Werk-woonhuis, Uiterwaardenstraat 131

English translation

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Description

(Dwelling forming part of the) COMPLEX OF STUDIO AND FAMILY DWELLINGS in various types, housed in an elongated, flat-roofed and detached building block comprising six, respectively five, storeys for the dwellings and four high storeys for the studios; erected as a steel frame with the external walls clad in brick and the steel windows and balconies, as well as the hoisting beams at the top mounted directly on the frame - the whole designed by P. Zanstra, J.W.L. Giesen and K.L. Sijmons, on their own initiative, in 1934, according to the principles of the Nieuwe Bouwen.

The studio dwellings (Zomerdijkstraat 16-30) have on the south side, grouped in eights, a shared entrance with stairwell, indicated by lower-placed frosted glass windows; the wooden door is arched and provided with a circular window, while on the storeys on either side projecting balconies are mounted corresponding at the top to the row of hoisting beams. On the north side (Uiterwaardenstraat) are located the studios, the lower row of which was originally intended for sculptors and projects forward, each provided with double wooden doors - with diagonal boarding - and with fanlights in the sloping roof; the studios on the storeys, originally designed for painters, have across almost the full width of the facades three-part window bands with steel glazing bars. The dwellings belonging to these studios are alternately housed on one or two storeys, each connected by its own staircase to the studio, and also varying in width - in relation to the positioning of the shared stairwell. The west facade is entirely blank, with the exception of three circular windows projecting diagonally forward, one per studio storey on the storey (originally four).

The family dwellings (Zomerdijkstraat 2-14/Uiterwaarden 129-141) have, grouped in eights, a shared entrance and stairwell, with straight-shutting door, originally all provided with a circular window; on the south side (Zomerdijkstraat 2-14) on the storeys a continuous block of gallery balconies is mounted, such that the stairwell of the most easterly section, which is accessible via an arched door, is directly lit by three four-pane windows; the east side further contains below in the set-back facade a shop - with large display windows and accessible from the Uiterwaardenstraat - and on the four storeys in each case a window band running across almost the full facade width, vertically articulated. At the dwellings on the Uiterwaardenstraat (129-141) the windows on the storeys are each separated by wall piers.

Complex of distinctive dwellings by virtue of the combination with studios and variation in size within a uniformly laid out building block, also significant by virtue of the visible application of a steel frame and architecture characteristic of the Nieuwe Bouwen, in particular for the work of Groep '32 (expressed amongst other things in the detailing with arched wooden doors and circular windows) as well as by virtue of the subdivision form of detached building block, and thereby of general significance from the architectural-historical, urban planning and typological points of view.