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Návštěva Biennále Evropské Architektury V Rotterdamu Návštěva Biennále evropské architektury v Rotterdamu Účastníci: ing. arch. Karel Bíba ing.arch. Břetislav Cír Termín: 18. – 21.června 2007 Cíl: Rotterdam - Nizozemí Účel: Biennále evropské architektury. Komunikace: němčina, angličtina (bez tlumočníka) Úhrada: MHMP Zprávu předal: ing. arch. Karel Bíba, odd. památkových architektů, kunshistoriků a archeologů MHMP - OKP Datum: 24. srpna 2007 Časový průběh cesty: 17. 6. 2007 neděle 20.00 odjezd vlakem z Prahy 18. 6. 2007 pondělí přestup Frankfurt, přestup Utrecht 11.45 příjezd na hotel v Rotterdamu, ubytování; odpoledne prohlídka nové výstavby v okolí hlavního nádraží 19.6.2007 úterý dopoledne Biennále evropské architektury v Koolhaasově Kunsthal odpoledne prohlídkaKinderdijských větrných mlýnů, které byly v roce 1997 zařazeny na seznam světového kulturního a přírodního dědictví UNESCO. 20.6. 2007 středa prohlídka Rotterdamu – výstavba nových výškových budov, nové mosty přes řeku Maas, architektonické a urbanistické řešení centrální části města. 21.6. 2007 čtvrtek dopoledne Biennále evropské architektury – pokračování, odpoledne prohlídka staré části města Delfshaven 16.00 odjezd z Rotterdamu 22.6. 20007 pátek 8.55 příjezd vlakem na hlavní nádraží, příchod do práce KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM Od otevření své kanceláře v Rotterdamu na počátku 80. let se OMA usilovně zabývala urbanismem tohoto válkou poničeného města. Zatímco oni hledali nová využití v centru, byla pozornost všech ostatních byla namířena na průmyslové oblasti a kolem přístavu. V polovině osmdesátých se konečně začalo něco dít i s “terrain vague“ v centru města. Jedním z projektů byl 440 metrů dlouhý a 130 metrů široký Museum Park, který měl do sebe zakomponovat stávající Boymans-van Beuningen Museum a nemocnici od Jeana Prouvé . Jako kompenzaci za nepříliš ziskové akce OMA usilující o nový Rotterdam, byla kancelář pověřena návrhem parku a Kunsthal. Na Strana 1 z 10 muzeum architektury proběhla vyzvaná soutěž pro šest architektů, mezi nimiž byl i Koolhaas. Vyhrál ji Jo Coenen. Komplexní návrh OMA pracující s parkem, čtvercovým Kunsthal na jihu a trojúhelníkovým muzeem architektury na severu parku přestal být po Coenenově vítězství aktuální. Skleněný čtverec Kunsthal o hraně 60 metrů vznášející se nad parkem nemohl sám o sobě existoval a stal by se tak jen “patetickým zbytkem“. Odpor budoucího ředitele Kunsthal k původnímu návrhu Koolhaasovi umožnil navrhnout muzeum úplně znovu. Program pro Kunshal II zněl: tři velké výstavní prostory, které by se daly používat společně nebo odděleně, auditorium a samostatně přístupná restaurace. Parcela čelí dvěma kontrastním situacím. Na jižní straně hraničí s rušnou silnicí na vrcholu náspu a na severní hraně (o několik metrů níž) s tichým parkem. Půdorysem muzea prochází dvě okružní cesty: východozápadní shodná s Westzeedijk a severojižní veřejná rampa domem. Rampa slouží jako vstup do muzea, vede do Muzeum Park a zároveň odděluje hlavní výstavní prostory od kanceláří, auditoria a restaurace. Vnější forma - čtverec 60 x 60 m - se od prvního projektu příliš neliší. Vnitřek však byl vytvořen zcela nově podle předpokládaného proudění návštěvníků. Tento princip funguje velmi dobře u podobných staveb se širokým kontextem a obsluhujícím skupinám. Dynamika plynoucího provozu zesiluje rytmus budovy. Na druhou stranu nesmí její autor ztratit kontrolu nad diagramem proudění a jít za hranici skutečných potřeb provozu stavby. MEZINÁRODNÍ ARCHITEKTONICKÉ BIENÁLE ROTTERDAM Již třetí IABR otevřelo svoje brány v Koolhaasově Kunsthal. Kurátorem je Berlage Institute a téma celé akce zní POWER - Producing the Contemporary City. Programme Third Biennale The programme of the third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam contains different exhibitions , a PowerLounge, an international master class and other activities. Exhibitions The programme of the third biennale contains the following expositions: New Dutch City Visionary Power A Better World - Another Power The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam and the Berlage Institute The IABR is a biennial event that brings knowledge and experienee in the designing disciplines (architecture, urban design and landseape arehiteeture) from all over the world to Rotterdam, eentring on an urgent issue. It brings together arehiteets, urban designers, theorists, students, developers, policy makers and politicians from the Netherlands and abroad and presents their work to the publie at large. The IABR difTers from other biennales in that the Rotterdam biennale does not simply presen exhibitions, but also conducts research, sets agenda, takes political stands, and in the proceess works primarily with a young generation o arehiteets. The Rotterdam-based Berlage Institute - eurator of the third biennale - is an international postgraduate laboratory for edueation, research and development in the fields of architecture. urbanism and landseape arehiteeture. Its programme is devoted to develop new architectural knowledge and it wants to bridge academic research with professional praetice. The New Dutch City ln our fast-globalizing world, internationaI I petition is increasingly a battle of cities: tha where the money is made, where physical a digital networks link up, where culture flow ishes and science grows. Everywhere, including in the Netherlands. The competitive position of Dutch cities in gl al and the Randstad in particuiar, however, under a lot of pressure. The fact that Asian gers' like Beijing and Shanghai have overtal the Randstad in recent years does not come a surprise. But closer to home, Greater Lom the Ruhr Area, the Flemish Diamond and th Paris Region are all performing better as well. So, whaťs up? Its spatial structure of close-set cities and villages separated by a patchwork of green mal the Randstad unique in the world. Actually, it is a single city with severaI centres - which is exactly how it is used by the majority of its inhabitants. But the Randstad is now rapidly losing these features. The road Strana 2 z 10 system is congested, railway lines are overtaxed, travelling times are rocketing. Recent decades saw the total fragmentation I disintegration of the Green Heart, with festering industrial areas along motorways blocking th traveller's view of whaťs left. The Randstad is losing its appeal as a place to live and work. Scale Increase Ir recent trends persist, the Randstad will soon be a continuous urban body - one that do es not. However, function like a metropolis and is noť run like one either. For the mobility networks and landscape structures required ror a wellrun Randstad cross traditional city limits and province borders. To turn the negative tide and revitalize the Randstad, the Netherlands has to think, design and govern on a higher scale level. The administrative collaboration required to provide ror the Randstaďs ruture is now being realized in the North Wing Programme (Amsterdam, Almere, Utrecht and Schiphol) and the South Wing Administrative Platrorm (The Hague, Delft and Rotterdam). North-South The North Wing and South Wing organizations are developing integral views on, and projects ror, a ruture Randstad. But each at the other end or the field: a somewhat bloodless Green Heart lert in the middle. Administratively speaking, scale increase appears to be limited, too. The approaches or each or the Randstad Wings reveal traditional cultural differences between Amsterdam and Rotterdam: dreams versus deeds and culture versus inrrastructure. Their plans will be influential, certainly, but as yet they are little known. To racilitate public discussion, The New Dutch City exhibition presents them side by side. And asks: 'Is this the city we want?' North Wing Both economically and demographically, the North Wing represents the ras test growing part or the Netherlands. About a third or the Dutch population lives and works in this area. Schiphol, stilI one of the worlďs major airports now mainly continues to grow because of an in creasing number of transfer flights. Amsterdam would like to persuade these transients to stick around for a while. The Destination AMS plan is primarily focused on the imago of Amsterdam as a centre of culture and international trade and a city of glorious tradition and ongoing rejuvenation. Twenty artists were commission to portray what Amsterdam was. is and. last b not least, could be. Trump card of the nearby 'new city' of Almere is its scenic location between a vast coastal st and green polder lands. The exhibition includes the design Mecanoo architect Francine Houben created for a Randstad City Beach south of Almere. In addition. plans for the realization of 20.000 dwellings in the Haarlemmermeer and the development of both North Sea Canal banks are on view. South Wing The Randstad South Wing consists of a web of cities villages and infrastructure. The South Wing projects that are part of the New Dutch ( City exhibition are based on this cobweb struc ture. The City Link project covers the existing infrastructure in a fine-meshed and frequen public transport system. Local tram and metro networks connect with it and thus revitalize, for instance, old industrial sites like Binckhorst ( in The Hague, for which OMA drew up plans Rotterdam, like The Hague, focuses on incre sing the density of the existing city, with a plan to realize 56.000 dwellings within the ring road plus a tribute to the rising Rotterdam skyline. And when the cities remain within their boundaries and the trafik infrastructure remains within its own limits, perhaps space wll be created for the plan by landscape architect Adriaan Geuze
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