A City Machine 02 (outline)

We will explore the processes that occur in in a dense urbanism the moment you have two unrelated programmes (housing and university) in close proximity. The systems proposed by HUDCO (Housing and a "future proof" Educational complex) are rather illustrative examples of megamachines These institutions seem to have a claim to legitimacy by their very structuration, by convention they are objects of an architect's researches. There exist well-developed procedures for these institutions; for instance, those deployed at Chandigarh.

We also see a number of internetworks arising in the folds of a contemporary cities in india. There are networks of manufacturing and consumption. Ancient organisations of labour and agrarian practices co-exist with the ones enshrined in law, organisations that are noramlly passed off as "informal sector activity". They appear as an ephemeral order of practices and at the same time they create space(s) of their own.

We will argue these networks are, in effect, proto-urbanisms in that they possess tendencies and forces that convert conventional architectural compositions into open-ended processes. We want to explore the prototypical urban structures that have an ability to intervene - or irrupt - in the processes thus produced.

• We will diagramme the processes, discover "sites", or intensities where city-machines are produced, exchanged and consumed
  1. We will inspect the densities produced by their coupling,
  2. We will argue there exist aleatory points, moments of transformation and dissolution; of intensity amongst the mechanisms (illustrative optical effect < here >)
• Students are required to study urban structures at the following latitudes, which are not contingent
  1. The Institutional dispositions within the city,
     • An Institutional disposition (infrastructures for education, in this instance). Also, see (Third IAHH),
     • An Infrastructural disposition (housing and the family as an institution, in this instance),
  2. The Proto-Urbaisms that seem to traverse the Institutional dispositions, inasmuch as they have a representation in law,

ACM.02 Project Schedule, potential collaborators, reviews

• Reviews and communications
  Will be conducted via this web site, students are required to create their pages via the procedure outlined here

NOTES: (also, see Bibliography)

1. ACM.01 (the First City Machine cycle, with illustrative student projects)
2. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilisation; 1934. ISBN: 015688254X
   (review archived here)
3. Chandigarh (part of the TUHH The Architect and his Work archive by Hermann Kuhn
   also, Le Corbusier: Complete Works, 1957-1965, Vol. 7 ISBN: 3764355093 and Le Corbusier: Complete Works, 1965-1969, Last Works, Vol. 8 ISBN: 3764355107
4. Competition: Third IAHH Enlightening Learning Environments
   It is the purpose of the competition to undertake surveys and analysis to identify the critical need for enhancing professional / vocational educational facilities in a given context of a region / area. The context would include the social, cultural, economy, environmental and physical. After a careful analysis the students are required to identify the need for a particular academic discipline or disciplines to be developed or redeveloped on an appropriate site or a group of plots measuring about 10 ha. depending upon context, disciplines and academic programme.