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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14]

"SOCIAL CONDENSER " (1982)

Patent Number: 3,818,150

. /,. 1211 Patent for: "Social

Condenser"
(29) PROGRAMMATIC LAYERlNG Ul'ON
VACANTTERRAINTO ENCOURAGE DYNAMIC
COEXISTENCE OF ACTIVITIES ANO TO
GENERATETHROUGHTHElR INTERFERENCE,
UNPRECENTED EVENTS_

(36) Inventor(s): Rem Koolhaas,

Elia Zcnghelis

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1421 Initial Application of Concept: Pare de

la ViII.tt. Paris FRANCE

1541 Filcd: 1982

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(71) ABSTRACT
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-_.::::-.::r:_ :_-_.,: : . Take the section of the typical skyscraper
and put it on its side; now declare each floor
a different program; distribute recurrent
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in intervals dictated by need; design one (or
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more) symbolic elements (1,2,3) to
acknowledge "eternal" human values.
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.... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the city - a programmatic non-entity, this
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sustain program with superior ease.
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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14] "TIMED ERASURES"
"STRATEGY OF THE VOID 1" (PLANNING) (1987)
Patent number: 5, 143,723 i"COS

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Given that practical!y al! we build today is

disappointing, we invest our hopes in the
unbuilt as the last source of the sublime. If
fIG.Z we deploy in the unbuilt (4-15) the powers
formerly applied to the built, we can afford
to treat the built as we formerly did nature,
and take it for granted (16).
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~ATENT[14] "TIMED ERASURES" (1991)
3} (1987) Patent Number: 7,675,280

Patent number: 5, 143,723 reos

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en that practically all we bui!d today is Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Incas, the
ppointing, we invest our hopes in the Goths, the ItaJians, the metabolists - all buildings
17
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deploy in the unbuilt (4-15) the powers the death of architecture equals, potentially, the
erly applied 10 the built, we can afford rebirth of the city. A campaign of razing what is
treat the built as we formerly did nature, expired (17) could revea!, in every metropolis,
take it for granted (16). vast amounts of redundant urban substance that ,
if removed, would offer central locations to ever
new iterations of what the city can be.
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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14]

"LOOP- TRICK" (1987) UNIVERSAL
Patent Number: 5,241,680 "STRATEGY OF'

(21) Patent for "Stra1

ofthe Void 11" (buildi
(29) METHOD FOR DEFINII
BUILDING THROUGHMANIl
ABSENCES OF BUILDING

(36) Inventor(s): Rern Koolhaas,!

Xaveer de Geyter, Georges Heintz, E
Lohmann, Ron Steiner, Ale. Wan

Correspondence Address:
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(42) Initial Application:

Tres Grande Bibliotheque Paris, FR

(54) Filed:""""""" ..•..•.1989

(71) ABSTRACT

Instead of laboriously creating di

importance in a building that cons
ti ve accomodation and public SP!
communal spaces can be created II
(21) Patent for "Loop- Trick" (71) ABSTRACT Because it is harder to construct
Introducing an X of intersecting floors (18, 20) in away, the most important spaces
(29) SYSTEM OF INTERSECTING RAMPS a two-story building creates a continuous surface can be created by elimination (,
THAT DESTOYS THE STATUS OF THE INDI- that destroys the status of the individual floor, than addition - by scooping out f
VIDUAL FLOOR eliminates the notion of above and below (19). salid block, like ice-cream,

(36) Inventor(s): Rern Koolhaas, Furninori Hoshino

Correspondence Address:
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(42) lnitial Application: Kunsthal. Rotterdarn.

THE NETHERLANDS

(54) Filed: ..." ..." ..." .."".1987

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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14]
"INSIDE-OUT CIl
"STACKED FREEDOMS " (1989)
Patent Number: 7,375,230

(21) Patent for: "Stacked (71) ABSTRACT

Freedorns" Instead of accepting structural depth as a "lost" segment FIG, I

of the section, it can be expanded and turned into habit- <,

able floors (26-29). The increasingly inhibiting legacy of ./

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(29) SYSTEM OF VIERENDEEL BEAMS THA T ..................... -
cumulative structure is transformed into a regime of alter-
ALLOWS FREE OCCUPANCY OF ALTERNAT-
nating structural absence and presence.
ING FLOORS.
(36) Inventors: Rem Koolhaas, Cecil Balmond, Heike
Lohmann, Georges Heintz, Alex Wall.

Correspondence Address:
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(42) Initial Application: Center for Art

and Media Technology. Karlsruhe. GERMANY

54) Filed: ....................• 1989

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ATENT [14] "INSIDE-QUT CITY" (1993)
Patent N umber: 8,728, 220

Patent Number: 7,375, 230

FIG. I
trueturaJdepth as a "lost" segment
be expanded and turned into habit- 31 (21) Patent for
e inereasingly inhibiting legacy of ----_ ..'- ------ "Inside-out City"
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FRANCE

(54) Filed: 1993

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(32-37) potentially turns the seemingly
_1 inevitable separation of different floors into a
continuous experience, while ending at the
same time the regimes of spatial orthogonality
that have dominated architecture. Yet, by com-
bining this new architecture with the tradition-
al discipline of the structural grid, it can be
imagined, supported, stacked instead of being
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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14] "EVERYWHERE ANI
"DISCONNECT" (1994)
Patent Number: 9, 765, 233

(21)Patent for "Everywl

and Nowhere"
(21) Patent for: "Disconnect" (71) ABSTRACT
(29) SYSTEM FOR TRANSFO
The two parts that are usually combined in a theater A TRANSPORTA TION DEVIC
into a single whoLe (stage and auditorium wrapped in
(29)METHOD OF DEFINING A THE- public space) are separated (38, 39) 10 enable both to
A ROOM TO CREA TE A CHAl
ATER BY STRICT SEPARA TION OF ITS perform their designated tasks as efficiently as possi- ABLE HOUSE
COMPONENTS ble.The stage becomes a utilitarian illusion-factory; the (36) Inventor(s): Rcm Koolhaas
auditorium a continuous consumption belt that begins
(36) Inventor (s): Rcm Koolhaas as stairs (42), turns into foyer, becomes stalls, warps up
(4 1) to meet the factory - the stage opening their only Correspondence Address:
Correspondence Address: interface - and turns back on itself as ceiling, to end as OMA, HEER BOKELWEG149
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(42) InitialApplication: Maison á Bord
(42) InitialApplication: Cardiff Bay Opera House, FRANCE
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PATENT [14] "EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE" (1994)

Patent umber: 9,745, 214

Patent Number: 9, 765, 233

(21)Patent for "Everywhere (71) ABSTRACT

and Nowhere"
By piercing a vertical shaft through a rnultilevel architecture and
(29) SYSTEM FOR TRANSFORMING installing a moving platform that can engagewith any level (43.44.45),
that are usually combined in a theater A TRANSPORTATION DEVICE INTO the stability of domestic archirecture is overtumed by an elemenr of real
instabiliry that, as ir offers new scenarios to inhabitants, aJso changes
e whole (stage and auditorium wrapped ID A ROOM TO CREA TE A CHANGE-
the architecture of the structure.
'e) are separated (38, 39) 10 enable both to ABLE HOUSE
eir designated tasks as efficiently as POSSI-
ge becomes a utilitarian illuSlon-factory: the (36) Inventor(s): Rem Koolhaas
a continuous consumption belt that begins
~). tums into foyer, becomes stalls, warps IIp
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et the factory - the stage opemng their only
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TEL: +31(0) 102438200

(42) InitialApplication: Maison á Bordeaux,

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(54) Filed: 1994

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UNIVERSAL MODERNIZATION PATENT [14]
UNIVERSAL MO
"VARIABLE-SPEED MUSEUM" (1995) "INERTNESS MODIF
Patent Number: 10,365,340

FIG. I
Patent for:"Variable-Speed
(.21) (71) ABSTRACT
Museum" The museum experience insists on a dictatorial parade on foot
past artifacts that are supposed to trigger individual revela-
(29) USE OF MECHANICAL TRANSPORT TO MULTlPLY, tion. The simultaneous applications of many technologies of
OIVERSIFY, ANO lNDlVIDUALIZE MOVEMENT THROUGH mechanical transport (47-53) vastly extends the repertoire of
A MUSEUM BUILDING. potential movement, multiplies the circumstances of the
atavistic encounter in the museum, and transcends the type's
(36) Inventors: Rem Koolhaas, Floris Alkemade. century-old limitations.

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"INERTNESS MODIFIED" (1997)

Patent Number: 10,521,230
Patent Number: 10,365, 340

FIG. I

(21) . Patent for

perience insists on a dictatorial parade on foot
la! are supposed to trigger individual revela- "Inertness Modified"
ltaneous applications of rnany technologies of
isport (47-53) vastJy extends the repertoire of (29) INTRODUCING SPECIFITY IN
INDETERMINATE ACCOMODATJONS
unent, multiplies the circurnstances oí the
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TALL & SLENDER (1996)
Patent Number: 9,346,587

FIG. I

(21) Patent for "Tall &

Slender"
(29) ARRANGEMENT OF MUTUALLY
SUPPORTlVE TOWERS TO REACH NEW
HEIGHTS \VITHOUT WIDE BASE.

(36) Inventor(s): Rem Koolhaas,

Yo Yamagata

Correspondence Address:
OMA, HEER BOKELWEG 149
3032 AD ROTTERDAM
TEL: + 31 (O) 102438200

(42) Initial Application:

Hyperbuilding. Bankok. THAILAND
59
(54) Filed: 1996

/ ABSTRACT
FIG. 3

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The stability of ever-taller towers is 1 1
bought at the expense of increasing their
footprints, either in the traditional form

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of the pyramid, or as a larger and larger
tube. But a composite stability can be -
1 1 I 1 1
established with members (58, 59) that,
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heights; coupling them at regular inter- ' , 1 1
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PATENT [14] SKYSCRAPER LOOP(2002)

Patent Number: 2, 565, 267

Patent Number: 9,346,587

FIG. I FIG. 2 ~'!l Patent for "Bent

Skyscraper"
(21)Patent for "Tall &
Slender" (54) METHOD OF AVOIDlNG THE ISOLATION OF
THETRADlTIONALffiGHRISEBYTURNlNGFOUR
(29) ARRANGEMENT OF MUTUALLY SEGMENTS INTO A LOOP
SUPPORTlVETOWERS TO REACO NEW
HEIGHTSWITOOUT WIDE BASE. (76) Inventors: Rem Koolhaas, Ole Seheeren,
Shohei Shigematsu, Fernando Donís, Alain Fouraux
(36) Inventor(s): Rem Koolhaas,
Yo Yamagata Correspondence Address:
OMA, HEER BOKELWEG 149
3032 AD ROTTERDAM
Correspondence Address:
OMA, HEER BOKELWEG 149 TEL: + 31(0) 102438200
3032 AD ROTTERDAM
(21) lnltlal Applicatíon: CCTV Beijing CHINA
TEL: + 31(0) 102438200
(22) Filed: 2002
(42) Initial Application:
Hyperbuilding. Bankok. THA1LAND
(23) ABSTRACT
(54) Filed: 1996
By breaking (60) the traditional tower that merely
FIG. 3
goes up and down at four points, a loop of building
(11) ABSTRACT can be generated that unites and confronts (61, 62) its
population in a single whole and cements a coherence
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of elements, isolating and separating them.,
bought at the expense of increasing their
footprints, either in the traditional forrn
of the pyramid, or as a larger and larger
tube. But a composite stability can be
established with members (58, 59) that,
on their own could never achieve those
heights; coupling them al regular inter-
vals creates stability wíthout fatness.

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UNIVERSAL
"CAKE- TIN ARCHITECTURE" (2002)
"THE END OFTHE
Patent Numbcr: 11,428,187

'oo. óy~ (21)Patent for "Cake- Tin

FIG.I
Architecture" 1- -- - - - - -. - - - - - - -. - • • _

(29) ACCOMODA nON OF THE RESIDUALS OF A , r,=-=====.

DOMINANT PROGRAM IN A NOUVELLE CUlSINE
MOLD
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FIG.2 OMA, HEER BOKELWEC 149
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TEL: + 31(O) 102438200

(42) Initial Applieation: TVCC. Beijing. CHINA

(54) Filed:."""""""".".2002

(71) ABSTRAeT
By collecting all the coniradictory demands of a
complex program without atternpting to resol ve them ------------. --------------- -
and casting them in a totally arbitrary, pleasing form,
charm can be generated on a big sea le frorn
heterogeneous elements.

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"THE END OF THE ROAD" (2003)
Patent Number: 11, 428, 187 Patent Number: 12, 175,276

mt for "Cake- Tin FIG.I

(54) Patent for "The End of the
:ture" -- - - - - --- - - ----- - - ----- - ----- --- --- ----- ---- - --- --,
Road"
, (54) ACTlV ATION 01' THE CENTRAL BUSINESS
\10DATlON OF THE RESIDUALS 01' A
, OISTRICT ARCHETYPE BY EITHER CONCENTRATlNG
tOGRAMIN A NOUVELLE CUISINE
OR OIFFUSING THE CORES OYER A SINGLE URBAN
CARPET
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Des:Rem Koolhaas, Ole Scheeren, Shohei (76) Inventors: Rcm Koolhaas, Ma Qingyun,
'ernando Donis, Alain Fouraux gp(y~, Fernando Donis

Correspondence Address:
,pondence Address:
OMA, HEER BOKELWEG 149
HEER BOKELWEG 149 ,
3032 AD ROTTERDAM
f.D ROTTERDAM
TEL: + 31(0) 102438200
+ 31(O) 102438200
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2002
Beijing. CHINA
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BSTRACT
Take the distributed cores of the typical Central
z a]! the contradictory demands of a __________________________________________________ .J
Business District (Fig.l); lower the buildings and
gram without auempting to resolve them distribute the cores even further so that they create a
hem in a totally arbitrary, pleasing form, field condition of pervasive insulation (Fig.2) or
e generated on a big scale from consolidate thern in a single mega core (Fig.3), so that
IUS elements. the sarne urban area can support two times the
program in typologies that both promote
interdependence instead of creating the c1usters of
stand-alone enrities - the so-called skyscraper - of the
FIG 2
typical CBD.

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