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urban mutations<br />
The apartment block is a<br />
typological urban insulae<br />
that is repeatedly<br />
employed to produce the<br />
contemporary<br />
megalopolis. The images<br />
show the development of<br />
examples in Seongsu.<br />
Insular<br />
With nearly ten million inhabitants, South Korea’s capital<br />
city of Seoul is a megacity. During a period spanning<br />
more than six centuries, Seoul has seen tumultuous urban<br />
transformations due to drastic social, economic, and<br />
political shifts. Observing the transformation processes<br />
Seoul went through while trying to find an appropriate<br />
definition of the related mechanisms of urban growth,<br />
analyzing urban mutations based on the city’s typological<br />
subunits offers insight. These subunits can be read as<br />
“insulae”, with reference to the housing blocks of ancient<br />
Rome. This peculiar formation provides a contemporary<br />
reading of urban morphology as a typologically expanding<br />
megastructure.<br />
RAFAEL LUNA<br />
Structures<br />
Photo:Rafael Luna<br />
076 topos ISSUE 113
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