We started this term by analyzing and juxtapositioning two urban projects,
on the one hand side “the” modernist masterplan Brasilia, by Oscar Niemeyer and
Lucio Costa, and on the other hand , Curitiba, by Jamie Lerner, a more practical
approach towards masterplanning.
One of the main problem about urban scale projects is lack of transportation which
leads, like in Brasilia, to a lack of densification and increasing suburbanisation, killing
the feeling of urbanity in its emergence.
Curitiba suceeds in terms of transportation, by implementing a smart public transport
system within the existing urban fabric, but fails in offering architectural solutions
for exploding city growth.
Assuming that the relationship between transport and density is crucial for urban scale
projects we started to developed a set of parametric systems enabling us
to generate an urban field in which figure and ground are no longer seperated
but start to morph into one another, creating any given density and connectivity.
Equipped with tose tools we entered London...
