Urban Factory
Today, our cities have to be open to change, thus be flexible and interactive in order to survive this era which brings us new challanges every day, economical and environmental. But we still keep building rigid structures which do not interact with their users. Cities have to become denser, while keeping the open space for public and nature as much as possible and adapt to the change in society and their needs.
Unlike many other architectural elements, containers offer us premade modules which can be reconfigured in infinite ways. As it can also be seen in ports, they can be constructed and de/re constructed independent from time and space. Containers also can offer users the opportunity to choose and configure their own space according to their own needs and bugdet. So why dont we make us of them?
Using a system quite similar to that used in ports to keep containers in stacks, it is proposed to construct frames that can be put together and keep a number of containers independent from each other. Each frame acts as a zone and programmed accordingly, while all are connected to each other via a central access core. These frames can be reprogrammed and reused on demand, making the complex flexible.
It is also aimed to be flexible in housing scale. Using each 20' container for one or two connected functions and putting them together in many different ways, users can define their own house before it is assambled, in connection with other units the house is going to be assambled on or with. Architecture becomes much more user based and less dictative with the use of containers. |
