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Dutch Architect Aldo van Eyck built the Amsterdam Orphanage in 1960. His design

479 focused on a balance of forces to create both a home and small city on the outskirts of
Amsterdam.

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As a member of CIAM and then a founding member of Team 10, van Eyck held strong
opinions on postwar architecture. The Amsterdam Orphanage was van Eyck’s opportunity
to put his opinions in practice through his first large scale built project. Van Eyck criticized
early postwar architecture as lacking a human element. In the Amsterdam Orphanage he
sought to design a modern building with a new urban vision from those of his CIAM 6 Feb 2015
predecessors. Winners of the 2015
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CIAM, Congrès internationaux d’architecture moderne, was an organization of architects
founded between 1928 and 1959 to promote and discuss the principles of modern
architecture. Team 10 was formed as a reaction within CIAM around 1953. As CIAM began
to dissolve, van Eyck and a small group of young architects formed their own organization.
While they remained autonomous as designers, the Team 10 architects met to share and
discuss their work, including van Eyck’s Amsterdam Orphanage
At the time of its completion, the Amsterdam Orphanage was located on the outskirts of
the city. It was commissioned as an orphanage for children of all ages and includes
sleeping quarters, a kitchen, laundry room, gymnasium, library, and administrative spaces.
Van Eyck spoke of the Orphanage as a small urban study. He wrote “a house must be like
a small city if it’s to be a real house, a city like a large house if it’s to be a real city” in an
essay published in 1962 titled ‘Steps Toward a Configurative Discipline.’
Therefore van Eyck’s designs for the Orphanage were those of both a home for the
children, as well as the plan of a small city. He created a decentralized urban node with
many points of interaction within the plan. Van Eyck was interested in a nonhierarchical
development of cities and in the Amsterdam Orphanage he created a building with many in
between conditions to break down the hierarchy of spaces.
The building is constructed out of two sizes of modules, a smaller size for the residences,
and a larger size for community spaces. The modules consist of four round columns at the
corners with a domed roof of precast concrete on top. The floor is also concrete. The
Plan
many facades in the building are either a glass wall or a solid wall made with dark brown
bricks.
Within the Orphanage, units of program are laid out on an orthogonal grid. The units project
off two diagonal paths so that each unit has multiple exterior facades. By projecting off of a
diagonal within the grid, van Eyck creates an equal amount of negative spaces from the
positives he’s formed. Each individual unit is then neighbored by its own outdoor space.
A larger courtyard is offset diagonally from the residential spaces, and the entrance and
administrative spaces connect with the street, the large courtyard, as well as the
residential units. Van Eyck avoids creating a central point within the Orphanage by allowing
for such fluid connections between all spaces.
The Amsterdam Orphanage is van Eyck’s vision of a balanced community. His design
earned him international recognition and established his humanist theories in a built project.
Architect: Aldo van Eyck

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project Year: 195560
References: CCA Mellon Lectures

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