In transit Temporalities
D.J. de Vries (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
PELJC Vermeulen – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
A.B.J. van Deudekom – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
Leeke Reinders – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
Maastricht is located between two extremities. On the one hand, the center that seems to be frozen in a heritage policy that allows little flexibility. On the other hand, the suburbs where the change is so intense that time layers are constantly being wiped away and what remains seems generic. The site of this graduation project is located between these two worlds, on the site of the former fortifications.
On the site there is an old paper factory, for which a redevelopment is proposed in this thesis. The factory developed together with the dismantling of the fortifications and therefore inherited large parts of its morphology to these older military structures. A thorough inventory revealed a pattern of parallel walls beneath the maze-like factory. They had grown next to the fortification wall and came to form the main characters in the new design for the factory.
In my design, the elongated machine halls for paper production become passages that run through the heart of the factory. In the north of the site, the green belt that surrounded the city will be reconnected by the construction of a large park, which will be connected to the other bank of the Meuse by reusing an abandoned railway bridge. One of the buildings with a passageway will be arranged on the floors above the passageway as flexible housing for expats and migrants.