infrastructural attributes
Infrastrastructure’s potential lies in its capacity to modulate density, variation, and idiosyncrasy. By coordinating density, infrastructure moderates sprawl and counters urban disconnect. By incorporating variation, infrastructure maintains site-specific flexibility and evades monotony. Both density and variation feed into infrastructure’s third quality, idiosyncrasy, through which it connects to notions of place and counters normative junk-space tendencies, which to Rem Koolhaas, “represents a reverse typology of cumulative, approximative identity, less about kind than about quantity. But formlessness is still form, the formless also a typology . . .” (His definition continues for several pages.) It is important to note here that these three qualities--density, variation, and idiosyncrasy--can apply to infrastructural
