When I was in Poland recently I was so happy to see some K67 Kiosks. I was introduced to them a few years ago on a trip to Slovenia. The K67 Kiosk was designed in 1966 by the Slovenian architect and designer Saša J. Mächtig. The system is based on polyfibre reinforced modules which can be used as single units or combin
Kiosk K67 / based on design by: Saša J. Mächtig. Author of illustration: Gjorgji Despodov.
Rent a piece of history : original design from the communist period. The Kioski or "K67"was designed in 1966 by the Slovenian architect and designer Saša J. Mächtig.
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Saša J. Mächtig conçu par le designer slovène Saša J. Mächtig une "unité multifonctionnelle" aus verstärktem Polyester.
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Saša J. Mächtig conçu par le designer slovène Saša J. Mächtig une "unité multifonctionnelle" fabriqué en polyester renforcé.
Saša J. Mächtig designed by Slovenian designer Saša J. Mächtig a "multifunctional unit" made of reinforced polyester.
A Yugoslav design classic, the K67 kiosk was developed in the mid-60s as a simple, modular product to solve all number of small-scale concerns of the type you'd ordinarily associate with kiosks. Supposedly, several K67's combined together could also serve as "a small dwelling unit" although this would seem to present some dimensional problems, and it doesn't seem to have ever actually happened. K67s were produced by the truckload; they pepper the former Yugoslavia, and to a lesser extent the Eastern bloc generally. As state-produced products with no real competition during their heyday (except knockoffs produced by other Communist states!), they are arguably among the most significant Communist contributions to the European urban landscape. In any case they seem far more loveable and more harmless than their more famous state-manufactured cousins, the Plattenbau. Actually, though, the fates of kiosks and Plattenbau may be closely linked; several of the essays in Ideals in Concrete touch on the two together. Wolfgang Kil's "New towns become normal towns too," for example, sees kiosks as one of several incubators that allow small entrepreneurs to open up shop in the formerly all-residential Plattenbau districts. Given enough time and support, he suggests, such enterprise will accomplish the transformation of Modernist functional segregation into "normal" urbanism. Huh! I can't help but think of the recent food-truck trend in the States. We have our own exhausted, functionally-segregated urbanism to deal with, and if it's not always as drab as Marzahn, it definitely needs help. Downtown Columbus, for example, while hardly the worst-hit Midwest downtown, is still a shocking office-tower ghost town on the weekends - - when the Dunkin Donuts isn't even open for Pete's sake. This past weekend saw the annual Independent's Day Festival, which, in the way of such things, retook a couple of largely-empty streets with the usual mix of musicians, craft vendors, secondhand salespeople, and food stands... plus most of the rising stars in the food-truck scene. It was a pleasant day out, and while nothing groundbreaking in the world of architecture, I have to say in a weird way it made the city itself more visible. I've never really poked around that part of downtown before, and - - who knew?! - there are a couple of little bars and diners squirreled away on Pearl Alley! I don't know if they minded the competition of the food trucks; for all I know they were rooting them on. Or maybe some of them are actually in on the business; I know that lots of food trucks are effectively satellite versions of established restaurants... Annnnnyway, though...back to kiosks: the recent K67: The Kiosk Shots project is worth poking through, particularly this essay by Helge Kühnel. She suggests that the kiosks have a particular cultural resonance in the human geography of Eastern Europe, forming a vast network of K67-inhabited places. Seeing one is almost like a comforting signpost of home: "Lost? Don't Worry - You're Still In Eastern Europe!" Kühnel includes a couple of diagrammatic maps of this idea, including one of Ljubljana, which of course doesn't include this one or the other K67 I spotted in town. But of course, it's in the nature of a kiosk to be (A) portable and (B) kind of anonymous - one might easily miss tons of them even while consciously trying to survey them, just because they blend into the infrastructure. Maybe not when they're bright-green mod kiosks, but you get the idea. I'm curious of the impressions of my Eastern European friends, particularly those from FYROs - - Hristina, have you ever seen one of these?
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