RE:OSDORP
Reinforcing green heritage and sustainable living in the post-war neighborhood
F. Mulder (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
G.A Verschuure – Mentor (TU Delft - Landscape Architecture)
Maurice Harteveld – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Urban Design)
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Abstract
The post-war neighborhood is a result of the modernist and socialist thoughts in the time period of 1945 to 1960. Its concept was to provide everyone of an equal and good place to live, with access to green, facilities and ‘light, air and space’. This resulted mostly into vast amounts of green space. The buildings in these neighborhoods are evaluated as heritage, but the public and communal space around the buildings are often not taken into consideration.
This study assumes that the concept of the post-war neighborhood and its spatial translation is important to keep and treasure, as it provides important historical insights. This study aims to find the role of the green structure for the case study of Osdorp, Amsterdam. Additional heritage and user value maps (next to the existing building value maps) are made for the public space, based on thorough literature and field analysis of the district.
The main conclusions include that the overall structure of the neighborhood, a framework branching out in increasingly more private areas is very important. Next to that, the most important embodiment of the concept does not lay within the amount of green that is present, but how it used. The green strips and spaces on the smaller scales are more likely to be transformed into the demand of today: functional and ecological.
The outcomes result in a toolbox for the different green types that are present in the post-war neighborhood and this forms the base for the design of the Wildemanbuurt, a neighborhood within Osdorp. This design is based on increasing connectivity, re-emphasizing the importance of the courtyards, bringing more ecological zones into the neighborhood and improving the multi-functionality of underused areas.