Cultural Center in a Paper Mill
P.F.H. van Noesel (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Leeke Reinders – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
A.B.J. van Deudekom – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
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Abstract
The 2022 Urban Architecture graduation studio explores the site and surroundings of a partially operating paper mill in the city of Maastricht. Working with a thematic approach the project is engaged through the lens and attitude of a so called Glaneur/Glaneuse. The ones who reap leftovers from harvested fields, or find beauty, value and opportunity in the more unlikely places.
From exploring the factory, the project engages the challenges of a medium scale urban intervention through a redefined urban proposal for the disused southern side of the grounds of the paper mill. A plan for a mixed use neighborhood integrates housing, industry and culture oriented public interiors.
The design for a cultural center on the location of a former paper mill explores the found themes of collage and assemblage as design tools and influences. Whilst evaluating what can be kept and how additions can be fitted into this rich existing environment, the project develops three existing structures and one newly built volume into a diverse new public interior. It results in a context aware collaged addition that opens up new opportunities for a formerly inaccessible part of the city.