The University Node was an exercise to discover what happened to the various notions of gradual infill, replacement and regeneration of parts on to a Plug-in City megastructure: but with a specific kind of activity.

The main enclosures are simply tensioned skins slung on trays which collectively create the ‘node’. Each student can have a standard metal box and can choose to have it located anywhere on the decking. In a sense, this anticipates the nomad’ nature of subsequent projects.

The nature of Plug-in City: involving the replacement of one function by another (though occupying the same location) could be demonstrated and a more intense glimpse of the likely detail of rooms, lift-tubes, skins and even hand-rails be disclosed.

Archigram, Edited by Peter Cook, Warren Chalk, Dennis Crompton, David Greene, Ron Herron & Mike Webb, 1972 [reprinted New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999]