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“Critical for the Ville Spatial is what I call ‘spatial infrastructure’: a multi-storey space-frame-grid, which is supported by widely-spaced piles […]. This infrastructure forms the fixed element of the city. The mobile element consists of walls, base-surfaces and dividing walls which make the individual division of the space possible; it could be called the ‘filling’ for the infrastructure. All elements which come into direct contact with the users (i.e. those they see, touch etc.) are mobile, in contrast to the infrastructure, which is used collectively and remains fixed.”

Yona Friedman, Architecture Mobile, 1960, quoted in Ruth Eaton, Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)built Environment, London 2002.

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Via: Ethel Baraona