tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492691430932174582024-03-05T08:42:28.868-08:00Time-based Architecture InternationalBernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-34259506337591726932010-04-28T07:15:00.000-07:002010-04-28T07:29:46.895-07:00#8 Sequences<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxhWnLm1gljXuJ_lq0GcY_dyMv2rkOrRtHH3J-durk6r8qz15YsAq7teoSkfyIMwk_WeE_yGtkZpRiTkBl_chrVfMewwjzXGizhk64Ng4k-nMi_713fpmBy-oPDtmJEBbZslnN6fjpn30/s1600/04+Stair+wise+organised+houses+kl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465194811003420578" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 266px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxhWnLm1gljXuJ_lq0GcY_dyMv2rkOrRtHH3J-durk6r8qz15YsAq7teoSkfyIMwk_WeE_yGtkZpRiTkBl_chrVfMewwjzXGizhk64Ng4k-nMi_713fpmBy-oPDtmJEBbZslnN6fjpn30/s400/04+Stair+wise+organised+houses+kl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div><strong>Sequences between building and urban space</strong><br />The theme of this issue of Time-based Architecture focuses specifically on those circular time-based activities in the area between public and private domain. The façade for instance, in the interior of the city defines the transitional spaces, boundaries, borders, thresholds and interaction points between public, semi- public and private domains as a sequence of experience.</div><br /><div>As a result we can consider this issue to be an attempt to examine and study the sequence of, mainly in-between, spaces between buildings and the city. To clarify this idea, we can refer to a dweller that needs a certain distance from the surroundings for reasons of privacy. The building is also a place to retreat to from the public and to protect you from outside danger and climate. It is a delicate process of design between private and public to which a building has to give shape. To have a better understanding of the relation between building and urban space, we will give a short overview of the development of the urban space. </div><br /><div></div><div><strong>The projects<br /></strong>MVRDV, The Rotterdam Market hall </div><br /><div><a href="http://www.kamrandiba.com/content/view/23/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">Kamran Diba & Associates</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">,</span> Shushtar New Town, </div><br /><div>Geurst & Schulz, Le medi, in Rotterdam </div><br /><div></div><div>The Morphosis social Housing project in Madrid </div><br /><div>The Mountain, dwellings project, located in Copenhagen,g garage.</div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV287l_sUBjY-9EWzV2gEi_MbO-gQlo04It_bCBP2Tfb3XBZ68-Yu7Url9I3HYrfnsfDznc19hy-VNHcyCkDQftxcoTY844X6pRdvW1Fkot9vdZZxwYnoic1cpeom5HTaVSREJF-uRtis/s1600/01+Market+hall+on+the+site,+rendering+kl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465192593425938898" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV287l_sUBjY-9EWzV2gEi_MbO-gQlo04It_bCBP2Tfb3XBZ68-Yu7Url9I3HYrfnsfDznc19hy-VNHcyCkDQftxcoTY844X6pRdvW1Fkot9vdZZxwYnoic1cpeom5HTaVSREJF-uRtis/s400/01+Market+hall+on+the+site,+rendering+kl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div>Guest Editor: Mohamad Sedighi </div><br /><div></div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-77602411209623741472009-12-06T03:15:00.000-08:002009-12-17T01:56:27.842-08:00#7 Barcelona<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjePX6i1WkQg-1aEidiFiq9spUa1zZ2bf16uESCTIdu7N9B8NBrukk533IIqfh-8G5mbLpQuDcppB5PC17P-U-A4EwWq46NaN5fVnAnVmw3b4MhOBsGW9IliA4D9Riz0AQbBKfUWU69Xws/s1600-h/M17+kl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412081521903064530" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjePX6i1WkQg-1aEidiFiq9spUa1zZ2bf16uESCTIdu7N9B8NBrukk533IIqfh-8G5mbLpQuDcppB5PC17P-U-A4EwWq46NaN5fVnAnVmw3b4MhOBsGW9IliA4D9Riz0AQbBKfUWU69Xws/s400/M17+kl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Model of the Media-Tic Building, Cloud 9 Enric Ruiz-Geli<br /><br /><strong>Time-based Barcelona</strong><br />Barcelona is a typical example of a grid planned city that can adapt all kinds of changes over the years. In this issue of Time-based Architecture International we will also be focusing on new projects in Barcelona, Cerdà's grid plays an important role as an underlying structure of new development. In spite of the economical situation today in Catalonia, there is still a lot of building and planning activity in Barcelona. Especially in the north-eastern part of Cerdà’s grid in between the Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes and the Mediterranean coast, where a public-private organisation called 22@ is redeveloping a lot of the existing blocks. Beside this concentrated development, we also find a series of other interesting projects in which time plays an important role. Some of them are focusing on housing, some on renewing existing buildings, others aiming at improving the public space.<br /><br />Introdution by Bernard Leupen, Kevin Penalva, Paul de Vroom<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNfVtGQh2nWEf7qCZv_rARcZlHjBixAPxRnenP6Y2g3Vekd57psDrM7WzKFQDSLBfNBZiaIJnZOGSQ37Wzsdv6NM6ggDY88L9YrfHyL7uiHGltvGE81GQ6pDX94l9YvsL6R4d5oCR4AE/s1600-h/06+Bau+Escola+Josep+Boncompte+foto+B+Leupen+DSC_6308+kl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412083047313422562" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifNfVtGQh2nWEf7qCZv_rARcZlHjBixAPxRnenP6Y2g3Vekd57psDrM7WzKFQDSLBfNBZiaIJnZOGSQ37Wzsdv6NM6ggDY88L9YrfHyL7uiHGltvGE81GQ6pDX94l9YvsL6R4d5oCR4AE/s400/06+Bau+Escola+Josep+Boncompte+foto+B+Leupen+DSC_6308+kl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Bau Escola, Josep Boncompte foto Bernard Leupen<br /><br />Projects<br /><br />Housing Project in Londres-Villarroel street - Jaime Coll and Judith Leclerc<br /><br />Edifici Mediatic - Cloud09, Enric Ruiz Geli<br />Text by Paul de Vroom<br /><br />LIMA Project - SaAS- Joan Sabaté<br /><br />Compact Hábit - Xavier Tragant Mestres<br /><br />Bau Escola Suprior de disseny - Josep Boncompte and Guillermo Font<br />Text by Josep Boncompte and Guillermo Font<br /><br />Museu Picasso - Jordi Garcés<br />Text by Jordi Garcés<br /><br />The 22@development<br />Text by Rosina Vinyes i BallbéBernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-62075755538641687592009-12-06T03:09:00.000-08:002009-12-06T05:25:35.871-08:00#6 Urban Edges Transformed<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThL5bVw4HAnalDuT9yJAcF6JfvkMzfmWlvIzTC5fkXrktrRowVsNEVjOqvlwuSff2C2CIUy8fNX_l5SsoJTE1rpi-pB5cdnJNQtme0C9WKa6DThHd3-CXyXIUI2K80PJjkWk2XGegoJE/s1600-h/DSC_5818+kl.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412079134576637506" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 268px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgThL5bVw4HAnalDuT9yJAcF6JfvkMzfmWlvIzTC5fkXrktrRowVsNEVjOqvlwuSff2C2CIUy8fNX_l5SsoJTE1rpi-pB5cdnJNQtme0C9WKa6DThHd3-CXyXIUI2K80PJjkWk2XGegoJE/s400/DSC_5818+kl.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Massena Quarter Paris, Christian de Portzamparc. One of the street with colourful houses, photo Bernard Leupen<br /><strong></strong><br /><strong>Urban Edges Transformed</strong><br /><br />As an urban form, the metropolis is undergoing rapid changes, in particular at the edge of more established cities. The challenges of accommodating large scale infrastructure, while meeting the demands of contemporary economies, have yielded less than satisfactory results, especially when accounting for the toll on the environment. This issue examines projects and proposals that address these challenges, especially as they play themselves out at the edge of urban centers and in the suburbs. How, we ask, can we engage time as a means of redefining a transformed metropolis, one with a stronger and unique identity, closely tied to the dynamics of ecology, economy and place making?<br />Introductory Essay Author: Paul Lukez Images by: Peter Vanderwarker (photographer), Sarah McKenzie (painter), Paul Lukez (architect / artist)<br /><br /><strong>Projects</strong><br />Retrofitting Suburban Form: Incremental Metropolitanism at Belmar_Colorado, USA 2001-2012<br />Architect: Elkus Manfredi Architects and Civitas<br />Text by June Williamson<br /><br />Tangshan Urban Planning Museum_Tangshan, China 2008<br />Architect: URBANUS Architecture and Design<br />Text by Wang Hui<br /><br />SOLARIS: Continuous Green_one-north, Singapore 2008-2010<br />Architect: T.R.Hamzah&Yeang<br />Text by Mitchell Gelber<br /><br />Eco-City_Logroño, Spain 2007-2013<br />Architects: MVRDV and GRAS<br />Text by: Paul Lukez<br /><br />Masterplan Ede East: a framework for future development_EdeEast, TheNetherlands 2004<br />Architect: Palmboom & van den Bout<br />Text by BernardLeupen<br /><br />The Massena Quarter_Paris, France 1995-2007, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc<br />Text by: Bernard Leupen<br /><br />Flight Forum_Eindhoven,The Netherlands 1998-2004<br />Architect: MVRDV<br />Text by Bernard Leupen<br /><br />Burlington Mall Transformed_Burlington, MA, USA 2002-2006<br />Architect: Paul Lukez Architecture / Transform-X<br />Text by: PaulLukezBernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-44070931317555590202009-01-21T06:06:00.000-08:002009-12-06T03:31:10.951-08:00#5 China<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS8QHWp0vb4ZCtblFP-808rpKPEg0nD8r7qsmfHyDgC7Hd5hM_FIO-K-w6FNE0O0aZO0VDFlSAzVGuTU-uwmLqsEQ6mUpCLgtHIJ3VcTyf_TWINuL1w90ObiOLKJoPz_mnwIhyphenhyphenrNOa1iA/s1600-h/AfterRenovation01+klein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293749616351246866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS8QHWp0vb4ZCtblFP-808rpKPEg0nD8r7qsmfHyDgC7Hd5hM_FIO-K-w6FNE0O0aZO0VDFlSAzVGuTU-uwmLqsEQ6mUpCLgtHIJ3VcTyf_TWINuL1w90ObiOLKJoPz_mnwIhyphenhyphenrNOa1iA/s400/AfterRenovation01+klein.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Introduction<br /></strong>by: Bernard Leupen, Hai Lin and Meng Sun<br />For ages the Chinese had a circular concept of time. Since the fast developments of the last decades the circular concept is taken over more and more by a dynamic concept. China's fast development in the last decades puts a lot of things upside down. City's and even buildings are now more static entity's as the where for ages. The fast changes asked or a dynamic and time-based vision on architecture.<br /><br /><strong>New architecture</strong><br />In most of the publications on Chinese architecture to day, we see fast growing cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen. We see huge apartment buildings, all kinds of office and serving buildings in a fan of architectures from neo modern, to neo classical, from neo baroque to post modern. Most of them belong to bigness and XXL buildings. Between this overkill of images we seldom see authentic new Chinese architecture.<br /><br />On of the first published projects which gives an other vision on new Chinese architecture is the Suitcase house by Gary Chang, Edge Design Institute. The design is an interesting reinterpretation of the traditional wooden Chinese house. A open room gives space to al kinds of dwelling activities. The space it selves is generic. All the specific elements are built in below the main floor. By opening a hinging floor element the specific element can provide a specific function like cooking, bathing or working.<br /><br /><strong>The projects<br />Tongming’s own studio, Architect: Tongming, Shanghai (2003)</strong><br />By Qing Li<br /><br /><strong>Gary's Apartment, Gary Chang - Edge Design Institute, Island East, Hong Kong (2007)</strong><br />By Meng Sun<br /><br /><strong>Caiguo Qiang Courtyard House Renovation, Architect Peizhu, Beijing (2007)<br /></strong>By Bernard Leupen<br /><br /><strong>Suquan Yuan tea house, Architect: Tongming, Suzhou (2007)<br /></strong>By Qing Li<br /></div><strong></strong><div><strong>Wuhan French and Chinese art center Architect Ke Zhang, Wuhan</strong><br />By Meng Sun<br /><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Exhibition for CRC city, Gary Chang -- Edge Design Institute, Shenzhen (2008)<br /></strong>By Meng Sun<br /><br /><strong>Water Tank for Goldfish, Architect Yansong Ma (2004)<br /></strong>By Hai Lin </div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-7167557909549686752009-01-21T05:39:00.001-08:002009-01-29T01:27:34.996-08:00#4 Developments in flexible house building in German-speaking countries<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSzmQl7PUj8V34xDcay4_OtnhHivj1pQlo3i85ZY_FDMkbzL954PcMWsw12gsZC5mDUAjZdSMWSdOnvaolp8j8PokDylyAXaoA7QZy2nmtxp3F30S-TPzPaHnZNZMBz0oM2hcayVXHD18/s1600-h/CoverVol4LOW+RES+klein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293741573832679042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSzmQl7PUj8V34xDcay4_OtnhHivj1pQlo3i85ZY_FDMkbzL954PcMWsw12gsZC5mDUAjZdSMWSdOnvaolp8j8PokDylyAXaoA7QZy2nmtxp3F30S-TPzPaHnZNZMBz0oM2hcayVXHD18/s400/CoverVol4LOW+RES+klein.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br />During the 20th century, flexibility concepts have been a periodically recurring influence for the production of hous­ing in Europe. Thus, a wealth of experience is available to­day. Essential flexibility concepts had already been devel­oped by the avant-garde of Classical Modernism.<br />Looking back we can see two very different development themes emerging in parallel in this first major development phase of flexible housing:<br /><br />The development of flexibility strategies within new, avant-garde spatial models as part of ‘liberating living’<br />The development of flexibility strategies in plans for the ‘existential minimum’ by way of space-saving overlapping uses and growth models for building and housing people in crises<br />With many projects, however, these two themes also overlap, such as in Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder's particular space creation in the Schröder house in Utrecht of 1924, or in Le Corbusier's double house on the Weissenhof of 1927. </div><div> </div><div><strong>Content #4</strong></div><div><strong></strong> </div><div><strong>Introduction<br />Flexible Dwellings in Germany, Austria and Switzerland</strong><br />Sigrid Loch<br /><br /><strong>Ten in one _ Flexible urban house, Berlin 2005, Germany</strong><br />architect<br />Roedig. Schop architects and Baugruppe A52<br /><br /><strong>Q-Bus _ Flexible apartment building, Winterthur 2001, Switzerland<br /></strong>architect<br />Kreis Schaad Schaad Architects<br /><br /><strong>Future housing _ Sandgasse housing estate, Graz 2006, Austria</strong><br />architect<br />Architectural firm Hansjörg Tschom<br /><br /><strong>Balance _`Wohnparks`[housing parks], 2000-2003, Switzerland</strong><br />architect<br />Haerle Hubacher Architects<br /><br /><strong>Haus G _ An experiment in space, Überlingen 2009, Germany</strong><br />architect<br />(se)arch Architects- Stefanie Eberdingand Stephan Eberding<br /><br /><strong>Apartment K _ A conversion with surprises, Attersee 2005, Austria</strong><br />architect<br />Atelier Peter Ebner- Franziska Ullmann<br /><br /><strong>UFO _ Loft and commercial building, Frankfurt am Main 2004, Germany</strong><br />architect<br />Dietz Joppien Architekten AG</div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-48570628938811006092009-01-21T05:36:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:44:36.991-08:00#3 Mixed living and working programmes – from generic to specific<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOBbazqet4g8o7P9TeIrO2mbHzm4fMq3ZCKEgIV4UVRjq7UuPwL5okRlqsph6PIgzNsENav1tJSnZ3EZu81_7bKjktlHJU5Ms7_SRJ4cvJa9Ceh_udasoNFKeV96jZsXPYYQ56FqlZ3Zg/s1600-h/TBA+%233+klein.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293740891762841170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 313px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOBbazqet4g8o7P9TeIrO2mbHzm4fMq3ZCKEgIV4UVRjq7UuPwL5okRlqsph6PIgzNsENav1tJSnZ3EZu81_7bKjktlHJU5Ms7_SRJ4cvJa9Ceh_udasoNFKeV96jZsXPYYQ56FqlZ3Zg/s400/TBA+%233+klein.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br />Developments today and tomorrow<br />The relation between living and working is presently undergoing rapid change. The service business sector is growing faster than the industrial and agricultural sectors. Industry is becoming cleaner, and communication technology continues its dizzying pace of advance. The traditional family unit is continually losing ground to newer living patterns such as one-person households and couples who reverse the conventional domestic roles. There is a rising demand for space for start up companies, especially in creative business sectors. These trends hold out the prospect of greater functional mixing, which may help prevent towns turning into huge, monofunctional seas of housing with the associated risks of urban decay, ghetto formation and rundown commercial zones.<br /><br />These factors make it relevant to redefine the changing relation between living and working. Present planning mechanisms are poor at responding to the changing patterns of demand for homes and offices. It is necessary to devise new urban housing types, which accommodate a multiplicity of mixed functions, so that they can cope with programmatic and spatial changes. The new types must be capable of reflecting the phenomenon of changing lifestyles and the imperatives of sustainable building by making intelligent use of scarce space.<br /></div><div><strong>Content #3</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Introduction<br />Mixed living and working programmes–from generic to specific</strong><br />JaspervanZwol<br /><br /><strong>Piazza Ceramique, Maastricht<br /></strong>architect<br />Jo Janssen Architecten-prof.ir.Wim van den Bergh Architect<br /><br /><strong>Schiecentrale Media Campus, Rotterdam</strong><br />architect<br />Mei Architects and Urban Planners<br /><br /><strong>Fahle Building, Tallinn<br /></strong>architect<br />KOKO architects<br />RaivoKotov, Andrus Kõresaar<br />Interiordesign: KOKO architects, Liis Lindvere, Raili Paling, Liisi Murula<br /><br /><strong>Jian Wai Soho, Beijijng<br /></strong>architect<br />Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop<br /><br /><strong>Miss Sargfabrik, Vienna</strong><br />architect<br />BKK-3Architektur ZT-GmbH together with MISSARGE (JohannWinter)<br /><br /><strong>Building With Homes And Offices, Sursee<br /></strong>architect<br />Scheitlin-Syfrig+Partner Architekten AG, Luzern<br /><br /><strong>9/10 Stock Orchard Street, London</strong><br />architect<br />Sarah Wigglesworths Architects<br />Sarah Wigglesworths and Jeremy Till</div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-63141050012242369022009-01-18T08:08:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:44:12.112-08:00#2 DKV from typological to time-based<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWXI7YTkv3ucMoUs-t43lpOJeqRWvXVzaRi7r9wHOscDpnJaTsrg-Ln4uCUCHtOjiahEtD2YYMQWchHQZPhMQgIWnKR38UlYO01t2N0-vbiNIiJ4JMyD3d9UXEZT__xofPPMGYG6wDTw/s1600-h/TBA+I+%232.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293739201015915042" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 312px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLWXI7YTkv3ucMoUs-t43lpOJeqRWvXVzaRi7r9wHOscDpnJaTsrg-Ln4uCUCHtOjiahEtD2YYMQWchHQZPhMQgIWnKR38UlYO01t2N0-vbiNIiJ4JMyD3d9UXEZT__xofPPMGYG6wDTw/s400/TBA+I+%232.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div><strong></strong></div><br /><div><br /><br />From its inception, DKV architects has been founded in a firmly established working method and practice. Typological analysis is key to the office’s working method, wherein typology is implemented to create freedom. DKV’s sphere of activity spans everything from residential and urban building projects to diverse forms of non-residential building. An analytical approach centred in model-based thinking enables the office to maximise the potential of otherwise restrictive preconditions, and to identify unexpected solutions as a result. DVK architecten is based in Rotterdam and led by partners Roel Bosch, Herman de Kovel, Wilco Valk and Paul de Vroom. The office is active both within the Netherlands and far beyond.<br /><br />DKV’s work is characterised by a simplicity that speaks for itself, with designs that make an impact through their organisational clarity and physical form. DKV seeks to identify the essence of any given project and to devise a targeted answer and an original design – a design that is innovative, yet at the same time surprisingly self-evident. The main theme of the design is systematically integrated at every level of scale, from urban planning down to the technical details. Since design processes today are in a constant state of flux and to a large extent unpredictable, DKV’s work has come to emphasise, more and more, the establishment of the necessary preconditions for change (or flexibility, as DKV calls it) as a specific design theme.<br /><br />DKV stands for the initials of its three co-founders, Dolf Dobbelaar, Herman de Kovel and Paul de Vroom, who set up the office in 1984. All three completed their studies at TU Delft and, prior to founding DKV, worked at OMA on designing the urban development plan for the IJ-plein (IJ square) in the urban district of Amsterdam-Noord.<br /><br />Three elements define DKV’s work:<br />1 model studies<br />2 typological approach (leading from model studies)<br />3 flexibility and "shell thinking”</div><br /><div><strong>Content #2</strong></div><br /><div><strong>introduction</strong><br /><strong>DKV from typological tot ime-based</strong><br />Dr. ir. Bernard Leupen<br /><br /><strong>Australië Boston</strong><br />DKV architecten<br />Dolf Dobbelaar, Herman de Kovel en Paul de Vroom<br /><br /><strong>Nieuwe Millinxbuurt, Rotterdam<br /></strong>architect<br />DKV architecten<br />Dolf Dobbelaar, Herman de Kovel, Paul de Vroom<br /><br /><strong>Kop van Havendiep, Lelystad<br /></strong>architect<br />DKV architecten<br />Dolf Dobbelaar, Herman de Kovel, Paul de Vroom<br /><br /><strong>Schutterstoren Meer en Oever, Amsterdam</strong><br />architect<br />DKV architecten<br />Roel Bosch, Herman de Kovel, Wico Valk, Paul de Vroom<br /><br /><strong>Insula College, Dordrecht<br /></strong>architect<br />DKV rchitecten<br />Roel Bosch, Herman de Kovel, Wico Valk, Paul de Vroom<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFl7tD7MZNvIqTd2yZfT8Qc6RVypolnDpOKpCmmle70R58OEFyKVkNYzZUm4R3CJbJnzskO_pSl-aekreZNNnJEYeckCcUqzYHGOnorsNw-iN0q4CsWWwUC7comeJJlPT6upNNwUZpzM/s1600-h/TBA+%233+klein.jpg"></a></div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-549269143093217458.post-84149192316163825742009-01-18T07:56:00.000-08:002009-01-21T06:43:32.887-08:00#1 The Danish dwelling in-between permanent and changeable conditions<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCHc8OEuKVGvQ33JYn2VSKsVpu1rgR5S1rq9e0OjUZ5m7Tar-hk4kfUq76Gtd2q-elPnzHT-9C8gvylRc61hcuRHNIhuVPi1XHiSYVjx_xVBevUPYPqotlxrbAAtgu2fRfcRex-7EYViI/s1600-h/TBA+I+%231.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293739780078619794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 319px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCHc8OEuKVGvQ33JYn2VSKsVpu1rgR5S1rq9e0OjUZ5m7Tar-hk4kfUq76Gtd2q-elPnzHT-9C8gvylRc61hcuRHNIhuVPi1XHiSYVjx_xVBevUPYPqotlxrbAAtgu2fRfcRex-7EYViI/s400/TBA+I+%231.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4B2E3iULIHmKFemAtctqSbrIXqCHSf-m0Fskji_CdwBn2bZGhkSHVDfSL06vvtHQeUYFwwqRAX9GIBbaCdos5L_Sdc9B8-aHTpz2pDGCqDFW6LVveY81Or4lE2IhzLF4u6cgcfs9nYo/s1600-h/TBA+I+%231.jpg"></a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br />Introduction<br />Since the 1980’s, urban life has experienced a renaissance, and among builders and planners, there has been an increased interest in multistory housing in Denmark. The considerations for sustainability also support the ideals inherent in the compact city. The welfare society’s ideals concerning the “sound dwelling” have left distinctive traces throughout the city. A versatile supply of housing has been the main goal, and housing policies have been characterized by the goal of everyone having access to sound homes. The extensive urban renewal in the harbour areas of Copenhagen offers a breeding ground for experimentation with a number of new and more open housing types, where future users can be involved in the design of their homes. In this way there is an increased focus on how to design the basic framework of the apartment. Yet another issue of importance is how those dwellings will be ‘completed’ by the inhabitance of the users. When the dwellings are completed, are they still suitable for other conditions of life? Is it possible to maintain the architectural quality and create at the same time greater possibilities for individual development and influence? These issues are researched in the project: Dwellings Suitable for Changing Life Situations. However, these ‘unfinished’ dwellings will get their own life. The designer will not any more be able to control what the users will do with their ‘work’. In the case of VM-Husene, this was just the one of the targets of the project. The architects created apartments with odd and unusual spatiality and expected new ways of inhabitation, from which at the same time the architects could learn. This process-like approach is far different from the earlier attitude of the functionalists. Many of the projects mentioned in this article are researched in the project: Dwellings Suitable for Changing Life Conditions. The project is carried out at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, 2005-2007. The research project is connected to The Center of Welfare and Housing, Copenhagen University and supported by the Realdania Foundation. Researchers: Peder Duelund Mortensen, Helen G. Welling, Margit Livø and Lene Wiell Mortensen. Bjarke Ingels and Julien de Smedt from the firm PLOT<br /><br /><strong>Content #1</strong><br /><strong>Introduction</strong><br />THE DANISH DWELLING:in between permanent and changeable conditions<br />Dr. Helen G.Welling & Dr. Bernard Leupen<br /><br /><strong>Nordlyset</strong><br />Residential Block on America Plads<br />CF MØLLER, partnerarchitec tLONE WIGGERS<br />By Lone Wiggers, Dr. Bernard Leupen (ed)<br /><br /><strong>ÆBLELUNDEN</strong><br />Affordable Housing in the Copenagen suburb of Gladsaxe<br />VANDKUNSTEN, JAN ALBRECHSTEN & SØREN NIELSEN<br />By Dr. Bernard Leupen<br /><br /><strong>FLEXIBO</strong><br />Amager, Copenhagen (1975) & Greve Strand by, Greve (1980)<br />VIGGO MØLLER-JENSEN, TYGEARNFRED & JØRN OLE SORENSEN (Fælles tegnestuen ApS)<br />By Dr. Hellen G. Welling<br /><br /><strong>Jægersborg Water tower<br /></strong>Ørnegårdsvej 21, 2820 Gentofte<br />DORTE MANDRUP ARCHITECTS AsP<br />By Dr. Bernard Leupen<br /><br /><strong>BOASE</strong><br />Experimental Housing Project on an Open Space in Nørrebro<br />FORCE 4, CHRISTIAN F.W. DALSDORF & MAJA ASAA<br />By Dr. Bernard Leupen (ed)</div>Bernard Leupenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12248742420557469122noreply@blogger.com0