patterns of a home
negotiating home, asyum and war-era heritage
G.W. Barendsen (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
W.L.E.C. Meijers – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
T.P. Bennebroek – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The Kolonel Palmkazerne in Bussum is currently being redeveloped into a mixeduse neighbourhood. The developer, BPD, has yet to find a function for the kitchen
building that stands at the head of the appelplaats. In this project this building will
be repurposed as a refugee asylum, with a focus on the quality of life for refugees
and maintaining the building’s character.
The refugee asylum situation in the Netherlands has been getting increasingly
more strained. As a result, the quality of refugee asylum has been getting worse.
Especially in temporary and emergency shelters. This paper explores two methods
of improving the refugee living situation. The first is preventing boredom by incorporating activities for refugees in different stages of naturalisation. The second is
by helping refugees feel at home. Creating the feeling of being at home is done
in a few different ways. The first is interaction with the neighbourhood by sharing
certain facilities like playgrounds, a vegetable garden cafe and a second-hand
store. The second is by personalising space through usage loans with this second-hand store, and the third is through architectural elements using the pattern
language, aiding in creating a comfortable environment. The project has incorporated over 70 of these patterns in its architecture.
The kitchen building’s structure and its architectural elements, like its basement,
chimney, steel catwalks, steel trusses, brickwork and ornaments, help to maintain the building’s heritage. All of which remain visible in the central hall and the
basement. Finally, the building’s composition, when viewed from the appelplaats,
hardly changes, maintaining its original relationship towards the Palmkazerne as
a whole.
Altogether these interventions serve to make refugees feel at home, giving them a
way to spend their days whilst maintaining the kitchen building’s heritage