Framework

 

Difference

16/3

Urban Development Scenario, Diploma TU-Graz, USA 1999
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In cooperation with
Andreas Rumpfhuber

Geoposition
+36° 0' 36.00", -119° 41' 60.00"

venice beach, the art of systems

Repetition

Do not confuse with
http://residence.aec.at/wegzeit/

Sixteen To Three uses an ideas competition, issued by the AIA California Council, as an opportunity to engage in questions over the "future city". "Housing the Next 10 Million", stresses the demographic potential of California's Central Valley, in order to obtain strategies for projecting an agglomeration of 10 to 14 million people until 2040.

We ask: is architecture capable of framing such utopian projections?
The answer we found is yes.

The landscape of the Central Valley is staked out by a "one mile grid", representing a concept of fractions. In the process of developing a city, each square mile is divided in halves, quarters, eighths ... to form a quarter, block or a strip.

We superimpose this "practise" with the metric system, a concept of repetition, which simply adds one unit to the next until a whole emerges. 16/3 is the relation that allows both conceptions to coexist.
This format is used as a framing device!