I have discovered something that I had only ever dreamed of...
it is :
ARCOLOGY!! architecture + ecology =arcology!!! It is a term/theory develped by a man named Paolo Soleri who moved here from Italy to work under Frank Lloyd Wright. Soleri's vision is descriptive, rather than prescriptive. He views this imperative as the emergent result of several pressures and describes one way of responding to the "miniaturize or die" command: Arcology.
Complexity is interconnectedness. On a purely physical level individuals are too separated from one another and from their places of congress and communication to interact effectively. Not only are they separated from communicating with one another directly, but their separation from their places of congress and occupation places additional burden on them via transport costs (time, expense, separation, dehumanization, and pollution are all factors here).
We have complexified our technological environment considerably in the past 100 years, but the social complexity has increased more slowly. This leads to a pressure for evolution: for new forms of social interaction and being.
Soleri's vision is "Arcology." He sees the physical manifestation of society ,the modern city, as suffering "horizontal gigantism and vertical dwarfism," of making poor use of our time and resources. The automobile (a technological success of complexification and miniaturization) has so far stunted the social evolution by encouraging urban sprawl.
Soleri's vision is descriptive rather than prescriptive. He describes the pressures and one viable response. This evolutionary (not revolutionary) step is "Arcology:" a contraction of the city to increase interconnectivity and eliminate sprawl. He places the essential social functions of the city within one vast building, and places clumps of these buildings together, with different personal cultures and societies in each, but supporting one another, and linked to other arcologies and arcology clumps by high speed transit.
This allows much of the currently wasted space to revert and become completely "natural" once again. Our two "inorganic layers" (the city and the pollution) are replaced by the "ecological surface" (i.e., the natural).
Its FUCKING GENIOUS...he is building a city called Arcosanti
You should check out the website, I promise it will be interesting and like nothing you have ever seen before!!!
it is :
ARCOLOGY!! architecture + ecology =arcology!!! It is a term/theory develped by a man named Paolo Soleri who moved here from Italy to work under Frank Lloyd Wright. Soleri's vision is descriptive, rather than prescriptive. He views this imperative as the emergent result of several pressures and describes one way of responding to the "miniaturize or die" command: Arcology.
Complexity is interconnectedness. On a purely physical level individuals are too separated from one another and from their places of congress and communication to interact effectively. Not only are they separated from communicating with one another directly, but their separation from their places of congress and occupation places additional burden on them via transport costs (time, expense, separation, dehumanization, and pollution are all factors here).
We have complexified our technological environment considerably in the past 100 years, but the social complexity has increased more slowly. This leads to a pressure for evolution: for new forms of social interaction and being.
Soleri's vision is "Arcology." He sees the physical manifestation of society ,the modern city, as suffering "horizontal gigantism and vertical dwarfism," of making poor use of our time and resources. The automobile (a technological success of complexification and miniaturization) has so far stunted the social evolution by encouraging urban sprawl.
Soleri's vision is descriptive rather than prescriptive. He describes the pressures and one viable response. This evolutionary (not revolutionary) step is "Arcology:" a contraction of the city to increase interconnectivity and eliminate sprawl. He places the essential social functions of the city within one vast building, and places clumps of these buildings together, with different personal cultures and societies in each, but supporting one another, and linked to other arcologies and arcology clumps by high speed transit.
This allows much of the currently wasted space to revert and become completely "natural" once again. Our two "inorganic layers" (the city and the pollution) are replaced by the "ecological surface" (i.e., the natural).
Its FUCKING GENIOUS...he is building a city called Arcosanti
You should check out the website, I promise it will be interesting and like nothing you have ever seen before!!!