City hill
The city hills are a sub-area of urban development research and, like them, deal with the analysis of the city in the context of the concept of “people and space”. The urban planning approach is based on urban-social utopias for development for the conglomerates of megacities . In international parlance one speaks of “Sustainable Cities”.
Justus Dahinden , a Swiss architect and emeritus from Vienna University of Technology , is the best-known researcher in this field. The architectural theoretical models of thought for the city hill were u. a. at Interarch 83, the 1983 World Architecture Biennial in Sofia . Besides him, other researchers are working on this theory, such as Richard S. Levine, Ernst J. Yanarella, Taghi Radmard and Heidi Dumreicher .
Quotes
The explanations are based on a lecture at the first Global Village Symposium GLOBAL VILLAGE 93 from June 1993:
“The city hill is a three-dimensional urban integration system . It can be used to form new cities or to renovate existing cities. As an implant, it is planted in socially or functionally underserved areas.
The concept of the city hill realizes extraordinary residential values with a high population density. At the same time, spatial security is provided for the community . The areas of private life (living) and the public ( services , entertainment and leisure facilities ) are no longer far side by side, but directly above one another; they do not interfere with each other.
The hill structure stepped upwards with the overgrown terraces and winter gardens in front of the apartments have advantages of the single-family home in the countryside despite being close to the city. This hill structure forms a protective roofing over the underlying urban space, which is not exposed to the weather and can therefore be operated all year round with little effort. The cost of maintaining the city is reduced.
The city hill is economical because it uses the building land twice. In the base zone, which is accessible to everyone, the needs of the entire quarter are satisfied: shopping, gastronomy , health park, museum , cinema center, school . The base zone forms the second usage complex; he bears the other half of the land costs. Calculations have shown that inexpensive apartments can be built in the middle of the city.
The apartments at the city hill have a lot of light and sun; they are also turned away from noise. Large biotopes can be created between the city hills . Space green and area green come together; Urban and natural landscapes are no longer opposites. The city hill is also its own trademark: an archetype of nature. City hills also appear lower than they really are.
The urban space, which draws its light from above and thus gains cosmic significance, fulfills the residents' emotional needs for a density of experiences: Participation, encounter, seeing and being seen are in the foreground. The room concept ensures that the residents feel more WE.
The facilities in the urban space can be created and maintained more cheaply, similar to a trade fair hall principle, in which the usable areas can be easily adapted to the changed requirements. The house-in-house principle offers interesting options for design and economy. "
literature
- Ian Drummond, Terry Marsden (1999): The Condition of Sustainability . ISBN 0415194938
- Heidi Dumreicher , Richard S. Levine : Stadthügel Wien Westbahnhof , Part Two: The Three-Dimensional City. Project report. Vienna 1996
- Justus Dahinden : Architecture-Architecture . Krämer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1984. ISBN 3-7828-1601-3
- Vienna University of Technology: Architecture & Building Forum “The Space and Me” . Österreichischer Wirtschaftsverlag, Vienna 1995
- Vienna University of Technology: International Architecture Symposium "MAN AND SPACE" . Self-published, Vienna 1984