Scaling the Threshold: When Community Architecture Becomes Too Large
Discover the balance of scale and intimacy in urban architecture. When Hudson Yards opened in Manhattan in 2019, it promised a new urban neighborhood built from scratch, with 16 towers and 4,000 residential units.
Despite its lavish amenities and lofty public plazas, a peculiar emptiness persisted, speaking to a fundamental truth about human social capacity: where architectural ambition outpaces human cognitive limits, the potential for intimacy collapses.
The traditional Japanese concept of roji - the in-between spaces that act as transitional zones for users to form communal bonds - worked brilliantly at small scales, but reality proved stubborn for modernist visionaries who once dreamed of "streets in the sky" that would foster vertical villages.
Where architectural ambition outpaces human cognitive limits, the potential for intimacy collapses.
Author's summary: Balance between scale and intimacy in urban architecture is crucial.
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