Research project focusing on midscale cities across Europe organized by Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.  In cooperation with the architectural offices such as Architecten De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Office KGDVS or LAUC Paris, we were searching for the prototype masterplan fot the generic european city.  The premise of the project was the understanding of the mid-size European city as the quintessential generic city. Instead of being recognised as the seat of differences and the place of affirmation of local identities, the mid-size European city has been understood as characterised by an inexplicable level of commonness – as the manipulation, transformation and re-conceptualisation of a few limited urban materials. Starting from these conceptual premises, the projects that have been developed, of which this contribution offers a partial overview, represent an attempt towards the definition of a new urban vocabulary for intervention in the European city of the twenty-first century.

project / 2008-2010
client / Berlage Institute Rotterdam
kosice / slovakia
mechelen / belgium
with / zerozero+plural