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On View> "Coop Himmelb(l)au: Dynamischer Raumplan" at SCI-Arc

On View> "Coop Himmelb(l)au: Dynamischer Raumplan" at SCI-Arc

 

Coop Himmelb(l)au: Dynamischer Raumplan
Southern California Institute of Architecture
960 East Third Street
Los Angeles
Through March 8, 2015

Environmental consciousness and energy conservation have overhauled the blueprint for urban planning. With efficiency at its heart, today’s back-to-nature paradigm will realize the potential of self-sufficient cities powered instead by clean, renewable resources including the sun, wind, water, and earth. The Dynamischer Raumplan is a spatial installation by Vienna-based firm Coop Himmelb(l)au that operates like a machine to visualize the energy lines that shape a city’s morphology.

 

A 21st century game-changer, the influence of energy conservation is as powerful and radicalizing as the advent of the automobile in the 20th century, which mandated all-new infrastructure. The installation can be read in several scales, from a city block to a city district to an urban region, in which the energy lines of an imaginary site are displayed one by one to show how they might converge and adapt according to the needs of the system “like the brain, like a cloud, like a city.”

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