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| http://www.megastructure-reloaded.org/yona-friedman/ |
Yona Friedman's "Spatial City" proposed an architecture where the occupant, not the structure, was mobile. The structure was a raised grid where the supports allowed vertical circulation space, and the grid allowed space for occupants to build their own homes. I would say that this example also overlaps considerably with flexible. This is probably a direct influence on Cedric Price's Fun Palace.
Yona Friedman (*1923) developed his concept of Ville spatiale, the Spatial City, on the basis of two elementary thoughts: Architecture should only provide a framework, in which the inhabitants might construct their homes according to their needs and ideas, free from any paternalism by a master builder. Furthermore, he was convinced that the progressing automation of production and, resulting from that, the increasing amount of leisure time would fundamentally change society. The traditional structure of the city, according to Friedman, is not equipped for the new society. He suggested mobile, temporary and lightweight structures instead of the rigid, inflexible and expensive means of traditional architecture. [1]Friedman devised the structures to perch above existing cities, roads, farms etc, the mobility came from the freedom of the occupants to construct anything they wanted inside the structure, so the use of the structure and the occupants could be constantly changing. I'm not sure how he imagined sunlight getting through the structures to the people below, especially if built over a farm.
This is a similar, but more ephemeral, solution to the Next 21 building shown in class.
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| http://www.arch.hku.hk/~cmhui/japan/next21/ next21-index.html#4. |
[1] http://www.megastructure-reloaded.org/yona-friedman/
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