PROJECT HUB. THE ARCHITECTURE OF NEW MOBILITIES
Résumé
Mobilities transform urban life and the production of space and architecture. In the society of exchanges, hubs are the main receptacles of these ongoing transformations. They foreshadow the global dévelopements n the city of sustainable travel at a time of on-board digital communication ans smart flows.
Project Hub does not, once again, describe the urbanism of transport or the complexity of networks, but addresses the unavoidable question: how will more more than thirty potential modes of mobility coexist and connect with one another in a single place, in the same way as data gets exchanges in the virtual and ubiquitous space of our smartphones ?
The trains stations in Japanese megalopolis, by their history and thier overdevelopment, were in the 20th century the future, and are now the past of this kinf of infrastrcutures. Doomed to be used by the variety of the new sistaiainable mobilliyies, they appaear to be the privileged ground for prokecting the transformation of the mobility hub in the near future, which does not yet exist and must be brought about.
The book is divided into three chapters: « Le Grand secteur » shows how the environmental qualities of ecological vehicles will overturn the spatial organization of stations; « Le véhicule vient à vous » looks at the spatial consequences of the arrival of the automated vehicle in stations; « L'autoroute osmotique » imagines how this revolution in mobility will open up new uses for urban motorway networks and repair them.