Conjunto Urbano en Holanda, año 1953. La Peatonal Lijnbaan. Jaap Bekema y Jo Van der Broek

Abstract

Urban Set in Holland, year 1953 _ The Lijnbaan Pedestrian, the work of the architects Jaap Bekema and Jo Van der Broek, is the result of a series of hypotheses, of how the criteria of order that underlie the projects, the finding of the correct one integration in the work determining its functional, rigorous, morphological values and how these harmonize in their immediate context. In order to define each one of these hypotheses, it has been determined to present a meticulous process in which the most representative work of the architects Jaap Bekema and Jo Van der Broek will be studied, understanding their criteria and theoretical basis when planning from the urban point of view and social, how these own interests lead them to solve their work.

The boulevard, Lijnbaan is a multifunctional urban complex composed of housing, commerce and public space, it is an emblematic work carried out by the Dutch architects with great repercussion in its time and until today, because in the Second World War the Historical Center of Rotterdam was destroyed and in the year of 1953 it began the intervention for its reconstruction through the values of modern architecture, thus being one of the first historical centers inserted into modernity. It is really important to clarify that the Pedestrian Lijnbaan has never been modified and that currently the project serves both spatially and functionally to people who occupy it permanently or as a step, for this reason is a work with great features to be studied . It is evident that by having a better discernment of the criteria of modern architecture with its bases of rigor and form we can adequately analyze the project of the Dutch architects and establish a clear reading of their positions at the time of projecting.