Incorporation The towers homogeneous skin is designed by one architect and owned by one landlord, it is unfolded and peeled of to reveal a repetitive pattern of flat types. The residents of the tower are caught in paradox; on one hand they are incorporated into a single and coherent identity -that of the tower 'object' as it seen from the outside, and on the other they are left isolated in the space of their interior. The prototype is inserted into the unfolded organizational structure of identical flat types. It is placed onto the column that stands in between two different flats in one floor and connects a number of floors to one vertical circulation. The intimate scale of the public space produced by the prototype, bonds these flats together and effectively turn them into a Block. The new blocks are ready to develop autonomic internal identity trough new organization of ownership. The tower that is owned by one external housing association can be divided to multiple associations that are organically formed from within. For example a scenario of one architect hired to renovate and alter one block becomes possible and the singular 'object' tower can be broken into an environment that produce a whole of independent entities. The intersection floors that are separating and defining one block from another are the new zones of intensity in the tower. A journey trough the tower always passes trough to pause at these spaces. They become appropriated by the tangency to two or more circulations, to receive all kinds of public programs. |
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