ciro najle general design bureau

Virtual Plugs is a project for Tokyo Bay that follows the lines of Kenzo Tange’s project in the sixties and offers a virtual alternative to the metabolist project grounding -fludly- organizational change, variation, internal interaction, self-transformation, and mutability in time, along the lines of the paradigm of the virtual. The hierarchical infrastructural manifold present in its precedent is melted down in a system of virtual variability that absorbs environmental determinations, integrates systemic interactions, defines relational protocols, instructions, and codes, and outputs constantly updated organizations of the territory, transcending the notion of tabula rasa dominant in post-war Japan with the notion of tabula consistens, organized yet localizable, variable, and fluent yet consistent. Linear transversal bands change in their grain and organization according to a set of interacting parameters, like fabric density, band width, infrastructural rhythms, programmatic mixture, building height, set-back control, among others, which respond to the changing conditions of the context at various scales and actualize them constantly.