OFFICE 37

(A) Green Archipelago is a project for 4 inhabited forests on the Lake of Marken. These forests are island-cities, which – in the tradition of the Greek Polis – accommodate a maximum of 40.000 inhabitants. Each island is covered by a grid of trees, 10 meters apart from one another. They define the forest. On the surface of the forest, walls of 3.3 meters high define long, low parallel spaces. This is a base structure for patio-villa’s and corridors. Large cut-outs from this ground layer of forest and walls define the collective spaces. It is in these spaces that the demands of health care, which are intrinsically spatial, are organised: A quiet garden with apple-trees, an indoor swimming pool, a square surrounded by commercial- & public services... These are the key spaces of the collective consciousness. Thus this city is essentially shaped by the collective.