Description:
This concept of borders and the melancholic monumentality of the project reminds also the No-Stop City by Archizoom or more closely, some of the projects by DOGMA, such as A Simple Heart, based on the divergence between the scale of architectural form and the urban dimension. DOGMA idea of enclosing an area of an existing tertiary district by means of an inhabitable wall can be deeply related with Landship, where the strong presence of “the perimeter” embodies the limit and allows the visitor to experience and play a part in the limited and closed environment. At the same time is thought provoking to think why do we need such solid limits in the middle of the sea. Can we think about the notion of archipelago proposed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1977, when he proposed an archipelago of dense urban artifacts surrounded by a forest that would gradually replace existing [vacant] portions of the city? And if so, are we allowed to think about Landship as a small piece of a wider project?
