Cube House

A cube House is a house in the form of a tilted cube on a pole, also called stilt house or tree house called. In the seventies there cube houses built by the Dutch architectPiet Blom in Rotterdamand Helmond . Its basic idea, that is built on columns, so that the space can remain under the buildings public, was inspired by Le Corbusier.



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[hide] *1 Homes  ==Homes[ Edit] == In the cube dwelling of Bailey, there are three levels: at the bottom of the so-called Street House with the kitchen and the living room, in between the Sky House with space for study and sleeping rooms, and at the top of the loofhut, a three-sided pyramid with place for a Sun room, a balcony or a small garden. In the hexagonal column by which the House rests, are the entrance and the stairwell. ==Underlying concept[ Edit] == In the 1970s wanted architects with participation of residents and other users make herbergzame residential areas in response to the large-scale and a gray modernism of the architecture of the reconstruction after WORLD WAR II. Piet Blom, structuralist and Aldo van Eyck 's adept assumed that large-scale construction work on the human scale had to be built by them to build small recognizable elements. ==Helmond[ Edit] == The first three cube houses were built in 1974 and 1975 to the Europaweg in Helmond, as a preview for a larger project, which was realized in the following years. The project had the status "experimental" and could thus be entitled to additional subsidy of the Rich. In first instance was the interest large and widespread. In an American magazine in november 1975 was described as "resembling huge dice" and the Helmonds Newspaper reported in december on a score of candidates for the three cubes. However, the interest died down in mid 1976 turned out and there were still not enough for all buyers found stilt houses. The 18 homes of the sequel project surrounded the theater 't play house, with which they formed an architectural ensemble. The theatre was made up of 37 cubes and contained three rooms. The largest room had a capacity of 430 seats.The associated Theatre café Blom & Sanders was named after the architect Blom and the Visual artist Har Sanders, the two spiritual fathers of the special buildings complex.
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In may or June 1974, the first spa into the ground. On 3 december the construction works reached the highest point of the first stilt house, also with traditional construction projects an important symbolic event. The load-bearing columns and floors were performed in reinforced concrete, the tilted cube consists of a wooden skeleton that is finished inside and out with cement/wood fibre board. In a publicity stunt to an idea of the architect gave professional paper hangers on 29 March 1975 a demonstration "hung on angled walls" in the new homes. Finally, on 28 October 1977 followed the official opening of the theatre building in the presence of Princess Beatrix with the premiere of the musical Take Helmond for example.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The architecture of the theater was differently appreciated by the ultimate users. According to Youp van 't Hek was the Hall not conducive to good acting: "nice theater.Particular theater, but also troublesome. The architecture also leads quite a bit off. You have always a backdrop at. Have a nice decor though. The first time I was baffled by the special. Really beautiful. The second time it was getting used to and third time it was almost irritating, I longed to a dark black box". Also Jenny Arean was critical, but have dominated at her praise: "what a beauty! This unique Hall made sure I was fan of Har Sanders. It is a playful but beautiful theater. I have to say though that it is a terribly awkward theater is and every now and then it is really magic."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On december 29, 2011, the theatre was destroyed by a large fire that also struck the adjacent cube houses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] ==Rotterdam<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The 38 cube houses above the Blaak near the old port in Rotterdam are built between 1982 and 1984, after a first presentation of the plans in 1978. The design is a variation on the Helmondse cube House. The viaduct, officially named the Overblaak on one high, but the whole complex is known as the so-called Blaakse Forest. The complex includes also some of the larger cubes next to the cube houses, a residential tower known as the pencil and a residential building. The name of the complex refers to the vision of the architect, in which each dwelling represents a tree and the total complex a forest. The idea was a kind of village in the big city, a safe environment in which various functions were housed. Shops, businesses, a school and play area for children down on the traffic-free walking area and living up there. The interaction between the private and public life may, in accordance with the idea particularly large because of the oblique Windows in the houses.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Besides as village within the city was the Overblaak in urban terms, intended as the primary connection for pedestrians between the Centre and the old harbour. This route proved too cumbersome in practice allowing pedestrians to cross the busy thoroughfare Blaak and there was no sign of the vibrancy on the envisaged by Bailey Overblaakpassage. In 2009, the two large cubes on the South side has been transformed into a Stayokay hostel with 250 beds, making 25 years after the construction of the cubes the vibrancy in the hiking region still cherished by Blom has been effected. For the large cube on the north side which is empty for a number of years one develops plans for a residential building with common facilities, intended for vulnerable target groups. Between the cube houses are small shops and to find the piece chess museum .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The cube houses are privately owned and are inhabited. It is unknown whether the course is different from the conventional housing market. Because of its location above a busy motorway are carried out as closed rooms all booths with cantilever Windows. The larger cubes housing an entertainment centre, offices and studios. One of the houses, the viewing-cube, acts as a public museum about life in and setting up of stilt houses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3] ==Discussion<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Among architects is the mastery of Bailey not denied, but his creations are controversial. The architecture is quite commonly frowned upon and his concept of living in trees has no wide caught. Nevertheless, the location in Rotterdam as one of the more relaxing and pleasant places in the city. As the liaison between the old port and the Kolk underlines the street the historic importance of the environment. The cube houses also attract many tourists from abroad, where they traditionally known as model for the modern architecture of the city, because it is not a high-rise is but outspoken progressive. The experimental pedestrian street forms a whole with the Spanish bank, which Bailey in brick shaped as a Mediterranean fishing village. The platform above a café terrace at the old port is formed by a balustrade of natural stone columns. "It seems to be the height of bad taste, that Bailey somewhere what historical ornaments has picked up and this has included in his building to strengthen the picturesque effect. However, the railing is old and in a sense authentic. It is the only remnant of one of the most modern and technically advanced buildings of the nineteenth century in Rotterdam, Plan C. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]