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page132from Nordic Architects Writes
The need of a testing ground
An experimental housing group must be built
to embrace a number of houses of different types as well as all essential
constructions needed for serving a community as a collective-living basis. This
“experimental group” must be large enough to include all the buildings
necessary for a careful study of the essential problems of a normal community.
At
the end of the first building period we should have a communal unit embracing
both primitive shelters and a higher development of the same. After t... more ...
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page131from Nordic Architects Writes
Each of these stages of development can and
should constitute a development of earlier forms rather than a replacement of
them. The desirable plan of construction should permit a biological growth of
the social unit without requiring the usual wave after wave of demolition and
rebuilding.
The social group
Such a system will not confine itself merely
to construction or to the problem of the individual house. It is a question
that covers the whole field of human society from the planning of the community
with its problems of traffic, sewage, and the li... more ...
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page130from Nordic Architects Writes
Still the magnitude of today’s catastrophe
makes speed once again a vital consideration. Therefore, it is up to us to
create a system where the restrictions of time will receive an equal
consideration with such other factors as the satisfaction of biological needs
and the need for permanency. But the desire for speed in construction must not
receive such an emphasis as to eclipse the other two factors and bring back the
barrack-shelter situation.
A programme to permit expansion
To satisfy the need for human shelter in an
organic way we must first of ... more ...
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page129from Nordic Architects Writes
The human factor
There has always been a great deal of
attention given to technical research in building. This, however, has most
frequently taken the character of a stress on separate details without any
scientific attempt to study them in their direct relation to human life. There
has never been a large and scientifically conducted research centred
immediately around human needs in building problems.
Now
if building activities are frequently haphazard and confused in peace times, it
is clear that in building periods li... more ...
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page128from Nordic Architects Writes
There are few climates in the world where
society can exist without the protection afforded by buildings. The result of a
lack of such protection will be epidemics and other war an post-war sufferings
in catastrophic proportions.
Reconstruction
and building activity on a large scale is, therefore, an absolute necessity. This,
if it is done with both speed and efficiency, will be the most helpful activity
in the present situation.
The lesson of former attempts
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