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On subsequent pages we tour the private tenures of Tetterode, the residential enclaves with their homes and studios. On this page we visit some of the rented work spaces, both inside the Collective and accessed directly from the street - studios, workshops, small companies, a theatre, kindergarten, disco, and shops - many of which spaces are hired and their interiors designed and built by people living elsewhere in the city.

On Tetterode's two street-fronts are the Collective's most external engagements: its public 'cul de sacs'. The most visible are shop-style cavities that hardly penetrate the site; the three larger venues: the basement disco, theatre, and kindergarten school, are deeper, reached via street-entries accessing exclusive passages sealed from the Collective. All these establishments have hardly changed in function since the mid 1990s - apart from one shift of use, only elaborations are noticable.

Starting at Bilderdijkstraat's south end, Tetterode's own cafe has become a citizens advice centre run partly by Tetterode residents [165F]; next are 2 doors: first the Collective's [187], second a famous public night-club's [165E] [1]; then we pass the building's four high centre bays [2] divided between a garment-shop [165D] and large modern-art gallery [165C]; finally, beyond the Collective's 2nd door (the Company's erstwhile admin-entrance) [165B], is the last public facility on this west front, a hairdressing-salon [165A], which 'contains' against its north wall a boxed-in passage from the Collective's 3rd door [163]. On the Dacostakade side, again walking from the south, past the Hartcamp residents' south door [164] and the big castle-like Courtyard entrance [162], is the extraordinary cavity of the Dijktheatre in the gutted 1912 Company library [160]; next, after the main Da costakade residents' door [158], are the Merkelbach building's four street-accessable craft-workshops [156 to 150], and lastly, just beyond Merkelbach's north end, a long entry-path to a kindergarten school, given space by the Tetterode squat in the early 1980s [148?]. 

Inside Tetterode's boundary are its three work-only zones which are accessable to people who live outside the Collective and rent work-places within them. The most extensive of these zones is Tetterode's ground-level. A second is its renovated Basement. The smallest is the Merkelbach level-1 "Entresol" floor.

The first work zone is ground level and spreads through three Tetterode locations: the central Courtyard, the North-End, and Merkelbach's ground-floor. Around the Courtyard are a variety of types of enterprise: across its south side is a single big workshop for metal fabrication; on its north are wood workshops and a help-bureau for social-security claiments; on its east are a tiny and delicate cello workshop, the Dijktheatre's back-stage rooms, and "Souldancing" massage (in 1993 a music-shop). Tetterode's 'North-End', a collection of six studios and workshops plus the kindergarten school, is beyond the Courtyard's north-side bridges and walled by Bilderdijk's north-extension and Da Costakade's Merkelbach. Merkelbach's ground floor is a row of four transverse workshops opening from the street, with rear exits into a branch of the main North-end corridor that crosses the site from Da Costakade to Bilderdijkstraat.

The second work zone is in the renovated Basement [3] which in the mid 1990s tended to studios: music, printing, ceramics, but now (2008) has only one workshop and is otherwise all rented by Tetterode residents for storage. 

The third and smallest zone is Merkelbach's level-1"Entresol" which hosts the Vereniging office and ‘clean’ design-/media-based businesses, in an enclave-like space with a locked door, off Da Costakade's central stair/lift landing. 

Non residents who work in Tetterode can reach all three of these inner work zones from either the Bilderdijkstraat 165B entry - through the Tetterode Company's rather pompous reception-hall and via the N-end passage across the site's width. Or (more commonly) through the Da Costakade 162 vehicle entrance tunnel directly to the central Courtyard, from which (if they work elsewhere) a narrow alley at the NE corner offers first a Basement stair, then Dacostakade's central stair/lift lobby: up to the mb-L1 Entresol, then the rear entries of the Merkelbach street-front workshops, then left into the N-end passage threading between the rear entries of Courtyard workspaces and front-entries of N-End workshops. Only these work-zones are open to Tetterode's incoming commuters and reaching even these can require several keys; if one misses ones floor and steps on a silent landing flanked by the locked steel doors of residential floor-enclaves the domestic heart of Tetterode seems utterly separate and aloof.

Notes :

1. “De Trut” disco is in the semi-basement of the old Bilderdijk building, in its east-half under the Lettermagazijn enclave.  

2. The huge central 4-bay room was designed as the Tetterode company's show-room [re: Note # - Tetterode history ... in prep]

3. Tetterode's basement was first converted in 1992.

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BILDERDIJKSTRAAT:  ADVICE CENTRE ... DISCO ... CLOTHES SHOP ... ART GALLERY ... HAIRDRESSER

ART GALLERY - BILDERDIJKSTRAAT 165 C

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THE NORTH-END

The North-End work-area includes 6 workspaces, of which 3 are shown below. The six spaces form an east-west block bounded along its south edge by the site-spanning N-end passage and along its north edge by a Kindergarten; only its two eastern workspaces have external windows (looking over the Kindergarten's playground). The two most westerly spaces, that open from the Co Reception Hall, share the width of the block with a large studio that runs behind them and opens from the rear 'escape' passage.

The NW portion of these North-End workshops, plus the (then) open ground between it and Dacostakade, was given to independent organisers of the Kindergarten in the early 1980s [ref: above].

N-END WORKSPACES & INDEPENDENT KINDERGARTEN  (FROM MERKELBACH ROOF) (paste-up 2-pics 19-4-08 / to WWS)	N-END N-FACADE (FROM THE KINDERGARTEN PLAYGROUND) (pic 15-4-08 / to S) Only the two workspaces at the east end have external windows (left is Frank Voet's woorkshop; right is a ceramics workshop). The doors on the left of the workshops open into the Merkelbach branch of the N-end passage.	N-END INNER WALL FROM E-END OF THE N-END PASSAGE (pic 17-4-08 / to WWN) The site-crossing N-end passage bounds the N-End workshops on their south sides. Two workspaces open from the wide east portion of the N-end passage. The nearest (factory) door is Frank Voet's, next is the grey ('recon') door of a ceramic studio [not recorded]' beyond that, in narrow portion of the passage, is Henriette's huge ceramic/felt studio; finally, in the Co Reception Hall, is Darmar's painting studio and a final [unknown] workspace. Behind these last two is the sixth [also unknown] workspace, entered from the rear (escape) passage.

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FRANK VOET: WOOD WORKSHOP 

N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET (pic 8-93 / to NW)	N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET (pic 9-94 / to N)
N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET - FROM MEZZANINE STAIR TO ENTRY (pic 23-4-08 / to SE)	N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET - E-WALL SOUTH OF MEZZANINE (pic 23-4-08 / to E)	N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET - MEZZANINE FACADE (pic 23-4-08 / to NW)
N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET _ MEZZANINE NE-CORNER KITCHEN (pic 23-4-08 / to NE)	N-END WOOD WORK-SHOP: FRANK VOET - MEZZANINE BACK WINDOW VIEW (pic 23-4-08 / to NW)