Fueled by capitalism stemming from the Industrial Revolution, the modern city has become a machine that emphasizes efficient production over human experience. It was intended to correct the “inefficient” elements of the pre-modern city that failed to accommodate production by rationally segregating individuals and uses into discrete zones connected by a transportation network that promoted efficient flows of goods and people for the economy.

 

However, this division of people and activities into zones limits the potential of spontaneity and social appropriation. This is problematic because unplanned experiences and encounters that juxtapose the routine and repetitive movement of the citizens are necessary for social awareness. Architecture can intervene on this condition by developing new urban objects which continually re-organize the city, and thus open it up to new experiences and actions.

 

Therefore, by introducing free moving elements to destabilize the urban organization, this will defamiliarize the city, re-engage people in their context and with each other, and make their occupation of the city more conscious and creative and less routine and mechanical.