city of 1000 geographies (the)

• author:
  Vicente Guallart
  • echo:
    Vicente GUALLART (SP) (1963) Architecture has no more forms; it is a dynamic process, a co-nature, and nature itself is the image of architecture. Between digital nature and artificial ecology there is an operational place: architecture. In "La Ville aux mille géographies" [The City with a Thousand Geographies], Guallart takes territorial samples which are as much fractal extrusions as they are bits of landscapes. In the project for a prototype dwelling for a digital person ("Scape House", 1997, with Willy MEler and Enric Ruiz, "36 modèles pour une maison" [36 Models for a House] by Périphériques), the house is a reactive skin and fashions its own use through its transferable spaces. Architecture must be forever mutating in real time: trees may be man-made (using photovoltaic fibres), and mountains can act as dwellings. Making use of various forms of fractal geometry, Guallart explores the city like an interconnecting network, with impacts that are local and global alike. It must be permeated by a new functionality: each person who enters the urban space must be able to alter it; the street may be farmland, punctuated by telecentres, etc. The city is this media-related cross between the natural and the digital.

• publication:
  Vicente Guallart"La ciutat de las 1000 geografies"in Quaderns nº 217

• definition:
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• soft cover:
  "La ciutat de las 1000 geografies"in Quaderns nº 217