSAGE FROM THE RECEPTION HALL TO
THE EAST SIDE
(pic 17-4-08 / to SW)
THE N-END PASSAGE FROM THE
RECEPTION HALL TO THE EAST SIDE
(pic
8-93 / to EEN)
Near
the passage's east-end facing the rear of Merkelbach's
Dacostakade-fringing workshops; to the left is a cul-de-sac serving two of these
four workshops, to the right is Dacostakade's centre stair/lift and a
passage to residents' street entry 158.
THE N-END PASSAGE FROM THE
RECEPTION HALL TO THE EAST SIDE
(pic
8-93 / to SSW)
View back from the passage's east-end where it widens
and heightens between
the workshops' inner walls. On the left are Courtyard workshops; to our right
the North-end block; behind us is Merkelbach.
THE N-END PASSAGE &
DACOSTAKADE BLOCK'S CENTRE LIFT/STAIR FOYER
(pic 15-4-08 / to S)
The
late 90s smartening up of the austere N-end passage [see previous pic] has
produced this strange juxtaposition at its east end: the 'sketch' of a bright
corporate 'palm-court' entry-hall is suddenly justaposed with the dark shabby
bike encumbered Dacostakade foyer.
THE N-END PASSAGE: THE MERKELBACH BRANCH - VIEW FROM DACOSTAKADE BLOCK'S CENTRE STAIR
(pic 12-4-06 /
to N)
THE
N-END PASSAGE: DACOSTAKADE BLOCK'S CENTRE LIFT/STAIR FOYER (pic 12-4-06 / to
SE)
DACOSTAKADE BLOCK'S CENTRE LIFT/STAIR FOYER: THE PASSAGE TO DACOSTAKADE
ENTRY 158
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8-93 / to EES)
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TETTERODE - p1: INTRODUCTION
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TETTERODE - p3: DACOSTAKADE BUILDINGS: MERKELBACH & HARTCAMP > >
TETTERODE - p4: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS > >
TETTERODE - p5: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS > >
TETTERODE - p5-1: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS > >
TETTERODE - p6: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS > >
TETTERODE - p7: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS > >
TETTERODE - p7-1: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS > >
TETTERODE - p8: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS > >
TETTERODE - p8-1: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS > >
TETTERODE - p8-2: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS > >
TETTERODE - p9: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT BUILDINGS > >
TETTERODE - p10: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS > >
TETTERODE - p11: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS > >
TETTERODE - p12: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS > >
TETTERODE - p13: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS >
(Mikel van Gelderen 2006
/ amended 2008 / top is EEN)
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> TETTERODE - p2: PUBLIC-USE &
WORK-SPACES >
