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10 Aldo van Eyck – Orphanage, Amsterdam,
1957-60: Upper level plan. (Redrawn by the author, after Aldo van Eyck)
Due
to the repetition of its constructional elements and the strong aesthetic of
repeated units,, the scheme still retains the mass-produced quality of many of
the early modernist “industrialised” buildings. This problem has been addressed
by a former colleague of van Eyck, fellow Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger,
who was heavily influenced by structuralist thinking. The key issue for
Hertzberger was the problem of engaging with the building user and how to prevent
the feeling of alienation implied by the abstract language of syntactic
structures. In the Centraal Beheer office building built in 1974, he adopted a
similar approach to van Eyck’s orphanage in developing a structural module as a
repeatable unit. The units accommodate a series of open-plan
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