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Erasmus to Maastricht
24 mai 2014

4/6 - ABKMaastricht building

Hello,
today I will speak about ABKM Building which is the Art department of ZUYD university.

ZUYD University website with all departments: international.zuyd.nl

ABKM website with all "art courses": www.abkmaastricht.nl

Personnaly I did Interior Architecture, but if you want to do an erasmus semester you have to check with your school if there is an erasmus program on the courses you want. Personnaly I wanted Product Design but the erasmus program was only on the second semester and we could do an erasmus program only on the first semester... so first of all, be sure it's possible to study what you want to don't have any surprise 2 week before to move. And secondly all these classes are not specially on this Art building, for exemple "Communication and Multimedia Design" is not on ABKM building but on the "classic" building with International business courses. (that just mean you will not have all the tools of the building or you will need to move everytime).

As you can see on the photo, it's the perfect place to learn what is Interior Architecture in Netherlands and what kind of architecture they are doing ;)

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The building ( Maps):There are two parts connect with a bridge.

The first building:

There are 4 floors: -1:workshops(wood and steel) / 0: Product Design / 1 Interior Architecture and "Printing workshop" / 2: Textile Design

PS: the Printing workshop is a place where you can bind your book, create stamp, do serigraphy, etching,...

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The second building:

On the other part it looks more "classic", I mean you have classes with tables and chairs :p but it's still really great. You have some places like photography, informatic (mac or pc), library, secretary, large size printing, videos editing and a lot of others places... It's open but not too much... some places are opened to all the students of the building and some places are reserved for students who are studying the thing. And for exemple the studio photo is open to all the students but it's reserved for photograph students so actually it's quite hard to find some times to use it.

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Classes and Courses

For Interior Architecture we have an entire floor, four big tables and each table is for each years student. We are around 10 students by class.
 Teachers give us a book (not in english, that's the surprise) with all projects you have to do in the block (3 months). At the end of the block you have to prepare all your projects (print, book, maquettes,...) on a table and teachers will come to put a mark.

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You have class everyday from 9am to 5pm approx.but actuallly you don't really have courses. You stay on the big table working on your projects and teachers are coming, person per person, to speak with you about your project and your progress. So classes are in dutch but finally all teachers are speaking with youin English so, finally, Dutch courses are not really a problem because we don't have a lot of real courses. And, for sure, teachers will be nice with you to find an arrangement.

The way of living in Netherlands is different (from France), you don't have a big break at midday and generally you eat 20 minuts and you go back to work directly because Dutch people eat the dinner sooner than us (around 18h-20h). It's why you don't have any break on thursday, you just eat a small thing during the class (don't worry it's not a hard day, its just a question of rythme).

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Materials

On the entrance of the building there is someone who sell a green card, it's 10 €. After you can buy or borrow what you want by using this 10€ green card in the building.

You can buy wood, steel, paper, cardboard, charcoal,... for a cheaper price than in a classic shop.

You can also borrow tools or print by using these cards: camera canon 600D (2,5€/day), macbook(2.5€/day), tripod, print in A0 around 10-20€... BUT you can't borrow, to give an exemple, the Hasselblad H3D for 10€ because you're not studying in photography :p (if you don't know what is it, it's not a problem for you ;) ) in one semester I think I used 5 green cards and two of these was only to print in A0 (20€=2cards)

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Classic Printer: You can find a lot of printer in Zuyd university and you have only one way to use it, you need to go on this website:

print.zuyd.nl

You log on with your student account, you put 10 or 20 € and after when you will be on a computer of the school you can send a document to the printer, go to the printer, log on with your student account, confirm to print, and log out. It's around 0.25cts/page so you have time to use the money.

 Around the school you have 2 Art shops.

So you have to understand you have to pay everything for the school (maquette, drawing, printing,...) they just pay, normally, when you are visiting some places. We went to Rotterdam, in a museum close to Dusseldorf, in a Philips building to Eindhoven and we visited some projects of Mies van der Rohe.

 

 

I think it's enough actually, I said all the tips to know to don't be lost ;) I hope it will be helpfull. And for sure the others students could help you ;D They are shy in english but actually they are really good so don't be afraid too :)

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