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The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University published Flatness 2.0 by max-a in their new Abstract 0910

China’s default solution for housing its millions of new urban inhabitants – plus those relocated from less-dense neighborhoods slated for redevelopment – is superblock development, a carry-over from the Soviet-era Danwei-type urban development planning and the Modernist’s utilitarian social housing block. Superblock housing developments – with populations of 30,000 to 100,000 – are constructed at such a rapid rate that over ten are completed every day. These large-scale (up to 20 hectares in size) isolated residential islands within the city are taking over the fabric of Chinese cities.

HOW TO RE-CONCEPTUALIZE THE MEGABLOCK?

How can the Chinese Megablock be redefined to distribute positive, large-scale transformations within China’s urban context while exporting a sustainable and livable model of urbanism to the rest of the world? Effectively accommodating the gross numbers of new urban inhabitants is a global challenge. Many regions of the world are, or will, experience rapid influxes of urban growth in the near future.

IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS ARCHITECTS TO PROPOSE INNOVATIVE, YET RESPONSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR THIS CHALLENGE.

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CA magazine. N°116. Santiago, Chile 2004

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ED Estilo de Vida y Decoración. Santiago, Chile 2008

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Elements of change: New Educational Landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo

James Cohan Gallery, NYC

Khaliah Ali – Matthew Bishop – Noella Coursaris

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Vivienda y Decoración magazine. Santiago, Chile 2006

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