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© Hans Werlemann
Parc de la Villette
The program by the city of Paris was too large for the site, leaving no space for a park. The proposed project is not for a definitive park, but for a method that - combining programmatic instability with architectural specificity - will eventually generate a park.
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Congestion without Matter
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1982
Second Phase Demonstration & Conclusion
The Final Layer
Access and Circulation
Point Grids or Confetti
The Strips
Initial Hypothesis