Nested Urbanism,
Dream Hub, Yongsan, Seoul. Korea, Fall 2011
Instructor: Ali Rahim
Team: Nam Il Joe, Jinsuk Seo
Nested Urban Formation: A nested Urban Formation of infrastructure,architecture and urbanism can create novel material organizations thatparticipate in a city’s development. Nested Urbanism takes advantageof the city by allowing for the coexistence of different urban qualitiesat simultaneous scales. Nested Urban Formations aims to catalyze exchanges between Seoul’s residents, facilities and the larger city networks by working within the landscape of the ongoing human,economic, and social changes that are currently pressuring the city to respond.
Nested Urban Formations incorporates single building organizations and building cluster mutations in morphological continuity in the rapidly growing field of “designed urbanism”. Designed Urbanism resists thepre-determined master plan, which is followed by individual authors designing buildings, and argues that architects are increasingly involved at earlier and earlier stages of the design of important partsof a cities development. In such projects architects are presented withan unprecedented scope to incorporate infrastructure with diverse building form and open experiential spaces with enough difference forthe creation of diversity in the city guided by the vision of a sole author. Due to the degrees of variation demanded by different scales andspeeds of vehicles and pedestrians, the modulation of scales of space, and experience are crucial in the development of nested urbanism.
Nested Formations refers to the specific clustering of qualities ineach quadrant or “nest” of the proposal that will provide a rich level of variation and will assist in the development of the overall formation of the proposal for the “Dream Hub.” The overall formation will includethe arrangement of all of the buildings, their relationship to eachother informed by experiences between buildings, infrastructure and landscape. The overall morphology of Seoul will inflect the qualities ofthe nested arrangements as well as the building’s organization and the in-between building experiences that will be developed by the scale of experience. At the same time the external experiences of the proposal affecting the city will participate in the diversity of Seoul.
Publication
selection of part-to-whole object: grasshopper
part-to-whole relationtionship study: different qualities
part-to-whole relationship study: nest identification
part-to-whole relationship study: nest identification
part-to-whole relationship study: nest identification with the context, seoul
part-to-whole relationship study: nest identification with the context in detail
system of design plan: site existing condition & land use plan
system of design plan: phase I_overlap
system of design plan: phase II_interlocking
site plan
site elevations
building system: central tower
