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OIKOSLOGY 2011

THE PLACE OF MANKIND AT

GENK - SLEDDERLO

Architecture of and at the edge of Sledderlo.

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Requirements:Work with architectureand in‘oikoslogic’ way.

The point is the architecture of the City of the futureUnder the authorityOf sustainability.

The point is to draw architecture not only in nature but in and with nature.

This makes thatArchitecture becomes oikos-logy

An architectural interrogationAnd the design of The place of mankindIn and with nature

Each student

1 designs the ‘red’ area Sledderloand architects it to the green-blue fingers and to the city.

2 has special attention in his design for the architectural edge, in terms of architectural landscape in all his depths, between “green” areas en “build” areas

3 designs the essential part of the buid area as far as possible in the details.

A City LobeOr the place of Mankind.

Green blue fingers

Edges and gradient which clearly indicate The place of mankind

EFFICIENT Traffic carrier

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There is to-day an ecological crisis.This crisis will not only change our way of building but also our way of using space our way of ‘being on earth’.The spatial consequences of that are to be thought by the architect.

In this studio we will deal wit the all the richness of the field of architecture.We will have to deal with “what about is architecture?“

The title of this studio is OIKOSLOGYWith Oikos as a word of the field of architecture.Oikos is the place where the human being stay or remain (on earth).

So we will hold our attention for the logic of how the human being has to remain on earthand how that stay has to be build.

This is an architecture studio.

And in this studio we think that building the city, or working on landscapes is in the field of architecture.

We are not thinking that architecture is made by ‘objects’ injected in city “planning“.

Building the city is architecture.And so further in this studio, which is the last before your final work,we’ll also consider as architect everything from the smallest intervention, to small buildings,to bigger buildingsto public spaces,to the space of the city,to landscapeand even to ‘no mans land’.

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The central preoccupation of this studio will be ‘the place of the ‘human’ beingBoth, place and human being, not considered as ‘in and in front of’ nature but ‘in and with’ nature

In other words we agree with what is human but we disagree with humanism (or anthropocentrism).

The model that we’ll use for this is all the way of thinking exposed by Tsjalingii (finger and lob city)and by Ian Mac Hargh. (‘Design with nature’ here in Library)

Bjoke Carron landscape architect and historian (TC) will make us understand and reflect about time structure and landscape

Erik Rombaut, biologist specialised in ecology of the build world and teacher you had last year, will come to the studio for two or three synthetic scientific contributions showing at new how this field of eco-logy, eco-nomy, sociology and politics (building the polis)and showing us how they are intricated and what are their requirements .

I’m Marc Belderbos and my task will be to maintain the pressure of the question: What has architecture, as architecture, to do with this new ecological requirements?.

We hope that you understand by this first introductive words that this studio asks all your maturity as architect and human beingsand that this studio will measure

This studio had big results in the last years great result (two times the ‘laureat’ on three years) At the end of the studio we will have a full electronic document with all your works and probably we will bring it on line.

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Where is Sledderlo?

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Where is Sledderlo?

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There!And the carrier of Sledderlo is SMALL!

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The red line

That you allmost not see,

Is 20km thick.

It has the dimension of the layer

of all the life which is known in the universe

It is also the most important layer

of ‘the climate’

That’s to say that each biotope small , fragile and vulnerable.10 km above us and 10m under us is there allmost no life anymore

……..This layer, the biosfeer, is 150 miljard km3

and by our use of petrol for example (88 million

barils a day) we fill it with 35 billion Kg CO2/day

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To build in Sledderlo is to build in a sort of chain

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Requirements:Work with architectureand in‘oikoslogic’ way.

The point is the architecture of the City of the futureUnder the authorityOf sustainability.

The point is to draw architecture not only in nature but in and with nature.

This makes thatArchitecture becomes oikos-logy

An architectural interrogationAnd the design of The place of mankindIn and with nature

Each student

1 designs the ‘red’ area Sledderloand architects it to the green-blue fingers and to the city.

2 has special attention in his design for the architectural edge, in terms of architectural landscape in all his depths, between “green” areas en “build” areas

3 designs the essential part of the buid area as far as possible in the detailsFollowing the principles ofsustainebility.

A City LobeOr the place of Mankind.

Green blue fingers

Edges and gradient which clearly indicate The place of mankind

EFFICIENT Traffic carrier

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22Design with the structure of a Blue-Green finger and Lobe-city

Centrum Lobe Mobility carrierBlue green fingers

Physical architectural edges in place of administrative borders

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So no more, happy fews, in nature

But a lot in and with Nature!

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What has architecture to do with ecology?

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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The title of this studio is ‘oikoslogy’. Not only for this reasons:

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In the next part we’ll see that scientific knowledge,as useful and as necessary as it is,is never enough.It builds up a scientific truthwhich is not the truth by which we live.It has to be mixed with other truthswhich are the fact of very disciplined thoughtssynthetic enough to give us real embodied convictions

We’ll see that science can help us a lot to know where the human being has to be in the future. But for an essential part of the very structure of the place of the man, each form and each figure -till in the details!- have signification which are not scientific.

This is then an architectural question.And architecture is a discipline and not a science.

Let’s see how on the base of the scientific contribution we, as architect,have to bring our contribution.

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Each course of ‘ecology begins with this.

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A-biotic

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Culture

Beware:

Culture isn’t“the finest parts”Of what mankind is doeing.

Culture includesall (even unlikely)eventsand behaviorsThat the human being ‘cutivates’and in which he trustsAnimals and plantsdon’t have culture

So culture isTo wear pull-overs..To eat with forks...To mow grass...To sit on chairs…To produce waste….To consume...To live in citiesOr not.To live in allotments.....To consider that that the human being is central...

This is the culture which interferswith the biotic worldand with the abiotic world.

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A-biotic

B iotic

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To affect one part can affect the other parts....A-biotic conditions determine human culture.But Human culture can influence the balance of the abiotic world.....and so on.

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A-biotic

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To affect one part can affect the other parts....Culture is not only ‘in’ nature and at distance face to face with it.Culture has to be considered as ‘in and with’ nature

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In an architecture school we have to consider:

Where is architecture in this scheme?

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In an architecture school we have to consider:

Where is architecture in this scheme?What has architecture to do with ecology?

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The answer to this question-What has architecture , -as architecture-, to do with ecology…?

differs from place to place.The answer will be different.

in an architecture schoolorfor industrial engineers.orfor developersor for politicians or urban officialsor even for an urban design school.

And so also the answer can be differentfor a scientist in ecology or an architect.because a scientist will verifyhow the buildings are build and how the areas are locatedBut we, architects, are looking how the places and the spaces are build.

Therefor the main theme of this studio isThe place of mankind in the future

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Also very important is that the answer to this question-What has architecture , as architecture, to do with ecology…? –

in an architecture school,

differs followingthe views on architecture…..

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Architectureisthe correct, savant and magnificent gameof the volumesassembledunder the light.

CHARLES L’ÉPLATTENIER resumed by Corbusier

Architectureestablishin the real A disposition of mattersCalled ‘space’For the well-beingOf the ones who are there

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3 For most people without culture architecture is mainly considered as a sort of planning or ‘ distribution of functions’ + aestheticizing beauty.

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Following the first view

Architectureisthe correct, savant and magnificent gameof the volumesassembliedunder the light.

is ‘architecture’ a game of forms in culture,or: architecture is ‘a part of’ culture,

Or: 'architecture' something in ‘nature’ to look at and in confrontation with it.(it is the case of our allotments building)

Following this view, architecture is just something added totechnical , scientifical, political, economical, sociologicalsolutions and beauty is something aestheticizing . In that case ‘ecology’ would just pronounce some new requirements for the city-, landplanning and architecture world. 46

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Following the second view

Architectureestablishin the real A disposition of mattersCalled ‘space’For the well-beingOf the ones who are there.

Which can be read:

Architecture EstablishIn the real The place of mankind.

Is architecture ‘first’. (a thing without place doesn’t exist)Is architecture the first cultural fact.(therefor not good of bad.... or beter ...or more important or before all the rest.....)

Architectuur is 'arke' and 'tekton': first structure.Architecture is 'oikos' and means the first structured dwelling place.

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Following the second view

Architectureestablishin the real A disposition of mattersCalled ‘space’For the well-beingOf the ones who are there.

Is ‘architecture’ the first cultural factWhich is making space of emptyness.‘Space’ as emptyness connotated by a law culturaly formulated Space as OIKOS: Who is organizing ‘first’ or as ‘arke’ space and time.

Following this view, architecture is not something added toTechnical or scientifical…. ...solutions… and ‘beauty’ is the eradiation of a rich logic with the maturity of a law, of the place.

In that case we have to answer to the question:’Where is architecture?' en ’Where has the human being to stay?’…..... And where are they not or less ...This view over architecture is bound to an Ethic. 48

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WHERE IS ARCHITECTURE in the authority of the second point of view?

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First we have to understand rapidly that this sheme is not designed in proportion.

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WHERE IS ARCHITECTURE in the authority of the second point of view?

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WHERE IS ARCHITECTURE in the authority of the second point of view?

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Where...?

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Architecture is at the edge of culture and so at the edge of nature.Architecture is ‘first’. 'Arke' and 'tekton'(therefor not good or bad ........therefor not ‘first’ alone)Culture has his place in architecture. 53

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But the scheme is circularAnd it hasn’t to be soIt can be open

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It is also not a line without thickness...

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It has not to be ‘one’...It has not to be continue...

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So, if architecture is Oikoslogy,

Ecology is not only an environmental knowledgeIt is also a ethical position over het human being.

Oikoslogy is not only knowledge of ‘nature’

But knowledge of our abode

in and with nature

With a specific attentionFor the open edge between our abode (the city lobs) and ‘nature’ (the blue and green fingers).

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De Lobe-city is aBundle of recommendations

Tjallingii wrote the scientific bundleOf recommendations.

But architecture and ‘to architect’Are not sciences.

Architecture and ‘to architect’ are disciplines

Architecture and ‘to architect’ Are operations accompaniedBy all a system of thoughtsBy an ethicAnd alsoBy scientifical recommendations.

It is so that in the ‘Lobe-city’One can read the signs of a system of thoughtsAnd of an ethic.

So, now follows hereunder a synthesisOf the scientific recommendationsAnd A synthesis of a disciplinarian interpretation of the ’Lobe-city’

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The main issue of a ecologic way if thinking, Is to know that life is in a chain or in a system of strong interdependence with the biotic and abiotic conditions.

In life, nothing is independent..

To deny this, or to forget this ,Like our way of life is still doing,Creates tensionsOf course in eco-logic field,But also in the eco-nomic fieldAnd further in the political field

It brings us to disasters and to war.

To built without necessity like there is now a project In Genk in a ‘blue-green’ finger dividing it, is in an other scale of course is something similar To destroy the tropical forest,Because it is still more and more diminishing The capacity of interdependence of nature.

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5 PARTS

1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas (City blue green fingers)

2 The stucture of the water system

3 The energy chain

4 The structure of the mobility chain

5 Materials and waste

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

The cities hasn’t to grow, -beyond a certain scale-, in a concentric way, Beyond a certain scale they have to grow in a radial way with we well defined build areas (City lobs).Between this city lobs we have to preserve or to develop big blue-green areas where the ground, the air, water and the non-human biotic world can work together with the build city. (This are the blue-green city-fingers)

So it very important to know and to sustain in a project that the city blue-green fingers an city lobs have to ‘work’ together.

So a blue-green finger makes part of the city.

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas (City blue green fingers)

The lobe city is not a pure theory. It is a bundle of recommendations based on very practical examples No polarity between city and natureBut a real multiplicity of links between city and nature.

A real network between both.

An so the city is alone anymore in nature (with nature out of her) But the city has now to be and to live in and with the nature.And so nature is not alone out of the city but also in and with the city around her .

In that sense we repeat the blue-green fingers are part of the city.  No apartheid between City and Nature. Particularisms of the allotments cannot be allowed anymore.The new city knows also that the subject who lives in the city is not a pure particular . The subject is the ‘crossing ‘of the other subjects. The subject is also made by the city and made by the other subjects…

I remember: this is scientific: Read Henri Laborit (neurolog)So in the future if we want to live then we’ll live in cities and not in allotments. The city is not the sum of particularisms but a great crossing of subjects. So we have to imagine a city responsible of all that and an attractive city of participation from where subjects are happy to share the same place.

To deny that or to forget that is harmful for mankind and nature.

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

No small worlds apart .Mankind in future lives in cities and not in allotments.

Flanders is the most fragmented and parcelled region in Europe (EEA, 2006).Moreover and despite good resolutions of the ‘spatial structure plan’ (Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Vlaanderen (RSV,1997) ) the situation is always going worse. p (MIRA-T, 2004en BBL, 2006)  

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Centrum: size and functions 

Size : Each entity has the size of human locomotion Bike or walking.so: less energy use.So also: less cars more pleasant city)

Functions : Fundamental is also that one find In all the build area mixed functions.

Work and housing together and recreation not far.Social diversityWork diversity

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

Lobs : size and functions

Size : each entity on size of human locomation.

Maximum 15 minutes by bikingMaximum 300 m walking to public transportation.So public transportation has to be designed firstAnd not added at the end.Public transportation has to be very efficient.

So: the lobs have a sizeThe blue-green fingers can be so bigger Functions: It is fundamental to understand that Only build areas with high density (at least 150 Inh/hect) can guarantee a diversity of functions for example commercial. And all this functions has to be reached walking or biking.So: less cars, less noise, better air, less energy waste….Before to buid in nature we have first to enhance the density of a LobTo affect a blue-green finger is harmfullAnd not to densify a lob is also harmful 66

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

Junction Centrum /lob Mainly with quick and efficient public transport , Than biking Than enventually cars.. A bus of 20tons is less pollutant than tens of cars of 1500 kg for 1person on board 1L fuel is 2,5 kg C02 + ….Each day we use in the world135 billions liters petroleum  To move with a car is harmful.

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

Need of mixed functions andMixed social structure Housing – work- recreation

‘participation’ means To live not apart

So: not some people who decide for all the the others

So: not an oligarchy who takes the decisionsOf the politicians

So: everybody works and take part of the decisionsIn the interest of everybody

So Everybody sees also everybody. And thereof architecture gives clear signs

So no apartheid:People live also in and with the others.This is a very common thought in non humanist civilisation (Buddhist) Apartheid makes the city less pleasant and creates distancesAnd is so polluting and harmful

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BLUE GREEN FINGERS City meets nature.So: pleasant and healthy citySo: more people in the citySo: less transportationSo: less energy wasteSo: less harmful

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RELATION BETWEEN CITY-LOBS AND CITY BLUE GREEN FINGERS The city becomes more attractive.Fresh air by natural ventilation of the cityFingers are parts of the city therefor.They are parts of the city which are nature.

They clean waterThey bring natural life to the cityThey can be used for well controlled recreation.

The blue green fingers give alsoMoe density to the lobsAnd so make public transportation possible.

The lob city is compact and of high densityAnd her entities are radial in structure.

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Wetenschappellijk bekeken

1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

Edge/border

Long edges between lobs and fingers.Longe edges between ‘man’ and‘nature’.

This edges are not closed borders.But to secure them firmly They should be indentified in an real architectural way. (with landscape elements or buildings) We have to fing a new architecture of the edgeBetween nature and the place of mankind.

In Genk we have a beautyful possibility for this. So, open edges but firm edges With a gradient betweenThe place of man : the cityAnd the place of relative absence of man: the nature A, administratif line or border is not enoughAn architecture of the open edge can be a guaranteeAgainst harmful invasion of nature,

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

Density: a dens but not concentric city

Public transport asks 150 inh/hectThis is a minimal density For rentability of public transport (a public bus cost +/- 1.700€/day)

But dens city doesn’t mean a closed and somber city.A good tip: a lot of common ‘green areas’ intricated in the build areaAnd so also for everybodyViews for everybody on common green areas. (also 3 or 4 levels buildings)

Less particular green areas.No gardencity allotments!This is really a question of land policy! Density is also efficientyFor the commercial functions (a lot of clients not far) And it results of course in radical reduction of transport.

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1 The structure of the ‘build’ areas (City lobs) in good relation tothe unbuild areas(City blue green fingers)

High/low dynamic gradient :  

Density of the Lobs- contrast at the edge-gradient with nature.

In The blue green fingers are we will find only low-dynamic functions, as biking and walking path, gentle recreation, city farms. City woods, and of course just nature and water infiltration facilities …

In the city lobs you find the high dynamic functions:Industries, commercials, service, intense and mass recreation … Housing is between high-dynamic activities and the low-dynamic blue-greenFingers.

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2 The structure of the water-system

Water is in a chain.

Integral water management means The alignment of all water water plansOn all levels With a vision each time to all lower levels.  Dirty water in clean water gives dirty water And clean water in dirty water gives also dirty water

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2 The structure of the water-system

Water is in a chain

4 types of water which have their own route:

• Rainwater (white water) is used as much as possible. Superfluous rainwater flows to the blue green fingersIt is first retained in ponds and Than goes slowly further.Water have to flow slow.

 • ‘Street’-water flows to wadi’s and slowly infiltrates the ground

• Grey water is ‘cleaned almost immediately by helophytes filter

• Black water can be used by biogas installation…… 

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2 The structure of the water-system

Water is in a chain

 Water remains first where it is And flows slow.

Specially in cities water has to slowdownAnd that to avoid to bring the water further to quickin the countryside or to loose it.

Water is considered as An ordering principleAnd ground is considered as a sponge

Rainwater is used, is retained, is infiltrated as quick as possible, and slow down by ’buffer’ pounds No dirty water flows to clean water.

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2 The structure of the water-system

Water is in a chain

 Water remains where it is if possibleIn any case water flows slow..  You have to ‘design’ a water neutral area: You work with water you have there.

By this, dehydration of countryside is avoided.And dehydration under the cities. By this also submersion of countryside is prevented.By this exhaustion of water reserve is prevented.  A lot of space so for water in the city  To deny this is to create the conditions of war….

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3 The energy chain

 No energy has to be wasted

So : passive buildings

City heating with heat an power plants. Energy which falls from the sky is used immediately 

-Energy saving buildings (or even energy producing buildings)

- renewable energy- as less as possible ‘un’renewable energy

(TRIAS ENERGETICA)

 SUSTAINABILITY

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4 Traffic structure

 Traffic carrier First of all the traffic carrier has to guaranteeEfficient and fluent public transport and bike traffic.So: priority to public transports and to bikes.

Public transport is not rentable without densityAnd has to reachable easily (max 300m walking)This define also the dimension of a lob. We build in function of public transport And not the opposite!  Optimalisation of public transportAnd minimalisation of particular polluting transport

Connection walk-bike-public transport has to be well organised and so on between public transports (bus /train)

Dens housing districts (with parking's on the edge (3min walk ) and so districts with a low level of car trafficAnd so more pleasant districts …..

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4 Structure of traffic

 MOBILITY RULES:

There is to be thought about

What are we doingWalking?Biking?By public transport?With particular car ?  

And soWhere are the resources of our transport?  And so alsoWhere is the man with this rules of mobility 

TRANSPORT

Transport is reduced as much as possible No beans from Kenya!......So city farms (a farm skyscraper is already designed…)….    

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5 MATERIAL AND WASTE

We try to understand how a material in al the cyclus of his ‘life’Is more or less polluting Cfr E Rombaut lectures and course.

This is also a question sustainebility.

Cradle to cradle is the principle.

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But!

The lobe city is not only a scientific modelThe lobe city is also linked toa way of thinking.….

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The Lobe city in not only the resultOf techno-scientific requirements.

Why is it important to understand and to assimilate that way of thinking

Because scientific knowledge is never enough.The greenhouse effect is known scientifically since 1896.........

(Svante Arrhenius, Swedish scientist Nobel price 1903)

Techniques to resolve the ecological problem are available quite a long timeBut techniques are not enough.

Scientific and technical certaintiesAre never convincing enough in life.

Man has also to ‘believe’ or to be ‘physically convinced’.It is a way of life and a way of thinkingWhich will have to change.

Thereby we know also that “architecture” and to architect” are not sciencesbut are disciplines which operatewith a ‘artistic’ rationality.This artistic rationality cannot be build up by scientific knowledgeBut has to be accompanied by different sciences and disciplines.Therfor this studio has as title OIKOS-LOGYAnd not ecology and architecture Or ‘philosophy’ and architecture.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

A science aims to a knowledgeOver how ‘reality’ operates

A discipline aims to a truth over A structure in the ’real'.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

At this time stillMan believe thatThe human beingIs central in nature Is of a higher level of importance,Or that his position is finnaly out of natureHe is not thinking that he is a part of nature.That is the 'humanistic' philosophy.

That was InitialisedIn the second part of the Greek philosophyFormalised in the renaissanceAccentuated with the French enlightenmentpathologised by the romanticshypertrophied under the idealismen en brought to a horrible endBy hyper-humanism in the XX th century.

The lob city is the expressionof a human philosophy.Where man knows that he is a part of natureWith specific properties.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lob city is the expressionof a human philosophy.

Humanism believesThat there is nothing better than the human being.A humane way of thinkingBelieves that the human being can improve-even structurally !-And that so, Man has to live with open edges in and with naturein open, intense, nuanced and graduated Interference. Or that the human being can take in itself something of the other(More than to build it up only with his own ‘intelligence’ only).

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is the expressionof a human philosophy.

It is an architect who synthesizeA human way of thinkingLouis Kahn:'Purity lies in the incompletion.'

The humanistic thinker would say 'Purity lies in the completion' Or mankind is sufficient in itself.

But in facts it is flagrantMankind is not sufficient in itself.

In the lobe-city we can seeThat difference between human and humanismBy a not centralistic cityBut by an open radial city working in and with nature.

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The lob city is the expressionof a human philosophy.

Man is not central anymore...Man is not the only master anymore…..Man is not everywhere anymore.....Man is not spread every where anymore....Man is not parcelling the world anymore.Man lives not anymore as a particle outside the city

Man lives in the city.The Lobe-city is a city.

The lobe-city is a city but in a new type of cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe city is a city in open, intense, nuanced, graduateden well controlled interference with all his environment.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe-city is a city in

open, intense, nuanced, graduateden well controlled interference with all his environment.

OPEN

the hedges of the lobs or fingers Are without border lineIn mathematics this is called an 'open ensemble'.

And by thisThe city comes in the natureand with nature in well controlled contact And nature is coming in the cityAnd with the city in well controlled contact.But both are absolutely identifiable.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe-city is a city in

open, intense, nuanced, graduateden well controlled interference with all his environment.

Intense:

Very long borders till in de heart cityWho remains still very dens.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe-city is a city in

open, intense, nuanced, graduateden well controlled interference with all his environment.

Nuanced: Form of lobs has really to do with what is given by the environmentWe see different types of lobsArticulated in diverse manners With and in the city.

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe-city is a city in open, intense, nuanced, graduateden well controlled interference with all his environment.

graduated

The edges of the lobs which are also the edges of the fingersHave a width in gradientFrom high to low dynamic functionsAnd even to no-function

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The lobe-city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lobe-city is a city in open, intense, nuanced, graduated

en well controlled interference with all his environment.

Well controlled

The Lobe-city has a scale and has sizes in each of her entities.

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The lob city is also linked toa way of thinking.

The lobe-city is a cityWhere man needs the man and nature.The lob city is a city in open, intense, nuanced, graduated

en well controlled interference with all his environment.

interference

The lobs and the fingersHave the same morphologyThe lobs and the fingersAre in con-versationThe fingers bring the nature to the city and The lobs bring the human being to the natureBut all that in a clear distinction between city and nature.

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Architecture is

‘in and with’nature,

OrArchitecture Takes in her Something of the nature

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‘in and with’

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The lobe-city

As unique reference

Not as a modelTo copy in a formalistic way.

But to be consideredAs a unique bundle of recommendations

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The lobe-cityAsks us

Where can the human being stay

And that with high level of nuance

Good place to High and low dynamic function(also with 'no-function' spaces)

Good place for City and social facilitiesTo enhance contact between people

Density and size of the build areas

Gradient and architectural structure of the edgeOf the finger and the lob.

Transportation structure (all type)

Water structureProduction of energyMaterials

But before allArchitecture of this new type of city for an openHuman being lying in incompletion

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OiKOS LOGY : De place of man.

What about is architecture?

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OiKOS LOGY : De place of man.

What about is architecture?

Generally

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

Where is the project in space and time?Where is the human being?What about is your project?What is the architecture of the project?What are the instruments of your project?What about is architecture?

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OiKOS LOGY : De place of man.

What about is architecture?

Where is the project?

Please answer as an architect.

Physiography (Ian Mac Harg) of the place and the environmentHistorySizes , distancesGroundLevelsWaterclimateTransport and trafficecologySpatial structure......

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OiKOS LOGIE : De plaats van de mens.

OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

Where is the project in space and time?Where is the human being?What about is your project?What is the architecture of the project?What are the instruments of your project?What about is architecture?

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OiKOS LOGIE : De plaats van de mens.

OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

What about is your project?

Arké-tectonic of Oikos-logic answers To the question where and how will man be there?

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

Where is the project in space and time?Where is the human being?What about is your project?What is the architecture of the project?What are the instruments of your project?What about is architecture?

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

What is the architecture of the project?

ARKE TEKTON OIKOS LOGOS

Back to the earth….. Or open architecture.... Transparent architecture?Architecture of the building as aarchitectre of the nature?...Reflection of the nature in the architecture.

A rich idea for all your project...Be carefull the name your concept can come at the end of your all the design…

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

Where is the project in space and time?Where is the human being?What about is your project?What is the architecture of the project?What are the instruments of your project?What about is architecture?

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

What are the instruments of your project?

Answer has tocoherent with the answer to the previous question

What is the architecture of your project?...

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

Where is the project in space and time?Where is the human being?What about is your project?What is the architecture of the project?What are the instruments of your project?What about is architecture?

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OM WAT GAAT HET IN ARCHITECTUUR?

A good project answers with richness to this five questions

What about is architecture?

Is the question which an architect has to hold all his life

'arke' en 'tekton‘, ‘oikos’ en ‘logos’ but further.....

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OiKOS - LOGY 2011The place of man in

What about is architecture?

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Requirements:Work with architectureand in‘oikoslogic’ way.

The point is the architecture of the City of the futureUnder the authorityOf sustainability.

The point is to draw architecture not only in nature but in and with nature.

This makes thatArchitecture becomes oikos-logy

An architectural interrogationAnd the design of The place of mankindIn and with nature

Each student

1 designs the ‘red’ area Sledderloand architects it to the green-blue fingers and to the city.

2 has special attention in his design for the architectural edge, in terms of architectural landscape in all his depths, between “green” areas en “build” areas

3 designs the essential part of the buid area as far as possible in the details.

A City LobeOr the place of Mankind.

Green blue fingers

Edges and gradient which clearly indicate The place of mankind

EFFICIENT Traffic carrier

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