Verebes, Tom
Mass-Customised Cities
What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke and custom-designed systems? The introduction of standardisation and mass production processes in the 20th century saw the industrial city take on a repetitious and homogeneous quality through the duplication of component parts. Today non-standard, bespoke systems hold out the promise of realising a distinctive urbanism; characterized by the differentiation of serial production and the variation of simple parts that should lead to a more complex and compelling whole. Given the current pace and rate of urbanisation in Asia, the mass customization of the city is set to have imminent and far-reaching practical consequences for the rest of the developing and developed world.
Keywords: scale; computational design; technologies; urban; largely; projects; design; currently; innovative production processes; vast scale; stcentury; city; world; important; customdesigned; mass; new; production; shift; enable; repetitious, Urban Development, General & Introductory Architecture, Urban Development, General & Introductory Architecture
- Author(s)
- Verebes, Tom
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Architectural Design
- Page amount
- 136 pages
- Category
- Technology, Energy, Traffic
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781118915691
- Printed ISBN
- 9781118915646