Building from previous projects in the studio which investigated the generative possibilities of datascapes, Filaments and Fields – Istanbul, Linear City explores the morphogenetic potential of context driven system mapping whilst critically examining what form a linear may take in the age of parametricism. The concept of a linear city has a rich and ideologically varied history, from Miliutin’s master plan for Traktoskoi (1930), conceived as a prolongated factory, to Boutwell and Mitchell’s Continuous City (1969) which re-imagined the city as a single programmatically enriched megastructure.
MOUNTAIN CITY
Filaments and Fields mediates between an emergent bottom-up approach to urban planning and the heroism which underlies the proposal for a new canal connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Through this dialectic the repertoire of parametric master-planning is broadened and new typologies emerge. Filaments and Fields continues the studio’s research agenda by anticipating future architectural challenges, charting formal developments within an ever expanding solution space.
Project Credits
Students:
Rhina Portillo
Matthias Urschler
James Park
Bart Chompff
Tudor Ștefan Sabau
Jakob Wilhelmstätter
Senoner Armin
Christoph Wunderlich
John Gallerie
University: University of applied arts Vienna / Studio Zaha Hadid Architects
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