GER & INA LIVING-SPACE (VER 1: APT AND STUDIO 1989 - ) (recorded 8-1990)

This early 1989 version of Ger and Ina's narrow 1-bay but full-building width living-space, was an extraordinary if simple shape. From the enclave corridor one entered a west-side space the size of the smallest basic Hartcamp 1-bay apt. However in this case the ubiquitous inner-end mezzanine hardly intruded, but instead extended back as a very shallow [#m high] floor - over the enclave's corridor, over Ger's east-side studio - ##m to the Dacostakade east facade. 

GER & INA: VIEW FROM MEZZANINE OVER APT ENTRY-AREA, KITCHEN & DINING-SPACE (pic 8-90 / to WWS) View into the west side from the mezzanine. First the entry lobby screened from kitchen & dining space, and containing a stair [pic: low-rt] up to a mezzanine which extends, first over the enclave's corridor & then all the way over Ger's E-side studio to the Dacostakade facade.	GER & INA: DINING-SPACE FROM MEZZANINE  (vid-frame 8-90 / to SSW) View into the dining area from the top of the mezzanine stair.	GER & INA: MEZZANINE STAIR-TOP  (vid-frame 8-90 / to W)
GER & INA: MEZZANINE WEST FACADE FROM STAIR  (paste-up: x2vid-frames 8-90 / to SE)	GER & INA: MEZZANINE WEST WINDOW  (vid-frame 8-90 / to SW)	GER & INA: MEZZANINE SITTING-AREA TABLE  (vid-frame 8-90 / to SW)
GER & INA: MEZZANINE - VIEW FROM W-END SITTING-AREA (pic 8-90 / to NE) The shallowness & narrowness of the upper mezzanine floor emphasises its length. First a sitting zone, then a sleeping one, then a small office perched over Dacostakade.	GER & INA: MEZZANINE BED  (vid-frame 8-90 / to NE)	GER & INA: MEZZANINE BED AREA  (paste-up: x2vid-frames 8-90 / to EEN) At its east end Ger's studio space rises to full height - masked from the mezzanine by a curtain.
GER & INA: MEZZANINE EAST-END OFFICE  (vid-frame 8-90 / to EEN) Tucked in beside the full-height portion of Ger's studio, this little office is lit through the upper sashes of one of the tall east-front windows.	GER & INA: MEZZANINE EAST-END OFFICE WINDOW  (vid-frame 8-90 / to EEN) Seated at the office desk beside the space above Dacostakade's water.	GER & INA STUDIO  (vid-frame 8-90 / to EEN) Ger & Ina's printing studio is a seperate space on the central corridor's east side, under the apt's extended mezzanine - here viewed through its corridor entry. At the far end its Dacostakade windows are masked in red to protect photo-sensitive print-media.

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GER & INA LIVING-SPACE (VER 2: APT ONLY: WINTER 1991 - ) (recorded 8-1993)    ... in process 
[Written mainly c.1994 / revised 2007]

When I visited it in 1993 the apt had differentiated into probably the most spatially complex, compressed, and functionally complete home in Tetterode. It can serve as a type-exemplar of an evolving home, and of the way in which an initially simple living place can ramify and complexify within the available space to accommodate and facilitate new needs.

Though its 'external' shape is still only 1-bay wide, over and on both sides of the enclave's central corridor, in early 1992 this apt was almost completely revised and became a complex of two-level spaces and divisions, ingeniously squeezing into its quite narrow site all the functions of a family house. 

This is the only self-contained/independent 'house-like' apt that I know of in the Hartkamp building, and the only apt in Tetterode that by bridging its enclave's corridor posesses a building's full width [1], owning views through the big windows of both widely separated fronts. This double externality - claiming both Dacostakade and the central courtyard - makes the interior feel as independent from its surroundings, and as complete and bounded, as a conventional 'private house'. Futhermore, because of the relative seperation of its two main parts, connected across the enclave's corridor by only a quite shallow upper floor; because of its strangely (for a 'house') located ingess: under and into its centre; and because its internal complexity offers many choices of location and enclosure, one feels one is exploring a 'region' rather than confined in a long narrow home. 

The mezzanine is now completely divided into a series of rooms, opening into each other. It is now entered, not only from the west-side stair, but also from an enclosed stair at its centre, rising just inside the new east-side 'front-door' (formerly into Ger's studio).

[info-notes: 8-95]: ... in process
...91-92: [pics =93]:::: GER: space design, colours // INA: finish, style, colours  // RADBOUD HOUTMAN: design & made all furniture (incl pics!) - except eat-room cupboard (Ina's) & table; colours [Radboud: "They trusted me" - nb 'they all knew each others taste']///  All 3 discussed colours (with computer-assisted visualising).
...Wood & floors 2nds frm dealers // Doors 2nds //  Floors wood on paper-insulation on concrete.

GER & INA LIVING-SPACE (VER 3: APT ONLY: #### - ) (recorded 2008)     ... in process
[Written 200#]

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