THE TEMPORARY PRIVATE ZONE
A new nomadic concept for urbanism
Doris Zoller, 2002
“In a time of a constantly transitory surrounding, former valid qualities of architecture and urbanism, such as rigidity and solidity, begin to blur. A first – and maybe the most obvious – reaction is seeking for even more security and control to regain the stability we are about to loose.
By contrast, the Temporary Private Zone (TPZ) is offering a new nomadic concept for urbanism, mainly created by the cities’ actors themselves. It is dealing with the abandoned and leftover in the city and is promoting the instable as its main quality.
Put simply, the TPZ is offering three main design principles of a new way of using the city and navigating through it in a nomadic sense…”