3372632 Hojun Kim

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Archigram, an experimental architecture group from England, is a group of British architects formed in 1960. It presents a mechanistic utopia model with the aim of revitalizing the city by an active and ultra-technical system against modernism based on modern reason until then, and features the originality of the proposal rather than raising the issue at a systematic and institutional level on the premise of the overall harmony of production and consumption.

The members are Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Ron Herrob, David Greene, Dennis Crompton, and Mike Spider Webb.

Their ideas stem from space exploration and imaginative thinking in the 1960s and 1970s, non-mainstream culture, Beatles, science fiction, and so on, and their design inspiration was cultivated from modernists, such as Bucminster Fuller and Bruno Taut and Friedrich Kiesler, who have developed the form and form that are popular today. The avant-garde and pluralistic architecture of Archigram is based on a collage of various products and technologies in consumer society, the image of the city that resembles a spaceship, and the drawing of a robot-like urban landscape. Architecture can thus vary its form according to the needs of users. Variable geometrical structures, mobile structures, etc. will vary in form depending on the user's needs.

In 1964, an idea proposed by British architect Ron Heron. In an article in the avant-garde architecture magazine Archigram, Ron Heron suggested that a giant building of intelligent moving robotic structures could move anywhere in the world that needed its resources and process capabilities. Several different walking cities can be combined with huge walking metropolises if necessary, and can be separated if no force is required to be concentrated. Each building or structure can also be moved according to needs or desires.

Walking City was published by Ron Heron in 1864. If Walking City is a heroic manifestation of moving architecture, it was the most immense of the ongoing Archigram projects involved in flexibility, movement, exchange. The origin of this idea is related to the big idea of 'fragmentation'. It's a combination of making a building like a car or keeping the whole part out of place. The Utopia City Initiative by Ron Heron, a highly technical decadeshigh, giant animal-like residential group circling in groups using the same legs as Spider, is depicted in SF style as the background of New York's skyscrapers. Fantastic architecture as a ready-made concept that is pulled up to the position of the frame to be plugged into a pre-prepared object is still perceived as impractical for most designers and builders. Also, for example, if there is a similar degree of courage and belief, there are important urban problems, especially in the financial sector, such as intracity and intercity traffic, which will be attacked immediately, effectively and quickly.

The Walking City plan will be a symbolic event that will shift from formative restrictions to mechanical freedom. The architecture of Archigram in the 1960s, combined with the romantic appreciation of science and technology at that time and the newly developed space era, presented a future architecture, and influenced many architects who sought Hi-tech architecture in the future. Archigram's architectural philosophy of science is based on romantic expectations for science and technology, which has led to the introduction of mechanical or active technology in architecture. This trend is becoming a source of inspiration for architects who want to mechanically or technologically solve many of the current architectural environmental problems.

(sketch 1)

I first drew a city that I thought was busy and busy. I sketched a town hall in Sydney and thought about how to match it with the artist's painting.

sketch2)

I came up with the idea of a robot leg with the city.

(sketch 3)

I came up with the idea that many of the world's major cities have robot legs, so cities can meet each other. Cities move, interact, and unite with each other. This leads to more complete globalization as cities trade directly across borders.

I painted pictures of cities on big machinery. If you cover half of the picture with your palm, it's a very ordinary city painting. It sketched with a pencil, redrawed with an ink pen, scanned it and applied some color to the computer. I felt that Akigram's "Walking City" was a cartoon-like picture, and I wanted to play homage, so I drew it with a pen instead of using computer graphics. I thought if I use colour it would be too colorful, so I used light brown and purple to make it look gray, and I chose a white background because I thought it would look too complicated if I drew the background. The cities seem to have merged into one, but they are separate. Cities can use machine wheels to move to where they want to, and they can interact with each other by combining them. Because each city is different cities in different countries, the appearance of machines varies from city to city. Above, a small city was painted on a very large drone. The reason why I painted this picture is because I wanted to express the border becoming meaningless as it became globalized and competing and interacting with each other for economic and cultural development, and speculated that if we had the technology to realize this in the future and actually created a "walking city."

 On the right side, I drew an Oriental building and on the left a Western building because I wanted to express cultural exchange and globalization. Each city also looks like a car, meaning it can move the city's location at will, just as people can drive the car wherever they want. A walking city is a city plan that has many possibilities beyond simply meaning that it is moving. This is closely related to the problem of over-urbanization and population density and may solve many social problems. Even if it is not a moving city, many countries are already building houses or buildings that move, and as technology advances, it is unlikely that the painting will become a surreal one.

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