Cityscape

Farmadelphia by Front Studio

One of the issues mentioned in our assignement for this semester is The urban fabric or the cityscape. To talk of the city as a cultural landscape raises the question of our view on the city and not least our understanding of city opposite land. The build in relation to the ground. Is the city only cultivated landscape? The Hjortekær assignment is a interesting exercise for these questions. It is a bare field, cultivated ground yet nothing is build. If we where to define it as either city or land, there is not much question that we would describe it as landside. As soon as we deside to put down a building or a road we define a opposition, build and unbuild. City and land. But can we understand the build in symbiosis with the area, understand the city as a cultural landscape, buildings and ground as elements of a landscape?


Tom Nielsen is discussing the same subject in a more urban context in his PhD project about the citys surplus areas, Formløs (red. Shapeless). How the build is defining a surplus area, when choosing what to cultivate and what to leave out. He sees the surplus areas a integral part of the cityscape, as active freezones. His way of including every area of the city AND its surrounding into the cityscape, gives a interesting view of what we can understand the urban fabric.