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TAKE YOUR TIME LECTURE BY ANNE FEENSTRA Initiated by explore-lab student yaks and the natural context and in Davoud Sultani and introduced by what type of houses the families live. Dick van Gameren, “slow” architect From here we can start to search for Anne Feenstra gave an inspiring solutions: for example the thickness lecture last week in lecture room of the walls, the use of the local clay B at the Faculty of Architecture. for adobe bricks or the placement of “Salam aleikum, namasté, welcome”. large and small windows for passive In barely 50 minutes Feenstra took heating. us to various places in Afghanistan Locality is an important part and India. Next to his process of Feenstra’s work. For the maternity of designing, cooperating and homes in Afghanistan, commissioned educating, he explained how he by UNICEF and the Min. of Public works in different Health, his proposition cultures and the ‘‘Many architects talk about was to develop a new importance of locality. ‘their’ buildings. I don’t have typology based on the Feenstra’s main country’s (cultural) needs. buildings. A minor detail message: take your Besides sustainable in speech, but maybe an time... technical design solutions important one.’’ Take a little time like the use of passive to listen, to design, to heating and the use of figure out solutions. Take your time local materials, the cultural aspect to research and to establish a good of these wards are of essential collaboration. Take your time to importance. Feenstra explains how search for the right materials and to in a large part of the world, men are work together with a local carpenter, for example allowed to watch the to explain to people what you are baby being born. In Afghanistan this trying to do and to get to know is absolutely not the case. The privacy each other. for the women is very important. Feenstra started his lecture with While showing design solutions for a project in North East Afhanistan, windows that still allow for privacy, ‘Dancing Windows’; a small or recommendations as he likes to community centre for the second call them, “solutions is maybe a bit national park in Afghanistan. Instead pretentious”, he explains the subtle of explaining the architectural ‘buffer space’ that separates the men qualities of the building, he first from women and the thoughtful explains the climate of the remote private courtyard, which the women region with its extreme temperatures wished for. and the hierarchy and structures of One thing is designing, but if the local community. He shows the you really want to get it built it is very
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profile important to spend time with the contractor. “UNICEF called me and said that we had a big problem.” The bidding prices of builders were too low. They had never seen this before. This is because Feenstra spent time on the local markets together with the local contractor to find the right materials. Instead of four maternity homes, they were able to build five on the same budget. “Quantity is not the problem, in India the entire Dutch road system is built every year, but how can we put, with all this pressure, a little bit of time on quality?”
House of the dancing windows - Anne Feenstra
Architect Anne Feenstra has been educated in Delft. Before leaving for Afghanistan, Feenstra worked as an architect at the office of among others Will Alsop. In 2003 he established his studio, AFIR Architects, with offices in Kabul and Khulm in the north. He taught architecture at the University of Kabul pro bono and the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. In the Indian capital he established Arch-I, a platform for architecture and urban planning. He has also been lecturing in Nepal, UK, Afghanistan, Germany, Incia, Brazil, Kenya, France, Rwanda and the Netherlands. Feenstra became dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India this year, to which Van Gameren ‘coincidentally’ paid a visit earlier this year.//
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In phenomenology, the environment is concretely defined as "the place", and the things which occur there "take place". The place is not so simple as the locality, but consists of concrete things which have material substance, shape, texture, and color, and together coalesce to form the environment's character, or atmosphere. It is this atmosphere which allows certain spaces, with similar or even identical functions, to embody very different properties, in accord with the unique cultural and environmental conditions of the place which they exist. phenomenology is conceived as a "return to things", maneuvering away from the abstractions of science and its neutral objectivity.//