Architecture Faculty Tu Delft destroyed in Fire

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Architecture Faculty Tu Delft destroyed in Fire
The Architecture Faculty of the Technical University of Delft is fully destroyed by fire.
The fire started about 9.30 this morning on the 6th floor due to a short circuit in a coffee machine.

The Faculty is now considered as destroyed.

A loss for the staff and the students including myself.

Via Archinect

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[nunomiguelneto]

fogo.. que cena...:)

[kaz]

Aqui deixo o link do edificio a desmoronar, tal como as Twin Towers depois do incendio,
http://www.nuvideo.nl/home/video/show/13697

[ammo]

que mau... :)

[VerdeDaCorDoLimão]

O desmoronamento aconteceu e penso que foi uma surpresa, pelo menos para mim . Os pisos superiores é que estavam mais danificados e o prédio não era muito alto. O interior estava repleto de materiais altamente inflamáveis e provocou temperaturas elevadissímas e consequentemente a fadida do material da estrutura ou o próprio material da estrutura não seria muito bom. O projecto também poderia ter influenciado este acontecimento de desmoronamento. Uma tragédia, atendendo também às perdas de projectos, ficheiros, etc. que estavam no edifício. VDCDL

[Dreamer]

De alguns os artigos que li sobre este infeliz acidente, este foi talvez o que mais me chamou mais a atenção, por nele se perceber um pouco do que era esta escola de arquitectura e como ela foi evoluindo ao longo dos anos, até culminar neste infeliz acidente.

Fire at Faculty of Architecture


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)

Last Tuesday, a fire ran through the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. The news was everywhere. On television, in newspapers, on the radio, everybody talked about it. The punch line: a unique collection of books and chairs was threatened by the fire.

When I got to the fire Tuesday evening, the site was besieged. Hundreds of people, mostly citizens from Delft, swarmed around the fire, being kept on a distance by a fence and a Mobile Unit from the police. Those officers normally handle riots. They weren’t there for the show, in random intervals people passed the fence and approached the building to take a closer picture. Each time they were told to stand back. Around me I heard people repeat the story of the books and the chairs, and how ironically an exhibition of rare chairs and models had just been set up. The exhibition was due to open on Thursday.
In the crowd the students of the Faculty formed a minority. In painful contrast to the people that cheered to this sensation, the students looked stunned.

The kind of stunned before you start crying. I myself, having only graduated a year ago, felt incredibly sad by what was happening. So much memories of my student life have their locus in the building. With the building blazed by the fire, that memories lose their ground.

A lot of my friends, some who are still studying at the Faculty, declared how fond they were of the building. It was, with a great public street on the ground floor, an amazing library, and very spacious upper floors.

But I also have to admit that the building had one serious drawback too: its acoustics. The upper floors were originally designed to be a stack of five huge ateliers with a ceiling at six meters. Except for a beautiful maquette, that unfortunately never became a reality. Imagine though if it would! Instead, already during the construction of the building, extra floors were added in the high atelier space. As lessons were given in small groups, soon improvised partition walls were set up in the open floor plan. As none of the rooms was actually enclosed, the result was a small acoustic drama: noise from neighboring spaces, noise from the floor above or below.

The arrival of the computer at the end of the nineties wasn’t fortunate either. Suddenly the flood of light in the ateliers wasn’t that functional anymore. Soon the necessary ‘sea of computers’ was relocated from the atelier space in the slab to one of the building below. In that sense, the computer frustrates the use of light in buildings.

I hear though that Neutelings Riedijk, as I think the first Dutch office to do so, has turned that development around and have limited the amount of computers in their office. Sketching and designing is again done by hand. In some of the presentations to clients drawings, made by hand, are again shown. Interns are shocked, because they’re not used to work like that. It is a revolution.

“You never really leave”, Mels Crouwel, the current architect of the state, said about the Faculty of Architecture. I feel the same way. It is an institution you come back to, one way or another. It is part of an immense continuity. As a student in this building I always felt I was part of a history: events one organized stood in a tradition of events in the past. You didn’t start from scratch. That sense of historical continuity is, I think, an important part of the discipline of architecture as it deepens one’s cultural sensibility.

At the moment the fire broke out Tuesday morning, some friends of me were inside the building. Everybody thought it was a drill and left all their stuff behind. The fire started, I heard in bits and pieces, when a mechanic was repairing a water pipe and some water spilled on the coffee machine below. When some students ordered their coffee from the machine, they started a small fire because of an electric short-circuit.

As the mechanic had cut the water into the building, there were no means to stop the fire. In the seventies Sprinkler installations weren’t that common. I have heard that the building was evacuated because of the water leak seven centimeters of water stood on one of the floors and people thought the structure of the building could not handle that kind of weight. The fire brigades had already been called to clean up the water. By the time they arrived the fire had broken out.

Because of the danger of collapse the fire brigade did not fight the fire inside, but from the outside. Soon the fire had spread of the sixth floor, as there was no serious partition to stop the fire. From there first the whole southern part of the building burned from the inside out, to then take the northern part. At the end of the afternoon one half of the northern wing of the slab collapsed. The image was the kind that was shown to us in the lessons structural engineering.

On Wednesday a team of firemen retrieved some of the chairs and models that had somehow survived the fire. In the next days, the library has been secured. On an adjacent field tents have been erected to provide provisional space where classes can continue for the coming one and half month before the summer. After the weekend, the demolishing of the building will commence. The dean, Wytze Patijn, said he expected that a new building could be realized in four years.


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)


Fire at Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft (Photographer: Michiel van Raaij)

Link:
http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=2439

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Poucos dias depois da Universidade de Delft, a Filarmónica de Berlim de Hans Scharoun foi também consumida pelas chamas.

http://www.arquitectura.pt/forum/f29/inc-ndio-atinge-sede-da-orquestra-filarm-nica-de-berlim-10423.html

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