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(CONCEPT)

/FUNCIONAMIENTO/

(IMPLEMENTATION AT AN URBAN SCALE_URBAN SYSTEM)

disco

kaleidoscope
psicodelia

bonobo- cirrus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF34N4gJAKE

cooling, heating and power PLANT

Description of the system

process- 2. brainstorm

BRAZIL

Suffocating corridors, vacuum tube

and neon electronics, typewriters

as keyboards, ubiquitous little flat

screens, tiny cars, ductwork and

pipes everywhere.

Dominant environment over people.

Propaganda, Regime and progress.

Hide degraded reality.

DENSITY.

PIPES.

WHAT IS/CAN BE A PIPE/DUCT? 

1.Whenever there is a new building being constructed in the center of Berlin, the foundations reach into the water and the construction site is constantly flooded by the ground-water.

2. WATERWALK TUBE

Theo Botschuiver and Jeffrey Shaw, 1970

3.CHICAGO TUNNEL SYSTEM

62-mile grid.Most of the tunnel system was operated using overhead lines and trolley poles for power. Several theaters bought tunnel air to keep audiences cool.

4. Carsten Höller

"Test Site" Slides TATE MODERN

5. R. Banham, 1969.

A home is not a house.

...a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi reverberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters(...) so many services that the hardware could stand up by itself without any assistance from the house, why have a house to hold it up.

Environment-bubble

computer systems-

First approaches to the concept of the building.

proceso_ 1

Concept.

The scale of the place. The size of Kowloon Walled City.

The perception of the place. ISOLATED AND PERMEABLE at the same time.