Manual of Mutants, Hybrids, Endangered, Super Species / MMHESS

Strategies / 07 Objectification / Accesibility

ACCESSIBILITY / PRECEDENT Katsura Imperial Villa, Kyoto / 桂離宮, 京都 Address: Yabuzoe Shugakuin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8052 Year of First Construct: 1616 Use: Tourist Destination Preservation Status: National Treasure Geneology: The first villa was constructed in the Heian Period. After years, Prince Toshihito established the complete villa at Katsura as his leisure palace. After the line died out in 1881, the Imperial Household Ministry took control of the Katsura Detached Palace in 1883, and since World War II, the Imperial Household Agency has been in control.

Grass Roof Being Repaired and Replaced Every Year

Free Standing Columns Made of Tree Barks

Wooden Fencing Isolating the Struction from Free Accessibility

Stone Pebbles Marking the Pedestrian Route Bamboo Fencing Marking the Forbidden Zone

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MMHESS / Summer 2011 Studio / Investigator / Calvin Liu

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Manual of Mutants, Hybrids, Endangered, Super Species / MMHESS

Published on May 23, 2021

Yehre Suh / Urban Terrains Lab

About

With the chaotic pace of development and expansion of global metropolises, traditional fabric of cities have become hybridized with the new to form mutant and hybrid species of the urban terrain. The new metropolitan city is a site of natural selection between the new, the old, the new old, and the old new through processes of transition, negotiation, mitigation, preservation, erasure and reconstruction. And within the informal dynamic of cities like Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul, fueled by forces of globalization, discussions of preservation and cultural identity can only progress under the rubric of nationalism, tourism and marketability. As biologists who embark on travels to far distant lands to discover new and hybrid species of the ecological system, we embark on a trip to the old and new cities of China, Japan and Korea to investigate and document the conflicts and negotiations between the traditional fabric of the city and the new urban transformations of globalization and its agencies.

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