Mass-Customised Cities
Tom Verebes
What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world.
Year:
2015
Edition:
1
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Language:
english
Pages:
141
ISBN 10:
1118915690
ISBN 13:
9781118915691
Series:
Architectural Design Series
File:
PDF, 31.29 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2015