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I saw this via the Marmot’s Hole a few days ago, it is freaky!

The egyptians are green with envy

We need to put this in our magazine.  It is apparently from an exhibition for a new urban plan for Ansan at the Gyeongi Museum of Art. 

The original photos are on the designboom cut ‘n paste weblog, which has some more information.

the joint project by the four firms, BIG (copenhagen), INABA (los angeles), MAD (beijing), an mass studies (seoul) uses versatile architectural forms that change in size and use. th principals of the four offices, bjarke ingels, jeffrey inaba, yansong ma, and minsuk cho reinterpret the term ‘economies of scale’ to mean the value of a single architectural form tha functions at several scales.  The works are adaptable enough so that the same form can b enlarged or shrunk and still function as a building. they have the added capacity to dramatically change in size and transform in use from building to furniture to toy. Given today’s economic instability, the architects propose an architecture that can be sized to accommodate changes in available funding. the forms have been developed so that if a project’s investment capital decreases, it can be scaled down; alternatively, if greater financing becomes available, the same form can be scaled up. A project conceived with greater utility in mind so that the form can be enjoyed even when reduced or increased by 40, 50, or 60 percent.

Exactly how versatile architectural forms?  Look at this: