Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk

Herbergen 2014

Twenty-four hours Noordoostpolder

for the event 24 hours Noordoostpolder we built a pavilion as decor for a ritual

Herbergen 2014

Twenty-four hours Noordoostpolder

The Noordoostpolder was reclaimed seventy years ago from the central lake of the Netherlands. It was constructed after WWII in order to provide enough food for the Dutch population. The polder borrows its beauty from the mathematical precision by which it was made. Every part of the polder is designated, the location of every tree is determined and even the new inhabitants are chosen carefully. How is such a society constructed from zero, and what does it look like after seven decennia?

Herbergen adds a ritual to the life of the inhabitants of the polder: a ritual illustrating the history and strengthening solidarity. We designed and built a decor for the film of the ritual. Flanking both sides of the characteristic Schokbetonschuur (concrete shed) with its expressive ribs, we added a new roof. A hut for shelter, a background for a new narrative. 3500 roof tiles collected from the neighbours are the valuation of this heritage.

the ritual starts with a procession around the property

most of the work has been prepared in the week before the event

volunteers and neighbours place the last tiles on the roof

when the pavilion is finished, everyone helps to prepare the dinner

the pavilion celebrates the polder’s heritage

Background stories

the original concrete shed

the simple gesture of prolonging the roof

an extra room emerges next to the shed

its doors copy the shed’s characteristic pattern

Colophon

Location: Kraggenburg, Noordoostpolder

Year: 2014

Status: built

Program: temporary pavilion

Collaborators: Stichting Herbergen

Part of the designers-in-residence program of Jurgen Bey and Rianne Makkink

Photography: Johannes van Assem, Marius Grootveld

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About Lilith Ronner van Hooijdonk

The office was founded in 2010 in Rotterdam. We design narrative architecture that tells the story of the assignment at hand. A story with different layers: that of the context, a response to building tradition, the wishes of our client, sustainable applications and technical opportunities. The architecture surprises with imagination. Our work reaches from transformations to public spaces like a Performative Space in Eindhoven, and from building a multi-family house in Amsterdam to researching our practice and writing stories about it.

Partners: Elsbeth Ronner, Lilith van Assem

Employees: Eva Ventura (2019 - nu), Milou Klein (2019), Melvin van den Houdt (2019), Laura Steenbeke (2018), Joppe Douma (2018), Madeleine Mans (2016 - 2018), Paula Cores Barrel (2017), Jimmy Stegeman (2016), Dirk Gonzáles Veugelers (2016), André Cramer (2014), Clémence Boru (2013), Anne de Ruyter (2012)

They wrote about us: Modulør, Archined, Architectuur.nl, Dirty Science

Design: De Ronners
Development: Martijn van Bachum

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