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Skycar city: MVRDV/ uwm

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Welcome to Skycar city. A City with 'streets' at any level, or perhaps empty of streets as we know them... A compilation of the design work produced by the inaugural Marcus Prize Studio held at the University of Wisconsin-Mailwaukee School of Architecture & Urban planning. The studio was led by Miny Maas (principal of MVRDV, Rotterdam) and Grace La (associate professor at UWM) during the spring of 2006

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Visionary cities

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Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that are in need of transformation through the researches of The Why Factory, a global urban-studies thinktank operated in part by the Delft University of Technology. These issues include: “The Solitary (Our Dreams are Undermining the City)”; “The Iconic (Our Idols Have Been Compromised)”; “The Fun (We Are Having Too Much Fun)”; “The Cautious (Being Careful Is Killing Us)”; “The Poor (Slums Are Growing Bigger Than The Cities They Are Part Of”; and “The Future (Our Future Is Being Imagined Without Us).” A howl against civic impotence and the apathy of citizens in the face of incompetence and decay, Visionary Cities makes a manifesto of these and other topics to loudly demand large-scale change on a collective rather than individual level. In an afterword, Winy Maas, of the innovative Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, argues that architecture possesses a visionary dimension waiting to be applied to the cities of the future.

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MVRDV : FARMAX - excursions on density

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Vast areas of the Netherlands and other states seem to be filling up with a suburban "matter" of low cost housing, low rent offices, warehouses and other low density elements. How are we to cope with this matter that is turning our environments into one "sea of mediocrity", one vast "greyness", an equation of difference and individualism? Is it possible to reconsider this situation by carrying density to extremes and ruffling the texture with inserts or polarities? This book examines the possibilities of these extremes. It sets out to discover the prospects and limitations, the world of the extreme Floor Area Ratio, FARMAX. FARMAX reads as an architectural narrative composed of studies and designs made by MVRDV and students from Delft University of Technology, the Berlage Institute and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning, along with contributions by other authors.

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Five minutes city : architecture and [im]mobility

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FiveMinutesCity was an international forum and workshop for young architects organized by the Berlage Institute in collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation (Barcelona) and the Institut Français d'Architecture (Paris). The organizers invited Winy Maas, architect and partner in MVRDV from Rotterdam, as the workshop master. Winy Maas proposed a provocative and inspiring brief; he asked participants to redesign the cities of Rotterdam and New York in a way that everything is reachable within five minutes. A series of serious questions arise from the challenging brief: 'What will such a city look like? What happens to such an hypothesis if cars are the only mode of transport? What will such a city look like when it is only accessed by public transport? Or by walking?' How one can extend the knowledge of compact or dense cities? How fast cities can be? Is increased speed an ideal concept for future cities? Is development of new infrastructure sustainable for cities in future? Can Rotterdam become such a city? Is it possible to upscale Manhattan? How does mobility affects the working and living qualities of the cities and how is mobility shaping cities?

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Porocity: opening up solidity. the why factory.

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A new manifesto from the Why Factory, “Porocity: Opening Up Solidity” makes a case for the intervention of the public realm into the private sphere of the city. The Why Factory raises a critique of the city as excessively closed off, and offers tools for the prying open and aerating of the city in such a way that is socially, environmentally and economically valuable to its citizens. How can we introduce pockets for encounters, for streams of circulation, for green areas, for tunnels of cooling? What structures can be imagined to allow for this openness? Creating grottos? Splitting towers? Twisting blocks? More than hypotheses, models and examples (as useful as these are), this book even proposes such tools as a computational means of calculating the degree of porosity of architecture, so that urban thinkers and urban doers can turn the critique upon their own cities.

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Towers of choices: Hong Kong housing beyond uniformity

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Here, architects and urban planners explore innovative design concepts and creative solutions to combat the architectural uniformity of Hong Kong resulting from strict housing regulations and increasing population density.

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We Want World Wonders: Building Architectural Myths

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This book explores the world of architectural wonders and wonderment. It examines current classifications and it wonders about new categories. Through the eyes of students it speculates on possible fields that might propel us towards the realization of new world wonders, of exemplary and wonderful projects. It forms a new atlas of wonders. We Want World Wonders is the seventh book in The Why Factory’s Future Cities series, the sequel to The Why Factor(y), Visionary Cities, Green Dream, Vertical Village, Hong Kong Fantasies and City Shock.

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Hong Kong fantasies : challenging world-class city standards

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With this ambitious volume, The Why Factory throws down the gauntlet to the city of Hong Kong. A theoretical and visual expedition into Hong Kong's future, "Hong Kong Fantasies" plots out alternative paths, new visions and strategies for the city's urban and architectonic future, including visual renderings of the most probable scenarios and spatial interventions.

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MVRDV. Book mountain Spukenisse: biography of a building

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MVRDV's Book Mountain is a building with a mission: to encourage a town populated by the least enthusiastic readers in the Netherlands-Spijkenisse, in South Holland-to switch off their televisions and start reading books again. Former Volkskrant newspaper editor Nicoline Baartman's "biography" of Book Mountain, from conception to construction, paints a picture of the town of Spijkenisse and the political and social contexts in which such buildings are realized. Book Mountain Spijkenisse is the story of an architect with a vision, a revolutionary counselor, the widow of a veterinarian, an art-oriented library director and a visionary hero from India who saves the town.

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Paris - Les Halles

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Une description détaillée des enjeux d’un grand projet et des propositions de quatre grandes équipes d'architectes. Trente ans après l’aménagement du quartier des Halles, la Ville de Paris a engagé une réflexion sur ce site afin de réaliser un processus de requalification du lieu. Dans ce cadre, la SEM Paris Centre a été mandatée pour conduire les études préalables à ce projet d’aménagement qui concerne différents acteurs : la région, la ville de Paris, la société civile du Forum des Halles de Paris qui est propriétaire des espaces commerciaux, etc. Cet ouvrage présente les enjeux pour les différents partenaires mais également les projets des 4 grandes équipes d'architectes en compétition : AJN – Jean Nouvel, MVRDV – Winy Maas, OMA – Rem Koolhaas et SEURA – David Mangin. Comme l'explique Jean Nouvel : « Le réaménagement du quartier des Halles est un grand projet, non dans le sens où ce terme fut employé pour la Bibliothèque de France ou l'Opéra Bastille, mais parce qu'il concerne une question complexe et centrale : requalifier un quartier qui, de centre de la capitale, est devenu par la grâce d'un nœud ferroviaire et métropolitain, le centre de l'Ile de France ». L'ensemble des projets a été présenté lors d’une exposition publique au Forum des Halles et a fait l’objet d’une concertation avec les associations représentatives des riverains et des usagers.