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FRANKFURT, GERMANY HYPERCITY

Peter Trummer2019-09-07

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Seoul, South Korea

The city is the largest human artefact. This artefact is formed by multiple cities. The content of these cities derive from their socio-economic politics. These cities emerge in a particular form and these forms are articulated by the history of their city’s architecture. Every city is therefore a HyperCity made out of HyperArchitecture.
The HyperCity Sculpture represents the architecture of the hypercity of Frankfurt. The size of the sculpture represents the largest real estate project currently built as a single structure. The model is scaled in 1/100 and it consists of the following HyperCityArchitecture.
1) THE POLITICAL CITY: The Political City is the city of the Middle Ages. Its architectural form is the WALL.
2) THE CAPITALIST CITY: The Capitalist City is the City of the 19th century. Its architectural form is the GRID.
3) THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC CITY: The Social- Democratic City is the city of the 1920’s. Its architectural form is the SLAB.
4) THE WELFARE-STATE CITY: The Welfare-State City is the city after WW2. Its architectural form is the MEGAFORM.
5) THE NEO-LIBERAL CITY: The Neo-liberal City is the city of the 1980’s. Its architectural form is the TOWER in the Park.
6) THE FINANCIAL-CAPITALIST CITY: The Financial-Capitalist City is the city of globalisation. Its architectural form is the build MOUNTAIN.
7) THE NON-HUMAN CITY: The Non-Human City is the City of hyper-objects. Its architectural form is the CONTAINER

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  • Title: FRANKFURT, GERMANY HYPERCITY
  • Creator: Peter Trummer
  • Date Created: 2019-09-07
  • Location: Donuimun Museum Village
  • Publisher: Seoul Biennale Division
  • 사진 촬영 : Chin Hyo Sook
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

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