Feb 3, 2018
Bunker 599
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Bunker 599
RAAAF, RIETVELD ARCHITECTURE-ART-AFFORDANCES, Bunker 599,
via: http://dressupebbie.blogspot.it/2012/07/rietveld-landscape-atelier-de-lyon.html; https://www.flickr.com/photos/rdeveen/8373249635; http://www.raaaf.nl/en/projects/7_bunker_599/494;http://www.panoramio.com/photo/90219580 ; http://www.designboom.com/architecture/rietveld-landscape-atelier-de-lyon-bunker-599/
Bunker 599
A Second World War bunker in the Netherlands was turned into a sculptural visitor attraction by slicing it down the middle to reveal its insides. The bunker was built in 1940 to shelter up to 13 soldiers during bombing raids and the intervention by Dutch studios RAAAF | Atelier de Lyon reveals the small, dark spaces inside, which are normally cut off from view completely. The bunker itself is cleanly cut in two, allowing visitors to access the incredibly tight quarters within, maximizing public engagement with the remnants of the 'New Dutch Waterline' coastal defense network.
The project is part of the overall strategy of RAAAF | Atelier de Lyon to make this unique part of Dutch history accessible and tangible for a wide variety of visitors. Paradoxically, after the intervention Bunker 599 became a Dutch national monument.
RAAAF & Atelier de Lyon, Bunker 599, Diefdijk, 2010
www.raaaf.nl/
RAAAF - Bunker 599
Bunker 599
The Bearded Architecture
I think some of best architecture is generated from the thing that is already there. The process in which the existing becomes a different entity to relentlessly ponder; engaging a new subject with a modicum of the familiar. Whether adding or subtracting, the dialogue that takes place, to me, makes for some of the most intriguing spatial arrangements. Take my beard for instance. Please take it.
In a sense, this is how I view architecture and design as a whole. Take two away from five and you have three. Similar properties with different numbers. It's about the actions that define these amounts and the qualities that give them identity. You give and take away. What works you preserve. What doesn't you remove or displace. To me, every building needn't form from a clean slate. Every solution needn't be 100% unattached. And every job interview needn't a clean-shaven frat boy. What I'm saying isn't new, innovative, or original. I'm just telling you what I like and how my beard taught me to be creatively unattractive.
Here are a few projects that I dig which attempt to use some of the beard that was already onsite.
Bunker 599 by Atelier de Lyon and Rietveld Landscape
Dovecote Studio by Haworth Tompkins
The Wyckoff Exchange by Andre Kikosi Architects
Selexyz Dominicanen by Merkx + Girod
Lance Armstrong Foundation Headquarters by Lake|Flato and The Bommarito Group
Bunker 599 by Rietveld Landscape.
The making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgekYavYdtI