The Hub Project. The architecture of new mobility.
MétisPresses| N° d'inventaire | 22904 |
| Format | 14 x 19 |
| Détails | 110 p., paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782940563692 |
Mobility is transforming urban life and the production of space and architecture. In today's exchange-driven society, hubs are the primary receptacles of these ongoing transformations. They prefigure the global evolution of the city of sustainable travel, in the era of on-board digital communication and intelligent flows. The Hub Project does not once again describe urban transport planning or the complexity of networks, but addresses the obvious question: how can more than thirty potential modes of mobility coexist and connect in a single place, like the data exchanged in the virtual and ubiquitous space of our smartphones? The stations of the Japanese megalopolis, through their history and overdevelopment, represented the future of such infrastructures in the 20th century. They now embody their past. Soon to be disrupted by the diversity of new ecological mobility, they are proving to be the ideal terrain for projecting the transformation of the mobility hub of the near future, which does not yet exist and which we must bring about.
Mobility is transforming urban life and the production of space and architecture. In today's exchange-driven society, hubs are the primary receptacles of these ongoing transformations. They prefigure the global evolution of the city of sustainable travel, in the era of on-board digital communication and intelligent flows. The Hub Project does not once again describe urban transport planning or the complexity of networks, but addresses the obvious question: how can more than thirty potential modes of mobility coexist and connect in a single place, like the data exchanged in the virtual and ubiquitous space of our smartphones? The stations of the Japanese megalopolis, through their history and overdevelopment, represented the future of such infrastructures in the 20th century. They now embody their past. Soon to be disrupted by the diversity of new ecological mobility, they are proving to be the ideal terrain for projecting the transformation of the mobility hub of the near future, which does not yet exist and which we must bring about.