Bijgebouwen, Deelen/Vrijland-Noord Arnhem

English translation

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Description

Introduction

Building 9 is located detached on the west side of the easterly north-south oriented avenue on Vrijland-Noord, between numbers 7 and 11. The roof ridge extends from east to west and stands perpendicular to the road. Building 9 is a military building with technical function (cable storage) created in 1941 as a 'Regelbau' and at the macro level forms part of a large military airfield structure from the 1940-1945 period, at the meso level part of a sparse complex of buildings arranged in a rectangular-geometric structure, and at the micro level within this of several premises positioned in direct conjunction with that spatial structure in linear arrangement.

Description

Single-storey, relatively wide, with approximately 50 cm thick external brickwork MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (cable storage) on a predominantly rectangular plan and covered by a gabled roof laid with mixed grey concrete tiles and curved at both gable ends, with two relatively recent metal flue pipes in the southern long elevation. At the western end of both long elevations an extension brought under extended roof overhang, executed asymmetrically. The gable east elevation / main elevation with a window on each side under a brick course and centrally a broad arched access opening under a cock's comb motif, provided with a door with a slave door. The gable west elevation, asymmetrically provided with five window openings under a brick course with top-hung casement windows; the right two moreover with concrete sill, in which below double wooden inward-opening four-pane casement windows and sheet-steel shutters with green and white painted moulding motif. In the northern long elevation eight window openings under a brick course and provided with top-hung casement windows and to the right thereof an access opening with arched, four-pane fanlight. To the right thereof the extension, in which access opening with double doors, horizontally divided with two-thirds glass. The southern long elevation with eight window openings under a brick course with top-hung casement window and to the left thereof presumably a ninth window opening. Further left the extension with a window opening. Gutter strips. The interior partly modernised. There are components characteristic of the construction period, such as inner windows and painted wainscoting.

Evaluation

MILITARY BUILDING WITH TECHNICAL FUNCTION (cable storage), of general importance as a relatively intact component of an army camp dating from the Second World War and established by the German occupier as part of a large military airfield, by reason of: architectural historical, urban planning, military and cultural historical and complex and ensemble values, which may be demonstrated inter alia by the traditionalistic building style inspired by local forms, by the components and details characteristic of the construction period, by the artificially created and strongly geometric settlement structure aligned with the pre-existing spatial arrangement and the camouflage carried through to detail within this, by the coherence with and of the total military airfield concept and the spatial main lines and components of the camp, and by the mutual relationship of the forms applied herein.