A Wonderful World Aaron Plewke Studio Arets | McCarter Spring 2010
Framework f or a Heterotopia: Recombination and the Morphology of Networked Urbanism Aaron Plewke Studio Arets | McCarter Spring 2010 Heterotopia, literally [an]other place, is a term that was first used in medicine to describe a cell or group of cells living non-malignantly within a host cell or tissue. Michel Foucault adapted the term in the sixties to explain an emerging phenomenon—spaces and places were coming into being which interrupted the apparent continuity and normality of ordinary, everyday space, but did so in a way that was not detrimental to their host. By identifying these places where processes of change and hybridization were being harbored, Foucault implied that heterotopias could be testing grounds for future spatial conditions, and that they could effectively give birth to new norms.
Cadavre Exquis - Genetic Recombination Collaboration with James Morgan
Moving ahead to the present, heterotopias have evolved from being understood as the result of society creating [an]other place within a classical or modernist single-center spatial environment, and are now also theorized as the organizing network or field within which distinct and often contradictory conditions reside (the city as a layered structure of heterotopic nodes and networks, for example).
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+ An ocean liner from a children’s book + OMA’s competition proposal for Parc de La Villette in Paris (1908 and 1982, respectively). “During the life of the park, the programme will undergo constant change and adjustment. The more the park works, the more it will be in a perpetual state of revision. Its ‘design’ should therefore be the proposal of a method that combines architectural specificity with programmatic indeterminacy. In other words, we see this scheme not simply as a design but mostly as a tactical proposal to derive maximum benefit from the implantation on the site of a number of activities...The underlying principle of programmatic indeterminacy as a basis of the formal concept allows any shift, modification, replacement, or substitution to occur without damaging the initial hypothesis.” -Rem Koolhaas, “Congestion without Matter: Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1982,” in S, M, L, XL
Heteroto pic Transmog rif ication SANAA’s 21st Century Museum + Constant ’s Ne w Babylon
+ SANAA’s 21st Century Museam at Kanazawa, Japan + Constant’s New Babylon Nord a speculative project on the city (2004 and 1971, respectively). “...the grid has historically proven to be a particularly effective field operation, extending a framework across a vast surface for flexible and changing development over time... This organization lends legibility and order to the surface while allowing for the autonomy and individuality of each part, and remaining open to permutations over time.” -James Corner, “Terra Fluxus,” The Landscape Urbanism Reader
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