Transforming the former Artillery Storage House at the Paardenmarkt into the Delft Climate Centre

Master thesis (2014)

Contributors

A.W. Hermkens (mentor)
W.J. Quist (mentor)
Programme
RMIT (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2014 Van der Linden, C.R.
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Published Date

29-10-2014

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RMIT

Abstract

The complex of the Artillery Storage House at the Paardenmarkt in Delft has its origin in the second half of the seventeenth century. The ' Staten van Holland and West Friesland' built one storage house for gun carriages in 1671 at the place where a gunpowder tower exploded in 1654. Since then, new buildings were added, removed and altered at the site of the Artillery Storage House. This resulted in a complex of nine buildings that encircle an inner courtyard. Since the Army Museum moved out in 2013 the complex of buildings is vacant. This graduation project is a redesign for the Artillery Storage House, turning the buildings into the Delft Climate Centre with a public garden / urban farm at the inner courtyard. The formerly closed complex opens up for the first time in centuries and creates a new route from the city to the recreational greenfields at the east side of Delft.