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Open: A Bakema Celebration
The Dutch entry to La Biennale di Venezia’s 14th International Architectural Exhibition
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Entry: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Title: There is the sun
Submitted by:
Ief Spincemaille
Country:
Belgium
Category:
Housing
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Entry: Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Submitted by:
Juan Camilo Arboleda, Nadia El Hakim, Dominik Saitl
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
"Rehabilitation in Site" is part of the "Charging Chandigarh! Studio" which is a collaboration between the Chair of Dwellings and the Chair of Methods & Analysis at TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture.
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Entry: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Submitted by:
Ami Gokani, Lukas Mahlendorf, Morgane Goffin, Lex te Loo
Country:
Netherlands, India, Germany
Category:
Housing
Water and Treasure, the two reoccurring elements in India’s Informal Dwellings. This was the basis of our design on affordable housing in a 3 months studio in Ahmedabad, India. Our bottom-up approach found its roots in the treasure box, the heart of the home, most sheltering and holy combined with the water box, which is always near treasure on all the scales. The system had a base in the community treasure around which the simple boxes were stacked sheltering the courtyard growing over time. More communities would join in a fractal based evolutionary pattern, leaving all the scales in tact and therefore having a solid social network for the arrivals.
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Entry: Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Title: Stage 0: the urban frame
Submitted by:
Matteo Biella, Piyush Verma, Sophie Stoebe, Viola Liedervald
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
The first impression when you to go to India is that everything is more messy, more crowded, more polluted, faster. This is because your plane is probably landing in New Delhi or Mumbai. Fortunately India doesn't show always this face, we realized this once arrived in Ahmedabad for the Habitat design studio 2014.
Although it's house to more than 6 million people, Ahmedabad has another feeling, another flow, even more in its suburbs such as Gota, our project site for affordable housing.
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Entry: Monday, June 9, 2014
Submitted by:
Rohan Varma
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Housing
This project was produced by me while I was a student at the Delft University of Technology under the mentorship of Prof. Dick van Gameren, and it attempted to find an appropriate alternative to the current model of slum rehabilitation that is in reality further slumming the city.
Mumbai as many are aware, is home to an estimated 10 million squatters – about 60 percent of its population giving it the unceremonious title of being the global capital of slumming. It's vast informal settlements have grown in pockets throughout the city with little access to adequate housing, infrastructure and urban resources. In fact, even though these informal settlements account for over half of the city’s population they reside in just a little under 10 percent of the land – resulting in incredibly high densities with little precedent found anywhere else in the world.
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Entry: Friday, June 6, 2014
Title: HABITAT. Inhabited.
Submitted by:
Laura Katharina Straehle, Ellen Rouwendal, Rohit Raj, Marlen Beckedahl
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
To inhabit is to make a place yours.
As part of the International Habitat Design Studio led by Prof. Balkrishna Doshi at Vastu Shilpa Foundation (India), HABITAT. Inhabited has been developed within a group of international students. The workshop served as a creative pool of ideas and inspiring discussions about social housing strategies.
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Entry: Friday, June 6, 2014
Title: 3D Print Canal House
Submitted by:
DUS architects
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Housing
The 3D Print Canal House is a research, building and expo site for 3D Printing Architecture that aims to revolutionize the building industry and offer solutions for a better planet.
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Entry: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Submitted by:
Ethel Baraona Pohl
Country:
Spain
Category:
Housing
The most recent issue of Quaderns [the Journal of the Association of Architects of Catalonia], is called ‘House and Contradiction’, and it’s focused on the contemporary need of rethinking the concept of housing, based on the idea that ‘Contradictions’ – whether political, social or economic – should act as triggers capable of pulling all the strings of architecture.
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Entry: Monday, June 2, 2014
Submitted by:
Team Gunday - Hemant Pawar, Francesca Agresti, Zhen Zhang, Hugo Corbett, Thomas Ponds
Country:
India
Category:
Housing
Team Gunday seeks to explore the changing role of the architect in Ahmedabad as the city expands, rejecting nostalgia for the traditional Indian village, embracing the contradictions of contemporary Indian culture and acknowledging a new urban paradigm characterised by strange adjacencies, rapid expansion, form following finance, a paradigm which is unreflecting, contested, flexible and irrational.
On the edge of Ahmedabad, one of Asia’s fastest growing cities in one of India’s wealthiest states, Modi and friends welcome large housing developers at the expense of local democratic processes, informal settlements, ecologies and ‘Architecture’ (in the city of Kahn, Corbusier, Correa and Doshi).
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Entry: Sunday, May 28, 1972
Title: 't Hool Eindhoven
Submitted by:
Jaap Bakema Study Centre
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Housing
't Hool in Eindhoven is one of the best demonstrations of Bakema's ideas for housing and his concept of the visual group. The project was developed together with the city of Eindhoven and with employees of Philips, who initiated the planning of the new city district and who asked Bakema to become the architect of their project. The concept of the visual group is based on the idea that each district or neighbourhood should be a reflection of the larger society as a whole, and that each household type from the single individual to the family to the aged couple should be provided with a proper home in such an inclusive district. It is an idea derived from social studies, neighbourhood planning and social engineering policies, that are commonly associated with the Western European welfare state of the post-war period.
In Eindhoven this resulted in a living environment characterized by generous outdoor spaces and an unmatched variety of housing types: from highrise appartments to walk-up flats, to all sorts of row houses, patio houses, detached houses and so-called growing houses. The architecture style is a laconic kind of brick architecture with natural painted wood with special attention paid to transitional elements as porches and doorsteps. It is both ordinary and generous in the way it allows for the everyday practices of appropriation by its inhabitants.
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