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NANO CITY
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP 5
Montpellier, France, 2006

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP + DESIGN STUDIO
Paul Minifie & Jan van Schaik - RMIT Architecture
RMIT Architecture Upperpool Design Studio Students
with
N+B Architects, Montpellier, France
L’Ecole d’architecture longuedoc Rousillon Montpellier, France
Tohoku University Sendai, Japan
Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sedai, Japan
University of Michigan College of Architecture, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Facultad de Arquitectura, Eastern Repùblica LED Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

NANO CITY Website
(text in French)

Project Outline

This workshop investigates the potential new densities of the contemporary metropolis at the micro scale. Traditional architectural approaches are confronted with this “thought of the outside” within the city, to question existing urban situations and explore other architectures, to confront conventional vision with other thoughts, and also to discover other modes of teaching.

New approaches and potential new cultures are explored at the smallest of scales. As a proclamation for a contemporary city, “Nano City” seeks to overturn familiar problems, and to see whether positive conditions for urban design and planning might emerge through the study of new technologies on a micro scale.

Work will focus on the passage between technique and technology. Perhaps NaNo City will become one of the bases of the construction of a more optimistic future, in agreement with our technological horizon.

Project Description (pdf document in French)

Workshop Outline (pdf document in French - zip file)

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