project09:Frontpage
Author:Harish Ramakrishnan
Summary
The skatepark at NDSM is going to be closed permanently, and what started as a proposal for replacing the sports arena became a full-fledged strategy to create link across cultures, across meaning, across projects. An ecosystem needs a bit of everything, and in a way reaffirming the same, Quake/X is a space that renews the NDSM, granting it the necessary attraction for people of all ages and cultures.
Quake/X has been designed as an adaptive landscape that takes care of the needs of the people who visit the particular project or the adjacent ones. It serves as a landscape to walk, play, practice, meditate and more. It transforms on need, learns over time what people want, and recognizes needs in the longer run, eventually controlling itself. Situated between the MTV and Redbull offices, it relates to their needs and aspirations, creating a functional self-sustaining economic model to assert its sustenance. Its adaptive capabilities allow for it to change over time, ascertaining the requirements of time, of the ever changing context. Quake/X is what you make of it.