Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 7 is located freestanding on the west side of the easterly north-south oriented avenue on Vrijland-Noord, to the north of number 9 and to the south of number 3. The roof ridge extends from west to east and runs parallel with the road. Building 7 is a military building with technical function (radio assembly and repair) erected in 1941 as a 'Sonderbau' and is at macro level 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 positioned in direct connection with that spatial structure in linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively long and wide brick MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (radio assembly and repair), executed with approximately 50 cm thick external masonry, on a predominantly rectangular floor plan and covered by a gabled roof with mixed corrugated refurbished hollow (Dutch) tiles and hipped at both gable ends, with window strips of elongated roof dormers in the roof plane of both long sides. Approximately halfway along the east gable an open extension placed under extended roof overhang on three buttresses. The eastern long facade / principal facade contains on the left three and on the right four window openings under roll-moulding, of which the right one with concrete plinth, containing above transom hopper windows and below double four-light wooden casement windows opening inward, and below the plinth fitted with sheet-metal shutters with a green and white painted cornice motif. Between these the open extension with arched access openings on left and right with double wooden doors and with arched small windows between. The western long facade contains thirteen window openings under roll-moulding with concrete plinth, containing above transom hopper windows and below double four-light wooden casement windows opening inward, below the plinth fitted with sheet-metal shutters with green and white painted cornice motif. In the southern gable four comparable windows and at attic-storey level two arched small windows with transom glazing division. The northern gable contains six windows under roll-moulding and fitted with transom hopper windows. Attic-storey level accessible via a steel staircase and a relatively large balcony with steel balustrade and access opening with double wooden doors with glazing divided in three. Gutter outlets and white painted wind-vanes.

Valuation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (radio assembly and repair), of general significance as a relatively intact component of a military camp originating from the Second World War and set up by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, on account of: architectural-historical, urban-planning, military and cultural-historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be evidenced inter alia by the traditionalist building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the period of construction, by the artificially created and strongly aligned with the pre-existing spatial arrangement geometric settlement structure and the camouflage carried through in detail within this, by the coherence with and of the complete military airfield concept and the spatial principal lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.