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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: Friday, June 6, 2014
Submitted by:
Jet Bussemaker, Minister for Education, Culture and Science of The Netherlands
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Inspiration
Opening speech of Open: A Bakema Celebration by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ms J. Bussemaker.
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Entry: Friday, June 6, 2014
Title: The Golden Heart Pavilion
Submitted by:
Malkit Shoshan
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Public space
The Golden Heart Pavilion was the first community structure in Ein Hawd. It was created to support a series of cultural and international events in a Palestinian village of Internally Displaced Persons in Israel.
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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: Friday, June 6, 2014
Title: BIM is beautiful
Submitted by:
NL Architects
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Inspiration
Building Information Management (or is it Modelling?) is the new key to successful projects. Potential failure can be prevented by erecting a complete virtual model of the building. It allows all partners in the planning process to work together on the same ‘drawing’.
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Entry: Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Title: The Good Life
Submitted by:
The Berlage Center of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Inspiration
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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: City Hall Terneuzen
Submitted by:
Jaap Bakema Study Centre
Country:
The Netherlands
Category:
Public space
Bakema and his office Van den Broek en Bakema designed the new town hall of Terneuzen as a meeting point. It is situated between the old city and the new districts and it sits against the dyke overlooking the sea and the Westerschelde estuary. Because of its bold and sculptural concrete architecture it acts as a point of orientation for the citizens of Terneuzen while connecting the various elements of the larger environment (old and new, sea and land, government, administration and community). The architecture is reminiscent of infrastructural engineering works that serve and protect, rather than the representation of authority. The spatial lay-out of the building is like an upward going spiral; by way of a split-level system public and ceremonial spaces are connected with the offices of the administration.
Bakema calls the building an 'open structure', because of the interrelationships between the building as a democratic representation of the city and the larger community and because of the concrete structure that opens up at the top of the building awaiting future appropriation.
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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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