Rotterdam Cube Houses
by Norman Gabitzsch
Title
Rotterdam Cube Houses
Artist
Norman Gabitzsch
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Photography
Description
At the end of the Second World War, the strategic port city of Rotterdam was leveled by bombardment. The Dutch went about rebuilding the important city with new experimental architecture. The Cube Houses are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level, since its main purpose is to optimise the space inside. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest. The central idea of the cube houses around the world is mainly optimizing the space, as a house, to a better distribution of the rooms inside.
Three test versions were first constructed in 1974, and in 1977 18 houses were constructed in Helmond. The many houses required for a woonwoud (English: living woods) were never realized. The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built. The cube houses in Helmond surrounded a theater, Theater 't Speelhuis, which was destroyed by a large fire on 29 December 2011.
Photograph made with a Nikon D850
Copyright (c) 2019 Norman Gabitzsch. All Rights Reserved.
Featured Artwork in:
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World Landscape Lovers of Art - August 2019
Contemporary - August 2019
Images That Excite You! - August 2019
Artistic Aperture Avatar - “Modern Architecture" - Month of September 2019
Just Perfect - September 2019
Travel Art - September 2019
Camera Art - October 2019
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August 26th, 2019
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Tatiana Travelways
Congratulations - Your beautiful artwork has been featured in the "Travel Art" group! For further promotion, you can post it to the specific Travel Destinations galleries, our Facebook group and our Pinterest board - all the links are provided on our group's homepage: https://fineartamerica.com/groups/1-travel-art.html * You are also invited to post it to our group's blog: travelartpix.com for worldwide exposure!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Thank you, Tatiana, for featuring the Dutch Architectural photographic image, "Rotterdam Cube Houses", in the Fine Art America group, "Travel Art".
Bob Lentz
Congratulations! on “Rotterdam Cube Houses” being avatar (group image, icon) as voted by group members for eptember 2019 in the “Artistic Aperture” group on Fine Art America.
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
John, thank you for featuring the Dutch Architecture image, "Rotterdam Cube Houses", in the Fine Art America group, "Images That Excite You!"
Gina Harrison
Love this! What do they look like INSIDE??
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Talking to locals, they say that the Cube Houses are fun to look at, but not so fun to live in.
Maria Keady
Fascinating find and great capture!! T/P
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Maria ... thank you for the support of the Dutch Architecture photo, "Rotterdam Cube Houses". These are famous photographic architectural landmarks.
Lori Frisch
Fabulous!!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Lori ... thank you so very much for visiting the Dutch Architecture photog, "Rotterdam Cube Houses".
Don Columbus
Congratulations Norman, your work is Featured in "Photographic Camera Art" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet!
Norman Gabitzsch replied:
Don ... thank you for featuring and supporting the Dutch Architecture photograph, "Rotterdam Cube Houses", in the Fine Art America group, "Photographic Camera Art".
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