Towards Sustainable Urban-ism: A lesson from The "Wall" System
1 History of the Walled City. How did it end up in anarchist model and became an organic mega-structure?
2 THE PROGRM OF THE CITY - movement, interaction and transformation How did the city work? Build in no order, unlike the informal structure that we, architects, design today. It gives us a lesson on the nature of being. We need to think about how this chaotic system can be apply into our design to fit what people need? Do we still design the form or we design steps for people to build their own cities? #
The narrow alleyways
Buildings ('sold' and 'rent' like squatter's right)
Stairs, corridor (The interconnected network. How they extended autonomously when a new building was established? How the buildings sharing same stairs?)
The chaos inside (spaces had multiple uses)
The Wall. (People were set free inside.)
6 Case Study on informal structure/ cities
Fix Structure but expandable Space
Fixed Structure and fixed dwelling, but replaceable and expandable structure
Fixed structure and fixed dwelling, but self- built
Bogota, Columbia
Plug- in City
Elemental's " incremental" housing (Quinta Monroy) / Monterrey Housing in Mexico/ Alejandro Aravena
Highway in the West Harlem- fairway insertion
Walter Segal, Self- Build Project
Akiko's self build project
Nakagin Capsule Tower
Metabolism
Fixed Structure, open Spece
The verticle slum: Torre David
Le Corbusie, Domino Hows
4 Towards new direction for architectural strategies
5 Evolution of the social norms. What is the position of architects?
3 Space, Time and Architecture -
Refection on tradition architectural strategies on city planning (Adaptability/ Over- determination/ Focusing on form)
1) Against Design base on Form -> Movement of Deconstructionism: " Disorder of dream of purity of form" and "disorder of thinking about form"* . The designs focus mainly on the meaning of element, such as walls, colums
2) Improve Adaptability -> Movement of Metabolism
3) Self- generated
The Growth
Rem Koolhass " to re-establish the architect in the position of subject in a history of which he had been dispossessed by a repression, of which one essential object was the culture of modernity."
David Harvey: the regime of flexible accumulation
Self- sufficient ( water and electricity supply, drainage and sewage system)
an unresolved organic algrithm
Military Structure
Flexible Structure, expandable space.
Military technology
Kowloon Walled City is a 4th dimension space. The space evolved with time. Hard to separate its history and program.
Instant City, Peter Cook
not sure about the structure yet.