dr Marinke Steenhuis partner SteenhuisMeurs Site development and re-use

Site identity and cultural history www.steenhuismeurs.nl

Consultancy of historians & engineers: cross over.

Hembrugterrein, washing building (gebouw 316) State

monument

Those were the days

TENDANCY IN

SOCIETY

Support system

Citizenship

Bottom – up

Self-organisation

Circular

economy

A SYSTEM

RECONSIDERED

• Wet scheiden van

wonen en zorg

• Omgevingswet

• Crisis- en

herstelwet

• Erfgoedwet

(heritage law)

Empty: 8 million m2 offices + 2,5 million m2 shops, thousands

of monumental buildings, hundreds of churches. Expected: 20

million m2 care and community buildings, 30 million m2

agricultural buildings.

Bron: Trendwolves, jongerentrends 2013 en verder

The current situation in the development market, Rudy Stroink

Platitude of the heritage

professional: ‘everything

must be saved and

frozen.’

10 World Heritage Sites

60.000 state monuments

400 protected cityscapes

20 national landscapes

2000 provincial monuments

30.000 municipal

monuments

1470 archeologic sites

MIP 1850-1940: 165.000

objects & 650 sites

The convert: ‘I was a developer for 20 years, I neatly

smashed the offices, neighbourhoods and office parks in

place. But I want to act different right now.’

The finder: ‘We are suspect as a branche; our suit does not

help.. And we are not able to get used to calculating

insecurities about tenants and exploitation.’

Platitude of the project

developer: ‘re-use, especially

of monuments, is a hustle and

too expensive.’

Platitude of the architect: ‘I don’t want to pay attention to

old buildings – what I design myself, is briljant by

definition.’

Graz, Peter Cook en Colin Fournier, ‘friendly alien’ in werelderfgoed.

Platitude of the civil

servant: ‘We have to

stick to the rules, to

exclude every risk.

We would like to see

a community space in

the building, but we

cannot afford

participating in the

exploitation. We

suggest to meet

every week to talk

about the project.’

The lucid citizen: ‘we obstruct the system

or we do it ourselves, without

government and without a developer.’

Value assessment: a starting point for programming

Expert value: recognition

Community value: placemaking/user groups

Age value

Preservation

Design value

Re-creating

Soul

significance

Object value

Exeptional qualities

Context value

Site brand/identity

The materialist

The pragmatic

The time traveler

The aesthetic

The story teller

STRIJP R EINDHOVEN Het geheugen, de kleur en het karakter

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City Orphanage, Amsterdam Continuity in present-day use: community building

ERASING CLUB MED, CAP DE CREUS - SPANJE Continuity of the landscap: shrinking