The project is based on the gathering of
neighbors, in response to the problem of an increasingly antisocial and independent
society. I think it is a good basis but I didnt really understand why they have
chosen the area of Holland Park, apart from the charm of the houses, it is an
area of luxury and class. Perhaps for this reason this location is selected,
because the people living there might tend to work and come home to a private
sphere, lacking all interest in their neighbors.
As for the proposal of some mobile parks as they
call it, I think it could be improved a lot. I chose this project partly
because of how it's done, I think it is a project that can still work hard and
improve, like all. The concept itself of having a "private" but at
the time shared mobile park, seems a bit confusing. They speak about the concept
of something "mine" to something “ours”, but if the mobile is in
front of one house, the owners of it have to take care about it individually. This
idea could have been quite polished, which at first may seem logical and good,
but in my personal opinion, in reality I do not think it would work.
I am really interested in the mews houses, how
they work and how they are integrated with each other. It´s a pity that they
have not worked more with the houses themselves, but only relied on the street.
As examples of other solutions to the mobiles
I have found PARKMOBILES:
They were created
to enliven street life in the evolving Yerba Buena District of San Francisco.
Designed for economy and durability, Parkmobiles are rugged, custom-designed
industrial containers that incorporate seating and landscape into easily
deployable units. Six Parkmobiles, each with a different plant mix, were moved
throughout the district’s streets, creating new active public spaces.
Parkmobiles was part of CMG Landscape Architecture’s Yerba Buena Street Life
Plan, a community-based public space plan with 36 intervention projects for the
next generation of public space in the district.
An other example is PARKCYCLE SWARM:
The parkcycle swarm is a modular system that empower persons to build an instant public park whenever and wherever they want to. The parkcycle swarm consists of a number of human powered mobile gardens. The individual gardens can be combined to form public parks. A parkcycle swarm can consist of any number of individual gardens. Areas normally used by cars like parking lots or
roads in general can be reclaimed and used for non polluting peaceful social
activities instead. Each vehicle has been designed to comply with local bicycle
standards. The version showed in this manual fits the EU standards of bicycle
design. Adaptations to local regulations in other parts of the world may be
necessary and can influence the size of each individual cycle.The parkcycle swarm can be seen as a DIY urban
planning tool as an alternative to the top down urban planning that dominates
most cities in the world. N55 encourage persons to build their own cycles and
form parkcycle swarms and hereby influence their local urban environments.The parkcycle swarm is a collaboration between N55, Till Wolfer and John Bela from the Rebar group.
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