Winy Maas of MVDRV showcases the innovative work of twelve students from the 2006 Marcus Prize Studio, exploring the interplay between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. They envision a hyper-volumetric city in Tianjin, China, where urban activity occupies three dimensions, accommodating 5 million residents and featuring advanced airborne transportation.
University Of Wisconsin Mvrdv Books
Metacity/Datatown
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
An attempt to understand the contemporary city at a moment when globalisation has exploded its scale beyond our grasp. Abandoning topography,ideology, representation, and context, the authors resort to pure data to discover what agenda for architecture and urbanism a numerical approach could provoke.
Dutch architect and urban designer Winy Maas posed a provocative question to a workshop for young Could they redesign the cities of Rotterdam and New York so that everything could be reached within five minutes? This book looks at the responses to such a challenging brief, and the answers will surprise anyone who has considered the form of the modern city.
10 of the most innovative and open-minded architectural working spaces are presented here. They sites include internationally recognized projects such as MVRDV, MAX and NOX.