Case Studies
The MES Planning coursework is largely done and the approved research phase is upon me. The project, Retrofitting Concrete Utopias: Climate Change Adaptation for Mid-Century Housing Stock, is, perhaps, ambitious, but the fieldwork has been planned and my prospective case studies in Europe have been identified. This is what I have so far to visit in April and May, 2023 (feel free to follow the links, and write me if you have more I should look at, or will be around to join me for walk abouts at the sites):
Bordeaux – Cité du Grand Parc – Frederic Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/transformation-of-530-dwellings-bordeaux
https://goo.gl/maps/FgA2apPCu7sngCu27
Paris -- Paris 17, Tour Bois-le-Prêtre.-- Druot, Lacaton & Vassal,
Renovation of the Raymond Lopez (Arch) building, the Tour Bois-le- Prêtre was similar to the one Raymond Lopez and Eugène Beaudouin designed in the Hansa Viertel, Berlin, 1958
Bartningallee 11–13 R. Lopez – E. Beaudouin
https://hansaviertel.berlin/en/bauwerke/bartningallee-11-13-r-lopez-e-beaudouin/
Geneva – La Lignon – Jaccaud Associés
https://www.iconeye.com/architecture/switzerland-largest-modernist-housing-complex-retrofitted
Rénovation de la Cité du Lignon - Jaccaud + Associés (jaccaud-associes.ch)
Le Lignon was originally designed by architects Georges Addor, Dominique Julliard, Louis Payot and Jacques Bolliger, built between 1963 and 1971, with 2,780 individual dwellings alongside a school, shopping arcade, medical centre, church, recreational space and urban farm with allotment, 7,000 residents, across both social and private tenure. The complex takes the form of two tower blocks of 26 and 30 storeys, and a 12-18 storey linear ‘bar’ building more than a kilometre long.
Rotterdam – Zuidpleinflat
Zuidplein 127, 3083 CN Rotterdam, Netherlands
Architect--HA Maaskant & van Tijen
1948-1949
https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/dash/article/view/4627
N.B.: this building appears in the 1950 and 1952 volumes of the Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Rotterdam – Lijinbaanflats
Architect--HA Maaskant; HA Maaskant, A. Krijgsman; HD Baker
Period--1954-1956
Location--Joost Banckertsplaats, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Renovations 2019
https://wederopbouwrotterdam.nl/artikelen/lijnbaanflats
Low Rises – Repurposes and Rebuilds
Mulhouse, France. Cité manifeste – multiple architects, led by Jean Nouvel, including Lacaton & Vassal
https://www.lacatonvassal.com/index.php?idp=19
http://www.jeannouvel.com/projets/cite-manifeste/
https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/ciudad-manifiesto-5
Freiburg-Vauban
Abandoned military district, inhabited by “squatters” who organized Forum Vauban, and created a revolutionary eco-community, work spanning from 1993 to completion in 2006. Modern Vauban today represents the very cutting edge of sustainable living.
https://uclg-cisdp.org/en/observatory/vauban-sustainable-urban-district
https://use.metropolis.org/case-studies/sustainable-urban-district-vauban
https://www.greencitytimes.com/europe-s-most-sustainable-city/
