The City Room
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Top Site model. The field of landscape is a multilayered system of offset isotropic grids in which a porous umbrella of living quarters above defines the various city rooms. Bottom Fragment model. Residential units occupy the umbrella canopies. Opposite page, top The city room is inserted into the center of the planned CBD, an intervention that provides a contrast to the surrounding high-rises. Opposite page, bottom The even field of landscape is given meaning only where it overlaps with the umbrella above.