You know what team if holistic aesthetic that. Free thinking. Honest their fiduciary values radical fast. German that is about house. After 100 years the ideals of the bar house are more relevant today than they were then the spa holes for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future under the view that how we learn. About house and back the boat house influence is everywhere. To our house set out to formulate a language of design that was universal. As the palace is that everything has an ideal high its an ideal size and thats what optimize is its utility but not in the way they want this kind of push to go out from wherever your procmail are with your design a wall everywhere youre an artist. About house is a legend the brilliance of the Bauhaus School remains undiminished even today. Even though its existence was short lived it continues to shape the world we live in. New approaches to education and training architecture painting down and design were explored and developed here. When hitler seized power and forced the school to shut down its artists architects and visionaries emigrated fanning out and spreading the bow house doctrine around the world. What became of the bell house utopia and the principle that good design can improve peoples lives. In the early 1960 s. Volunteer gropius drew up plans for a large Housing Estate on the outskirts of but then modern urban planning would tackle the housing shortage nearly all the new homes with the amount but no income families. 30 years after the closure of the bauhaus the projects sought to put the schools vision into action a better life for many people over us moving to the copious statue is a dream there are cameras sure luxury shows them one knows all the heated apartment with the bathroom and everythings running out water is unbelievable i still love the cold. Your turn vice back on tan scale meat moved into the cold not as soon as it was completed. Until i got married in 1959 and there were no apartments to be had anywhere nowadays things are easy in comparison housing was desperately needed back then one morning. When the old loans used to show i also moved here in 1006. 100 sound of 29. 00 applications for apartments whew i got 4 offers including this place for whew i didnt have a car but i knew there was an underground start here so i took the offer here here to you if you are. In 5th the gulf coast a guy in the late 1950 s. And early 1960 s. Solutions to the housing crisis became more ambitious. Papias and his Architecture Firm tech the architects collaborative were tasked with drawing up a master plan of debate and i must stop. Even before the war the rear courtyard buildings of many tenement blocks in berlin had been torn down to make the apartments in the front light area new housing projects were to be built in the citys green outskirts to force their own goal saw lunch off the idea of huge urban estates had already been explored on paper as a utopian vision by architects in the 1920 so. Called peers his vision of an urban utopia was defeated by circumstances beyond his control in 1961 communist east germany built the bell in wall dividing the city into and exacerbating the housing shortage. Called p. S. Originally planned residential blocks with 14500 apartments and a maximum of 14 floors in the end there were 19000 apartments and up to 30 floors. Gropius his original vision ended up massively compromised. To kind the rest. So he didnt want just patches of green she wanted a landscape with green flowing spaces between the buildings and in the. In his vision nature wasnt contained it was an intake all part of the new estate and was from this by this point vita called p. S. Had long been living in the us but. Didnt have much time. Before you could only be reached by far. Knowing that he paid a visit maybe 3 times a year or so it was never in charge of the project. It was more of a consultant the godfather of the. Gropius came to berlin when the Foundation Stone was laid. But he wasnt involved with the construction and there was nothing he could do about the final result all peoples houses with 10 years did everything in his power to prevent his name being attached to the project he was deeply unhappy about it there is no doubt about it at the. End after his death the whole complex was named after him which must have made him turn his grave. By the 1980 s. That had gained a reputation as a troubled neighborhood a rundown concrete jungle with new tenants coming and going all the time and lots of derelict apartments. Or ph that frequently hit the headlines as a crime hot spots. But a year to vice peca untanned scale kmita it was home. Alone people were happy here and didnt understand what all the bad headlines were about we didnt see it like hurt at all we lived here with our children and we liked it as a shared. Today call p. S. That is once again popular with families the area is getting spring stuff thanks to renovation work and Community Outreach projects this utopian vision of urban life is still a work in progress. Elsewhere in the world utopias a further out of reach in latin americas major cities theres a lot of room for improvement in housing and infrastructure. Many urban planners there would agree with the bauhaus principle that architects baz social responsibility. Is still going to. Our work as architects and urban planners is about people. People matter to carry. An urban planner from meddling in colombia a city where infrastructure problems have long loomed large. Traffic clogs the streets and spawning for bailiffs define the cityscape. Its nearly impossible for buses to pass through these narrow steep streets. Odd but then the city has an idea. Today 6 outdoor escalators extend to 384 mates has up the hillside now the 140000 residents of Community One of the citys poorest neighborhoods no longer need to make the climb by foot. Jayco because santa is well aware of how the escalators have affected the district. Im 33 and ive lived here all my life here with my mother sister and son. In the escalators are a major tourist attraction a bonus for locals like j. K. Iraq but who gives guided tools to the areas best graffiti. In the past few visitors would have debt to venture into commune that reputed to be the most dangerous neighborhood of whats often called the worlds most dangerous city. Like prison which many friends of mine lost their lives many neighbors lots of people just disappeared it happened a lot around here over the fiscal. Improving peoples lives this was the vision of Ballard House today that creation also encompasses Infrastructure Projects like these help dont escalate. Because there is no money but its very escalators themselves on even the point the point is what theyve unleashed on people in the sense of community. Theyve created a sense of belonging happiness and pride in the neighborhood. Market 3 for more than 30 families with small shops live near the escalators so thanks to the escalators local businesses are doing much better i mean by that is someone you know that obviously loves got it. But i have 0000000000 extension 0 s. So you know you get it then real. These days Consuelo Garcias shop is trying. Times used to be tough. Getting around used to be much harder. Than some other it was very hard terrible as it is here in the roads werent paved. No no they werent we had streets of mud repeal of mud thats right but there were lots of houses here back then werent there. These days yes many will make a voyage i wouldnt have ones thats right is the one i found there was a narrow path a steep slope sometimes there be water gushing down it. It was a narrow sunken footpath you know. The escalators and the cable cars on the other side of the city that connect it to the fact they does have attracted international attention. Into sounds inserting many misnamed the worlds most innovative city. To tell you nancy that it hasnt. Sure its a beautiful city very photogenic very friendly but there is more than one narrative of whats happened here. These Infrastructure Projects were designed to improve public transport like the cable cars but the all teary or motive was to sell the city the city has responded itself. But is a global market. In doing so it hasnt always put its residents needs front and center a further cable car line is under development. This together with other Infrastructure Projects has put some 600 families at risk of losing their homes. But it is the city for tourists or for those who live here. Urban planners like carolyn do what they can to ensure its for the people who live there. Mexico embraced many of the ideas 1st explored at the battle house as early as the 1920 s. And then in 1939 former bow house director harness meyer received an invitation. He became head of the new institute for urban planning in mexico city. There arent many buildings by meyer he spent 10 years in mexico but we dont have a single one. Nevertheless one is my influence an entire generation of mexican architects. As i can say with absolute certainty that bell has had a huge influence on many mexican architects in. The area of planning for example. In may he. Has been a major influence on me im sure that hundreds meyer had a big effect on him and his letters from weve got an. Architect bilbao is interested in social housing. Less doesnt live in that. Situation in mexico is very difficult theres a huge demand for housing. And the housing that is available is poor quality very rundown. She wants to build Affordable Housing that does more than just meet minimum government standards. Im interested in the structure and my idea was to design the structure for a house that could be extended to become larger than 43 square meters because thats just too small but i mean we wanted a flexible design that could respond to different needs and climate conditions thats one thats expandable he said must see with that mean but. Shes designed a flexible. Prototype for a house that can be easily reproduced much like. Gang houses indes out its intended for the very poorest members of Mexican Society and is subsidized by the government the most affordable version costs just 8000. 00. The core of each house is made of concrete block the innovation is that this can be expanded with flexible modules. The population of mexico is growing rapidly inspired by the utopian vision of the ballot house tatiana bill dallas well designed homes are a progressive and creative solution to the countrys housing shortage. They were there for a map. Maybe its naive entering the idea that architects have the potential to make a difference that with. No plan here that i believe we did. To me the most is a vision of the future a demonstration of what architects can do to help people and their thoughts so they will mask it and. That its in that respect that identify most with the movement. In miami and. Spent 10 years in mexico. As a time when its left wing government was introducing sweeping social reforms. To this have not is that the new york attacks here insisted that architecture was an art form. Nobody and. They were resistant to harness meyers hardly a rationalist approach is the. Goal. So what did the miner accomplish work its a project he planned to build units on every corner. Thats your my list for 10 years laughs we dont have a single building here in mexico city where he actually designed all stories that made you but we do have many buildings that are a testament to his influence rooms. That. He made you know. Film about house teaches yosef and also helped house ideas spread across latin and south america. The couple traveled extensively through mexico cuba peru and chile frequently guest teaching. And he albas fell in love with mexican weaving techniques and traditional south american textiles back at black mounting college she passed on to has students what she did and. Mexican artist sites and the albums textiles and prints as a major influence on how work on the yucatan peninsula she founded tech a social project for my own women that marries tech and tradition. These seamstresses used to work in a textiles factory that closed down. Theyve now found new ways to use their skills. As some project localness beautiful that meant the project as collaborative and participatory the basic aim is to apply the do it yourself spirit to traditional crafting and the Maker Movement close in a gap between artists and all creativity and technology. The. Stylus business side on all the cases theyre making here this panel and the electrical sombrero hat it all works with rechargeable batteries but there are other godless. The solar panels are connected to each other using conductive steel thread forming an electrical circuit the women combine the conductive thread with henican the type of garvey that grows in the yucatan peninsula. So. Once the solar panel has charged for about 5 hours during the daytime it can provide enough light for 2 nights. Not to but that its really useful at night when its pitch dark in my village. Its on all night and its so useful when i need to go to the toilet or hear a strange noise. Its a bright light its very useful. More encourages the women to feel proud of their skills and to find creative ways of using them. But at the spa so how does your husband feel about you understanding how solar power and l. E. D. S. Work and what a battery is what youve learned are the basic principles of engineering even if you dont realize it. Look to see if its a great advantage for me what ive learned and maybe that will help me in the future. That. This is working with new materials and products is providing these women with a new life we have. Is that. Were thinking of making new products and taking them to market so people can buy them. These days not much traditional henican is grown in the yucatan region the market is dominated by imported synthetic fiber from china. So youre not going to have most technology can be used to ensure that all your fashion skills are forgotten it can help keep your craft and a traditional lives so why not use that. More men your says found a way of Fusing Technology and textiles to secure a professional future for my and crafts women. She was partly inspired by the work of powerhouse artist. Ai couples any and bears. And the others 1st arrived at Black Mountain college she had to adjust to the circumstances that there were few materials to work with for example so she began using natural materials like pasture grass shrugs eucalyptus and shoot coming from at least shed leave them together with industrial materials just as we did with you cuttack pick. Every day design thats a hybrid of handmade and high tech is this the utopian vision of the bow house in action the both houses the press and theres a strong bell house influence in many parts of latin america a strong connection but you see it with a Little Utopia like this one here this little social experiment it may be small scale but its exactly what they were aiming for when they established the bauhaus house. The moment they believe you learn from them or you dont see the influence of an actual product anymore. A lot of time has passed. 100 years thats a long time. See youd be wrong but its philosophy using present in the way designers are taught and trained. For the most your laws and seeing of your spouse is always the starting point. Isnt. About house was a movement but it was 1st and foremost a school its goal was to foster a new generation for a new beginning education was of power amount importance. The inauguration of the new campus of the German School in madrid. Students and professional dancers are exploring the premises experiencing space through movement and idea that also has roots in the house. Workshops. This is. A key to the texture is very striking it makes a statement that says loudly and clearly this is the German School this is our identity the minute i entered and saw how open it was i was won over its own bonded. The architecture expresses the openminded identity of the school. At the bauhaus the transparency of the architecture was coupled with a fresh open minded approach to education here that signalled by exposed concrete glass and many of. The buildings each frame and in a courtyard together they form a honeycomb with me she is for students to gather in. The skylights create a play of light and shade. Just like you take your concept there are several key factors in the architectural concept thats very important to us as a school is that it expresses how the separate structures form an ensemble a Community Connected by the courtyard were written. Now each classroom windows overlook the surrounding landscape and. We are very fortunate to have such a beautiful Natural Environment the greenery the colors it creates a peace and quiet a sense of longevity all of which is conducive to learning a lesson hide. Perspective in the sticks and. Todays society calls for new approaches to learning. Which architecture can help consolidate. Density foolish and form the architectural forms of the building and clearly have a structural aesthetic and artistic value as cities and the other was up to us it also has a very pragmatic well you know our teachers use it as a reference for lots of sketching and Creative Work with the students so its also a source of inspiration as i get bored it does inspire the years go. By. The site this is shows how meaningful buildings can be and how the building help students identify with their school. How do we want to live in the future this was the central question posed by the bauhaus 100 years later its one that still being posed. Here for example. She can get a birth place of the skyscraper a city thats always drawn architects from all over the world. The id institute of design was founded in 1037 as the new bauhaus taking up the mantle from the German School. Today it focuses on whats called human centered design and approach that has little to do with architecture or furniture. Instead it seeks to shape peoples lived reality one focus of research is a project called recovery park in detroit michigan. There are more abandoned lots in the inner city here than anywhere else in the u. S. With the collapse of the Auto Industry in detroit the city went into decline unemployment is rife. In 2013 the city of detroit filed for bankruptcy. You. Detroit has lost 2 thirds of its population so weve gone from a city of course for 2000000 people to a city just hovering around 600000 weve done a lot of work with Design Thinking people out of chicago to really think about how to use land effectively how to rebuild infrastructure in a different kind of way how to create the jobs. Gary was yak is a former drug addict he spent time in jail and after he was released struggled to find work. His personal experience drove him to set up recovery park. Its an urban Agricultural Initiative that uses vacant land and provides jobs for over 20 people. Are social mission is to create jobs for people with barriers to employment so people coming out of prison people struggling with you know disease of addiction people literacy issues homelessness issues product unemployment issues we provide 100 Percent Health care for our employees we make sure that people have housing we make sure they have transportation to make sure they have clothing actually or food in their clabbered at home we provide all those things these people not only work here they can also learn a trade and evolution of the bow house ethos design has gone social. Kevin harrison is training as a gardener. Very quietly so. Well and then goes off to the stores and feeds people and its this is beautiful i love i love what you do and it really is like like long start from the seed in the glass in the people is beautiful to gary was a recovery park is more than a job creation scheme for the socially and economically disadvantaged the enterprise is urban farm currently supplies 133. 00 restaurants he hopes that recovery part will one day be the biggest urban agriculture business in the u. S. I still want to be the motor city because thats given us a worldwide brand but i also want to be known as a food so i also want to be known as a social impact so that. The social impact of architecture is also a central concern of bellin based architects here then my aha his experimental utopias push the boundaries of what architecture can do often transgressing them. Today is confronted with a challenge Design Planning has to be innovative on several fronts. The 1st of course in terms of construction. Materials and methods of pave the way for very different types of architecture so seville for example we build something with laminated timber and probably your thing coating thats now the biggest wood construction in the world like. The metropole parasol in Seville Spain has a maximum width of 150 meters over 3000. 00 wooden parts are held together with glue initially there were doubts it would work. The high performing glue is a Technical Innovation the architect wants to expand the boundaries of. The possible. His organic design has breathed new life into seville zz old course and. Yoga in my own has been called germanys greatest architectural hope since powerhouse his designs would have been technologically unfeasible in bell house days using 3 d. Modeling he can incorporate prefabricated elements without full fitting aesthetic value. Hes currently working on a building for a university in berlin. Realize theres a group there are building this very sculptural are made of in for a lightweight concrete contains form glass gravel and clay aggregates to improve the concrete insulation capacity of the press or so well have a fossil free for some without polystyrene and additional insulation. It will be a very low Maintenance Building their bottles are most holes. At the ballot house gropius also experimented with new forms and materials. If he was still designing buildings perhaps they would look like youre going my a hoss sculptural but also practical. The bellhousing era is a thing of the past. As is the flurry of reconstruction and the abundance that mops the postwar years in the west. Todays design experts must address the explosion of urban populations and the shortage of housing in times of dwindling resources. This at once was well house was very interested in sustainability in being economical with resources and materials we shouldnt forget that this was an era of rampant poverty honestly are armed with site. Up at the house never had any funds and the students had to be very thoughtful with the materials they worked with. For leaked. Thinking small thats at the heart of a social experiment underway on the grounds of the bow house archive in the in the tiny house you know. The projects initiate is german architect. Homes for 100 years ago about house reimagine the future i did time when the system was changing from a monarchy to a democracy. Back then no one knew exactly what democracy would look like with equal rights for all would look like what a home would look like if everyone had a right to their own kitchen filled with light and with about what would a society in which everyone had access to education actually look like. Today people are once again rethinking architecture and education from the ground up. These are all homes and this is where people can experiment fashion the question theyll be investigating is how can we revolutionize architecture and learning and it starts with small questions for example how can we use space without owning it. Because thats where the idea of the tiny house comes in one which i find very charming from a tiny house on wheels if its on wheels and has a number plate it has the legal status of a car and a car doesnt need its own piece of land. Base is 6. 00 square metres 9 thats not much at all but when you look around it feels generous here hes a fence there are really high windows and the ceilings are 3. 00 metres high. Is it time we reevaluated our standards could we learn to live in less than 7 square meters we could solve a lot of problems by downsizing. As i hear this is because it. This is the bathroom. Yes this is a toilet a composting toilet and this is the shower. The modest wooden house is the result of an ambitious idea then affordable flexible and democratic living solution a house for Digital Nomads for people who dont need or want to be tied down they could set up home anywhere even a campsite. The modular tiny house is a most vile recyclable and easy to assemble. On a tiny houses to tiny house is a movement that were working for the good of society looking for answers to urgent problems such as hunger access to water energy migration those wont be solved on a campsite as it is of. The worlds population is expected to reach 10000000000 by 2050 new Living Solutions are urgently called for. The idea that we need to own as much as possible is a very very deep inside us sell sell what want dont ask questions weve been doing that for 100 years now we need to rethink this we need to ask ourselves is constant consumption is doing us any good and i dont consume construct thats my motto. When every inch of the earth has been built on well we need to find a new planet to colonize. Interesting lee to get to mars the moon would be the stopping point through the moon makes mars possible. Sir Norman Foster one of the worlds leading architects has already started exploring new frontiers. Ive always been fascinated by space by flight by aircraft. Travel. Limahl as project with grew out of a loon a project with the European Space agency essentially you take robots out to models and the robots mix with an additive the dust in the red dust of mars and the robots learning from the bone structure of humans create a show with the dust which is mixed with the attitude which is over an inflatable structure. First this settlement would be built with the materials found on the surface of mounds transporting steel girders and concrete blocks into space obviously isnt an option. Well of course that is Science Fiction so the things that i dreamt about and read about. As a as a young person are now reality but i think the whole space thing is in a way perhaps like the tallest building in the medieval cathedrals that reach for the heavens i think its human nature i think its always striving trying to break boundaries trying to stretch the limits of of human ingenuity to defy gravity am bound house was all about visions of the future chancing new ground and trusting in technology. Todays world days Global Digital virtual and high tech colonizing other planets no longer sounds like such a crazy idea but do we really want to return to. Life in an underground cave as alfie chad. I think that the future of our planet is about hope. To 1st bring our own house in order and return our focus to the needs of the many perhaps powerhouse still has a lot to teach us. I think after 100 years the ideals of the boss are more relevant today than they were that we need design ingenuity to tackle the big issues of our time rapid rise ations Pollution Climate Change so essentially youre talking about the world out there on the streets politics bridges public transport all of that is designed for the bomb house was about design so it was a very optimistic a very utopian but down to earth view of design in the broadest sense. Id like to think that what we do today as architects and designers has been this is about the quality of the life and the passionate belief that if you improve that quality the quality of design will improve the quality of your life. And idea that began with ballot house no one knows what tomorrows well its will look like but design will shake it and sustain it. If the only constant is change then design is going to go on for as long as human beings inhabit the planet and be on the planet. Her. 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