A Master Plan on Wheels
January 6, 2011
One of OMA’s very first projects, in 1987, was a masterplan for Ville Nouvelle Melun Senart outside of Paris. The project made one huge assumption: all masterplans are either flawed or carried out incorrectly. So, OMA decided to ‘plan’ only what would be left empty. Whatever sections of the landscape they found most beautiful or valuable, they sectioned off as undeveloped zones. The rest, they said, would develop as the city would have it. They wrote, “nothingness may be the last subject of plausible certainties.”
OMA’s Ville Nouvelle Melun Senart masterplan, (c) OMA.
A project uploaded today to Architizer reminded us of the Melun Senart project – taken a few steps further. Specifically, Swedish team Jägnefält Milton declined to plan any stationary elements at all – instead proposing a mobile city.
