When: Saturday April 20th, 10.00-17.00h
Where: FUCOAM, Piamonte, 23
Directed by: Max Risselada
Professors: Max Risselada and Marta Pastor
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This is a workshop
about communication and how to communicate about our discipline between
ourselves. For this purpose we will look at some exemplary relative small
housing projects produced during the last decennia and first try to understand
their ordering and structure and afterwards try to explain these to each other
by means of drawings and/or models.
Although small they
are rich in the way they deal with the relation between the individual dwelling
and the city. Or better, between the ‘private’ and the ‘public’, both within
the dwelling, the collective of dwellings as in the relation between the built
and the un-built. .
The emphasis should be
on the following progression:
• The order, structure and experience of
the individual dwelling
• Their combination in bigger entities in relation to
their accessibility as organized and experienced
• The collective spaces
as organized and experienced both inside the built entities
(entrance halls, collective ways of access like stairs, galleries, corridors,
decks etc, parking, storage) as outside (court, street, neighborhood, city)
• And how these three levels relate to each other, both as
a designed project and as real experience!
In each of these
instances the tension between the private and the collective should be
considered in all three levels mentioned above, to give meaning to the idea of
both homecoming and belonging.
It is obvious that
these aspects are more critical in housing with a high density and therefore we
study some projects in this category, which deal in different ways with the
vertical dimension and the relation from the individual dwelling to the
‘ground’.
The projects chosen
are very much related to my own experience in teaching in the northern
hemisphere of Europe, where housing as collective experience was already
seriously considered both by the state as by planners, urban designers and
architects since the beginning of the last century, when the relation between
the private and the public was thought as both a social as a spatial issue.
The projects to be
studied can be divided into 4 categories:
1. Transformations of
the Perimeter Block
. Otto
Steidle - Wienerberggrunde Estate, Vienna, 1993
. Atelier
5 - Siedlung Ried 2. Bern, 1990
. IAUS
(Frampton et all) - Marcus Garvey Park Village, NY, 1976
2. Additions to the
Perimeter Block with an autonomous building
. OMA -
Friedrichsstrasse Berlin, 1969
. Otto
Steidle - Rudesheimerplatz, Berlin, 1983
.
Gameren/Mastenbroek - Apartment block, Nijmegen, 1990
3 The free
standing building
.
Christiaanse/Zaayer - Lot 25 Dedemsvaart Road, the
Hague, 1992
. Jean
Nouvel - Nemausus complex, Nimes, 1987
4 The Mat
building
. Roland
Rainer - Puchenau Housing 1, Vienna, 1969
. Atelier
5 – Rain Park Brugg, Switserland, 1971
. Werner
Seligman – Housing in Ithica, USA, 1971
