Megastructure is an architectural and urban concept of the post-war era, which envisions a city or an urban form that could be encased in a massive single human-made structure or a relatively small number of interconnected structures. In a megastructural project, orders and hierarchies are created with large and permanent structures supporting ...

In 1968, Ralph Wilcoxen defined a megastructure as any structural framework into which rooms, houses, or other small buildings can later be installed, uninstalled, and replaced; and which is capable of "unlimited" extension.

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2021年1月11日 · Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, starry-eyed architects set their minds to megastructures – massive, multi-purpose designs that could house communities or even entire cities. Complex and expensive to...

2021年11月19日 · 这种集中式的大型构架一方面可以满足复合功能需求和功能互补，另一方面又能最大程度的提高效率、减低管理成本，在环境恶劣的情况下能够最大化地利用资源——这又与现有的许多巨构思想不谋而合，而本文就将从巨构（megastructure）的象征、社会实验、现代 ...

2016年8月11日 · The land-scraping megastructure is made of repurposed and fragmented military relics and lies atop an array of minesweepers.

In the 1960s, the theoretical concept of a megastructure - an extremely large structure - arose in architecture, which predicted the further development of architecture in practice. The concept of megastructure became more complicated and gained

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The term ‘megastructure’ was applied to a range of futurist proposals and experiments in architecture and design during the early 1960s. The main premise of a megastructure was that a single building or structure could be used as a frame to which infrastructure, utilities and additional units could be interconnected and expanded upon ...

2022年12月23日 · In the 1960s, the theoretical concept of a megastructure - an extremely large structure - arose in architecture, which predicted the further development of architecture in practice.