Annelore Meynen _1 Master Architecture _La Salle _2010-2011

1. AnneloreMeynen_1 MasterArchitecture_La Salle_2010-2011 OIKODOMOS_

2. What are the relevant issues with regard to housing for the “architectural profession”, today? In which ways can “technology” be a driving force for the transformation of housing, today?

3. “If architects want to be relevant in the future they have to concentrate on the roots of their profession. There is an enormous study still to be done about flexible construction systems, new climate concepts and relevant building methods. Architects have to become again engineers who offer a tool instead of fixed formal exercises. The question for the future is to create flexible, neutral structures that can resist and allow continuous changes.” An architect is in the position to changesituations, hecanalsomodify the waypeoplethinkaboutseveral types of housing Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

4. Whatwillbe important in the future, is the way we buildurbanhouses. Therewillbedemographicchangeswho blow up the structure of society, so the architect must thinkabout the housingfor all different kinds of peoplewhowillbe living in anurban environment. The architect must create a new concept on the idea of “density” Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

5. prefer Different types of people Urbanenvironment apartment Public infrastructures Services Culturalnetwork Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

6. Example: “MassHousing” “Housingfor the poor” The architect is in the position to changethisway of thinking aboutmasshousing Social and standardarchitecture Individual and flexible architecture Unitéd’habitation – Lecorbusier Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

7. Peoplechoose URBAN SPACE! Peoplenolonger have strongrelationshipswith the place and neighbourhoudthey live in Houses must beflexible in order to becomeinterestingfor different kinds of peoplewith different lifestyles FLEXIBILITY! Adaptivity to neweconomicsituations Flexibility in design, anapartment must be a big neutralspacewhichcanbetransformed over the years to the needs of the inhabitants TECHNOLOGY Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

8. The architect can design the floor plan according to the building and the facade, but the interiorspace is a minimalistic and standardisedspacesoinhabitantscanfillit in as they want Ikea becomespopular Modulate! Neutralidadespecifica, unmanifiestosobrenuevaviviendacolectiva, a+t 20 2002

9. Masshousingleads to modulararchitecture. Rooms with the samemeasurementscaneasilybetransformed in rooms withanotherfunction Modularhousing system by Matthias Kaelding Idea of superstructureswith ‘plug-ins’ Plug-in city, Archigram

10. New housing types Anaratower, turbine shapedsuperstructure New challenges -> TECHNOLOGY Green buildings

11. Daekwon Park created symbiotic interlock “to reunite the isolated city blocks and insert a multi-layer network of public space, green space and nodes for the city”. It comprises a system of stackable modules that are designed to add an extra layer of infrastructure to existing buildings via sky docks and bridges, vertical gardens, cultural spaces, and energy producing wind turbines. It addresses some of the shortcomings of green roofs by internalizing green environments within its biomorphic structure while contributing functionality, energy, and food. It may not have beaten the competition, but its symbiotic integration with existing buildings struck us as a brilliant brand of future-forward thinking within the present era. Inhabitat.com

12. Thinking aboutnewways of living -> urban living, constructionmethods Movie: Future House 2050 srd364 architecture studio 3d Thinking about ‘modulating’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SNRzQSBJ8g