Downtown Athletic Club and TopGolf
Koolhaas talks about a new metropolis where the buildings are simple extrusions of a square geometry with an elevator shaft that transitions you from one floor to the next. However, we can see from the text that the floors are not related to one another programmatically at all. In fact, we see this incredibly theoretical description seemingly get out of hand when entire floors are dedicated to preventive medicine, clubs, swimming pools theme parks and what seems to be the most ridiculous is an interior golf course which is was supposed to be a metaphorical argument about how nature that’s obliterated by metropolitan structures begin to be resurrected. Now, this was originally a metaphorical argument to be made back in 1977, but it forces us to change perspective when we consider that things like Top Golf now exist.
You make an interesting point. This was simply given as an example, but if you were to transport top-golf into a skyscraper, you'd have exactly what he was talking about.
ReplyDeleteKoolhaas's thinking is went too far away about the architecture design thinking. The building is designed for reasonable reason. All the activities in the building should be useful for the people. If only overlay the multiple activity in one building that kind of design is only looks good in the computer games.
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