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Innovative ideas can sound good if you say them quickly and don't reflect on them. But then there are those seemingly brilliant concepts that don't stand up under scrutiny. Is the following one of them? You be the judge.

MVRDV and ADEPT Architects will supposedly be erecting Sky Village in Copenhagen:

...its main concept is centered around a system of individual units that can be stacked in various configurations to maximize available space and allow for easy structural changes in response to market demand.

...If a retailer wants more space or if the village needs more office or residential units, "pixels" can be easily added to reconfigure the structure. Each pixel is about 60 sq meters and they all are arranged around a central core. The inclusion of retail, restaurants, and offices in a residential development allows people the ability to live where they work and play, making this in a true village, albeit a vertical one.

Assuming they get the physics worked out, how exactly would this play out? Let's say "market demand" means they're gonna tack a few extra apartments on--so some current tenant gets screwed out of having exterior windows and they lose their terrace? Or do they just keep adding them to the top, like Jenga? We're highly curious to hear the practical details of how this building would expand.

via inhabitat