© Jan Derwig
EXTENSION TYPE-FOUNDRY V/H TETTERODE
MERKELBACH & KARSTEN/MERKELBACH & ELLING, 1949-1950
Da Costakade 157-165, Amsterdam
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Merkelbach & Karsten
Merkelbach & Elling
ORIGINAL DESIGN:
J.W.F. Hartkamp
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Ben Merkelbach
Piet Elling
Charles Karsten
BUILDING TYPE:
Industrial and public-utility buildings
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Merkelbach & Karsten
Merkelbach & Elling
ORIGINAL DESIGN:
J.W.F. Hartkamp
ARCHITECT(URAL OFFICE):
Ben Merkelbach
Piet Elling
Charles Karsten
BUILDING TYPE:
Industrial and public-utility buildings
PUBLICATIONS:
Forum 1953 p. 62; W. de Wagt - Piet Elling (1897-1962) Een samenstemmende eenheid, Bussum, 2008
The facades of this type foundry consist of horizontal bands of wall and window. Yet it is the vertical touches, the well-founded principal measurements of the whole and the composition which includes a deviating basement and set-back steel crown (the canteen) that make this building a successful, modern infill in a wall of canal houses. The complex spills over into existing premises, covering the entire plot at ground level. Standard workshop floors on the canal side have a concrete truss construction with a steel structure at its apex. After being home to squatters for some time, the complex was converted into flats. Parts of the interior have been moved to other buildings.