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BOOK:
DAVID CARR-SMITH - IMPROVISED
ARCHITECTURE IN AMSTERDAM INDUSTRIAL SQUATS & COLLECTIVES
"TETTERODE"
SQUAT 1981-/COLLECTIVE 1986 to-- - p6(of 18)
DACOSTAKADE:
MERKELBACH APARTMENTS
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TETTERODE - p14: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT BUILDINGS >
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TETTERODE - p17: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS - bd3 >
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TETTERODE - p18: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS - bdN >
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MERKELBACH:
HOMES & STUDIO-APTS - cont ...
On
this page are shown level-3 enclave's three living-spaces:
JAN VAN G - [recorded: 1993 & 2008]
AKKE BOTMA - [recorded: 1993]
INA HEUVEL - [recorded: 2011]
RONALD
TIENHOVEN - [recorded: 1993 & 2008]
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MERKELBACH: mb-L3
ENCLAVE
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MERKELBACH:
PLAN - LEVEL 3 ENCLAVE [mb-L3]
(Architect-Drawing
1986 / top is EEN)
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MERKELBACH:
PLAN - LEVEL 3 ENCLAVE [mb-L3]
(Plan: Mikel v Gelderen 2006 / info 2008 / top is
EEN)
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L3 ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic
27-04-2008 / to S)
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L3 ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic
27-04-2008 / to SSE)
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L3 ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic
23-04-2008 / to NNW)
Four
days before all the other pictures (a unique foray into a normally locked
enclave!) - things move at different rates: for instance in the next pic the scaffold unit
has changed sides but the cardboard box outside Ronald's door is unmoved.
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L3 ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic
27-04-2008 / to S)
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L3 ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic
27-04-2008 / to SSE)
Almost at the passage's N end, next
to Ina's studio door, we look south down the length
- past Ronald T's left and right in-progress apt, past the projection of Jan's
apt - to the enclave's entry door.
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L3 ENCLAVE
FIRE ESCAPE PASSAGE
(pic
27-04-2008 / to WWS)
In 2008 the
enclave passage's progress north terminates at the south wall (and entry door) of
Akke B's living-space. Here
it sends a narrow branch to the left (west) and becomes a fire-escape passage between
Ronald's and Akke's apts. Before the present rearrangement of the apts
this passage separated the two parts of Ronald's: his studio and his
living-space.
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JAN VAN G STUDIO (1990 --) [mb-L3 / E-side S-end] / LIVING-SPACE 2: APT
(200# -) [mb-L3 / E-side S-half] [recorded
1993 /
2008]
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JAN STUDIO (in 1993)
At this time Jan lived outside Tetterode.
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JAN STUDIO
(pic 8-93
/ to SW)
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JAN STUDIO
FROM KITCHEN
(pic 8-93
/ to NE)
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JAN APT (in 2008) ...
in process
This in-process
family apartment was recorded during a phase of smaller scale fitting and
clarifying after radical
planning and completion of certain large construction works. In the midst of
this partially completed apartment there are isolated finished
structures and arrangements that demonstrate Jan's formal idealism: the
exquisite south-end store-unit, the mezzanine steelwork, the spatial plan, even the precise improvisatory conjoining of the
'saucepan-tables'.
However this degree of clarity-distillation can never include and facilitate all
domestic needs/activities/potentials; indeed some is designed to hide them. Visible
here are
the opening moves of a game of finding
and completing forms that
monumentalise the order of spaces, and are
simultaneously arrangements that serve (and inevitably average) the needs of the
inhabitants. At present these include items brought in from some previous domesticity: tall
wooden cupboards group with a new steel mezzanine-leg to divide apt-entry / kitchen /
sitting; the need for a larger kitchen table has subtly mated two disparate
tables. The moving adapting game of use and the need for resolved finished forms
of beauty are sometimes parallel,
sometimes accordant, and sometimes oppositional - the ongoing realisation of this apartment involves and
provokes
this extending drama.
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JAN APT:
APT ENTRY DOOR - EXTERIOR IN ENCLAVE PASSAGE
(pic 27-04-2008 / to EEN)
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JAN APT:
APT ENTRY DOOR & PASSAGE - VIEW FROM LIVING-SPACE
(pic 27-04-2008 / to SW)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
VIEWED FROM THE ENTRY PASSAGE
(pic 18-04-2008 / to E)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE VIEWED FROM
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
SE)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE FROM
UNDER MEZZANINE
(pic 26-04-2008 / to
S)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
S-WALL CUPBOARD
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
SSE)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE S WALL FROM KITCHEN
(pic 27-04-2008 / to SE)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE KITCHEN
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
S)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE KITCHEN
TABLE (S)
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
WWS)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
& MEZZANINE
(pic 18-04-2008 / to NW)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
& MEZZANINE
(pic 18-04-2008 / to
NNE)
The
view across the main living-space (still encumbered with unpacked boxes) from
near its south end - under the mezzanine, to the entry of Jan's office in the
NE corner.
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
(N-PART) UNDER MEZZANINE
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
NNW)
View under mezzanine to Jan's office/work-room at the apt's N end.
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JAN APT:
OFFICE/WORK-ROOM
(pic 27-04-2008 / to NNW)
Jan's
office/work-room is at the apt's N-end. It is the larger portion of a divided bay - behind its inner wall
[off pic left] is Ronald Tienhoven's store/sleep-space entered from his
corridor-spanning mezzanine.
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
- NE CORNER WINDOW VIEW UNDER MEZZANINE'S SE CORNER
(pic 27-04-2008 / to N)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE'S
SE-ROOM BALCONY - FROM S LIVING-SPACE
(pic 27-04-2008 / to NW)
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JAN APT: LIVING-SPACE
BETWEEN MEZZANINE'S
E-FACE & WINDOW
(pic 26-04-2008
/ to S)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE
LANDING BALCONY
(pic 26-04-2008
/ to WWS)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE STAIR
ENTRY
(pic 27-04-2008
/ to NNE)
Located near the outlet of the apt's entry passage the stair rises behind a
narrow and elegant cupboard..
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JAN APT:
STAIR FROM LIVING-SPACE TO MEZZANINE
(pic 27-04-2008 / to
EEN)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE LANDING
(pic 18-04-2008
/ to EEN)
The
stair (left) emerges onto the mezzanine landing (over whose balcony rails a
duvet is airing). The entry to its right is into the child's bedroom.
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE LANDING
(pic 18-04-2008
/ to EEN)
To the left mezzanine landing with its view down into the living-space and right
into the child's E-room bedroom.
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE CHILD'S
EAST ROOM
(pic 27-04-2008
/ to E)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE CHILD'S EAST ROOM - BED
(paste-up
2-pics 27-04-2008 / to SE)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE CHILD'S EAST ROOM - BED
(pic 18-04-2008 / to SW)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE CHILD'S EAST ROOM -
MEDIA/STORAGE
WALL
(pic 18-04-2008
/ to NNE)
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE
STAIR-LANDING
(pic 27-04-2008
/ to
WWS)
The SE-room opens to the left. Straight on and the bathroom
is on the left, at the far end are store cupboards[?]
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE
SE-ROOM
& BALCONY
(pic 27-04-2008
/ to S)
The SE-room with balcony overlooking the living-space's S-end.
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JAN APT: MEZZANINE
SE-ROOM - DESK & BALCONY
(pic 18-04-2008 / to SSW)
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JAN APT: BATHROOM
(pic 18-04-2008
/ to ##)
WHERE
IS THIS ?? - mez~ Wnd ?
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INA HEUVEL WORK-SPACE (20## -) [mb-L3 /
E-side cntr] [recorded 2011]
[NB: These photos were taken during Tetterode's 30th birthday 'open studios' - thus unfortunately the state of Ina's work-place
is biased to work-display rather than a 'natural' working order.]
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INA
WORK-SPACE: W-STUDIO - WITH UNDER MEZZANINE ENTRY FROM ENCLAVE PASSAGE
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INA
WORK-SPACE: W-STUDIO - UNDER-MEZZANINE TO E-STUDIO
(pic 16-10-11 / to NE) |
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INA
WORK-SPACE: E-STUDIO - VIEW OF DACOSTAKADE
(pic 16-10-11 / to
EEN)
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INA
WORK-SPACE: E-STUDIO REAR WALL
(pic 16-10-11 / to W)
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INA
WORK-SPACE: W-STUDIO - WITH STAIR TO MEZZANINE
(pic 16-10-11 / to SW)
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INA
WORK-SPACE: MEZZANINE STAIR
(pic 16-10-11 / to
WWS)
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INA
WORK-SPACE: MEZZANINE
(pic 16-10-11 / to EEN)
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INA
WORK-SPACE: MEZZANINE VIEW OF E-STUDIO
(pic 16-10-11 / to NE)
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AKKE BOTMA APT & STUDIO (1990 --) [mb-L3 /
E-side N-end] [recorded
1993]
Akke
established a
board-wall-defined territory in Merkelbach in 1981/82. The family apt
shown below (and its studio) were started in 1990.
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AKKE B APT (& STUDIO)
(pic 8-93
/ to WWS)
A
'family home' and studio.
The
whole living-space is divided into apartment and studio. The studio is
through the double-door in the S-wall [pic left]. The entry from the
enclave passage is via the studio.
The
apt space occupies the NE corner of Merkelbach and thus has windows on two
sides (pic right: note the high strip-windows of Merkelbach's N facade).
A
mezzanine bedroom is over the Kitchen.
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AKKE B APT (& STUDIO)
(pic 8-93
/ to E)
Living-space
from the mezzanine steps.
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RONALD
VAN TIENHOVEN APT (1986 --) [mb-L3 / W-side S-end] / LIVING-SPACE 2: APT (2008 -) [mb-L3 / W-side S-half] [recorded
1993 / 2008]
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RONALD APT (in 1993)
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RONALD APT &
OFFICE
(pic 8-93
/ to NE)
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RONALD APT &
OFFICE
(pic 8-93
/ to NNE)
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RONALD APT &
OFFICE
(pic 8-93
/ to WWS)
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RONALD APT &
OFFICE: S-END - KITCHEN
(pic 8-93
/ to SSE)
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RONALD DESIGN-STUDIO (in 2008)
The previous apt space is enlarged and in the midst of a complete
reconstruction as a huge design-studio ... in
process
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RONALD
STUDIO PLAN:
( drawing:
Ronald van Tienhoven 2008 / top is
EEN)
[NB:
Edit: Plan is rotated 180° to conform with enclave plans above]
... in
process
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RONALD
STUDIO: VIEW THROUGH NORTH ESCAPE-PASSAGE WINDOW
(pic
16-10-11 / to SE)
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RONALD
STUDIO:
(paste-up
2-pics 27-4-08 / to EES)
The
enclave corridor is encased in the white walls and mezzanine floor along the
east side of the space. The portion of mezzanine south of the half-demolished
centre wall serves as access to a small windowless room - a 15m2 portion of
Jan van G's office bay.
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RONALD
STUDIO: OFFICE BALCONY MEZZANINE NE CORNER
(pic 27-4-08 / to
NNE)
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RONALD
STUDIO: OFFICE BALCONY MEZZANINE NE CORNER VIEW
(pic
29-4-08 / to SW)
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RONALD
STUDIO: FROM CENTRE WALL TO SW KITCHEN CORNER
(pic 27-4-08 / to
SW)
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RONALD
STUDIO: SW KITCHEN CORNER
(pic 27-04-2008
/ to S)
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RONALD
STUDIO: SW KITCHEN CORNER
(pic
29-04-2008 / to EES)
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RONALD
STUDIO: S-END KITCHEN
(pic 27-4-08 / to
SW)
Door to bathroom is in the far corner.
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RONALD
STUDIO: BATHROOM TO STUDIO
(pic
29-4-08 / to NW)
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RONALD
STUDIO: BATHROOM - W-SIDE
(pic
29-04-2008
/ to EES)
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RONALD
STUDIO: BATHROOM (ENCLAVE SHARED)
(pic
29-4-08 / to SW)
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TETTERODE - p8: DACOSTAKADE: MERKELBACH APTS - mb5/mb6 >
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TETTERODE - p9: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS - hc//hc1/hc2 >
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TETTERODE - p10: DACOSTAKADE: HARTCAMP APTS - hc3 >
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TETTERODE - p14: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT BUILDINGS >
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TETTERODE - p16: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS - bd2 >
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TETTERODE - p17: BILDERDIJKSTRAAT APTS - bd3 >
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