In 1993 Zvi Hecker started a series of sketches in which he turned a mountain panorama into a concept for mass housing. Looking for freedom from the “obsessive repetition of the parallelogram grid” that continues to define mass housing, Hecker’s fascination with his “Mountains” has persisted through much of his later career, with proposed and re-proposed iterations of the scheme for Rotterdam, Bucharest, Berlin, London and, as seen here, as a transformation of Amsterdam’s former harbour areas. Colossal in vision as well as scale, these peak projects have yet to find a client. See drawings from the whole range of “Mountains” on the uncube blog. I (gk)
Mountains Housing Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1999.
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