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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Metabolist"”.
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The afterlife of megastructures in the aftermath of mega-events: the case of Cape Town Stadium
… scaled or articulated by structure. Informed by Metabolist megastructure thought, adaptive reuse is explored in an approach that regards the existing as a robust permanent structure and introduces a secondary order of architecture: more delicate and less robust - that augments the existing …
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The Densification of Historic Districts: Applying Metabolism to the Cast Iron
… groups of architects, most notably, the Japanese Metabolists of the 1960’s began to explore what future cities would look like. They conceptualized premanufactured blocks inserted within a framework where an entire building or parts of buildings could be added or removed with demand. The …
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MAIDAKUTIBVISA - Developing networks of permanence and impermanence within Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, through the preservation and adaptation of informal infrastructure.
… investigation of spatial theories such as the Metabolist theory and critical regionalism to solve the spatial issues that currently exist within this nomadic and ever-changing context. What? To test these the results of my dissertation investigation, the design and creation of market spaces …
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Urban Archipelago reconsidered : a new metabolism in Tokyo Bay for contemporary coastal urbanism
… transportation and logistics infrastructure. The Metabolist imaginary envisioned Tokyo Bay as a site of continuous urban growth towards a mega-scale climax state; ground was taken for granted and the possibilities of urban decline or reconstruction were hardly considered within the same design …
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The Physical from the Void
This thesis confronts the ultimate limits of perceiving the constructed world and the limits of our ability to experience architecture. The imperative of architecture is poetic: to and project encounters between matter and energy that shape the existing and bring forth the as yet unimagined to form …