Vertical Village, The Why Factory
by MVRDV
Computer software generates endless possible architectural configurations from standardised components. MVRV are talking again about new ways of creating architecture that no longer responds to extenernal inputns or the environment of a particular place or culture. It standarizes the living towards a more effective and systematized solution in the living building construction and structure. Analytical research, models, animations, installations, a documentary
and two software packages demonstrate the possibility to develop dense,
vertical urban villages.he concept was developed in collaboration with The Why Factory, a global think tank and research institute run by MVRDV and the Delft University of Technology.
The pressure on the East Asian cities has lead to an increasing
urbanization and densification during the last decades. It has made
way for the construction of giant buildings, mostly towers, blocks and
slabs. A ‘Block Attack’ that gradually replaces and scrapes away the
more traditional low rise, small scale, often ‘lighter’ types of
architecture and urbanism: the Hutong in Beijing, the small wooden
houses in Tokyo, the villages in Singapore, the individual houses in
Taipei and other East Asian cities. These urban villages form mostly
intense and socially highly connected communities, with enormous
individual identities and differentiations. One can speak of urban
ecologies, communities that have evolved over the course of centuries.
Their faceless replacements packed with identical apartment units offer a
Western standard of living at an affordable price, but at the expense
of differentiation, flexibility and individual expression. (by The Why Factory)
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