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REM KOOLHAAS
Junkspace
If we give examples about the
analogies, the most interesting
is the bubbles. Koolhaas thinks
that bubbles have no easilyidentifiable structures; they are
made out of skin and this is very
similar to what the junkspace is.
There is something that unites
them. The connections are
awkward and we cannot easily
understand the space. By saying
that,
he
refers
to
air
conditioning system that we see
in our contemporary urban
space.
We condition our environment
to
provide
environmental
pleasure and comfort. In order
to do this for instance, we have
junkspaces for the cables in the
system in the suspended
ceilings.
http://www.bustler.net/index.php/article/oma_media_campus_competition_-_whos/
http://www.oma.eu/projects/2003/european-central-bank/
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Koolhaas, Rem. ‘Junkspace’, in I
de SolaMorales, Differences:
Topographies of Contemporary
Architecture, Cambridge Mass.:
MIT Press, 1997: pp. 175-190.
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