paperplusarchitects:

Suburb of Tolbiac : Miroslav Sik

danielkbrown:

Philip Turner: AA School of Architecture student

City Section; Civic Room

andjelakarabasevic:

ONE HOME FOR ALL THE HOMELESS 2|2


status: competition. 2013 
coauthor: vladislav sudzum
D3 housing tomorrow 2013 
SPECIAL MENTION-dystopian vision

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This project envisions one megastructure that will house all the homeless people on our planet. It spreads continuously through the cities, fields and waters, only facilitating bare living necessities, and significantly increasing life quality in general, and therefore the overall rate of productivity.

Over 2.6 billion people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, while around 100 million have no housing whatsoever. These are all just assumptions, while the real numbers are much worse, and impossible to track. An unimaginable percentage of our society struggles to survive and doesn’t even have a remote possibility to experience more of their life, and yet we remain indifferent, presumably secured and untouchable.

Power, wealth and progress of one Nation is promoted by resolving one of the major problems it has caused to the Society. To give part of the sky to the poor. By diminishing its own flaws, the city becomes even stronger. Instead of trying to reach the highest point on the sky, the cities will compete in areas of their sky they are willing to give up in order to improve their society. This wall would become a new indicator of a city’s power. Every city gets a certain length of the wall. The longer the wall, the greater the city.

The structure occupies minimum amount of the expensive land, but a significant percentage of our sky. It is a wall of infrastructure, a vertical field of voids, offering numerous places to sleep, maintain hygiene, cook and store food, store belongings, and to get one’s own permanent location on the world map. Plus endless empty space around it, the priceless sky, which paradoxically turns it into one of the most luxurious living spaces in the world. It is dimensioned and occupied according to its genetic code. Once the occupant has become independent to join the Society, he leaves. When there are no more occupants left, it is either to be torn down, reconnecting the humankind to the sky, or to remain indefinitely, and with its monumentality pose as a daily reminder to the ignorant society of the problem it actually resolves.

With no beginning nor the end, people all around the world are gathered into one single structure. Unlike Superstudio’s Continuous Monument of 1969, which it was inspired with, it is not about globalization and loss of identity, it is about nourishing millions of identities that have yet to develop.

jacopast:

Still, somebody’s dreaming mega-structure. However, it seems different in CN.

propaedeuticist:

Perimetered Aquaduct Arcology - Wai Fung Alex Tsui

(via alwaysunderconstruction)

rosswolfe:

Nikolai Krasil’nikov’s terrifying planar urbanism (1928):

The mathematicization of architectural projects (in which this work does not pretend to any degree of finality) must be based on a mass of scientific research into such factors as the psycho-physical effect on the human organism of light, heat-energy, the quality of air, of color, space and form, amongst many other factors.

The successes of the last decade in mathematical statistics and analysis must herald their even further development in the future, and all such progress will greatly assist the solution to our architectural tasks.

(via tenivision)

ronisolomondds:

I.M. Pei & Associates, Master Plan for Genesee Crossroads, Rochester, NY. 1960.

This design is interesting the sense that the Miesian building in the center straddles the Genesee River.  Several elements of this proposal were lifted from another project by Pei, Kip’s Bay Plaza in NYC.  This proposal was ultimately rejected, although future proposals for the site drew upon Pei’s ideas.  

dom-ino:

Mies van der Rohe’s Great Wall of IBM

(via victortsu)

megaestructuras:

Paolo Soleri | 3D Jersey Arcology | 1968

solidspace:

John Szot Studio - Shibuya Tower

n-architektur:

Rendering by S. Amaru of Bruce Goff’s design for Hopewell Baptist Church 

Art in Architecture: The Rendering

volume-control:

Restaurant and landing platform on a cliff, project, 1923
Nikolai Ladovski

done while attending the Vkhutein

(via not2cad)

Edge of a City project for Phoenix, Arizona, Steven Holl, 1991

(Source: ethel-baraona, via plagiarismisnecessary)

mikasavela:

Proposed design for a large scale water-tower lift for a ship lock in the Welland Canal between Lake Erie and the Lake Ontario by George Ollert and Hans Rottmeyer. Popular Science, January 1925.

ryanpanos:

Prison Competition by e86 arquitectos

The Memorial Necrópole project in Santos, Brazil: a vertical cemetery complex. Only the 14 story building has been realized.

(Source: mysendoff.com)