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LEGEND Information Cube: ‘The Connection’ 1 After purchasing the grounds the first cube New Farmyards Doctor shall be built as soon as possible as a AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) Sports Association multifunctional cube on farmyard 303. This Catering services School first cube shall be used as a conference space for volunteers, enthusiasts, regional Supermarket Museum education authorities, local entrepreneurs, Butcher Construction Company clubs and contractors. Church One-hour-route
Quartermasters: ‘The New Farmers’ As co-initiator we are looking – together One-hour-route: Within walking distance of the AZC Bellingwolde (Asylum Seekers with the COA (the Central Agency for the Centre) two farmyards are being developed. A condition for this development is that – in terms of accessibility and connectivity – these farmyards have to be located within an Reception of Asylum Seekers) and the hour’s bicycling distance of the AZC. The farmyards at the Hamdijk and the Hamsterweg local government – for two ‘new farmers’. were therefore indeed possible options in this context. As the new farmyards’ quartermasters, they should be a mix of the domestic villagers and the residents of the AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) Bellingwolde. An important task of the new quartermasters shall be to find a new caretaker for the +6000 farmyards as well as obviously new residents, who would like to volunteer to +5600 live there.
wall construction: Rc = 4,5 roof construction: Rc = 6,0 - ventilated wall cladding - roof cladding We’re on our way! - cavity wall with tiles and battens - insulation / sheeting - water retaining UV-resistant foil - building board - building board - construction 45 x 245 centre to centre ± 610 mm The first cube – ‘The Connection’, built - CLS battens, size determined by - inner building board, multi-plywood / fermacell the intended Rc of 4,5 - inner building board, in three weeks’ time – gives a good idea multi-plywood / fermacell of the options here. It is used on a daily +3000 basis, as a conference room for the 2016 - The experiences of a new farmer: development team, as a lunch area for the +2600 floor construction: - building board - insulation “There’s actually three of us involved here, Bart, Hendrik and me. I was the one who responded to a notice by the municipality, Syria. Bart is from the Noorderpoort College, this institute is going to give practical courses on site. These are focused on the working crew and as a contact point for - construction 45 x 175 centre to centre ± 610 mm - inner building board, multi-plywood / fermacell which I saw on the bulletin board in the AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre). I’ve been a teacher on a lower agricultural school in vegetable garden, which we are about to lay out as well as on the construction of cubes. Hendrik and I are now payed from the volunteers. In this early stage it’s all - ceiling Damascus, so working on a farmyard with people of the same age really appealed to me. Those farmyards, I had already several sources, the province has a budget for projects which promote sustainability and the municipality also supports us about motivating and inspiring people and passed them during my daily walks through the village. Hendrik is also from Bellingwolde, he primarily is a gardening expert. financially. In the future we have to become self-sufficient, ha! What I’m going to do right now? Play soccer, like we do every connecting the villagers with the refugees. I myself am learning a lot of new skills now, because here other methods are applied as well as other crops are grown than in day together with the local youth from around here!”
Everybody’s in! 0 In addition, the foundation is being laid for a sustainable development of the site. -400 5640 Volunteers from the village as well as from the AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) set to work in the vegetable garden. The Noorderpoort College shall help develop Basic intersection of a residential cube: A comfortable living 180 140 space due to the robust structure in accordance with current building the vegetable garden and teachers regulations, as well as to a high level of materialisation and detailing. shall start coaching the pupils and the Proposed first development site: Hoofdweg 301 + 303, Bellingwolde. Farmyard 303 contains a listed national monument: a farm site is now a protected villagescape. However, the farmhouse has been vacant for more than 20 years now. Farmyard 301 volunteers on site. transverse farmhouse built in 1898. Due to its monumental location at the entry road of the Bellingwolde linear settlement, the merely contains a farmhouse’s barn, which appears to have no monumental value at all.
Deals with Let’s play soccer! the financiers The Noorderpoort The kids from Launch event and the COA College launches the AZC (Asylum A soccer match Pop-up exhibition in the Village Hall (the Central several projects The vegetable The information Seekers Centre) in the farmyard in Questionnaires Agency for the Purchase of Construction of the Info Cube A vegetable garden, garden cube and the village play Setting up the The orchard refugees and The New Institute, are available, the first Reception of farmyards 301 & 303: driving force behind the farmyard an orchard, is laid out by ‘The Connection’ The dismantling soccer together in wood workshop in is laid out by villagers in mixed Rotterdam volunteers sign up Asylum Seekers) €270.000,- developments and the prototype cube building volunteers! is fully operational of barn 301 the new farmyard barn 303 volunteers! teams
The planting a walnut tree Annual Report 2016 the kick-off of purchase of the the development property, making it ripe of a new for development and farmyard the info cube € 394.000,- 2017 2 7 5 3 1 4 6
The first residential cube! Who wants to live on a farmyard? The COA (the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers) supervisors play a role in determining the composition of the resident’s group, so far it doesn’t consist of AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) residents. The first cubes have already been built, by the cooperation members themselves. Pupils of the Noorderpoort College have lent a helping hand.
Fully in operation! Each farmyard harbours a small Ground Floor First Floor community. Refugees, people with a scale 1:200 scale 1:200 residence permit, villagers and students Spaces per residential unit: Spaces per residential unit: 2 2 are all going about their business as usual. 1. Living space 11,1m 5. Bedroom 2 10,0m Pupils of the Noorderpoort College and 2. Toilet 1,3m2 6. Bedroom 3 10,3m2 3. Meterkast 0,5m2 7. Bathroom 3,3m2 AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) residents 4. Bedroom 1 10,3m2 Total (6 pers.) 59,7m2 are learning Dutch and instructed how to garden, demolish, design, build, restore and cook. In the meantime other parties have also found their way to
infrared LED heating lighting the farmyards. There’s a lot of (public) attention for this new concept of living
water saving shower & -tap with instant heater and working, which proves to foster a
SOLAR ROOF maximum level of integration. Based on ON BARN this very concept, farmyards are now
natural ventilation being also being developed in the Dutch industrial eco-toilet 2017 - The experiences of a new resident of the farmyard: farmhouse on No. 303. She’s going to do that together with Jochem of the Noorderpoort College. And there’s also a contractor washing machine provinces of Limburg and Brabant. In “Here I started working in the garden, in the AZC (Asylum Seekers Centre) I was a member of the greenery team, we looked involved: outdoor workshop, they call it, or hands-on-learning, really cool. Khozama has already been cooking for the locals the small town of Bellingwolde the one- after the green areas there. That’s still my job now, sure, but I’m trying to cut down my hours there because things are starting in the community centre for some time now and after the front house of 303 is finished, she wants to start running a small hot plate hour-route has been extended, allowing to get busier and busier over here now. I participate in the Building in Outdoor Areas workshop, we first dismantled the barn on restaurant with the cooking group there. We’re also going to start building greenhouses on top of our homes, because we can farmyard No. 301 and then helped install several cubes. Right now I’m living on farmyard No. 301/12, together with my younger then grow our vegetables from Syria and the food will be really good, mmm… Later on I’m having my lessons in Dutch in the an additional two farmyards at the brother Ahmed. Abdol and Kinan – also brothers – live at our place as well and I shouldn’t forget to mention Khozama and 303 barn – that’s where Fadi the caretaker lives. There’s also a nice area there, where we like to spend a lot of time studying ORCHARD Hamsterweg to be added to the project her little boy Soltan here. Khozama is an electro technician. She’s going to teach us how to replace the installations in the old and eating our meals. Tonight ‘stampot boerenkool’ (kale mash pot) is on the menu, Hendrik is going to make it for us. 301 303 VEGTABLE GARDEN once more.
DRINKING WATER SUPPLY The first vegetable garden harvest! The vegetable garden is beginning to bear ENERGY SUPPLY
energy return fruit, while there is also enough energy
irrigation water charging station being generated to address the demand electrical SEWAGE CONNECTION bicycles etc. of two existing farmyards. The community
UNDERGROUND RAINWATER STORAGE proves to be more or less self-sufficient.
Self-Sufficiency Diagram Detached cubes on a Groningen farmyard Stacked cubes for holders of a residence permit Stacked and semi-detached cubes for an Theatre cubes in the Groningen landscape Self-built cube in a residential neighbourhood asylum seeker centre
VV Bellingwolde The vegetable More and more adopts the soccer garden provides attention for tournament of enough food for The construction of twelve The installation of 150 Start of the restoration of the The first reunited Two new farmyards our approach: the AZC (Asylum own use as well The Repair Café cubes on farmyard 301 solar panels First vegetable monumental farmhouse 303 family starts living on outside the village are the concept is Seekers Centre) as for commercial in 303’s barn is a € 766.000,- on the barn roof 303 garden harvest € 577.000,- the farmyard purchased! spreading! and the villagers purposes huge success
Hamsterweg 10 The caretaker Annual Report 2017 starts living in the the construction of ‘The Connection’ cubes, the restoration cube in order of 303 and to guarantee a solar power station the safety of € 1.340.000,- the farmyard’s residents 2020
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New Farmyards Doctor/Hospital Theatre Train station
AZC Sports Association Museum Railway connection (Asylum Seekers Centre) Catering services Swimming Facility School Bus connection
Supermarket Church Library Network between New Frmyards and Construction facilities A Commercial Cube along the roadside Company The network has vastly expanded, allowing it to cover the whole region now. An Network increasing number of parties contribute to By choosing the right locations for the farmyards the residents shall be able to use the local utilities the success of this project. The one-hour- and facilities network and participate in it. route consists of a network of collaborating farmyards. Each farmyard specialises in one specific sector: there’s a vegetable cultivation area, a farmyard with a wood workshop, in which among others things new ‘cubes’ are made as well as, for instance, outdoor furniture. At this point, a farmer within the one-hour-route has FOOD PRODUCTION already tied in with the developments, sales
founding a care farm for the elderly as well warm air inlet as the refugees. As of now, the farmyards natural ventilation
are not only self-sufficient, they produce collection of rainwater enough to allow commercial activities as well.
Reaping the fruits! The two new farmyards at the main street cold air inlet during summer
of Bellingwolde are an asset to the village. SOLAR ROOF ON BARN FARMYARD 303 POWER SUPPLY The old farmhouse at the Hoofdweg 303 energy return has been restored to its original state, toilet ush irrigation and washing water allowing it to proudly be the village’s DRINKING WATER SUPPLY
monumental flagship once again. Hoofdweg UNDERGROUND 301 has by now become the villager’s SEWAGE CONNECTION RAINWATER STORAGE regular stopping place for fresh fruit 2020 - The experiences of a passer-by: glad the construction fences are gone though, these wooden garden fences look so much friendlier and there’s nothing to be (produced in the beautiful new orchard) and Sustainability cross-section “It’s looking great, isn’t it? I was just telling my husband, now that we’ve just managed to restore that lovely front-house, look afraid of here anyway. Still, it isn’t such a bad idea that Hendrik is keeping an eye on things here each day, you know, he’s been a number of holders of a residence permit By semi-detaching the residential cubes as well as combining them with a greenhouse, a quite what they’ve put on top of that box of blocks? A greenhouse, I had a tour there last week, brilliant, all these vegetables I had involved with this project from the beginning and now it left him with a nice job. His wife keeps complaining he’s never around large residential building can be created, in which residents are able to grow their own food and to never even heard of before. The lady next door is a volunteer in the Oriental local shop, it’s located in the cube that used to be anymore, but she herself is working in that new sewing shop at the Hamdijk, indeed, another one of those initiatives of the New have found a lovely place to live there. use the greenhouse to heat their houses. These buildings shall feature the same silhouette as the the kiosk. I was just heading there, I regularly buy the veggie-day-special. They also have these recipes for you, I’ve already Farmyards, I believe – all kinds of people you got over there. Have you already seen the wood work shop at the Hamsterweg? A number of youngsters have registered local farm houses due to the corresponding shape of the greenhouses. tried a couple of them: some of them are kinda hard to prepare actually, so I tell Wim, that’s my husband: tonight we’re going They’ve got these great rabbit hutches, really cheap too! You know, I’m also really happy things are getting a little better over with the local soccer club of Bellingwolde, to have dinner in the Voorhuys, cause afterwards I want to hop into the kitchen for a minute and see how it’s done. I’m really there in Syria as well though … hey, look who’s here! It’s Soltan, he’s in the same school as my nephew.” allowing VV Bellingwolde – for the first time in years – to actually be in the race for the State of exploitation championship! Renting period COA: 10 jaar Rent during year 1-10: € 7,50 pp a day Total investment: € 2.241.000,- Return on investment: positive Internal rate of return: 5,00% Gross Initial Yield: 11,20% Repayment: 20 years Cash flow: positive Care Farm The construction of a a farmer within Local food products are greenhouse In 303’s front house a Bed & the one-hour-route Saturday Market used in restaurants The Noorderpoort we’re on our way to self- Breakfast is launched! has founded the New Farmyards A restaurant in College adopts VV Bellingwolde sufficiency! In addition, this a care farm for the launch a joint stand on Oudeschans starts the Repair Café expands! new volume proves to be elderly the Saturday Market preparing day specials and develops The residential cubes The new team’s a nice contribution to the Restoration 303 as well as in the small town of with New Farmyards’ a learning are energy-neutral! first official game archaic landscape completed! for refugees Winschoten food products programme
The Creative Pumpkin Party High Branch Brigade Harvest Fest! The first New The Annual Statement Club Veelerveen pupils of three joint pruning of the The greenhouse is Farmyards of 2020 launches primary schools in fruit trees during fully in operation! Run greenhouse the sowing club: Bellingwolde get wintertime A harvest fest is won by €68.000,- ‘The Connection’ gardening lessons, organised on the Zerom followed by self-made new farmyard, Ghebrihiwet soup villagers are invited from the to join for dinner. province of Limburg