Infrastructure Space - Illustration

 

This image illustrates the idea of disposition and the responsible underlying factors. The image of the infrastructure on the right side shows how it is connected to all the active forms, and the image of infrastructure with broadband connection on the left side shows broadband’s impact on a city or country’s development that helps it globalizing and creates more opportunities that influence that country’s systems. But active forms and broadband both are manipulated by the capitalistic power that only looks for profits. And the background images show the two sides of reality that are being created because of the disposition; one is the developed side of the world and the other is the undeveloped side. So we must come up with an architecture theory that can deal with this issue.

Infrastructure space is not just the physical structure for transportation and communication, but also the shared protocol of technology, markets, and urbanism. These infrastructure spaces are the urban structures that have an impact on architecture and they are making international influences possible. 

All the active forms like the multipliers, remotes, topologies and governors that form spatial products and broadband connections can cause the disposition. Disposition refers to the idea of the dualism of what is shown versus what the actual reality is. Broadband connections help countries like Kenya to be more advanced and bring up the possibility to develop their infrastructures. However, it also challenges our design ability or creating a connection through architecture, as broadband can take away the necessity of connecting cities or countries through physical forms. This broadband in one way can behave like an active form. Active forms like multiplier can help create many opportunities or infrastructure, but the mass production takes away the uniqueness and main functionality of the form, thus creating a disconnection from the original intention. And when it comes to an internet connection, we see that they are more focused on developed countries. It helps them to grow even more compared to the developing or undeveloped countries, which creates the disposition.