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Randomic City
The terrain is constituted by repetitions spaced by habitational condominiums, industrial installations, franchises and shopping centers. A residual world: it is what it remained after that the area was emptied of all community life and historical memory. Shelter of the illegal one and the uncontrollable, subject to infinite manipulations. It is an amalgam of strict ordered sections and free configurations in all the remainder of the area. The result is an enormous proliferation of equipment of connections - bridges, viaducts and all type of passages. The infrastructure, normally integrated and totalizing, becomes more and more competitive and local. It does not intend to create operative sets, but only functional entities. Instead of networks, the new infrastructure creates enclaves and impasses.
Reference: R. Koolhaas. "The Generic City". S,M,L,XL, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1995.
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