Woonhuis, Schaepmanstraat 17

English translation

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Description

Introduction

RESIDENTIAL BLOCK (B) with apartment buildings, on a composite plan, designed by architects H.P. Berlage and J.C. van Epen in 1913/1914 and built in 1917/1918, in the Rationalism style, part of the housing complex of the Algemene Woningbouw Vereniging around the Schaepmanstraat. The complex component comprises the doubly angled building block section on the Schaepmanstraat (an obtuse and a right angle) and the building block section on the De Kempenaerstraat. The main form of the plan is U-shaped with one of the two legs bent at an obtuse angle.

Description

On a composite plan, in Flemish bond, erected over four storeys, a building block covered with orange hollow pan tiles, bent gabled roofs. The beginning and end of the triply bent front facade, in total 37 bays, is marked by stepped gables with gabled roofs. The (bent) legs of the U-shape are articulated by alternating three-sided projecting bay windows, window axes and staircases. The bay windows rest on concrete consoles supported by narrow wall piers. The intermediate side of the U-shape is articulated in the same way but with a centrally three-sided recessed section. On the corners the bay windows are five-sided. Both stepped gables are located above a bay window and have a three-part window at the top, the middle one semicircularly closed. The roof dormers follow the pattern of the facade articulation.

The facade on the De Kempenaerstraat has six three-sided bay windows with alternately a staircase or a window axis without entrance between them. The windows in both axes are, like the windows in the bay windows, two-part. The (infilled) upper window in the staircase bay ends against the roofline. The roof dormers follow the rhythm and are single or three-part. The corner on the right is terminated by one of the stepped gables, on the left corner a five-sided continuous bay window.

The other leg of the U-shape on the Schaepmanstraat has on the left of the obtuse angle a bay window beneath the other stepped gable. To its left a window axis and to the right a staircase according to pattern. To the right of the bend the same pattern, two bay windows, but with four-part windows in the window axis. Moreover, one extra bay on the far right. On the corner a five-sided, continuous bay window.

The intermediate side is symmetrical, has a three-sided recessed section the width of two staircases and two bay windows with a staircase on each side. The staircases are not beneath two-part but beneath single windows. The window axes on each side of the recessed section have four-part windows, the window axes at the very outside two-part. The rear facade is characterized by built-in balconies, two or three bays wide, between sections two bays wide with stepped gables, located within the roof line. The individual balconies, with angle brackets and wooden balustrade, are separated from each other by the balcony boxes. In the roof plane there are single and coupled roof dormers. The freestanding right side facade is executed blind.

Valuation

Residential Block (B), part of the housing complex Algemene Woningbouwvereniging around the Schaepmanstraat, of general importance because of its cultural and architectural-historical value, as well as because of urban design value, as an example of large-scale workers' housing from the early years of the twentieth century, also because of typological value and ensemble value. The building block is important as a characteristic component of the joint oeuvre of H.P. Berlage and J.C. van Epen.