The ’15-minute City’, the ’10-minute City, or the ‘Distributed City’ will only become possible if they are based on these three options: 1. The COMPACT CITY instead of the dispersed city, 2. COLLECTIVE HOUSING instead of single-family houses and 3. The INTERACTION OF FUNCTIONS instead of the segregation of uses.
Why Density? is a set of tools created by a+t research group in order to build the dense city. These involve practical urban-level concepts applied to specific collective housing buildings. All the illustrations have been done specifically for this publication.
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Photo: Christian Richters
The illustration of the elephant is a reference to the issue of the relationship between what can be perceived at first sight and what normally goes unseen. An internal organization is known to exist yet we are not always aware of its material nature.
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Why Density? is a set of tools created by a+t research group in order to build the dense city. These involve practical urban-level concepts applied to specific collective housing buildings. All the illustrations have been done specifically for this publication.
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Drawing by a+t research group. Published in the book Why Density?
The Mirador building by MVRDV & Blanca Lleó contains an extensive patchwork of situations and dwelling types in order to lodge the contemporary diversity and individuality. It’s about integrating different lifestyles. The large lookout point gives a privileged public space and also a global identity.
TWO SUPERIM.
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Following the demolition of the constructions and the recovery of the setting as a nature park, the road network was adapted for limited visitor circulation. The main road (2 km) was reduced to a single 3.5 metre section and was uniformly resurfaced with asphalt. Only two roads which divided the beach have been taken up and replaced by one single road further away.
The section type of the reused road comprises two steel lateral profiles between which the asphalt surfacing is laid out..
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Author of the video: Bozena Kluba
“I organize my spaces. I work for the pedestrian not for the aviator. I think about the person looking out of their bedroom or living room window. I wander through these imaginary spaces..."
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