DUPLEX HOUSING in SLOTERMEER CASE ROLAND HOLSTBUURT Thesis Plan & Research Report
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DUPLEX HOUSING IN SLOTERMEER CASE ROLAND HOLSTBUURT Thesis plan & Research Report Thesis plan & Research report Duplex housing in Slotermeer Case Roland Holstbuurt Graduation Studio Transforming neighborhoods Technical University Delft, Faculty of Architecture Delft, 19 April 2013 Student: Ing. M.R. van der Veen Studentnumber: 1402714 Tutors: Ir. L. Spoormans Dr. ir. W. Quist Dr. ir. H. Zijlstra 2 THESIS PLAN & RESEARCH REPORT Figure 1 on title page: Roland Holstbuurt Slotermeer Amsterdam, view on courtyard Leopoldstraat 1950-1965 (via online Archive Amsterdam Beeldbank figure code 10009A005144, accessed on 10-10-2012) RESEARCH REPORT & THESIS PLAN 3 Colophon: Research Report & Thesis plan Duplex housing in Slotermeer Case Roland Holstbuurt Graduation Studio MIT: Transforming neighborhoods Technical University Delft, Faculty of Architecture Delft, 19 April 2013 Michiel van der Veen Schalk Burgerstraat 80 2572VA The Hague Netherlands +31 618729439 [email protected] 4 THESIS PLAN & RESEARCH REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ----------------------------- 06 Personal motivation ---------------- 06 Project introduction ---------------- 07 Report structure ---------------- 07 Outline graduation assignment -------------------------------- 09 Aims of the project ----------------------------- 10 Problem statement ---------------- 10 Research question ---------------- 12 Redesign objective ---------------- 13 Approach of research & redesign ----------------------------- 15 Research methodology ---------------- 15 Design methodology ---------------- 17 Relevance ----------------------------- 19 Scientific relevance ---------------- 19 Societal relevance ---------------- 18 Planning ----------------------------- 20 Research & analysis -------------------------------- 21 Introduction and research structure ----------------------------- 21 Duplex housing principals --------------------------- 24 Duplex housing short term strategy ---------------- 25 Principals of typologies and urban configurations ---------------- 29 Concerns on the sustainability of the duplex principle ---------------- 34 Erection duplex housing in Amsterdam ---------------- 36 Sub conclusions ---------------- 38 Duplex housing In practice --------------------------- 39 Slotermeer & the Western Garden cities ----------------------------- 40 Principals of the urban fabric ---------------- 40 RESEARCH REPORT & THESIS PLAN 5 Changes over time ---------------- 48 Sub conclusions ---------------- 52 Duplex housing in Slotermeer ------------------------- 53 Generics of duplex housing in courtyard configuration ---------------- 59 Changes over time ---------------- 67 Sub conclusions ---------------- 71 The case Roland Holstbuurt ------------------------- 72 Urban context ---------------- 72 Architecture & Technique ---------------- 76 Sub conclusions ---------------- 82 Conclusions ------------------------- 83 Conclusions ---------------- 83 Design direction ---------------- 84 Literature & Resources -------------------------------- 87 Appendices -------------------------------- 89 6 THESIS PLAN & RESEARCH REPORT Which, I believe, is the primary concern and continuity of the existing building stock1. One of INTRODUCTION power of the built heritage. the biggest assignments are the city expansions erected in the rebuilt period after the second This report forms the research and thesis plan Current society is highly dynamic characterized world war, which since the nineties cope with of my graduation project of the master by consumption, individualism, heterogeneity, complex social issues and degeneration. The Architecture at the Technical University of Delft emancipation, telematics, mobility and economic crisis put restructuring developments within the section of MIT (Modification, pluriformity on which the built environment for these areas, based on large investments for Intervention, Transformation). has to respond on the one hand. On the other regeneration by demolishment and building the hand the importance of the existing fabric new, on hold, which possibly results in further Personal motivation being subject to devotion and as a carrier of degeneration. Studying architecture for several years after tradition and history grows mutually. In which I obtaining my degree Bachelor of Built believe finding continuity based on the DNA of Environment and working aside as a roofer I what is, is a highly sustainable method. The The Msc3 studio Transforming Neighborhoods have obtained a wide view in the attitude and intermingling of continuity and change is one of by the chair of Restoration, Modification, craftsmanship of the disciplines involved in the the primary concerns of the MIT faculty. Intervention and Transformation (MIT) deals erection, maintenance and modification of with these complex social issues and buildings. My bachelor graduation project, Since the economic crisis slowly seems to degeneration processes of post war areas. The Energy neutral monuments – case transform into a stable condition professions current studio is the fourth graduation track Fogelsanghstate, was my first confrontation within the field of the build environment, like which is concerned with these postwar housing between sustainability, continuity and change, architects, are faced with new challenges. The areas. The current one is focused on the and culture, tradition and preservation, which financial conditions of involved stakeholders postwar expansion of Amsterdam. Previous in first instance where perceived as classing sets pressure on one-dimensional studios studied also postwar areas in The fields of demands. This duality, and perception ‘demolishment and built new’ assignments in Hague and Rotterdam. Thorough research of sustainability in terms of performances on which the practice shifts towards modifying, based design with the awareness of cultural energy and materials, was the first step in the intervening and transforming in the existing historical significance in order to discover alternation of my perception of the built building stock. About two third of the degraded housing areas as potential heritage is environment and sustainability. Except architectural practice in The Netherlands at the primary concern for regeneration. perceiving it as the valorization of science and nowadays is concerned with the change and influences of socio cultural motives concerning 1 Website RMIT organization via a program I became interested in the power of http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/over-faculteit/afdelingen/rmit- devotion of the urban tissue and the buildings. en-mediastudies/rmit/organisatie/, accessed on 20-10- 2012 RESEARCH REPORT & THESIS PLAN 7 Project introduction One part of the stock seen as problematic by the Roland Holstbuurt since the erection to the several stakeholders like the housing initial future plans, on urban, architectural and The Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam built corporation and the municipality, is the duplex technical scale is elaborated. After this initial in the rebuilt period after the Second World housing, which forms about twenty percent of research weaknesses, strengths, opportunities War, which is one of the biggest extension the number of dwellings in Slotermeer. Several and threats are drawn in order to derive design plans in the Netherlands erected, faces enclaves are conducted as duplexed ground- objectives and principles for the further design complex social issues and degeneration. Other bound single family housing in courtyard driven research in the second quarter of the large expansion plans are for example The configurations. In time of erection these were graduation studio. Hague South West and Rotterdam South. meant as a temporary solution to overcome the Current restructuring developments are put on housing shortage. After ten years the duplex Report structure hold due to the new economic situation and dwellings would be simplexed which until this corporations have generally minimalized their This report, containing the thesis plan and the 2 day in general did not occur. Over time, due to research and analysis of the first quarter of the activities into management and maintenance. the filtering down process, their position on the Slotermeer, as being one of these areas, graduation studio, has primarily two parts. The housing market changed. Nowadays, therefore erected as one of the first parts of the General first forms the graduation outline and the these areas are mainly characterized by small second forms the actual research which is Expansion Plan (AUP, Algemeen and degenerated typologies with relatively Uitbreidingsplan) is mostly retained by the conducted as input for further design research cheap rents and inhabitants with low financial urban renewal period in which even a large the upcoming quarter. potential. There is an high mutation rate in part is recently declared as heritage, called the change of tenants4. One of these In the graduation outline the aims of the Van Eesteren Museum. Plans were made to neighborhoods, the case study for the project, the approach for the research and regenerate the area by means of large scale graduation assignment, is the Roland analysis and the redesign, and the societal and demolishment and building new housing Holstbuurt. It represents the typical abstract of scientific relevance are explained. In this the estate, in which this could foresee in a more the development of duplex housing in a post problem statement and the research question differentiated housing stock as one of the