Revitalising Heritage--Christus Triumfatorkerk

A Dutch Postwar Reclamation

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

J. Liu Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

A.C. de Ridder Heritage & Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
K.B. Mulder Architectural Technology - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
I. Nevzgodin Heritage & Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
A.B.J. van Deudekom Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (coach)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 RayLin Liu
Religious architecture Zero waste design Postwar modern architecture
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Published Date

03-07-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

National Monument Christus Triumfator church in Bezuidenhout, the Hague was designed by the team D.S.B.V. under Geert Drexhage in 1959-1962, however, among three churches under Drexhage's, only Christus Triumfator church survives in the secularization and shrinking religious community in the Netherlands. The design of Christus Triumfator church reflects a time of Dutch postwar modern architectural profession shifting into a capitalized environment, confrontation between new theories and old tradition, group standardized design for mass clients, and cooperations of professional consultants. The research aims to point out the linkages between Christus Triumfator church and its postwar modern architectural theories and traditions background for a redesign proposal.

For a contemporary redesign and intervention to respond to that from the 1960s, one of the subjects is to treat carefully in the sequence, space order, and materiality in the Christus Triumfator church by understanding the facts and meanings behind, and another one is to react to the mass production pattern matured in the era. A new zero-waste design challenge might be to set away from the producing loop, reduce and revital the form to that just meet the need, and reclaim from the past production in a tengible or intangible way that triggers reflections of the past and the future.