Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 4 is situated freestanding in the north-eastern quadrant of the T-junction of the easterly north-south running and the northerly east-west running road on Vrijland-Noord. The building consists of two clearly distinguishable building volumes, of which the northern and highest section is characterized by a broad overhang above a loading and unloading area and the lower southern part by two arched loading doors in the south gable. The roof ridge extends from north to south both for the main volume and for the secondary volume. Building 4 is an expedition building constructed in 1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and at macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the years 1940-1945, at meso level of a sparse complex of buildings placed in a rectangular-geometric structure, and at micro level within this of some buildings placed in direct connection with that spatial structure in linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, partly provided with basement and executed with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork, brick EXPEDITION BUILDING on a composite plan, both volumes covered by (truncated) hipped roofs. The tall volume is laid with corrugated grey concrete roof tiles, except on the north side; the northern roof slope of the main volume and the southern and eastern roof slopes of the secondary volume are laid with (mixed) renewed hollow (Dutch) tiles; the western roof slope of the secondary volume is laid with concrete tiles. Provided all around with a roof gutter at the level of the loading platform, except the west gable of the main volume. Box gutters all around.

Of the main volume, the western long gable / main gable is executed with a concrete loading platform stretching across the full width, approximately one metre high, upon which - with brick capitals - six green-painted square wooden roof supports are placed, carrying an overhang of approximately one and a half metres. The loading platform is accessible on the left via a relatively recently installed iron staircase (below which the old one can be seen) and on the right via a sloping ramp. Under the canopy from left to right one, two and again two window openings under roof gutter, each with a bottom-hung sash window and between these - next to each other on the left - two relatively recently bricked-up access openings and on the right a wide access opening. The eastern long gable contains on basement level three windows under roof gutter with sheet-iron casement windows with glazing bars, and above these eight window openings under roof gutter with bottom-hung sash windows, of which the right four with wooden calf and brick weathering shelf, in which above these four-pane sash windows and below double wooden inward-opening two-pane casement windows. The northern gable contains five window openings comparable to these last mentioned and on basement level two windows comparable to those in the east gable. The interior contains on loading platform level an almost undivided space under a reinforced concrete ceiling, supported by three reinforced concrete columns and likewise beams. Grey-painted wainscoting and further white-washed walls and ceiling. On basement level likewise a ceiling / floor supported by reinforced concrete columns and beams, but their density is greater here and the connection more rigid. Furthermore partly components characteristic of the building period, such as inner windows, staircase, ribbed radiators and thick 'wall tie rods'.

The slightly lower executed secondary volume is provided at the corner of the southern and eastern gable with two brick buttresses and contains in the southern gable on the right two fairly large arched access openings under roof gutter, in which double sheet-iron doors; to the left of these a third, slightly set back arched access opening under a cock's comb and provided with a wooden door. To the left and right of these a window opening under roof gutter, with bottom-hung sash window divided by glazing bars. Along the foot of the western long gable the sloping ramp to the loading platform and above this three similar windows. The eastern long gable contains on the left the building traces of a large bricked-up access opening; to the right of this a window secured by means of an iron grille and subsequently an arched access opening with wooden door. The door in the eastern long gable provides access to the basement via a sloping ramp.

Valuation

EXPEDITION BUILDING, of general importance as a recognizable component of a military camp dating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, due to: architectural-historical, urban planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which can be evident inter alia from the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, from the components and details characteristic of the building period, from the artificially created and strongly aligned geometric settlement structure and the camouflage carried through to the level of detail within it, from the coherence of and with the complete military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and from the mutual relationship of the forms applied in this.