The folded city

· Accessibility

· Dichotomy of open and narrow spaces, unique spaces which cater for unique experiences

· Sense of community

The ideal city is based on three key components. These being: accessibility, sense of community, and dichotomy of space. The latter of these three enables the inhabitants of the city to experience unique moments and chance encounters with both people and the spaces around them. The richness of city life is born out of a variety of both expansive and enclosed spaces, and in order to achieve this the ideal city must be able to evolve naturally. The use of folded forms will allow the city to merge seamlessly with the natural landscape and create a society which is free from boundaries both physical and hierarchical, and connect communities through continuous spaces. The fold avoids the creation of separated spaces, which leads to alienation, and instead creates forms that are anti-hierarchical. In principle, the external space of the city will be dedicated to circulation, with the internal space being used for inhabitation and living. In this way, the landscape becomes fully accessible to citizens

Architecture principe: the oblique city (Parent and Virilio)

· Leave existing cities and promote new urban complexes

· Dominate the site, become the equivalence of natural reliefs, change dimensions. Become artificial relief, landscape… faced with the uncertainty of the psyche, faced with anxiety, anguish, collective fear, the advent of violence, architecture must manage to tip the mentality in two key ways.:

· Inclined planes of installation and use in space

· The cantilever in the obliqueness of masses (the interior is dwelling, the exterior is circulation)

Mistakes of the 20^th century which led to inaccessibility, monotonous spaces and breakdown of community

The vertical cities, embodied through social housing, resulted in the collapse of communities, the paralysis of the inhabitants, and the monotony of spaces. Most of all it enforced an idea of hierarchy onto its inhabitants, which tended to be people of low economic status. Through increasing rates of crime, paranoia was induced into these communities, to the extent that one became suspicious of their neighbours. The elderly and the infirm became segregated and cut off from the outside world, and the vast open spaces provided externally at ground level (intended to promote healthy and active communities) became unused or worse still, breeding grounds for crime.