Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building

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In 1967, Moshe Safdie reimagined the monolithic apartment building, creating “Habitat ’67,” which gave each unit an unprecedented sense of openness. Nearly 50 years later, he believes the need for this type of building is greater than ever. In this short talk, Safdie surveys a range of projects that do away with the high-rise and let light permeate into densely-packed cities.
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@venkateshdas5422 10 лет назад

One of the coolest talks unexpectedly from an old man.. He really showered the nxt biggest revolution on our daily living architecture . Hats off to his thinking.

@650ib 10 лет назад

I love the concept of open air apartment living and over 3hrs of sunlight measured during the winter solstice! Please build more!

@malickog 4 года назад

I've walked around the perimeter and the main surface of Habitat 67. The feeling you get there is indescribable... I hope this kind of architecture is adopted in our path to sustainable housing and living.

@reddir 10 лет назад

I think it would be very inspiring, at the very least less depressing, to live in such buildings. That they can be affordable as 'middle income housing', amazing.

@keithcheokkeyang 10 лет назад

I live in Singapore and I see that building everyday as I travel to school, its beautiful but expensive to get a unit there.

@TimesNuRoman 10 лет назад

Great stuff. Sunlight and open space have great influences on our well being. Housing should be designed in a way to incorporate the necessary elements of nature, instead of being seen as a barrier to protect us from it.

@eliaschevette 10 лет назад

Bring it to Seattle WA. The city is having a hard time dealing with density problems but is early enough that there are economical feasible ways to build something like this. They could develop 100 city blocks of East Lake into one of this projects. It could double the amount of living spaces for the city, it would provide lake front properties and a brand new commercial zone. Just build from Leschi Park to Colman Park and build on top of the I-90. With the train station serving that area and a renovation of the I-90 this could become a solution for Seattle.

@eliaschevette 10 лет назад

Somebody get me a meeting with Paul Allen I'll talk him into it. lol

@xXAsmodeanXx 10 лет назад

***** does America not have yellow/amber intemediary lights between the red and green?

@xXAsmodeanXx 10 лет назад

***** Hmm sounds interesting, but are you telling me people regularly run red lights in your home country because they get impatient for the green light to come? That is worrying. If there has been study done on the importance on knowing how long until a green light I would be interested to read it if you have a link. Sorry I mistook you for an American I only assumed by the way you suggested in your post that the commenter contact the Seattle Representative.

@MrsBossLady100 10 лет назад

There is no way we can reduce the amount of people in this world. I have 3 children myself and no one is going to stop me from having more. I love his concept of making every apartment building very unique in design. I would love to live at one of those places.

@jessew5152 10 лет назад

He failed to mention the extremely high cost of his idea of economic housing, which is why 67 did not "proliferate". Low-end rent costs are almost $3,000 a month, high end buyouts are almost $2mil. He may (or may not) mean well with his intentions, but time has shown that his residential projects are only meant for the wealthy.

@Jontman42 10 лет назад

Those buildings are frankly beautiful. Large complexes with _layers_ and outdoor platforms, not just rooms packed in a block.

@slwtgf 5 лет назад

We're investing in one of his units..Montreal the Habitat 67 has a waiting list STILL in 2019!

@naturallypedro 10 лет назад

normally people don't want to jump off their 20 story balcony mate.. and if they do it helps the density problem

@Gvantsa 10 лет назад

i'd love to live in that kind of place! looks cool

@starsnstrife 10 лет назад

That is scary high

@TheGerogero 10 лет назад

Proliferate, god damn it.

@TheGerogero 10 лет назад

***** I wouldn't have thought Faceless Men bothered with such trifles, but good luck!

@lesbiancuttlefish5715 10 лет назад

Brilliant!

@AudioVideoDisco06 10 лет назад

That was beautiful!

@Zoza15 10 лет назад

Yes, this is what the entire world needs, better creative ideas to improve on mistakes and repetitiveness and costs. But it comes with a lot of baggage and probably economical reasons too since there is no way to build these complexes fast enough.. And managing apartments in new ways also requires to re manage the entire city.

@RYSD123456 10 лет назад

This is amazing

@hyenaedits3460 10 лет назад

If those buildings become a thing I might rethink my hatred of cities.

@ThisDudeRufus 10 лет назад

That looks like a fall risk. How do you make an open environment so high in the air?

@JD2jr. 10 лет назад

Fences.

@frollard 10 лет назад

Simply...Don't fall?

@chrisconnor5418 10 лет назад

so dope

@awesomelyshorticles 10 лет назад

I think a lot f the problem lies in building with straight lines and ninety degree angles and blocky structures. There was an experiment where test subject were asked questions that would test their logical thinking and the participants would draw straight lines or curvy lines wen drawing straight lines, the participants were less creative, less spontaneous, and thought more objectively about the questions. The people sketching curvy lines were more creative, thinking outside the box, giving answers that were very abstract. They concluded that it was more creatively stimulating to draw rounded shapes than straight lines. To make designing buildings more creative and solve problems of living more forward thinking, buildings should be designed with curves, blended components, and irregular shapes; not cubes, lines, and flat planes.

@whitehousepropertiesllc8123 10 лет назад

Are there any cost considerations?

@Meline213 6 лет назад

awesomeeee

@CutCorners1 10 лет назад

Imagine having a party though... Soo many neighbors to warn... not to mention satisfy with sound levels etc... No thanks i prefer living in a solitary house :) Here i can't bother anyone ^^

@CutCorners1 10 лет назад

Hmm, so you're saying that if i decided to one day bump up my stereo system (which i love to do from time to time just to zone out) nobody would be bothered because of some soundproofing of the building or something? It just seems that all the "apartments" are so close that somebody is gonna be bothered by it ;o not saying i dont love the design and the alternative! Just poking a few holes here :)

@MegaEpicLlama 10 лет назад

boogeyabse I understand where you're coming from. I grew up in apartment buildings in a crowded city similar to the Brazilian one he showed. Many apartments have a big room for parties, and there are community meetings to discuss any issues in the building. These result in rules such as no loud music after 11pm, no large parties/noise inside apartments, etc. It's obviously a bit annoying, but apartments aren't very big anyways. That's why we had the community room, which is large for medium-large sized parties, there's a kitchen and bathrooms, sometimes fun stuff like ping-pong table, etc. There is where we used to have BBQs, birthday parties, even yoga lessons! I know it's not the same as living in your own isolated house, but you learn to adapt and it's really not that bad at all.

@ParisuSama 10 лет назад

I live in a high rise building and have a massive stereo system and trust me, no one can hear it. Any high rise building made in the last few years has concrete walls within the apartment and the floors and walls. Not live in crappy old buildings where everything is dry wall. People won't ever hear you because it is SO soundproof its almost unbelievable.

@Zoza15 10 лет назад

There is always a apartment for people like you and that are able to live in such beautiful complexes.. The sort of luxury apartment with social people are mostly family members and socialized people like friends etc. And yeah, listening hard music shouldn't be an issue since the walls are pretty sound barricade proof (most of the time) Or you need to look elsewhere pal.

@endxofxeternity 10 лет назад

I'd love a building like this is Melbourne. Is there a purpose for the white design? Instead of a natural wood finish.

@ParisuSama 10 лет назад

I live in Singapore with that giant building at the end of the video with the longest pool and all the life and its a hotel, not a living place.

@菊池涼介カッコイイ 5 лет назад

unique design

@roxanneworld11 10 лет назад

we should pay attention to what he is offering.

@CurtHowland 10 лет назад

The problem is that central planning doesn't work. He cannot create a city that will work, because his idea isn't what other people want. It can only grow organically.

@5to22a 10 лет назад

They give this guy 5 minutes but the nth guy who wants to moan about global warming and offer no solutions...?

@Dem00000nN 10 лет назад

Now that is some swimming pool!

@supernewuser 10 лет назад

I want to see some more angles of that pool. No way could I live in that.

@adrianm7203 10 лет назад

This is good but cities need to be easily expandable. I get the feeling that building onto this thing might be bit difficult

@fjoa123 10 лет назад

horizontal expansion of cities bring forth mobility problems, which are by far the worse a big city can have. pollution, energy missuse, time wasted, accidents, etc.

@ajawalkure 10 лет назад

SINGAPOREEEEE

@namgyuho4887 10 лет назад

Half the students in a nearby school would live in the same building lol

@FreedomValentine 10 лет назад

That condominium in Singapore? Not affordable. Even though it counts as middle-income housing, buyers are mostly higher middle-income earners.

@myForumDaily 10 лет назад

there's buildings like this in Jerusalem

@brucetsai7732 6 месяцев назад

i was a bit confused by the word habitat

@subach 10 лет назад

Build that stuff in Manhattan now!

@TigerPrawn_ 10 лет назад

Brilliant idea, love the contact with nature part. But the buildings, in my opinion, are extremely ugly.

@premier69 9 лет назад

I kept thinking Peach Trees from the movie Dredd

@MarieMandolin 10 лет назад

Saw that one in Montreal in 1967. Apartment is the worse place to live. People was not meant to be closed in or packed together like a snow ball.

@moshesafdie968 3 года назад

Thanks for your likes and comments , you can message me on my email address moshesafdie91@gmail

@Steadfish 10 лет назад

Looks like something someone would make in MineCraft.

@alexandrinavictoria713 8 месяцев назад

Concrete and glass. Ancient architecture ages gracefully, but these concrete and glass boxes look terrible when they age.

@nejcmeister 10 лет назад

Earthquake + long pool on the roof = surfing

@justgivemethetruth 10 лет назад

0:49 - "So, Let's design a building ..." How about let's reduce how many people there are on the Earth.

@nahiag 10 лет назад

You've got the power to reduce that number by one. If you wish you can do it.

@eliaschevette 10 лет назад

Easiest way to lower the number of children that women have is to educate women and raise their quality of life. Mexico went from 6 children per women to 2.1 in about three decades by raising their quality of life. Europe has done such a good job of raising the quality of life of women that many countries are losing population or depend on immigration to replenish work forces. Canada and the USA are so dependent on immigration to replenish their work forces that if either one of those countries doesn't increase the number of immigrants in the next ten years they won't have enough workers to sustain their older population. Even China and India are stabilizing their population and in the next decade will start to lose population. Help a women be better that's the answer.

@lxc647 10 лет назад

I don't think the problem is with our population. The Earth was not created equal and neither are we. It's all about resources and how you put it to use. Before Saudi Arabia found their rich oil deposits, they were extremely poor and did not have the sort of luxury they have today. Now look at them, they have several of the world's most iconic buildings. Similarly, if poorer countries found extremely valued resources on their land now, they could change in matter of years. However it may be, they aren't getting worse, they're just developing much slower because of the little resources they have to work with. And it wouldn't help if the leader of those countries have no vision and don't know how to capitalize on valuable resources.

@lxc647 10 лет назад

Kai Chen We are taking action but just very slowly. A lot of rich people are actually doing great things with their money but even with their charity, ending poverty related issues isn't an easy task. People like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are actually planning to donate 80% of their wealth to charity after they pass away, they want their future generations to work for their wealth instead of inheriting it.

@216trixie 10 лет назад

Women's rights=population control.

@checkeraka47 10 лет назад

They really need to let these speakers talk for a time more appropriate to what they have to say.

@MakeMeThinkAgain 10 лет назад

Sadly, I would argue that Safdie still doesn't under stand the urban experience. They are just very big suburban constructions.

@DizzyDisco93 10 лет назад

That isn't the longest pool in the world.

@wmjessemiller 10 лет назад

then what is?

@DizzyDisco93 10 лет назад

The pool at San Alfonso del Mar is a little over a kilometer.

@MegaEpicLlama 10 лет назад

DizzyDisco93 Maybe he meant longest pool in a building?

@DizzyDisco93 10 лет назад

MegaEpicLlama I think that's the case. It's the longest pool I know of that sits on top of a building.

@xXAsmodeanXx 10 лет назад

How could those buildings possibly be middle income housing. Plop one down in a Australia and the realtors will make it luxury housing.

@callowaymotorcompany 9 лет назад

Plop 500 down and it's devalued.

@CurtHowland 10 лет назад

Losing mobility is the entire point of the high-density religion. They don't want peopel to move distances, they want people to be close to everything they do.

@Blurns 10 лет назад

Why?

@contermann2 7 лет назад

I´m not sure..to me this looks like Le Corbusier´s Paris Plan 2.0

@ArtstradaMagazine 10 лет назад

Something that can change the course of human self destruction and that can be done today.

@howardkoor2796 10 лет назад

Very progressive thinker.

@ORDENACONSTRUIR 10 лет назад

the thing is that he is only doing what a fabelas, or informal housing, have been doing for almost a decade, I can see a lot af problems like a desconection between the public espace of the city and his project, like makind an island. and that is not a solution

@tyman91tp 3 года назад

"Middle income housing"

@edmond186 10 лет назад

come youtube firsyly,cann't understand it.

@LeroyBrown 3 года назад

Housing of the commons, coming to a foreclosure and eviction moratorium near you.

@jonbrotto 10 лет назад

I live in Montreal and the habitat 67 is an example of non practical housing. Everyone who lives there does so because of name, but heating of the units is comparable to a house in the country with none of the benefits of a fireplace. Also neighbors are so close and can overlook your property that there is no privacy from several angles. Also this unit was poorly placed as it not close to anything. This is what not to do as a heritage site that can't be destroyed like the Olympic stadium which has parts of the roof collapsing every so many years.

@CrannyNoko 10 лет назад

Good ideas and everything, but horrible blocky designs.

@justgivemethetruth 10 лет назад

As a scientist and engineer I can't help but think these things are kind of cool, but I can also see a bit of arrogance in pushing nature to its limits to serve man when in most cases these kinds of engineering are not really needed. Technology becomes its own excuse, and we all know that the real driver of technology is at the heart of things, war.

@shway1 7 лет назад

no, the real driver of technology is basic scientific research, which is often government funded, which is often justified in the name of security. We can continue to advance technology without war.

@justgivemethetruth 7 лет назад

Why did you waste my time with what is a stupid statement. You said: -- technology is basic scientific research, which is often government funded, which is often justified in the name of security. Security is just a warm and fuzzier name for war.

@shway1 7 лет назад

You're wasting your own time arguing against strawmen you create. I didn't say technology is basic scientific research. I said the real driver of technology is basic scientific research (not war). I said it's often justified in the name of security - maybe if you were't such an idiot jumping to conclusions you would realize that means I don't necessarily agree with it. and then you conveniently leave out the rest of my comment in which I reiterate and underscore the fact that war and technological advancement are not inextricably linked. You pretend to care about the truth and then you misrepresent my comment. Don't be such a fucking idiot. Stop and think.

@trainrover 4 года назад

ending on rehashed Honolulu blight's much ::pfft::

@TheDermitdemwolf 10 лет назад

i think after ww3 maybe this ll be happen

@germanyevenescantillana7675 3 года назад

,👏👏👏

@CurtHowland 10 лет назад

"We can't sustain suburbs" That is false.

@armandomanuelhernandeztorr327 4 года назад

Lol

@id104335409 10 лет назад

As soon as I saw his design - GTFO! Those things are UGLY.

@Benamon9 10 лет назад

Same thing happened when I saw you! Lol jk.

@miskee11 10 лет назад

seems a bit gay and naive. putting a few plants here and there only creates an illusion of eco-friendliness or sustainability.

@lclkm 10 лет назад

Not informative.

@venkateshdas5422 10 лет назад

One of the coolest talks unexpectedly from an old man.. He really showered the nxt biggest revolution on our daily living architecture . Hats off to his thinking.