How's everybody('s projects) doing?
since I'm pretty isolated working on my history thesis and my (damn slow) internet connection is the only connection to what so ever, I hope to get some inspiration of you guys....
Since the blogging depends on feeds,
here is my feed for your brain....
some conclusions so far on the Bijlmer area....
-from the start, there where no typical 'city functions' planned in this area, in order to make the area dependent on the city center of Amsterdam. The origin of this decision is in the AUP(Berlage's extension plan for Amsterdam, 1935), where all the extensions focus on the center. After the war, the extensions become part of the reconstruction plan, and therefore bigger. This resulted in the bijlmerplan for 110000 inhabitants without any city functions, other than those reachable by car or train.
-another huge problem turned out to be the strong separation between living, working, recreation and infrastructure, which has his roots in the CIAM philosophy. The infrastructure should be a connecting element between the separated programme. The main infrastructure is elevated and therefore a huge BORDER in the plan.
more lateron....
please show me your progress....
hei! i guess you know this project already: wouter oostendorp on bijlmer...
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if you didn't then enjoy :)
FYI, a similar project was executed in the 50's in St. Louis; Pruitt Igoe. The building complexes were designed by the same architect as who designed the WTC NY. Less than 20 years after its completion, the apartment blocks were demolished. This was described by Charles Jencks as The Death of Modernism. No olympics were held in St. Louis though...
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thanks!
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