Organized and designed by the Berlage, the installation in the Guggenheim is sized according to the footprint of a typical parking spot and the volume of a car-featuring an animated road trip to twelve different buildings across the Netherlands. The Auto Drives Architecture is a research project consisting of a multiformat program of expert symposiums and lectures, a design master class, a series of documentary films, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao installation, and the publication entitled Architecture by Auto. Among them are the Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment and their Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – catalogue imageįifteen selected international schools of design and architecture from four continents were given complete freedom to share their visions for the future of mobility. The exhibition is free and open for visitors from Friday 29 April at 17.30 to Monday 2 May at 14.00. Located near the Laurenskerk and opposite the Galeries Modernes, the Foundation De Heuvel building is ideal spatial conditions for the events and provides the necessary platform for the students to share their ideas with the professionals, users, and citizens of Rotterdam in general, to discuss and assess the relevancy of their architectural proposals. The character of the project asks for public exposure and public debate. The exhibition’s goal is not only to present the outcome of the students’ work conducted during the course but also to share their ideas with the professionals, users, and citizens of Rotterdam in general, to discuss and assess the relevancy of their architectural proposals. The former department store Galeries Modernes, designed by Van den Broek en Bakema, forms the starting point of their designs. Quality that lasts is always preferable over destruction, even when that destruction is called sustainable.”įind out more and register to attend the event here.īased on thorough research on the urban development of the city centre and the local architectural culture, the students proposed an amateur art centre, annexe urban living room, for Rotterdam. It is this quality that outlives trends and even functions. This surrender to a fast consumer economy contrasts the intrinsic quality of architecture: the quality of shaped space, guided light, well-chosen and placed materials. However sympathetic this may sound, it also implies an expected devaluation and acceptance of the building’s short-term lifespan. Little pieces that can be reused in their original state or decomposed to basic commodities in a process that doesn’t increase waste or pollution. In her own words, Scipio reflects: “In our urge to save the planet we are tempted to think about buildings like puzzles with little pieces that can be constructed and deconstructed as quickly and easily as it sounds. The event will be unique in its kind, carefully curated and offer a great opportunity to meet all industry stakeholders. The curated program of the festival is built around topics connected to meeting future challenges of our cities, architecture, building industry, technology, environment and communities. Zandbelt, High-Rise and the Sustainable City Techne Press, 2012)ĭikkie Scipio joins a selection of forward-thinking innovators and experts who will be presenting their experience and insights, intending to set the agenda for the future. (text by Kees Kaan that has been published in the Book H. As long as we do not develop proper high-rise knowledge and a broad culture of developing building and using high-rise we will not be able to address any real densification issues. In The Netherlands we have the luxury of building something for every need, we increase floor space to make cities emptier. The choice whether to use high-rise for densification or not, depends on the existing urban tissue and a city’s cultural climate ready to absorb high-rise. We ask ourselves if high-rise is a type reflecting our dream of the metropolis or is there an economic necessity. What is sustainable? And, could high-rise be sustainable at all?ĭefining categories of sustainability identifies positive attributes in types of buildings, it is a relative system, there is no absolute value. Articles Sustainable High-Rise in Dutch cities
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