Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, Infranet Lab/ Lateral Office - Couverture souple

White, Mason; Sheppard, Lola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568989857 ISBN 13 : 9781568989853

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2011

Synopsis

Participants in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition were asked to respond to the theme "Investigations in Infrastructure," and propose new directions for architecture, transportation, energy, cities, and agriculture at a continental scale. The winning entry, Coupling, imagined six daring projects: a high-speed rail system across the Bering Strait that also collects freshwater from the seasonal iceshelf; a decommissioned airport transformed into a geothermal data farm and agriculture site; thickening on/off ramps around "big box" stores into circular parking lots; a call toinclude landfills in the list of preserved open spaces; and a saline terminal lake turned into a water farm, recreational retreat, and habitat haven. Coupling argues that infrastructures behave as artificially maintained natural systems. Rather than a New Deal approach of massive engineering or iconic infrastructure, Coupling employs adaptable, responsive, small-scale interventions whose impacts are global in scale.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1568989857
• ISBN 13: 9781568989853
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: egenta s.r.o; 421000000000; customerservice@egenta.eu; ; Varsavska 715/36; Prague; 120 00; Rébublique tchèque