Tjeerd Beemsterboer Church 33058 From fellowship building to community building Wethouder Frankeweg 19-2 +31 (0)6 20829068 tjeerdbeemsterboer@hotmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjeerd-beemsterboer-ba316776?trk=hp-identity-name architect at Arons and Gelauff architects
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Graduation Projects 2015-2016
Architecture
Tjeerd Beemsterboer Church 33058 From fellowship building to community building
Currently, only one in six people in the Netherlands believes in a divine force and just over a quarter call themselves atheist. There are, therefore, more non-believers than believers in our country for the first time ever. These are the findings of research into spirituality and belief commissioned by the Dutch national newspaper Trouw, which was conducted by Ipsos and VU University Amsterdam. Believers still made up a narrow majority when this was previously measured in 2012. A number of years ago, I had myself removed from Roman Catholic church records, because I have simply never been able to believe in God. As a result of this, I have also played my part, as an atheist, in the secularisation of the Netherlands, which is expected to continue steadily in the coming decades according to research by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). To be honest, I consider this to be a positive trend and I believe, above all, that people should think for themselves. However, I do worry about the serious consequences this will have for the thousands of religious buildings in the Netherlands. Parishes are being merged throughout the country. It is estimated that more than half of the Roman Catholic buildings will be sold off. Church leaders often prefer demolition in order to prevent the building being designated an 'unbefitting use' or falling into the hands of another religion. In some cases, they even include a demolition agreement in the contract with a new owner. Religious buildings are almost always centrally located and have always helped create communities until today. However, while the secularisation process picked up pace during the 1960s, faith in the church and society gradually decreased. For example, the Netherlands Institute for Social Research concluded that in addition to a gap between wishes and expectations, there was also a gap between the value people attach to their own life and their valuation of society. While they are satisfied to very satisfied about their own life (81%), they worry about society, which only gets a meagre mark of five. In my opinion, the massive exodus from these buildings and, in particular, the locations can be dealt with in a much smarter way in order to bring people closer together and thus create communities. In his book 'Religion for Atheists', Alain de Botton writes that we can actually learn a lot from faith and that if there is one thing that religion is demonstrably good at, that is in creating communities. This was my motive for deploying the core values of faith in order to bring people in an atheist community closer together. Learning, celebrating, serving, contemplating, mourning and meeting translated into an architectural design with the church as central location.
Graduation date 29 08 2016
Commission members Jan Richard Kikkert Liesbeth van der Pol Gert Jan te Velde
Additional members for the examination Jeroen van Mechelen Rik van Dolderen
Tjeerd Beemsterboer
Entrance square
Architecture
Christoforus Church in Schagen
Attendance religious services
Church with religious function
Church interior - Cornelis van Dalem
Non-churchgoers to the municipality
Core values learning, serving, celebrating, meeting, contemplating, mourning.
Church buildings in use 2016
Religious function disappearing, core values too
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Existing situation
Church buildings in use 2025
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1 - Kerk met geloofs functie 2 - Kernwaarden geloof: leren; dienen; vieren; ontmoeten; bezinnen; rouwen; 3 - geloofs functie verdwijnt, kernwaarden ook 4 - Kerk openen en kernwaarden terugbrengen
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Zoning map
Faรงade section knocking through the church
Faรงade section hall
Tjeerd Beemsterboer
The square called church
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture Architect, Master of Science Urbanist, Master of Science Landscape Architect, Master of Science
With the inclusion of the course in Urbanism in 1957 and Landscape Architecture in 1972, the Academy is the only architecture school in the Netherlands to bring together the three spatial design disciplines under one roof. Some 350 guest tutors are involved in teaching every year. Each of them is a practising designer or a specific expert in his or her particular subject. The three heads of department also have design practices of their own in addition to their work for the Academy. This structure yields an enormous dynamism and energy and ensures that the courses remain closely linked to the current state of the discipline. The courses consist of projects, exercises and lectures. First-year and second-year students also engage in morphological studies. Students work on their own or in small groups. The design
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Architecture
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