
The growing need for housing has invoked the rise of endless repetitive apartments or lines of standardised housing. The loss of the public collective is, as theorist Oswald Ungers describes, also coupled ironically by the loss of the individual within the city. Building projects done en-masse such as low cost, high-rises of the 1960’s have demonstrated that such repetition of the same program ad nauseam does not lend itself to life.
The ideas put forward by theorists such as Oswald Ungers and Rem Koolhaas as in 'The Green Archipelago', 'Grossformen' and 'Delirious: New York' hint that a new solution to the loss of the public collective is found at the building scale as opposed to the city scale.
By taking city planning and applying the same principles of diversity to the building scale, a COLLECTION of programs has the potential to enrich and intensify a city life.
The thesis proposes to:
1. Take the diversity of the city and the planning of a city to the scale of the building.
By doing this, the SOCIAL COLLECTIVE is created which is the frame for individuality. Fragmentations of green and cultural spaces emerge as they do in a city. The public realm is reinvented at a new scale next to the private. The collective experience is then also transformed, though not suppressed, by the increasing importance of individuality.
2. Encourage a building within a ‘walking city’ where the needs of contemporary life are met within a walking distance.
The ‘walking city’ aside from having the intention of reducing carbon emissions from transportation, also changes the perception people have of the city. Where an unseen objective must be known and planned out before making the journey, something local can be discovered. The result is that accidental ‘gems’ can exist within the daily experience and enjoyment can be taken in finding something new and fulfilling. Thrill, excitement and even fear become a greater factor in the walking city.
This is a project of FRAGMENTATION and COLLECTION
A city in a city.

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