Tiromancino: Urban plan proposal for Ansan city

Today we review a proposed revision urban root of the current state of economic crisis a few years after surprise us by their approach and morphology.

Four architectural firms, BIG (Copenhagen), Inaba (Los Angeles), MAD (Beijing) and Mass Studies (Seoul) proposed a development plan for Ansan, South Korea, to be displayed in the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Ansan City begins on December 17, 2008.

The joint project of the four companies versatile uses architectural forms that change in size and use. The directors of the four offices, Bjarke Ingels, Jeffrey Inaba, Ma Yansong, and Cho Minsuk reinterpret "economies of scale," the term to mean the value of a unique architectural form that operates on different scales. The works fit enough to make the same shape can be enlarged or reduced and still function as a building.

Given today's economic situation, the architects propose an architecture that can be sized to accommodate changes in available funding. The forms have been developed so that if you reduce a capital investment project can be reduced, as an alternative, if more funding is available, the same way can be extended. These companies believe that architecture need not be habitable and in tune with human scale in one size, can be designed with greater utility in mind that the form can be enjoyed even when it reduces or increases by 40, 50 , or 60 percent.