Void Capital: The City of Perpetual Modernity

Void Capital: The City of Perpetual Modernity

Void Capital provides a template, an open source architectural blueprint for urban densification. The city naturally demolishes and preserves its built forms, to achieve a dense dynamic city. However, in the name of ‘history’, or ‘quality’, this natural re-actualisation process is discontinued. Voi...

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Main Author: Iason Stathatos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: TU Delft Open 2018-04-01
Series:Spool
Subjects:
void captial
architecture
density
Online Access:https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/spool/article/view/2092
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spelling doaj-c6d11e4c5b6d449c8a63ff887f526d8d2021-02-09T12:08:41ZengTU Delft OpenSpool 2215-08972215-09002018-04-0152-10.7480/spool.2018.2.2092Void Capital: The City of Perpetual ModernityIason Stathatos0OMA Void Capital provides a template, an open source architectural blueprint for urban densification. The city naturally demolishes and preserves its built forms, to achieve a dense dynamic city. However, in the name of ‘history’, or ‘quality’, this natural re-actualisation process is discontinued. Void Capital reintroduces the historic centre of the European metropolis as City of Perpetual Modernity. Its tools are typologies of the city’s periphery, combined to create ever-new architectural arrangements. Implemented in Paris, the project renegotiates the typologies of the Grand Ensemble (the Housing District) and the Quartier d’Affaires (the Business District), both once positive icons of modernity, now fallen into despair.  https://ojs-libaccp.tudelft.nl/index.php/spool/article/view/2092void captialarchitecturedensity
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architecture
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title Void Capital: The City of Perpetual Modernity
title_short Void Capital: The City of Perpetual Modernity
title_full Void Capital: The City of Perpetual Modernity
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description Void Capital provides a template, an open source architectural blueprint for urban densification. The city naturally demolishes and preserves its built forms, to achieve a dense dynamic city. However, in the name of ‘history’, or ‘quality’, this natural re-actualisation process is discontinued. Void Capital reintroduces the historic centre of the European metropolis as City of Perpetual Modernity. Its tools are typologies of the city’s periphery, combined to create ever-new architectural arrangements. Implemented in Paris, the project renegotiates the typologies of the Grand Ensemble (the Housing District) and the Quartier d’Affaires (the Business District), both once positive icons of modernity, now fallen into despair. 
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architecture
density
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