Insert: _The Viral City
Today's urban areas exist as relics of older cities. They remain shackled by the grid layouts of the streets and blocks and neighborhoods of the past. As a result, when cities grow, they grow vertically along the grid. But then something begins to happen. With the growth, the city comes alive with a feeling and a pulse. Today's cities are on the verge of being strangled by contemporary zoning practices that treat a city as a cold extrusion, such as the common "podium typology"; a singular entity arranged a logical order However, this logic works at a scale that is incompatible with today's cities, because it treats each site as its own smaller city within itself. The notion of a self-contained city is in itself illogical if any progress is to be made in allowing a different type of growth to emerge. What I am proposing is to insert a viral growth into Vancouver This type of growth can propagate from void, such as in the given site parameters, or it can crop up, unannounced on existing buildings, covering the existing system and strangling it into submission. Over time several of these systems might come into contact with each other and perhaps they will interact to form a new and unexpected result. While the images I am presenting are not intended to be directly constructible, my hope is that they might begin to bring down the understanding of cities as mechanical relics, and to visualize them as organisms, capable of scarring and mutation, as well as growth in surprising new directions.
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