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BOOK: DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
"TETTERODE" SQUAT 1981-/COLLECTIVE 1986 to-- - p4(of 13)
DA COSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APARTMENTS
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THE MERKELBACH BUILDING [mb]
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MERKELBACH BUILDING (mb): DACOSTAKADE BLOCK FROM N END (pic 8-93 / to S) |
MERKELBACH BUILDING (mb): DACOSTAKADE EAST FACADE (pic 4-5-08 / to W) |
MERKELBACH BUILDING (mb): WEST FACADE (pic 19-10-06 / to NNE) The inner facade (overlooking the workshops of the N-end) - seen from the L3 bridge to Bilderdijk. |
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MERKELBACH BUILDING (Architect-Drawing: 19## / section WWS to EEN) |
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MERKELBACH
HOMES & STUDIO-APTS
... in
process
[written mid 1990s]
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Merkelbach's light facade poised on its floors, vertically free and stiffened with steel fins, belies the massive concrete slab-and-frame within - more oppressive in some of the new enclosures than it must have been when each floor was a single workshop and both sides visually opened into the space above the house-tops through the almost-full-height glazing. This building, made in the era of industrial-functionalism, lends to the apts that exploit it a sophisticated clarity; and to those that failed to recognise its style the rawness of a factory! Cosy homes are impossible to achieve in it
In this section we will move upwards through Merkelbach's 6 living-space levels
and show 15 of their 18 living-spaces. When re-recorded in 2008 two of
these spaces were substantially changed by/for new users.
On
this page is shown level-1's single living-space and two of level-2 enclave's three living-spaces: mb-L1
- "THE
APT OF A MUSICIAN" - [recorded: 2008]
mb-L1 - "THE
APT OF A MUSICIAN" - [recorded
2008]
mb-L2 - ANJA NAGELKERKE - [recorded: 1993/94 & 2008]
mb-L2 - THOM PUCKEY & BEA STIENSTRA - [recorded: 1993/94
& 2008]
mb-L3 - RONALD VAN TIENHOVEN - [recorded:
1993
& 2008]
mb-L3 - JAN VAN G - [recorded:
1993
& 2008]
mb-L3 - AKKE BOTMA - [recorded 1993]
mb-L4 - YVONNE DRÖGE - [recorded 2008]
mb-L4 - PAOLO HARTGERS - [recorded 2008]
mb-L4 - TINA SCHRAMEIJER - [recorded 1993] /
mb-L4
- TITUS
& ESTHER - [recorded 2008]
mb-L5 - THEO LEIJDEKKERS - [recorded: 1990/93/94]
/ mb-L5 - "M4GASTATELIER"
- [recorded 2008]
mb-L5 - MARION BAKKER - [recorded: 1993]
mb-L5 - CHRIS DE HAAS - [recorded: 1993]
mb-L6 - ANITA MOLL - [recorded: 1993/94]
mb-L6 - MONICA AERDEN - [recorded: 1993]
mb-L6 - MONICA LEO - [recorded:
1993 & 2008]
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mb-L2 - ANJA NAGELKERKE - [recorded: 1993/94 &
2008]
mb-L2 - THOM PUCKEY & BEA STEINSTRA - [recorded: 1993/94 & 2008]
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MERKELBACH: mb-L1 APT
& ENCLAVE (WORK-ZONE 3)Merkelbach level 1, the so-called "Entresol", is a floor of rented work-spaces and one independent apt. The work-spaces are grouped inside a lockable enclave-like floor. This "Entresol" is the only 'above-ground-level' externally rented work-zone in Tetterode and is shown in the section on Tetterode's work-spaces [Ref: TET p1 / WORK-ZONE 3].
For some reason, on this level alone, the familiar floor-entry-door is set back by a half-bay resulting in a uniquely wide central-stair landing from which the "Entresol" work-zone and the independent apt both open. On this landing (also uniquely) is a shower/wc-room, used by the commuting workers and the independent apt.
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MERKELBACH
PLAN: LEVEL 1 - WITH WORK-ZONE 3 & AN INDEPENDENT "APT OF A MUSICIAN"
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mb-L1
LANDING WITH ENTRIES TO LIFT,
INDEPENDENT APT & WORK-ZONE 3 Through the apt's cream-coloured door tuba music often issues. [NB: The mb-L1 Enclave is shown at "WORK-ZONE 3 - "ENTRESOL" (TET-p2)] |
mb-L1
LANDING WITH ENTRIES TO SHOWER/WC & WORK-ZONE 3 |
mb-L1
LANDING SHOWER/WC ROOM
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mb-L1 INDEPENDENT
APT
INDEPENDENT APT ("THE APT OF A MUSICIAN") (mid-1980s - ) [mb-L1 /
E-side S-end 1½-bays] [recorded 2008]
[This space was first recorded in
2008 when the apt's title was chosen by
its occupant.]
Opening directly from a circulation route, this is one of very few Tetterode apts not part of a locked enclave. The apt is a simple single-volume intruded upon by the dc block's central lift-shaft - its consequently narrowed entry-way serves also as its kitchen. Lacking its own wash/wc it uses the floor's shower/wc facility across the landing opposite its entry, sharing it with the Entresol work-zone commuters.
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mb-L1
INDEPENDENT
APT: ENTRY & KITCHEN |
mb-L1
INDEPENDENT
APT: SIT-PLACE TO ENTRY |
mb-L1
INDEPENDENT
APT: NORTH WALL STORAGE |
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mb-L1
INDEPENDENT
APT: SIT-PLACE |
mb-L1
INDEPENDENT
APT: SIT-PLACE |
mb-L1 INDEPENDENT
APT: SW CORNER - MUSIC & BED |
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MERKELBACH: mb-L2
ENCLAVE
[Shown below are 2 of the enclave's 3 living-spaces. These were both re-recorded in 2008 and the old
and new results are displayed here 'in parallel'.]
The floor that is now the mb-L2 enclave was originally a single space - the huge studio of Christine Haleberg and Thom Puckey. Its pre 1984 dividing was planned by Christine, Thom and Anja Nagelkerke.
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MERKELBACH: PLAN - LEVEL 2 ENCLAVE [mb-L2] (Architect-Drawing 1986 / top is EEN)
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MERKELBACH: PLAN - LEVEL 2 ENCLAVE [mb-L2] (Plan: Mikel van Gelderen 2006 / info 2008 / top is EEN)
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L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: ENCLAVE ENTRY DOOR INTERIOR FACE (pic 25-4-08 / to EEN) The enclave door is swung open, revealing its inner face to the dc central-stair landing. Bell wires pierce it, the red landing-lift glows through its window, an emblamatic doodle seems to bar egress. |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: ENCLAVE ENTRY DOOR INTERIOR FACE - DRAWING (pic 25-4-08 / to EEN) On the exit door's inner face is a doodle drawing of an ambiguous 'demon-roadsign' with shockingly apt white drawing-pin blind eyes gleaming like car lights down the enclave's passage as if to warn there may be dangers beyond the door. |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to NNW) Seen through the enclave's entry door is its central access passage. To right and left are doors into the huge family home of Anja which occupies the full left (W) side and joins overhead with half the right (E). Beyond her right-side space is Christine's [unrecorded] family apt, and at the far end is the painted door of Thom and Bea's large family home that stretches across the floor's north end. Before this the passage turns left to the building's west windows and external fire-ladder. |
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L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to SSE) Looking back past Anja's apt to the enclave entry door. |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) Excising a small rectangle from the inner edge of Anja's west-side space is a wc/wash room opening from the passage. Once shared by all it has (since other apts installed their own) become a quasi-private extension of Christine's apt. |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: WASH/WC (pic 25-4-08 / to SSE)
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L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: WASH/WC (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: CHRISTINE APT ENTRY (pic 25-4-08 / to SE) Christine's apt entry with an overflow of domestic objects. |
L2 ENCLAVE PASSAGE: THOM & BEA APT ENTRY (pic 5-5-08 / to NE) Facing down the length of the enclave passage from its north end is the entry door of Thom and Bea's living-space. Viewed here from the passage's branch to the fire-escape |
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L2 ENCLAVE FIRE ESCAPE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to W) The enclave apt-access passage has become a fire-escape passage. A left turn between Thom's and Anja's apts, then right, skirting the cement-block perimeter of part of Thom's studio and Merkelbach's west-facade window. |
L2 ENCLAVE FIRE ESCAPE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to W) The west facade corner. |
L2 ENCLAVE FIRE ESCAPE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) The far window is an escape door to an external ladder down Merkelbach's west facade. In the foreground are steps to its cill, beyond are stored objects from Thom's studio. |
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ANJA NAGELKERKE LIVING-SPACE (STUDIO 1984 - & APT 1986 -) [mb-L2 / S-end E & W-sides ] [recorded 1993/94 & 2008] ... in process
In the 1980s Anja had two distinct spaces on opposite sides of the level 2 enclave corridor - a studio on the east side and an apt on the west. When I recorded them in 1993/4 Anja's studio was her private space but her apt was shared and was designed by her and Frank Voet (whose work space was (and still is) a large workshop in the North-End work-area).
When I next recorded the level-2 enclave in 2008 these two rather seperated spaces had consolidated into one huge live-work family apartment whose complex mezzanine floor bridged the enclave corridor.
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ANJA NAGELKERKE STUDIO-OFFICE (1984 -) [mb-L2 / E-side S-end] [recorded 1993]
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ANJA STUDIO-OFFICE (pic 8-93 / to SW) |
ANJA STUDIO-OFFICE (pic 8-93 / to EES) |
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ANJA NAGELKERKE & FRANK VOET APT (1986 -) [mb-L2 / W-side S-end ] [recorded 1993 & 94]
Anja Nagelkirk's apt was designed and built by her and Frank Voet from 1987 (during the post-legalisation building-boom) on a narrow site along 2 bays of the west side, with a mezzanine extension over the enclave passage; most was completed by 1988. Apart from its magnificent glass-walled living-room it is notable for the inventiveness and humour, yet elegant practicality of Frank's furniture and fittings, made in the large sophisticated wood-workshop at the rear of mb-L0. Anja has a seperate studio/office on the east side - entered across the enclave passage opposite the smaller apt
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ANJA & FRANK APT: FROM ENTRY/KITCHEN |
ANJA & FRANK APT: LIVING-ROOM FROM MEZZANINE STAIR |
ANJA & FRANK APT: LIVING-ROOM FROM MEZZANINE STAIR In the living-room the floor has been raised to window height. |
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ANJA & FRANK
APT: LIVING-ROOM FROM MEZZANINE |
ANJA & FRANK
APT: LIVING-ROOM WINDOW The floor has been raised to cill-level. |
ANJA & FRANK APT: MEZZANINE FROM
LIVING-ROOM |
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ANJA & FRANK APT: MEZZANINE WINDOW FROM
LIVING-ROOM
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ANJA & FRANK APT: MEZZANINE The mezzanine is mainly constructed over the enclave entry-passage. |
ANJA & FRANK
APT: MEZZANINE: FRANK: NURSERY FURNITURE Linked pieces: 'Commode' (1991) "for Job's birth"; 2: Cupboard (1993) "for Sasha's birth". |
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ANJA NAGELKERKE APT (1998 --) [mb-L2 / S-end E & W-sides ] [recorded 2008] ... in process
NOTES
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Anja had studio in east space since 84
This 1998 version of Anja's apt is still in progress.
This apt required all the services to be renewed or resited
'Enclave passage(?) platform' is original to apt 1 (of 86/87 _ re my pics 93/4??)
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The two parts of Anja's pre-1998 living-space have been reversed - the west inner-courtyard side apt of Anja and Frank has become a workshop; the east Dacostakade side the pre-1998 studio of Anja has become domestic.
To experience the the whole 2-sided living-space as a single volume one must climb a mezzanine stair and wander through and across the complex of spaces that join its two outward-facing parts
Access to the mezzanine is either from the west-side workshop (via the west side enclave corridor door) - up its mezzanine stair, through the connecting door at the rear of Anja's office that leads to a sort of (rather undefined) utility space whose north (right) branch is Dingenis' big office and whose 'straight ahead' destination is the door at the top of the west-workshop's mezzanine stair.. These two long-desked offices overlook their respective sides 'back to back' - Anja's the volume of the east-side sitting-space, Dingenis' the volume of the west-side workshop -
Thus the two portions of the big living-space - seperated by (and seperately entered from) the enclave passage - are joined across that passage by a complex of continuous spaces - some connected 'corridor-like' rooms, some cul-de-sacs like the big bedroom and Anja's and Dingenis' offices - all mounted upon a huge mezzanine platform-floor.
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ANJA APT: ENTRY DOOR IN ENCLAVE PASSAGE (pic 25-4-08 / to N) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: ENTRY PASSAGE UNDER MEZZANINE FROM 'FRONT DOOR' (pic 25-4-08 / to WWS) From its enclave entry the apt's main social space is perceived at the end of a long under-mezzanine tunnel. From this opens first the mezzanine stair (route to the large and complex upper level), then doors to right and left childrens' rooms, finally the sitting area and dining space across the east-side. |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SITTING-AREA WITH SOUTH-END DINING SPACE (paste-up 2-pics 25-4-08 / to SSE) The sitting area with its south-end dining-space/kitchen spans the 3-window width of the apt's east side. The sitting-area is overlooked across its west side by Anja's mezzanine office that spans the two childrens' rooms and central entry passage. This mezzanine extends eastward over the dining-space, supporting the adults' bedroom. |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SITTING AREA (pic 25-4-08 / to EEN) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SITTING AREA - TEDDY & CAT (pic 25-4-08 / to N) The strange relation humans have with the animals we import into our living-places. |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CAT CORNER (paste-up 2-pics 25-4-08 / to WWS) In the SW corner of the living-room are some objects that we think a cat needs for its 'leisure': a ball, climbing/perching pole, a day-bed? (an inexplicable metal stove cover?!); the cat's 'cultural' objects that are extra to those innate to our home that we also organise for our animal selves: eating, excreting, sleeping. Do they show the paucity of our empathy! |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SOUTH- END DINING SPACE (pic 25-4-08 / to NNW) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SOUTH- END DINING SPACE (pic 25-4-08 / to WWN) Behind the white screen is the kitchen. |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SOUTH- END DINING SPACE - KITCHEN (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SOUTH- END DINING SPACE - KITCHEN (pic 25-4-08 / to NE) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SOUTH-END DINING SPACE WINDOW (pic 25-4-08 / to E) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: SITTING-ROOM WEST SIDE (pic 25-4-08 / to SW) Under Anja's mezzanine office, flanking the central passage and lit by narrow windows, are the two childrens' rooms. |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (N-ROOM) - BED (paste-up 2-pics 25-4-08 / to WWN) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (N-ROOM) (pic 25-4-08 / to NE) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (N-ROOM) - DESK (pic 25-4-08 / to EEN) |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (S-ROOM) - BED (pic 25-4-08 / to WWN) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (S-ROOM) - BED (pic 25-4-08 / to SSW) This corner of the room tucks under the mezzanine stair; |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: CHILDS ROOM (S-ROOM) - DESK (pic 25-4-08 / to EES) |
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: ENTRY PASSAGE FROM 'FRONT DOOR' (pic 25-4-08 / to E) |
ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: ENTRY PASSAGE STAIR TO MEZZANINE (pic 25-4-08 / to E)
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ANJA APT EAST-SPACE: ENTRY PASSAGE STAIR TO MEZZANINE - S-BRANCH TO BOOK-STORE & ADULTS BEDROOM (pic 25-4-08 / to SE) |
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ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ADULTS BEDROOM (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) This bedroom is built on an east extension of the apt's central mezzanine - this halves the height of the SE dining-space and shares its window. |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ADULTS BEDROOM (pic 25-4-08 / to E) From bedroom entry to the window end. |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ADULTS BEDROOM - WINDOW VIEW OF DACOSTAKADE (pic 25-4-08 / to NE) The mezzanine stops short of the window by only a few centimeteres, terminated by a semi-glazed wood-framed 'balcony' from which one looks down into the fascinating complexity of Dacostakade. |
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ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ANJA OFFICE (pic 25-4-08 / to E) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ANJA OFFICE (paste-up 2-pics 25-4-08 / to SSE) Behind the office rear wall is the north branch of the entry-corridor mezzanine stair. |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: EAST-SIDE - ANJA OFFICE REAR - STAIR DOWN & CONNECTION TO WEST-SIDE PAST WASH/WC (pic 25-4-08 / to SW) |
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ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WASH/WC (pic 25-4-08 / to S?) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WASH/WC (pic 25-4-08 / to SE?) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - DINGENIS OFFICE (pic 25-4-08 / to SW) |
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ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - DINGENIS OFFICE (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - DINGENIS OFFICE NE CORNER (pic 25-4-08 / to NNE) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - DINGENIS OFFICE S END CABINETS (pic 25-4-08 / to S) |
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ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - DINGENIS OFFICE & UTILITY SPACE (pic 25-4-08 / to W) |
ANJA APT MEZZANINE: WEST-SIDE - ENTRY FROM WORKSHOP STAIR (pic 25-4-08 / to NE) |
ANJA APT WEST-SPACE: WORKSHOP FROM MEZZANINE STAIR (pic 25-4-08 / to NW) |
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ANJA APT WEST-SPACE: WORKSHOP (pic 25-4-08 / to SE) |
ANJA APT WEST-SPACE: WORKSHOP EAST WALL & MEZZANINE OFFICE (pic 25-4-08 / to EEN) |
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THOM PUCKEY & BEA STIENSTRA LIVING-SPACE (STUDIO 1982 -- & APT 1989 --) [mb-L2 / N-end] [recorded 1993/94 & 2008] ... in process
In 1982 when Thom Puckey and Christine Hamelberg set up a sculpture studio in mb-L2 “the whole 400m2 floor was an open space, "one could choose to work anywhere”. They publicised mb-L2 as “an alternative art space, for exhibitions etc” ('Art and Behaviour - Space for Works'). As more artists moved in (to work not to live) more spaces were flimsily demarcated. After the 1986 legalisation the floor’s four users divided it with permanent walls. Thom’s is the largest space, spanning the 17m width at the north end, an L-shaped 120m2.
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THOM
PUCKEY & BEA STIENSTRA LIVING-SPACE [mb-L2 / N-end] [recorded
1993/94]
[Written c1994]
The family apartment is a recent addition to the long-established studio. Started in 1989 the apt grew until 1992, adding about 65m2 of platform to the space. The studio and the apt each have their own full (4·8m) height portion of the space: the studio has 9 metres on the inner side of the building, on the Dacostakade side the apt’s full-height portion is only 2m; between they share the height, the apt over the studio’s store. They lock over and around each other, uneasily compromising both their spatial needs.
Entering from the enclave’s corridor one turns left through a curtain into the big studio, where almost nothing compromises the industrial character of the building except the extraordinary overhanging ‘village’ of board and glass boxed-spaces: the intruding 'exterior' of the apt, pushed up on wood and steel-supported platforms around two of the studio’s inner sides - their pillars, platforms, walls and windows in a dynamic counterpoint with the huge concrete beams and ceiling. A dramatic demonstration of the power of the unpredictable, achievable at this degree of preciseness and detail only through procedures akin to un-premeditated events: in this case those of ‘chance’ or ad hoc practicality.
Up on the platform inside the ribbed-plastic wall, the apt’s foyer - a ‘sketch’ in Modern-movement idiom - introduces the basics of the apt: white board walls, minimal steel balustrade, ply-board floor, and massive concrete ceiling. From here one may choose to turn and pass through two connected box-like children's bedrooms on a narrow extension of the platform around the SE studio fringe; or enter a plain grey front-door into a dark hall between shower-room (no wc: plumbing was prohibitive) and kitchen - out through a second door onto a bright balcony-like living-room, facing a huge window onto the trees and houseboats of Dacostakade, edged with a balustrade over the awkward 2m slot tucked behind the rear of the studio-store: the adults’ bed-space.
If it does not achieve the calm of resolved form, its mis-match of sophisticated fittings and awkward volumes at least ensures interesting tensions and its interface with the studio has the exciting immediacy of all ad hoc events.
By 1995 the living-room mezzanine had been extended to its window, and the studio enlarged by renting extra outside Tetterode - the space had gone through a circular progression!
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THOM & BEA: LIVING-SPACE
ENTRY - ENCLAVE PASSAGE SOUTH-END DOOR Facing the enclave's passage at its north end is the entry door of Thom and Bea's living-space; opening directly into Thom's studio. To the left of the door is the enclave's fire-escape passage which skirts part of the living-space's west side to a west-facade escape-window. |
THOM: STUDIO Thom studio from entry corner |
THOM: STUDIO
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THOM & BEA: STUDIO & DOMESTIC
FACADES The interior facade of the apt confronts the studio, facing its big windows. Over the curtained entry-hall is a child’s small bedroom - this later addition serves as a bridge between the apt’s foyer and another child’s bedroom built along the studio’s S end wall above the enclave’s fire-escape corridor. Behind this facade the apt spans the building’s width to the Dacostakade side. |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO &
DOMESTIC FACADES |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO &
DOMESTIC MEZZANINE SUPPORT DETAIL This corner of a later extension to the original living-space mezzanine (a child's bedroom) is supported over the studio with a steel tube, an RSJ, and self-made bracket (a sound-speaker obscures the platforms' junction). The curtain behind hides the space's entry door. |
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THOM & BEA: STUDIO &
DOMESTIC FACADE - VIEW FROM MEZZANINE S-END
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE
STAIR & LANDING A stair from the studio leads directly to the 'front-door' of the main part of the apt. Between this door and a second door opening onto the living-space mezzanine is a central passage between shower and kitchen. The childrens' bedrooms [behind us in the pic] are a seperate unit. |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE This part of the living-space is built over the studio store. |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE
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THOM & BEA:
MEZZANINE - VIEW DOWN INTO BED SPACE The mezzanine stops short of the huge window leaving a 2m wide slot down to studio floor level that serves as the adults bed space. |
THOM & BEA: MEZZANINE
EAST FACADE |
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THOM & BEA: BED SPACE
FROM MEZZANINE |
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THOM
PUCKEY & BEA STIENSTRA LIVING-SPACE [mb-L2 / N-end] [recorded
2008]
...
in process
[Written 2008]
This awkward L-shaped space was not chosen to contain an apt. The apt and studio had always locked around and over each other in a somewhat haphazard spatial contest. Now in 2008 the 'haphazardness' (a sensation that results from urgent domestic spatial needs satisfied by a combination of ad hoc utilitarian construction and opportunistic expansion) has been intensified by the massive extensions of the domestic mezzanine over the studio - seeming to crush a now 'submerged' work space. Now with internal WC the 'home' is completely self-sufficient.
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THOM & BEA:
LIVING-SPACE ENTRY - ENCLAVE PASSAGE SOUTH-END DOOR |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO
/ LIVING-SPACE
ENTRY DOOR |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO
/ LIVING-SPACE ENTRY DOOR DETAIL |
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THOM: STUDIO |
THOM: STUDIO -
CENTRE AREA |
THOM: STUDIO - SW
CORNER |
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THOM: STUDIO
DETAIL - WORK-TABLE WITH FIGURE-ARMATURE |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO / DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE NORTH EXTENSION |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO / DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE NORTH EXTENSION: BEDROOM FACADE [Ref: pic-19 below for bedroom interior] |
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THOM & BEA: STUDIO / DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
BETWEEN NORTH & SOUTH MEZZANINE EXTENSIONS |
THOM & BEA: STUDIO
STAIR TO DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE
STAIR & LANDING |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE NORTH PORTION - VIEW OF STUDIO The mezzanine's extended north portion has an inner 'landing' that terminates at its south end at a small balcony. Here we can look down into the studio or across to the mezzanine's extended south portion with its narrow inner-corner window. |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE SOUTH PORTION
- INNER-CORNER WINDOW VIEW |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE SOUTH PORTION -
BEDROOM (1) ENTRY |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE SOUTH PORTION
- BEDROOM (1) |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE SOUTH PORTION
- BEDROOM (1) |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE NORTH PORTION
- BEDROOM (2) [Ref: pic-9 above for external (studio) facade] |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
KITCHEN |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
LIVING-ROOM |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
LIVING-ROOM |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
LIVING-ROOM |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
LIVING-ROOM WINDOW The window overlooks Da Costakade. |
THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
WASH ROOM |
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THOM & BEA: DOMESTIC
MEZZANINE -
WC |
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