Skycar City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788496540583)

Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. This highly investigative studio pushed the physical and conceptual limits of given definitions of city, circulation, and program. Tested in two scenarios (one real in Tianjin, China and the other purely hypothetical), the studio severed vehicular traffic flow from its traditional two-dimensional plane and then forecast the potentials of a new, hyper-volumetric city where given urban activity inflate to fully occupy all three-dimensions. Populated by 5 million inhabitants and rising 800 meters high, this new 'sky car city' is buzzing with the flows of goods and people, as they navigate the airways in several models of newly designed air-born vehicles.

Author: University Of Wisconsin Mvrdv
ISBN-10: 8496540588
ISBN-13: 9788496540583
Publisher: Actar
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 237
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.95w x 0.68d