A Plan for Paradise
Een stad bouwen voor 600.000 bewoners in een vallei buiten Kathmandu. ‘Moet kunnen’, zegt het Finse architectenbureau Helin&Co. Na het winnen van de prijsvraag gaan de architecten aan de slag. Wat volgt is een cultureclash tussen de georganiseerde, westerse manier van denken en het kleinschalige, traditionele Nepalese leven.
Build a city for 600,000 inhabitants in a valley outside Kathmandu. ‘We can do that,’ said the Finnish architecture firm Helin&Co. After winning the competition, the architects set to work. What follows is a culture clash between an organized, Western way of thinking and small-scale traditional life in Nepal. In sometimes hilarious fashion the film exposes the deep-rooted differences between the two worlds and shows the persistent efforts of the Finnish architects to create order in the apparent chaos of a misunderstood culture. ‘Look, that’s how we work with wood here,’ says one of the architects as he shows a Nepalese delegation around in Finland. ‘And we want to do the same in Nepal.’ The Nepalese nod politely, but know enough.
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Een stad bouwen voor 600.000 bewoners in een vallei buiten Kathmandu. ‘Moet kunnen’, zegt het Finse architectenbureau Helin&Co. Na het winnen van de prijsvraag gaan de architecten aan de slag. Wat volgt is een cultureclash tussen de georganiseerde, westerse manier van denken en het kleinschalige, traditionele Nepalese leven.
Build a city for 600,000 inhabitants in a valley outside Kathmandu. ‘We can do that,’ said the Finnish architecture firm Helin&Co. After winning the competition, the architects set to work. What follows is a culture clash between an organized, Western way of thinking and small-scale traditional life in Nepal. In sometimes hilarious fashion the film exposes the deep-rooted differences between the two worlds and shows the persistent efforts of the Finnish architects to create order in the apparent chaos of a misunderstood culture. ‘Look, that’s how we work with wood here,’ says one of the architects as he shows a Nepalese delegation around in Finland. ‘And we want to do the same in Nepal.’ The Nepalese nod politely, but know enough.
