Trentham, New Zealand, Australia
Year 1946 latitude: -41° 7' longitude: 175° 2' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Ernst Anton Plischke Design organization Inhabitants 3,798 (2006) Target population 5,000 Town website Town related links http://www.city-gallery.org.nz/mainsite/further-information2.html?mode=prin t http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kunstgeschichte/projekte/exilarchitekten/ar chitekten/plischke.htm http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/housing/films.html Literature - Plischke, Ernst A., Ein leben mit Architektur / Ernst A. Plischke, Löcker, Wien 1989 - August Sarnitz; Eva Ottilinger, Ernst Plischke: Modern Architecture for the New World. The Complete Works, Prestel, Munich – Berlin – London – New York 2004 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Trentham was build to house around 4,000 to 5,000 residents. Approximately 1,000 dwelling houses surround the community centre in the middle. Plischke's typological design approach reveals a continuity in his work unusual in modernism (Sarnitz). His larger projects Naenae and Tamaki extend the plan for Trentham and let the number of residents grow to 15,000 and 30,000 respectively, canonizing Plischke's form giving. Plischke aimed at creating variety through the use of entirety concepts. In his plan for Trentham the design and layout of roads is differentiated. Plischke divided main streets and streets for living in a design with residential streets formed as loops and cul-de-sacs within which there were connected paths and green areas removed from the traffic. The houses surround a park with sports grounds, shops, schools, theatres, and the paths link them all together. source:
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