Architectural Dreams’ / Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture via arch daily

KKA (Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture) presents three architectural dreams consisting of stories and images. In a time when architecture has become increasingly obsessed with shape and surface, they wanted to explore other fields of the profession. KKA wanted to envision alternative futures and societies, to fantasize and write their stories, proposing the unexpected.

1. Architectural Revolution

At this point the city shall stay anonymous, but its inhabitants will surely recognize themselves as they read these writings. In fact they might even make use of this text as a manifesto for their future revolution.

Their town is solely modernistic, there is no core, only sprawl. Consequently the city is large but sparse. Distances are vast. It is a political and architectural experiment with a real city as the testing ground, a dream of equality that has resulted in monotony. Do the citizens hate the politicians? Or the architects? Or do they not see the connection? There is no identity, only rationality.

One day the inhabitants will have had enough. In an act of irrational aversion towards the existing they will invert their city. They will refuse to inhabit the old buildings. Instead they will populate what was once roads, parks, wastelands and squares. Consequently a new city will rise, much denser and smaller than the present. The old buildings will be used as quarries leaving vacuums in the new structure, in these holes intense social life and communication take place. The new city is so dense it will have no roads, making the car obsolete. There will be no rules to control its design, instead everyone is free to express their own dreams through their buildings. Outside the remnants of the old city will fall into ruins gradually covered by forests and grass.

(Source: ryanpanos)