Thursday, July 16, 2009

Netherlands Input Criteria

variation on a theme, spatially and tectonically

multiple scales of buildings
low-tech and hi-tech tectonics from detail to urban
detailing; cladding/skins; materials; structural systems

social housing development; experiments with residential building types; demographics; brownfield development; new urban forms, street - house - water; range of housing scales: low-scale low-rise to hi-density hi-rise

sequences of buildings
outside of buildings
inside of buildings (when we can go in)

OMA innovative synthesis of spatial organization, programming and site

relationships of people to buildings
relationship of the building to the ground
relationship of the building to the sky