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KM3, Gotham, MVRDV

November 4 - December 12, 2002

Taubman College Gallery, room 2106
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Ann Arbor, MI

This multimedia exhibition is comprised of research projects and competition designs as well as individual projects featuring the films MetaCity/Datatown (1999), Pig City (2001), and KM3 (1999) along with the projects Nuage d'Art (2001), the Dutch Pavilion (2000), and Brabant Library (2000).

3D City: Studies in Density
Is it possible to escape from two-dimensional zoning practices and conventions that dominate current urban regulation? Can three-dimensional zoning create cities that may absorb more program and therefore increase density possibilities? Will such zoning lead to enlarged global urban and human capacity? Would it be possible to generate true densification and to expand existing space? Most importantly, will densification result in richer cities?

MVRDV's Studies in Density implies a city that is not only in front, behind or next to you, but also above and below. In short a city in which ground level zero no longer exists but has dissolved into a multiple and simultaneous presence of levels where the town square is replaced by a void or a bundle of connections; where the street is replaced by simultaneous distribution and divisions of routes and is expanded by elevators, ramps and escalators where far away is reduced to proximity; and the park is transformed into a stacking of public spaces. In this dense three-dimensional world, spatial quality is no longer translated into morphology or geometry, but in richness, diversity, presence, and proximity. The difference between under or above ground is no longer relevant. There is only simultaneity.
-MVRDV

For more information see
www.mvrdv.nl
www.tcaup.umich.edu