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DASH stands for Delft Architectural Studies on Housing Design. It is a new international and interdisciplinary biannual wholly devoted to housing construction. In the Netherlands, housing design is still one of the most large-scale and important tasks for architects. The worldwide renown of the Dutch tradition of housing design stands in stark contrast to current practices in housing construction, which is increasingly limited to a repetition of existing solutions. Many topical questions with regard to issues such as densification, privacy and mobility remain unanswered. The new DASH biannual aims to rediscover the riches of housing design. By investigating and drawing up an inventory of new housing types, DASH also wishes to inject housing design with a new élan. Themes to be addressed include the interrelationship of public, collective and private space both in the city and within the built structure, the importance of appearance and space in the design, and the formulation of ideas about (housing) design over the last 50 years.
> Published twice a year
> each edition of DASH is devoted to a fundamental theme in contemporary housing development, with an introductory essay by the editor or guest editor responsible, followed by extensive, uniformly presented plan documentation of relevant projects from the present as well as the past.
> Four to six articles about specific aspects of the theme in which historical hindsight and critical reflection on current development practices are key, and a bibliography that adds an interdisciplinary dimension to the specific theme.
>DASH aims to make an international contribution to housing design from a Dutch perspective.
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Lara Schrijver, Elain Harwood, Dirk van den Heuvel, Pierijn van der Putt, Dick van Gameren, Christopher Woodward (Chair in Dwelling, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology) (eds.)
Design: Joseph Plateau, Paperback, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 160 pages, 23 x 28 cm
Dutch/ English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-809-3, € 35.00
July 2011
In association with the Faculty of Architecture's Chair in Dwelling, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
The idea of the pluriform city seems more current than ever. Society was still homogeneous 50 years ago; today highly divergent modes of life and culture are all seeking a place within our cities. DASH 5. The Urban Enclave is the product of an investigation into large-scale housing projects in the inner city, both historical and contemporary. This calls for a city with differences of its own, distinctive parts in which like-minded people can find one another, connected to the greater whole, but without imposing anything on others. The recent focus on regeneration within the existing city – especially on a mass scale – offers perspectives in this regard. In many cities in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) abandoned industrial and commercial premises or outmoded residential areas are being redeveloped. The usually sizable scale of these areas creates a (housing) construction challenge that can contribute to the needed differentiation within the city
In DASH 5 The Urban Enclave Dirk van den Heuvel and Lara Schrijver examine divergent ideas related to large scales and the city in their essays, based on the work of Piet Blom and Oswald Matthias Ungers, respectively. Dick van Gameren and Pierijn van der Putt look into the underlying typologies of the urban enclave. Elain Harwood analyses the evolution of the notorious Barbican in London, and Christopher Woodward charts the creation, in the same city 200 years previously, of the Adelphi, often cited as the inspiration for the Barbican. In an interview, architect and urban designer Rob Krier expounds on the historical models he uses for his urban renewal projects.
DASH stands for Delft Architectural Studies on Housing Design. The series aims to make an international contribution to residential design from a Dutch perspective. DASH is published twice a year in association with the Chair of Architecture and Dwelling at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
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