Rem Koolhaas made a name for himself in the late 1970s by ruminating about the culture of congestion in Manhattan, where architecture is so dense it begins to pile vertically. His design for the Distributed House, on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, represents a dialectical departure from those theories of density. Rather than assembling architecture vertically, with this project he distributes the house’s program horizontally into freestanding pavilions throughout the island.
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