Crafting for Knowledge: The Hembrug terrain, a production estate

The location of the project is the Hembrug terrain which is located in Zaandam alongside the North Sea Canal. The Hembrug terrain has been the stage of ammunition and weapon production for over 100 years until all activities seized at the end of the last century. Nowadays the site has been abandoned by the military and a new connection to...

A new purpose for Hembrug: Exposing Campus South

This graduation project has been executed in the studio of Heritage & Architecture at the TU Delft. The context of the project is that of the Hembrug terrain, a former military production site in between the cities of Amsterdam and Zaandam. The overhauling title of the graduation project is ‘Revitalizing Heritage’, aiming at giving the...

The natural side of Hembrug: Redeveloping Hembrug with minimal (environmental) impact.

The heritage site of Hembrug used to be the center of the production of weapons and ammunition within the Netherlands during the twentieth century. Now the site is mostly vacant and awaiting a new purpose. Most of the site used to be densely build with industrial halls, but there is one area that is different. The old explosive factory within...

Transformation of Campus South into a creative hub: Heritage and Architecture

For this project, I pursued to transform an abandoned area into an attractive and functional environment for future use. The abandoned area, that was the subject of this studio, is called Hembrug and is located in the south of Zaandam and close to Amsterdam. This project is about the transformation of a specific part of the Hemburg terrain, an...

New life for a military complex- Revitalizing Hembrug Peninsula

The Hembrug area was known as AI (Artillerie Inrichtingen) located within the defense line of Amsterdam since 1895. It was composed of 3 factories that function in separated zones and each of them has diverse building typologies. The layout of the AI was changed with the development and transition of Hembrug military industrial. Nowadays, as an...

Campus North, A site for the mind: Revitalising the Hembrug terrain

The Hembrug terrain is the former location of the Artillerie inrichtingen of the Netherlands which was the heart of the Stelling van Amsterdam. It is located at the intersection of the North sea canal and Zijkanaal G between the cities of Zaandam and Amsterdam. The former military terrain consists of many buildings of varying typologies and...

Innovation Factory: The Cultural Belt in the Head of the Cape, Hembrug

The Heritage studio methodical line of inquiry revolves around 3 aspects, the cultural value, the architecture and the building technology. The scientific relevance of my thesis project is reflected in the design, as the entire research process was closely related to the three themes. I started off my thesis with the research question of the...

Cold War Museum in Hembrug: Transforming Building 429 to a Cold War Museum

This thesis investigates a Reconstruction Era industrial building (Building 429) in Hembrug, Zaandam, reflects on Heritage & Architecture and proposes its transformation to a Cold War Museum.

Hembrug Peninsula – Revitalising Heritage: The transformation of a military industrial site into the art, craft and design centre of Amsterdam and the Zaan region

The project site is called Hembrug and is located in between Zaandam and Amsterdam. Hembrug used to be a military production site that functioned as the logistic heart of the Stelling van Amsterdam (Dutch defence strategy) since 1895, but lost its original function in 2003 when the Eurometaal factory stopped the ammunition production. Since then...