Sunday, October 9, 2011

Infrastructural Urbanism

Infrastructural Urbanism is a branch of urbanism which offers a new model for practice and a renewed sense of architecture's potential to structure the future of the city.  ( Infrastructure Urbanism, Stan Allen)

In our studio's recent assignment, we are designing a series of infrastructure to improve riverfront area in Detroit. This is a way to work at the larger scale that escapes master planning. However, that doesn't mean that we could neglect mapping,  projection, notation and visualization. We are just designing infrastructural projects to give people some brand-new experience.

Like the Swimming Pool showing left, the artist designed this infrastructural project to attract people to the site area. It worked really well. Human curiosity is been considered a lot in this case. Our projects are the same, to design  infrastructural projects to attract people to Detroit and make it revatalized.
Posted by Shuchen Lin

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