Strijp-S is a neighborhood and former industrial park in the
Eindhoven district of
Strijp
Strijp is a former town in the Dutch province of North Brabant, now a borough of Eindhoven.
Strijp was a separate municipality until 1920, when it became part of Eindhoven. The Philips Stadion, home of football team PSV Eindhoven is based in Strij ...
. The area belonged to electronics company
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...
. Since 2000, creative companies and housing have been established in the former industrial buildings.
Eindhoven Strijp-S railway station
Eindhoven Strijp-S is a railway station located in northwestern Eindhoven, Netherlands at the Strijp-S creative and residential district built on the former Philips factory complex. The station was opened on 23 September 1971 and is located on the ...
serves the district.
Name
The name Strijp-S comes from the naming pattern that Philips used in its industrial parks. Strijp-S was the first park, and Strijp-T and Strijp-R followed.
History
Lamps, radios and televisions
In 1916
Anton Philips built the first factory in Strijp-S a glass factory for
incandescent light bulb
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb with a vacuum or inert gas to protect the filament from oxid ...
s. The
Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium
The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (English translation: ''Philips Physics Laboratory'') or NatLab was the Dutch section of the Philips research department, which did research for the product divisions of that company. Originally located in the ...
was opened in 1914. Strijp-S was where first radios, then televisions were produced, as well as many other devices. The credo ''Van zand tot klant'' ("from sand to customer") stood behind the idea that Philips controlled every phase of production from research to storage, from glass blowing to cardboard factory: everything on one enormous piece of land.
Departure of Philips
In the 1990s Philips gradually left Eindhoven and in 2000 the first discussions took place about the repurposing of Strijp-S. In 2002 the land was sold for €140 million to ''Park Strijp Beheer B.V.'', a public private partnership between the city of Eindhoven and VolkerWessels. Philips was able to lease some of the buildings back temporarily until its full withdrawal in 2006, although there are still two small Philips departments present in the buildings SFH en SEY.
Adaptive reuse and Strijp-S today
Project for adaptive reuse
With the departure of Philips the plans was implemented to make the area a broad destination for the creative sector, including technology and design, under the English headline ''Old Buildings, New Ideas''. The old factory buildings would be perfect for studios. In 2016 the creative school St. Lucas opened at Strijp-S.
Residential
In 2012 Strijp-S got its first permanent residents, when the SAS-3 project was completed (new construction). A year later the repurposed industrial SAN en SBP buildings were ready for residential use. Lofts replaced former television factories. The buildings were renamed
GERARD and
ANTON
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, in honor of two prominenta members of the Philips family. Many other residential complexes are planned such a
Space-Sand Blok 61, 63 and 59. A year later the industrial buildings SAN and SBP were also ready for residential use.
The profile of the residents skews very young, with 78.2% of the residents are between 20 and 34 versus 24.6% in Eindhoven as a whole.
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Restaurants, cafés, bars
In the Veemgebouw in 2015 the food hall ''Vershal Het Veem ''opened.
Arts and culture
At Strijp-S you can visit MU Hybrid Art House (Torenallee 40-06). MU is all about art in the broadest sense of the word. Together with mainly young makers and a broad, international audience, MU defines the liminal space between ‘what art is and what art can be’.
Furthermore, the De Ontdekfabriek is located at Strijp-S: a children's science discovery space.
Events
Strijp-S is a major event space, in the halls of the Klokgebouw building, but also larger events on the Ketelhuisplein plaza. For example, dance festival Flying Dutch in 2015 attracted 25,000 visitors. Dutch Design Week
Dutch Design Week (also known as DDW) is the largest annual design event in Northern Europe. It presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Hosted in Eindhoven, Netherlands, the ev ...
takes place each October. Every third Sunday of the month Strijp-S hosts the FeelGood Markt market.
Sports
Strijp-S is a magnet for urban sports. Skateboarding, BMX and bouldering
Bouldering is a form of free climbing that is performed on small rock formations or artificial rock walls without the use of ropes or harnesses. While bouldering can be done without any equipment, most climbers use climbing shoes to help se ...
as well as bootcamp classes.
Light Art
Strijp-S is a place for experimentation with LED lighting, which keeps the historic connection with Philips' past. Some light art
Light art or The Art of Light is generally referring to a visual art form in which (physical) light is the main, if not sole medium of creation. Uses of the term differ drastically in incongruence; definitions, if existing, vary in several asp ...
includes the project Fakkel by Har Hollands. In the underground passage to NatLab artist Daan Roosegaarde
Daan Roosegaarde (born 1979) is a Dutch artist, pioneer and founder of ''Studio Roosegaarde'', which develops projects that merge technology and art in urban environments. Some of the studio's works have been described as "immersive" and "intera ...
installed his project Crystal.
Strijp-S is a regular location for the light festival GLOW.
Points of interest
* Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium
The Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (English translation: ''Philips Physics Laboratory'') or NatLab was the Dutch section of the Philips research department, which did research for the product divisions of that company. Originally located in the ...
or NatLab[Philips' Natlab: Proeftuin van de vooruitgang]
, ''NPO Geschiedenis''.
* Klokgebouw ("Clock building")
* Hoge Rug. Three industrial buildings from 1927, 1929 and 1930
* Ketelhuis ("Kettle House") and Machinekamer ("Machine Room") from 1929.
* Veemgebouw ("Warehouse Building") from 1942 where tvs, radios and other items were warehoused.
* Leidingstraat ("Cable Street"). A network of cables ten meters high where once gas and other liquids flowed. Here is a garden by Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf (; born 27 October 1944) is a Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movementhis designs and plant compositions using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are cho ...
, and the light art by Har Hollands.
* Torenallee ("Tower Avenue"). A wide boulevard for strolling.
* SPACE-S. 7 colorful residential blocks decorated by the residents themselves, 402 residences in total.
Official website
Strijp-S website
References
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Philips
Neighbourhoods of Eindhoven
Adaptive reuse of industrial structures in the Netherlands
Mixed-use developments in the Netherlands