AGGREGATING MEGAFORM. The Megaforms shown below constitute the second level of the Street Hierarchy taking the place of what traffic engineers call a "collector." It structures one or more subgrids into a tentative whole becoming a “unit of aggregation” amongst other formally related units.
Megaforms or megastructures are typically conceived as autonomous environments isolated in space. They are designed as unique environments that have little to do with other megaforms, even if those megaforms exist in close proximity. What if we saw the megaform as a serial element that was incomplete in itself and so always anticipated adjacent construction, even if it that construction does not (yet) exist. Only under such conditions can we expect the urban whole to exceed the sum of the parts. This whole is the obvious precondition for any potential synergies that deserve the name of city.
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| FROM FIFTH WARD REDEVELOPMENT SERIES |
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