REM KOOLHAAS
Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for manhattanNew York City |
This article is written about the bigness, power, drama and congestion, all of which, in Koolhaas's view are crucial to the city's identity. Congestion is in fact the vital key—it is the excitement and tension of crowding that are the leitmotifs for everything about New York, Koolhaas believes, inspiring both New York’s physical form and the way of life of its inhabitants.This also means that architecture generated the culture. Our site, Kajang is also developed gradually. Through my observation during weekends, the amount of transports coming to kajang are never ceased and there are more people taking the bus. I predict that kajang will developed into a new busy town with the culture and way of people's life now.
The City of Captive Globe |
Through the simultaneous explosion of human density and an invasion of new technologies in New York, Manhattan became a mythical laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle: the Culture of Congestion and its architecture. This culture with the city block being the only source of organization amidst the chaos of rapid construction and change also reflects city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia now which is developed tremendously with high towers and skyscraper. Our bus stop near apartment Kajang Indah also have the culture of congestion during weekends compare to weekdays. One of the reason is the route of the bus is going to the MRT Kajang. The residents prefer going shopping or travelling around by free bus or cars during weekends.
Manhattan is testing which the entire city became a factory of man-made experience. We can see through the construction of some of its most well-known landmarks such as Central Park, Rockefeller Center and UN Building, there are mostly arranged or constructed in grid and repetitive that is prefabricated system. The Industralised Building System (IBS) in Malaysia is similar to the manhattanism that the city could be surrounded by the prefabricated items like the blocks in the future. Moreover, my understanding of Manhattanism is that it represents a reality in which extraordinary things happen when metropolitan density becomes extreme. In case of Manhattan, this effect is reinforced by a fixed space, on a by the grid that surrounds the blocks.
Sunday at Sungai Chua Market |
Koolhaas suggests that the “delirious” architecture of New York was irrational—fantasy was more important to the designers of New York’s great early skyscrapers than form following function. Koolhaas sets up styles as characters in a drama: New York is a flamboyant city whose architectural spirit is threatened by the powers of sober rationalism. I think fantasy become vital will increase the image of a city is no doubt but I still insist the function of the space and user experience must prior to the building form in design.
Written by Chiew Jing Yi, 1001644071
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