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Brooke and Bakema prefer to deal with a specific customer and are opponents of an anonymous order, naturally inevitable in municipal construction. Therefore, to characterize the creativity of Brook and Bakemem, the construction of mansions is indicative. Here the “idea of the threshold” plays a dominant role.
Among the many mansions in terms of clarity of identifying this concept, the personal mansion of Brook in Rotterdam, 1953 is distinguished. The street deaf facade of this mansion for greater isolation is fenced with a light brick wall; The facade, which goes into the garden, has an outer open staircase to the second floor and is completely glazed, it is completely open to nature. The features of the planning of the house are interesting – a clear separation of the common rooms opened with a transfusing space for daytime stay and for receptions of guests and closed, different scale of personal use. To create an original design, you may need to buy interior items to choose which you should especially carefully.
In recent years, in the work of Brook and Bakems there have been a departure from the rigorism of functional architecture and the transition to more free forms dictated by new constructions. The first experience in this direction was the radio center building in Hilversum (1956-1961.), built in co -authorship with x. B. I. Lop. Next followed the Town Hall in Marle (1958-1962.), conceived by the authors, not as a luxurious representative building, but as a complex that “organizationally and plastic would express the face of the new gauze in the heart of the capital”. In the main auditorium building of the Higher Technical School of the University of Dovfta (1966.) Brooke and Bakem in collaboration with Reinsdorp, Bot and de Groot set a task for themselves to give an answer to the demands of “total” architecture, the purpose of which is to satisfy all the needs of people.