“It is thought of as radically urban. Here urban living and a highly urban program merge. The superposition of different structures and interests, the ambiguity create a special intensity. The inhabitants of the Mobimo Tower find “in house” activities such as a restaurant, bar, gym, and conference center, in combination with the 5-star hotel in the first fourteen floors.”
-Roger Diener (Translated by FAS)
In his description of his Luxury Tower project, Roger is using all the language of urbanists, talking about superpositioning of interests, ambiguity, and intensity. But it is fiction: it's just a 5-star hotel and luxury flats. The only superpositioning of interests, the only intensity, comes from the conflict the developers run into with the crazy old man inhabiting the nagelhaus.
FAS comparison of Mobimo luxury flats to Nagelhaus flats; is one "denser" than the other?
+Alternative proposals for inhabitation of the Mobimo Tower
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