INTERSECTION FIELDS IV: Highrise of Homes

This article is part of “Intersections Fields”, a series curated by Hidden Architecture where we publish the casual connections between projects from different architects and periods of history that we find when we are researching to produce this journal . Este artículo forma parte de “Intersections Fields”, una serie comisariada por Hidden Architecture donde publicamos las conexiones casuales entre proyectos de distintos arquitectos y periodos de la historia que hemos ido encontrando durante la investigacion para producir esta revista. ” Buy a cozy cottage in our steel constructed choice lots, less than a mile above Broadway, only ten minutes by elevator. All the comforts of the country with none of its disadvantages” -Celestial Real Estate Company. “Compra una acogedora casa de campo en una nuestras parcelas construida sobre acero, a menos de una milla por encima de Broadway y a solo diez minutos en ascensor. Todas las comodidades del campiña y ninguno de sus inconvenientes.” – Celestial Real Estate Company. In 1981, James Wines recovered the famous diagram that originally appeared in the Life Magazine in 1909 under the name of Real Estate Number, attempting to redesign the concept of community or vertical villages. The vertical villages would be build based on the latest construction technology in relation with the folkloric ornament of the American culture and it was trying to attract some parts of the society that did not feel comfortable within the new metropolis. However, as Rem Koolhaas described in Delirious New York in 1978, incidents on the floors are so brutally disjointed that they cannot conceivably be part of the same scenario and, therefore, they can hardy reproduce the lifestyle of the American countryside. The project becomes a plasterboard stage.