PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 30 - Drift City

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PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 30 - Drift City

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DRIFT CITY is the
hybridization of city and transportation at a continental scale. It is an infrastructural city for a
mobilized, nomadic working society. Home
is merged with the road and the rail.
Conceived as a linear city similar to Le Corbusier’s Plan for Algiers or Roger
Chambless’ Roadtown, this transient city attempts to condense all aspects of a
production oriented society into one strip of infrastructure. The extreme redundancy of parallel systems
allows the Drifter to continuously mediate between modes of transportation,
education, production, and leisure. DRIFT CITY is a hybrid condition where architecture and infrastructure operate as one mechanism. The work is directed at finding visionary methods in which architecture can disengage itself from the status of autonomous islands supported by tacked on life support systems. The agenda is to become an “exfoliator of the grid” and define new paths for architecture outside of the autonomous historical precedents - paths that place the often irrational, absurd, and excessive rules of architecture within the sensitive, ubiquitous, nodal logics of infrastructure.

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Seth McDowell

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PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 30 - Drift City

PAMPHLET ARCHITECTURE 30 - Drift City

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