Flatgebouw Kralingen

English translation

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Description

Description of Kralingse Plaslaanflat.

Introduction:

GALLERY FLAT built in 1937-1938 for a middle-class target group, in the style of Nieuwe Bouwen, designed by architect W. van Tijen with collaboration from H.A. Maaskant. The client was N.V. Volkswoningbouw Rotterdam. The Kralingse Plaslaanflat is situated at the Kralingse Plas and to the northeast of the so-called "Jaffa strip development". The plan for the strip development with one high-rise accent dates from Van Tijen and is representative of his ideas about a mixed urban composition of medium-height and tall building volumes.

The strip development was however realised according to a design by architect W.Th.H. ten Bosch, albeit within the urban structure of Van Tijen's plan.

Description:

The flat has ten storeys on a rectangular floor plan and features a concrete skeleton. Per storey there are four dwellings, which are accessed via a gallery on the west side, reached via the entirely glazed stairwell on the north side which forms a visually defining vertical element. In the stairwell there are two lifts that stop every two storeys, halfway through the residential levels. The width of the dwellings is determined by the distance between the concrete columns incorporated in the partition walls. The middle two dwellings are 1 bay wide (6.20 m.) and consist of a hall, bathroom, kitchen, 1 bedroom and living room with balcony. The dwellings on the south side are one-and-a-half bays wide and therefore have an additional work and bedroom. The dwellings on the north side have (behind the stairwell) a second bedroom, also half a bay wide.

The base of the flat contains individual storage rooms and (originally) collective laundry and drying rooms. On the south side there is an open fire escape with steel balustrade. The flat is topped with a flat roof with a sun terrace with two gabled roof shelters in line with the second and third bays from the end facades.

The longitudinal facades originally consisted (between the visible concrete floor levels) of wooden frames filled with clear glass (above) and wired glass (below). The rotating parts of the windows had steel frames. The galleries have a glazed balustrade, suspended from vertical section steel.

On the east side the dwellings have balconies, half recessed and half cantilevered, with glazed balustrade. The remaining facade originally consisted entirely of wooden frames with glass and wired glass between the (visible) concrete floor levels.

The end facades are built up in whitewashed brick, with the concrete skeleton (floors and corner columns) projecting. One narrow rectangular window per storey.

On the south side there is an extension of one storey containing garage space. On the north side an extension of one storey (which originally housed a shop) with a rounded corner and recessed entrance section. The shop section stands on a black plinth. The facades are tiled with white glazed tiles. The cantilevered flat roof is supported by steel columns. Behind the former shop is the original porter's lodge, built in whitewashed brick on a black-painted basement, with one cantilevered storey under a flat canopy roof.

Valuation:

Kralingse Plaslaanflat, a gallery flat with innovative concrete construction in the manner of Nieuwe Bouwen, of general significance due to its typological, architectural-historical and urban planning value.