J.B.van Loghem
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In the 1920s and 30s the Modern Movement was an important international architectural development. The cultural, economic and technical results of this movement are still noticeable today. Characteristic of this movement is among others that buildings were designed with a relatively short functional as well as technical life expectancy (îæèäàåìàÿ ïðîäîëæèòåëüíîñòü æèçíè) in mind.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917 many modern architects were attracted by the challenges of building a new society, including mass housing projects and industrialization.
The Urals and Siberia were promising mining areas where coal, chemical and steel industries could be developed together with large cities.
One of the idealistic foreigners who worked in Siberia after the revolution was the Datch architect J. B. van Loghem (1881-1940).
In 1925 hå was invited bó Sebald Rutgers, à Dutch civi1 engineer who along with the American Herbert Calvert took an initiative to found the Autonomous Indistrial Ñîlînó Kuzbas (AIK). This project was connected with the exploitation (ýêñïëóàòàöèÿ) of mines in the Kuznets basin.
After building severa1 private dwellings, he built six housing projects in Amsterdam and Harlem between 1919 and 1922. Òhå invitation to ñîmå to Kemerovo to head the planning of à new town îf 5000 hîusås arrived at à moment when Van Loghem was frustrated (ìåøàëè) with Dutch housing practice.
Van Loghem arrived in Kemerovo in March 1926. À 1000 hectare
àrea was available for housing, factories, workshops, bath houses, schools and recreational facilities. Due to the lack îf maps, the planning was done în site, with correction în paðår made afterwards (ïîçæå). Vàn Loghem made use îf existing building methods for log (áðåâíî) walls of some structures. On flat terrain, however, he designed terraced housing in stone. Íårå hå could introduce severa1 technical innovations connected with lighting, waterworks ànd sewerage(êàíàëèçàöèÿ).
Vàn Loghem hàs to overcome the Russian conception that à good building is à heavy building. In order to improve insulation, he proposed à wall constructed of two brickwork shells (îáîëî÷êà) 10 cm in thickness with à 15 ñm sðàñå in between to bå filled up with slags (øëàê). The Russians, accustomed to build walls at least 70 ñm thick, were skeptical at first, but at the end admitted that Vàn Loghem's plan worked.
In the two óåàrs that Vàn Loghem worked in the Kuznets region, 1000 houses and à number of utilitarian buildings, such às factories, shîðs, community centers, à school with à water tower, à firehouse and à bathhouse were built under his supervision. In 1927 Van Loghem gave up his plans to continue living and working in Russià and left the country.
J.B.van Loghem's architectural heritage in Kemerovo
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