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KM3 - Excursions on Capacities (Hardcover, English ed.)
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KM3 - Excursions on Capacities (Hardcover, English ed.)
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From a converted printing house in Rotterdam and the experimental
minds therein that brought you the Pig City project (an analysis of
the pork industry's manufacturing conditions) comes KM3, another
contribution from the iconoclastic idea lab and architecture firm
MVRDV. The office, which for more than a decade has been studying
density as it relates to contemporary life and architecture, bases
its theories for the uses of space on complexly crunched data.
Classic projects include the gravity-defying WoZoCo home for the
eldery in Amsterdam, the headquarters for public broadcasting
company VPRO in Hilversum, the Dutch pavilion for World Expo 2000
in Hanover, and the Housing Silo in Amsterdam. The firm's buildings
overthrow the primacy of an architectural "footprint" for more
innovative and varied spatial paradigms. A follow-up to the
publication of FARMAX, which sought to question and analyze the
growing suburban "greyness" of the Netherlands and to propose new
ways of thinking about the homogenization of landscape, KM3 extends
that idea to a three-dimensional model, one that "generates space
instead of consuming it" and encourages variety in form. The book
explores three different strategies each in Rotterdam and Amsterdam
on their spatial and technical capacity for creating a "3D city,"
one of cantilevers and underground connections, airiness and, most
of all, diverse spaces. This is thinking at the forefront of a new
urbanism.
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