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CONTENTS
4 SITES
TETTERODE
DE LOODS
EDELWEIS
APPENDICES
NOTES
SUB-SITES
BOOK: DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
"TETTERODE" SQUAT 1981-/COLLECTIVE 1986 to-- - p18(of 18)
BILDERDIJKSTRAAT: THE NORTH-BUILDING ... in process
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THE BILDERDIJK NORTH-BUILDINGS [bdN]
[written 2008 / info re 2008] ... in process
To the north of the old Bilderdijk building are three apartment buildings with office-like street-levels. The whole street-level, and level-1 of the furthest buildings, were occupied by the Tetterode Collective in 1988/89 - the apartments above (L1 to L4 in building one and L2 to L4 in buildings two and three) are now occupied by private home-owners, completely independent of the Tetterode Collective.
After
the original 1901 Tetterode factory building in Bilderdijkstraat was extended
upwards in 1906, a subsequent northward extension was built by the Company between 1906 and 1908.
This building is a unique type within the fold of Tetterode - a street-level
office topped by homes. Its office level is emphatically expressed as separate from
the conventional apartments above: differentiated by stone facing and capped
by an entablature inscribed with the Tetterode Co. titles over three
shallow-arched bays, it acts as a bizarrely unrelated neo-classic 'plinth' for
its surmounting apartment block. This office extension is said [by Jozef] to
have been used for printing the Company newspaper, and its apartments rented to
Tetterode workers. Two more modest early 20thC buildings (presumably not built
by Tetterode Co.) continue the theme northwards, their street-level units now
renovated as a single office-like facade.
BILDERDIJK-NORTH
[bdN]:
W-FACADE
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BUILDINGS 1/2/3 & bdN ENCLAVE ENTRY The 3-arched 'building 1' was built by Tetterode just before 1908 as Directors' offices with employee housing above. The furthest two office/residential 'buildings 2/3' are of unknown origin. The bdN enclave's entry is via the round-windowed green door 163 [pic rt] at the old building's north end. |
BILDERDIJK-NORTH
[bdN]: W-FACADE - BUILDING
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BILDERDIJK-NORTH
[bdN]: W-FACADE - BUILDINGS 2/3
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BILDERDIJK-NORTH [bdN]: E-FACADE - BUILDINGS 1/2/3 |
BILDERDIJK-
NORTH-BUILDING (bdN) This cross-section through the bdN buildings cuts across the most central of their street-front office-spaces (now Sara Kramer's studio); the enclave's access corridor; and its east-side 'display-space'. The access corridor bisects the building's ground-floor, limiting the intrusion of N-end work-spaces. Only at this centre does the enclave expand to the east, projecting its 'display-space' into Tetterode's N-End workshop domain.. |
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THE BILDERDIJK NORTH ENCLAVE
HOME &
WORK-SPACES ("the WOONGROEP")
[written 2008 / info re 2008 - NB: this portion of Tetterode was not visited before May
2008] ... in process
This most isolated Tetterode enclave occupies the five erstwhile Company office-spaces along the Bilderdijk North buildings' street-front; extends to the rear (into the domain of the N-end workshops and kindergarten) a 3-level artwork 'display-room', store and basement, and intrudes a separate 4-room space onto level-1 at its north end. The original physical divisions of the building are basically unchanged, thus this enclave (like the occupations of the Silo's central-stair offices; the De Loods workers house, and Bilderdijk's Entresols) displays the least radical type of self-made living-space: an adaptation to ones personal needs of an existing plan, rooms and services.
The enclave originated in 198# as the meeting place of a 'Woongroep' [1]. Initially seven people lived here and used the (now) 'presentation-room' for meetings - subsequently this became an exhibiting space for the work of four of the residents [2]. When I first visited the Woongroep in 2008 Jozef was the only remaining resident, however the resulting conglomerate of one home, four rented work-spaces, a shared kitchen, and shared display/store-spaces - though now only used by people from outside Tetterode - still deserves the appellation 'enclave' because it has that entity's typical spatial cohesion around a locked access-corridor and much of its sense of social identity (both enhanced by its unique isolation in its 'own' building) ... its present users still call it "the Woongroep".
The enclave is strangely entered. Seen from the street its row of five street-front spaces is punctuated by five 'front-doors' - seemingly each space has its separate access - however all these doors open to stairs which exclusively serve the private flats above. In fact all the enclave's spaces, including its unit on the first floor, are accessed through an internal and almost unnoticeable door in the north wall of the old Bilderdijk block's north-stair passage (via street door 163), or accessed from Da Costakade, across the kindergarten's playground to a locked passage (serving as fire-escape) which slices through the N-end between workshops and kindergarten, and enters the enclave via its rear 'presentation-room'.
The enclave's communal spaces are shown first: its entry passage; its three-level 'display-space' plus stores, and kitchen. Next the street-front row of apt and work-spaces in sequence from south to north end and the level-1 work-space of Tatyana.
NOTES:
1. "Woongroep" - a 1970s term for a social group that was formed to discuss some ethical/social principle - for instance a feminist group.
2. These four included a photographer, a fashion-designer, an artist
(Jozef).
ENCLAVE 'DISPLAY-SPACE' & STORES - [recorded: 2008/11]
ENCLAVE KITCHEN - [recorded: 2008]
JOZEF APT - [recorded: 2011]
DOMANIQUE STUDIO - [recorded: 2008]
SARA STUDIO - [recorded: 2008]
ALEX & ALEX EDIT-STUDIO - [recorded: 2008]
TATYANA STUDIO - [recorded: 2008]
BILDERDIJK NORTH-BUILDINGS ENCLAVE: PLAN LEVEL 0 |
BILDERDIJK NORTH-BUILDINGS ENCLAVE: PLAN LEVEL 1 |
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BILDERDIJK NORTH-BUILDINGS ENCLAVE: PLAN LEVEL 01 (BASEMENT) |
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ENCLAVE CIRCULATION
ENCLAVE 'DISPLAY-SPACE', STORE, BASEMENT (19## -) [bdN-L0+L1+L-0 / E-side cntr]
The enclave's only space to the east of its access corridor is the meeting place of the original woongroep, now the 'display-space' or 'presentation-room' - a social, exhibition and store space for enclave artists/designers. Its large main room projects out into the N-end workshop/kindergarten complex where it acquires its own roof-window [ref: pic of exterior above:" E-FACADE"]. It is the nexus of store/work-spaces on upper and basement levels - a stair rises into the centre of its landing-like store space from which extrudes a long cul-de-sac 'passage' towards the north, another stair descends to a large transverse (east to west) basement; all these spaces are furnished with strange junk.
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ENCLAVE KITCHEN (19## -) [bdN-L0 / W-side N-cntr - 1 bay]
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JOZEF VAN DER HEIJDEN APT (19
94 -) [bdN-L0 / W-side S-end - 1 bay] ... in processJozef moved into the enclave in 1988 and has occupied three locations: from 1988 to 93 in what is now Domanique's work space; then a brief sojourn in the enclave's 'presentation-room' until his 1994 move into this present apt. In 2004/5 Jozef extended his residential space with a private bathroom/wc. This however is separated from his south end west-side apt - two-bays to the north and on the east side of the enclave corridor flanking the 'presentation room' door.
Jozef is the enclave's only remaining resident. During his time here, though the physical disposition of spaces has remained unchanged, there have been various locational and functional changes - the most pervasive is a drift from internal domestic occupation to work-spaces rented by external users.
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DOMINIQUE WORK-SPACE (19## -) [bdN-L0 / W-side S-cntr - 1 bay]
DOMINIQUE
STUDIO: VIEW THROUGH ENCLAVE PASSAGE ENTRY |
DOMINIQUE
STUDIO: |
DOMINIQUE
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SARA KRAMER STUDIO (19## -) [bdN-L0 / W-side cntr - 1-bay]
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ALEX & ALEX AUDIO-VISUAL STUDIO (19## -) [bdN-L0 / W-side N-end 1-bay]
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ALEX K: "SHOQ-STUDIO" + ALEX I: "SLON FILMS": A large space across the north end of the enclave, shared by two businesses concerned with audio-visual productions: promotional videos, etc.. |
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TATYANA VAN WALSUM & YVON VISSER DESIGN-STUDIO (1998 -) [bdN-L1 / W-side N-end 2 bays]
The workplace of theatre-set designers: Tatyana (theatre designer) and Yvon (product designer), occupies level 1 of Bilderdijk's two northernmost buildings. This self-contained complex of spaces, though used only as a working venue, still conveys a sense of 'home'. A stair, set into the corridor wall like a cupboard, mounts to a domestic seeming hallway, off that a store-room opens; then two linked spaces: a well equipped kitchen and a sort of sitting lobby lead to a large workroom in which a theatre set for Hamlet was in process of design.
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CONTENTS | 4 SITES | TETTERODE | DE LOODS | EDELWEIS | APPENDICES | NOTES | SUB-SITES |