The research project on “The City as an Aggregated Objects”, is based on the assumption that the City and its Architecture becomes articulated through three primary entities: the territory, the streets and the subdivision of land. In the history of urban design this territorial setting has cause a multiplicity of architectural diagrams, in particular this three: a.) The pre-modern diagram, whereby buildings stand wall to wall to each other and frame the urban space of the street. b.) The modern diagram, which detaches the building from the property boundary and places it freely in the middle of its land, and c.) the post-modern diagram, which splits the building apart and produces a ground within the building itself.
Based on the planar subdivision of lots and blocks in Los Angeles, the research aims to originate and find new forms of urban aggregation: Architectural Aggregates as hybrids of the one we know or even identify new ones. The methodology of the research is to use computation devises to fuse the metrical properties of an urban block of LA and the metrical properties of LA roads, with the properties of the natural topography of the hills of Los Angeles.
The research project speculates on a new model of urbanisation, to find ways not ignore the qualities of the skin of the earth, but to use its capacities to find new ways of cohabitation won our planet.
Credits: Peter Trummer with Ursula Frick & Thomas Grabner
Research Team: Allan Sillay & Jae Lee
