Domus 926 – Intersections Urban Retrofitting
June 2009 - design by onlab
Creative Direction: Nicolas Bourquin, Thibaud Tissot; Graphic Design: onlab, Christoph Gabriel
Publisher: Editoriale Domus, Milan, Italy
Obsolescence, Performance, Transformation and Modernisation
Edited by Francesca Picchi, featured projects by: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, Cyprien Gaillard, raumlabor, Monika Sosnowska.
This concepts can be used to describe such processes as the political atonement of architecture and the ideological reprogramming of buildings. The idea of urban retrofitting is borrowed from the manufacturing and engineering industries. Retrofitting is the adding of a component or accessory to something that did not have it when it was made.
