Amsterdam

1879

1209

Prices rise and distort the market and housing shortages worsen to the detriment of inhabitants of cities, who are pushed into the conditions of precarity, while the processes of unequal access and accumulation of capital among the population proliferate. It has been market-driven policies, the economic and political pressures, that have pushed people to rely on their own means and on infrastructures of commonality. This has manifested in the construction of alternative forms of collectivity, and new civic agency. By inhabiting vacant premises and imagining other models of family and ownership, the squatting movement has set up infrastructures of domestic solidarity. Across Europe, squatters have opened spaces for diverse and multi-generational habitation for those who advocate collective living.

The administrative Rotterdamsche a company

1882

Methadology - Squatter Commune Case

1872

The monastery of the Order of St. Anthony is founded along the Maas river in Maastricht, on the site of the current Landbouwbelang.

1793

Plantagekerk Church

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Original Function: Church

Construction of the Plantagekerk church on the Plantage Doklaan in Amsterdam (fig. 1, 2).

The monastery is partially destroyed during a siege by French troops.

1848

The monastery is demolished in its entirety.

1914

Vereeniging Landbouwbelang, an association for collective agricultural sales and purchases, was founded in Roermond.

1921 – 1937 give-away store, a people’s parties, various workshops,

The Landbouwbelang association builds a series of warehouse complexes on another location along the Maas.

1879 as the company founded by the Pincoffs. The imposing road along the south acquired national heritage Rotterdam’s port authority, transform the building resistance. After lying was squatted in 1980. building, carried out it fit for living. added living spaces, wood workshop, a space and a stage. renowned venue in the city’s was legalized, and from the municipality, Today Poortgebouw as a give-away store, performance night.

1954 – 1956 processing of cereals, and orders the construction of an industrial complex with a silo on the location of the former monastery. The building process was completed after World War II (fig. 1, 2)

Landbouwbelang

Maastricht, Austria have contacts in the squatting movement border on friendship. I feel grateful been able to follow this path of law. deal with lots of family cases, but part is squatting, and so far it has interesting and I will continue to as long as I feel that I can make some contribution of significance.

Kampert en Helm constructs a building across the full width of the site at Plantage Doklaan (fig. 3). Presses are placed in the former church.

Original Function: Industrial Complex

The same applies to me. A key aspect that I want to get to the bottom of superficially assist, but to try and the loopholes and the possibilities. what we achieved in 2010 was really spectacular and that is the joy of

Do you think what we are trying will make any difference? The fact is a national institution of architecture claiming that it constitutes an important legacy? Is that at all useful in a court or is it significant only in the cultural

Yes. It is important to keep doing like you do, because it puts the criminaliza tion of squatting into perspective.

RB: In the case of ADM, there are

1879

The administrative office of the Rotterdamsche Handelsvereniging, company set up by entrepreneur Lodewijk Pincoffs, is built in the Kop van Zuid district to a design by architect JSC van de Wall (fig. 1).

1882

October 1980

The Rotterdam Association of Squatter Groups

Commune Case Studies

Through the implementation of sharing at various scales, in a number forms and means, squatter communes have developed new models of co-ownership as a means of liberating the commons from economic and political systems. Through participation and agency, they have extended the ideals of collectively and commune by directly intervening in and appropriating conventional architecture. By centralizing domestic labor, they have disrupted normative forms of domestic inhabitation and patriarchal structures. Through the appropriation and maintenance of industrial, historic, empty and abandoned structures, the inhabitants are at the same time activists, builders and architects who design the architectures of new forms of belonging, and new ways of being together. The aim of this research is to reflect on a series of Squatter Communes- their models for creating welcoming, inclusive, affordable housing.

property belonging to the company is acquired by the city Rotterdam. The municipal port authority and the Holland-America Line move into the building.

squatting movement that feel grateful to have path of law. I also cases, but the other far it has been very continue to do it for can make some kind of significance.

Poortgebouw in protest high level of vacancy and against a new unoccupied buildings. of the squatters is building suitable for use it as a youth orders location buildPresses naming Lukraak.

Poortgebouw

Tbilisi, Austria Original Function: Office Building me. A key aspect is bottom of things. Not to try and look for possibilities. I think was really something the joy of my work. we are trying to do difference? The fact that there institution of architecture constitutes an important useful in a court case, in the cultural to keep doing things puts the criminalizaperspective. there are self-built

(p. 230: Letter circulated borhood about a new November 1980

The squatters engage cussion with the municipality the legalization of occupation. The considers a proposal ipality to transform into independent person household too expensive for

The group is convinced renovate the building nity and on their can be offered. As by the municipality