Tydelig at vi her har å gjøre med oslomodernistene, alle disse forslagene er basert Le Corbusier's ide om "the tower in the park", en ekstremt inhuman ide. I tillegg kommer at ingen av disse forslagene har iboende biofiliske egenskaper. Jeg arbeider for tida med å få republisert arbeider av den kjente urbanisten Nikos A. Salingaros hos bloggen til the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia, her kan dere finne ideer til menneskevennlige løsninger.Ikke store bidraget i kampen mot arven etter verdenshistoriens mest destruktive menneske, Le Corbusier, men man får gjøre hva man kan. Forresten, stjernearkitekten Winy Maas er en av nøkkelpersonene i arbeidet, en av Le corbusier's mange disipler.
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| Ikke nok med at modernistene har ødelagt Bjørvika, de akter å underlegge seg hele hovedstaden. Framtidsutsiktene er i sannhet dystre. |
- Skyscrapers are usually designed according to a template (a rectangular slab)
- Ignore context and environment
- Imposition of architect’s will
- Can never arise from step-by-step adaptation
Unsustainable:
- Skyscrapers can never be made sustainable
- Using the latest technology does not alter their intrusive character
- They introduce urban singularity
From a colleague (Michael Imber):
- Claim that tall buildings are sustainable is a cruel fraud
- Excessive heat gain and loss from unshaded exposures and typical glazing systems
- “Heat island” effects
- Require materials with very high embedded energy
- Skyscraper floor plates are inefficient — excessive space requirements for lifts and for emergency exit stairs (more floors==more waste)
- They block the sun and view (view is aesthetic - maybe not a big deal; sun builds Vitamin D in the skin and to avoid depression)
- Create wind effects at the ground level (urban tunnels, downgusts, etc.)
- Carbon benefits of urban density level-off at 4 to 6 storey building envelope
Social Problems
- Ground floor usually disconnected
- Christopher Alexander’s pattern: children living more than 4 storeys from the ground feel disconnected (leads to child pathologies)
- Leon Krier proposed tall buildings that are monuments, not residences
Religious icons
- Le Corbusier’s “Towers in the Park” has become a religious symbol
- Worshiped by modernist urbanists
- Despite repeated disasters, still used as “modern” typology the world over
- …with towers of ever increasing height! People never learn…
Good tall buildings
- Must be very few in any city
- Always in the high-density center
- Ground floor helps urban fabric
- Examples from late 19th Century, early 20th Century
- Thin, not too tall, hierarchy of scales
- No setbacks (from the street)
Conclusion
- There are several branches of New Urbanism practiced today
- All of them are far better than zones car-dependent sprawl, or skyscrapers in the park — a monstrous idea
- Communities the world over are building neo-traditional developments
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