Justice for Junkspace

In his article about Junkspace, Rem Koolhaas seems to be describing spaces of modern architecture as something that is everything but also nothing at the same time. He also focuses more on how these spaces lapse into nothingness and are meaningless in the long run. I don’t think the future of junk spaces is as bleak as he paints it to be. Junk isn't always useless, it can be recycled or repurposed into something better than what it was created for. In the same way, because of the vast amount of possibilities that they encompass, I feel like Junk spaces have tremendous potential to evolve into spaces that are better than what they were created for. Maybe something in the future that hasn’t been thought of yet. Instead of a useless void, maybe it’s more like a whiteboard that after a point of time can be wiped clean and drawn on again and again. It's our role as architects to work with what we've got and make these new possibilities a reality.