House / Meitar Tewel

MSc1 Interiors Buildings Cities: House \\ TU Delft \\ 2020

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Meitar Tewel is an award-winning MSc. architecture student at TU Delft, The Netherlands.

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Details from the 1:33 ground floor plan. If you look closely, you can see the manually drawn and trimmed terrazzo and the hours I lost from the best years of my life <\3

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Post-Foreign

At the edge of the old city center of Amsterdam, on a small piece of land next to Paradiso, a foreign type of building is proposed. Although it holds great urban and economic value due to its attractive location - het landje has never been built upon. Surrounded by strictly formal neo-classical buildings of the 18th and 19th centuries, this unclaimed land undermines the narrative and mainstream perception of the city of Amsterdam.

Through a local interpretation of the Israeli absorption centers, the project proposes a place of transition and integration for immigrants and refugees - a population which is becoming increasingly present in Dutch cities, and is often seen as a cultural, economic and political threat by locals. In this light, the project offers a two-sided integration, which not only actively welcomes newcomers to the heart of Amsterdam, but also creates an unmediated positive interaction between them and the local populace.

Comprised of three timber structures, the center adapts its character and functions when confronting the different urban situations around it. The main building, facing the Weteringschans street, hosts a three-story high workshop, which offers an intensive connection between the lively activity it holds and the street. Its size, proportions and palace-like façade attempt to echo its formal surroundings, while not hiding the presence of exposed wood. On the South-West, a two-story building facing the canal provides a temporary housing solution for five residents, referring to the Dutch boathouse typology. A courtyard connects the workshop and the house, creating an intimate open-air room as the heart of a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces: workshop, corridor, house; street, courtyard, canal.

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Ik ben ANOTHER kleine teaser

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An updated and detailed sketch view of the courtyard, almost ready to be baked

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