MAt-building is a special case of networks urbanism, operating at large scale with high density and porosity, providing a loose scaffolding to absorb multiple programmatic variance and flexible use over time.
One of my favorite quotes from the article: "In mat configurations, section is not the product of stacking (discrete layers, as in a conventional building section), but of weaving, warping, folding, oozing, interlacing, or knotting together".
This article is quite interesting. The part where it talks about the survivability of mat-building perhaps in new forms or interpretations is intriguing. I understood that in the sense that what is mat-building back then (70's) is what the AA in London, today or better yet since the mid 90's, is calling Landscape Urbanism. Much like Wigley's argument that everything has been thought of before in "Network Fever". LU emerges as maybe a child of mat-building.
MAt-building is a special case of networks urbanism, operating at large scale with high density and porosity, providing a loose scaffolding to absorb multiple programmatic variance and flexible use over time.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite quotes from the article:
ReplyDelete"In mat configurations, section is not the product of stacking (discrete layers, as in a conventional building section), but of weaving, warping, folding, oozing, interlacing, or knotting together".
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ReplyDeleteThis article is quite interesting. The part where it talks about the survivability of mat-building perhaps in new forms or interpretations is intriguing. I understood that in the sense that what is mat-building back then (70's) is what the AA in London, today or better yet since the mid 90's, is calling Landscape Urbanism. Much like Wigley's argument that everything has been thought of before in "Network Fever". LU emerges as maybe a child of mat-building.
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