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Federico Luis Del Blanco GarcíaAuthorAlejandro Jesús González CruzAuthor

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December 16, 2025
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Technology and design in cybernetic architecture. Virtual reconstruction of Cedric Price's Fun Palace

Publicated to: EGA: revista de expresión gráfica arquitectónica. 29 (51): 242 - 257 - 2024-01-01 29(51), DOI:

Authors:

Federico Luis del Blanco García; Claudia Serrano Fernández; Alejandro Jesús González Cruz
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Abstract

In 1964, a young Cedric Price joined forces with the successful theater director and producer Joan Littlewood to conceive a project with the ambitious goal of transforming the concept of leisure and education in post-World War II Britain, which was still recovering from the devastation of the war. The Fun Palace project, however, never materialized into a physical structure, leaving Price’s drawings as the sole record of its design. Employing cybernetic principles, the project was envisioned as a structural framework encompassing an interactive machine without a defined program, in perpetual transformation. It was like a board of combinations with no single solution, foreseeing the emergence of parametric architecture. Based on the collection of Price’s original drawings, this article presents a virtual reconstruction of the Fun Palace project. It includes new documentation and an analysis of the changeability of the constantly evolving elements that define the Fun Palace.
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Keywords

Construcción. arquitectura. tecnología ambientalGrupo cTecnologías

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-26:

  • Dialnet Métricas: 2
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Impact and social visibility

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/94998/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 17
  • Downloads: 7
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (DEL BLANCO GARCIA, FEDERICO LUIS) .

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