Junkie For Junkspace

 Junkspace is a form of spatial congestion that has no rules, no order, and no connection between its parts. It is not held together with a unifying structure but instead an exterior skin. "If space-junk is the human debris that litters the universe, junk-space is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. The built...product of modernization is not modern architecture but Junkspace. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fallout. Modernization has a rational program: to share the blessings of science, universally. Junkspace is its apotheosis, or meltdown...Although its individual parts are the outcome of brilliant inventions, lucidly planned by human intelligence, boosted by infinite computation, their sum spells the end of Enlightenment, its resurrection as farce, a low-grade purgatory..." (OMA)

While Rem Koolhass has a very grim perspective of what Junkspace means in regards to architecture and society, I believe Junkspace is something of a fascinating consequence from design. An unplanned accident that has formulated into its own world within the world. It has no nodal points and no subject position; made up completely of artificiality. It reminds me of the City of Anarchy in Hong Kong. This case study acted as its own city, so much so, that the laws of Hong Kong didn't apply to the building (if you can even call it a building). It contained everything from apartment's to schools to brothels to unlicensed dentist and doctors offices. While Junkspace has a bad rap, it is an underrated guide book for how to design with congestion.