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Herman Hertzberger was born in Amsterdam 1932. After completing his studies at the TU Delft in 1958, he states that the reconstruction after the second World War is functionalistic, not making good nor beautiful buildings. He adheres to a philosophy of human relations, ‘human measure and human scale’. He always tries to stimulate meetings inside his buildings, which is called structuralism. Hertzberger has successfully applied his theory to a range of different building types, including houses, schools, theaters and offices.

MEETING PLACES IN A HERTZBERGER BUILDING

CONCLUSIONThe two buildings analyzed on meeting places, attain Hertzberger’s goals. There is a choice between meeting and seclusion, being in the open or hidden. It even gives the sense of a city within a building. The meeting places are always present in Hertzberger’s building, bu they changed overtime. In the MCO, the visual contact is reinforced by making split levels and one huge atrium. The place of the physical meeting has changed from ground floor or atrium in Centraal Beheer to the stairs connecting the atrium in MCO, making those places more lively. The angular, constructivist materialization is released for more free, fluid lines and more attention to the finish. In the end, we believe that Hertzberger’s buildings are put together in an interesting spatial fashion which encourage meetings.

BIBLIOGRAPHY-Ching, F.D.K. (2007) Architecture: form, space & order (Hoboken) Wiley and Sons Co. 2nd edition-Clark, R.H. & Pause, M. (1985)precedents in architecture (New York) van Nostrand Reinhold inc.-Reinink, W. (1990) Herman Hertzberger, (Rotterdam) 010 publishers-Hertzberger, H. (1999), Lessen uit de architectuur deel 2 (Rotterdam) 010 publishers-Centraal Beheer, Montessori College Oost (n.d.), consulted on oktober 10th, 2009. www.hertzberger.nl

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Apolloscholen, A’dam1980/1983 De Eilanden bassischool, A’dam1980/1983Diagoonwoningen, Delft1967/1970 1 1-3-5 2-3-5

Introduction About the Architect

DocumentationCentraal Beheer-1972

Form FormOperation OperationPerformance

Montessori School Oost-2000

Spatial relations Topology Parti Spatial relations Topology Parti

Paul Bosters 4045327Durmus Gogus 4036166Jelte van Koperen 4036220

1. Hertzberger wants the users of the building to have visual con-tact as much as possible

2. Hertzberger wants social cohe-sion. By making everybody see each other, everyone knows who works there.

3. Hertzberger wants to create spaces along the path where people can have a chat

4. Hertzberger wants the users of the building to be able to meet when walking through the building

5. Hertzberger wants to have traf-fic spaces that have a positive atmosphere (so people can stop and chat)

6. Hertzberger doesnt want his meeting spaces to interfere with the function of the building

This poster contains a comparison of two buildings, made by Herman Hertzberger. The goal of this post-er is to understand the ideas the architect had during the design process and how these operate in his buildings. Since he makes a ‘city in a building’, we chose to analyze two buildings on the theme “meet-ing places in a Hertzberger building”. These are one of his first buildings, the Centraal Beheer headquar-ters in Apeldoorn (1972) and the later Montessori College Oost (MCO) in Amsterdam (2000). Centraal Beheer is an office building, built with the purpose of eliminating hierarchy and getting as much transparency as possible. It is located at the side of the city, because the new trainsation was planned nearby, but that never happened. The MCO is a high school for vMBO, getting ready for the work floor with practical and theoretical class-es. It is in the middle of a residential neighbourhood, not far from the Muiderpoort railway station.

Split levels for visual contact

An open cental traffic space

Wide stairs with places to sit

Natural light trough roof windows

Natural light trough roof windows

Visual contact

Meeting space

Closed walls against noise and distraction

Wide walkways with places to sit

Wide walkways with places to sit

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3rd-floorSituation SituationFourth-floor

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Grid Organization

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Linear Organization

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Separate working from traffic spaces