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A Dutch architect, Herman Hertzberger used the structural approach to think about the relationship between the user and space, proposing a vision of architecture as an appropriable structure. The notion of appropriation thus constitutes an essential prism for analysing the housing realized by Hertzberger, from the designed space to the lived space. The operation of Haarlemmer Houttuinen Street was the subject of a post-occupancy survey to evaluate the concrete modalities of this appropriation by the inhabitants.