Condencity Benjamin Strong Supervisor: Ian Nazareth
Condencity is a project investigating the system of urbanism and its evolutionary potential, with a focus on cities that are subject to the ideas of capital and private property. The project proposes an alternative set of rules and spatial framework for the future suburb of Sandridge in Fisherman’s Bend and speculates on the urban and architectural outcomes. The project responds to fragilizing forces inherent in market-based urbanism leading to the properties of bigness, homogeneity, and specialisation. Condencity suggests a set of corrective measures to produce an "antifragile" alternative, namely a model of urbanism that will benefit from - rather than be inhibited by - a changing environment. It is proposed that such an urbanism must have the properties of smallness, heterogeneity, and decentralisation, here coined “condensity". Click here for slides