Het Nieuwe Huis
Het Nieuwe Huis (German Das Neue Haus ) is a residential building built between 1927 and 1928 at Roelof Hartplein 50 in the Oud-Zuid district of Amsterdam . The expressionist building is considered to be the most important work by the Dutch architect Barend van den Nieuwen Amstel (1883–1957), who designed it in the style of the late, objectified Amsterdam School . The house is particularly noticeable for its clock tower and its block-shaped and cylindrical bay windows . The details of the facade, which is mostly clad with brown bricks , include several lead glass windows , the slightly cantilevered parapet under the flat roof and numerous elements made of natural stone .
The six-storey complex is the first collective housing project in the Netherlands to implement the concept of the kitchen-house . Since 2004, Het Nieuwe Huis has been a Rijksmonument under monument protection .
history
As early as 1912, the Amsterdamsche Coöperatieve Keuken (ACK) initiated the building of a kitchen-house for single people and small families at the Samenleving housing association . In 1917 the urban expansion plan Plan Zuid , designed by the architect and town planner Hendrik Petrus Berlage , was approved. The Samenleving Cooperative, founded by municipal and state officials, took over the development of seven blocks of houses on Roelof Hartplein when the new district was being built . The Het Nieuwe Huis , which was planned in cooperation with the ACK, was to be built on a U-shaped floor plan .
After the drafts made by MJE Lippits and Jop van Epen did not meet the ideas of the initiators, the architect Barend van den Nieuwen Amstel was commissioned to plan the representative building. In contrast to the pre-existing workers' or women 's homes (Dutch tehuizen ), such as the likewise situated at Roelof Hartplein Huize Lydia , presented Het Nieuwe Huis by its mixed character in Amsterdam an absolute novelty, which the house and the mocking name De Laatste Kans (German The Last Chance ) brought in.
In addition to the original 169 apartments and the restaurant, the building also had a library with a reading room, a post office , four shops on the ground floor, roof terraces , an in-house telephone, dining elevators and a bicycle station in the basement. A wide range of services were available to residents , including doing housework and shopping. In the early years, a staff of 35 employees with their own management was employed for this purpose.
The cooperatively organized Coöperatieve Woonvereniging Het Nieuwe Huis was responsible for the operation , while the renting remained in the hands of the Samenleving housing association . The costs for the central facilities and the service personnel were passed on to the residents, which is why the rent was ultimately higher than originally planned. The distribution of meals turned out to be problematic, which is why some renovations took place in 1937 with the participation of the architect van den Nieuwen Amstel, during which the kitchen in the attic was replaced by 19 additional apartments and moved to the ground floor. Since then, the complex, which has largely been preserved in its original state, has 188 apartments.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument register: Het Nieuwe Huis ( Memento of the original of June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. As of May 17, 2011
- ↑ a b Nancy Stieber: Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam. Reconfiguring Urban Order and Identity, 1900-1920 . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998. ISBN 0-226-77417-1 , p. 336 ( online ).
- ↑ Amsterdamsche Coöperatieve Woningvereeniging “Samenleving”: The first building ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of May 18, 2011
- ↑ a b Bureau Monuments & Archeology Amsterdam: Het Nieuwe Huis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of May 18, 2011
- ↑ Dorine Mignot and Joke van Ommen: Woningbouwverenigingen (PDF file; 179 kB) . As of May 18, 2011
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Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '8.9 " N , 4 ° 52' 56.2" E