By RandyNaylor
With Windmøllebakken H&H delivers Roglands (Norways)
first modern attempt at communal living, ”Gaining by
Sharing.” The blueprint is an architectural model
interconnected by two internal spiraling staircases. This is a
Phase Space (read Lorenze Attractor) that will trigger the
complex interrelationships among the commune’s
inhabitants. ” There will be some new marriages and some
new divorces.”
Only H&H in Architecture have the philosophical
knowledge and design skills to generate this communal plan.
The placement of the common Library and Garden space on
the 5 floor is a clever design assemblage that ensures the
flow and glow through the building as one ascends the stairs
from the common dining and kitchen on the first floor. One
moves through transparent space and light thus the stairs
function as a bridge from the common area to private to
common.
The Phase-Space is designed to trigger social-cultural
relationships. (”Relational” as the book by H&H is titled) So
if you choose to move in here, you are the Good Neighbor
and this is your hood. There is no hiding and that is i guess
the Gaining by Sharing. It is a grand experiment to our
Multi-plus-City and all i missed is the grand piano on the
ground floor and chickens in the outdoor garden that needs
to be expanded.