Public planes nested inside private volumes

how the city can entrophy can metamorphosize into another state

word of the day: tentisticles

//Colonization of Alternative Planes 
modernism solved the free ground plane. how can we colonize the other datums: in the air, and underground and in the inbetween

//Alice City! 

Alice City is an underground city that the Taisei Corporation has proposed to build in Tokyo, Japan, as building underground costs less in the now highly built-up Tokyo. The plan proposes that many industrial facilities would be better suited to having subterranean equivalents e.g. warehouses, railroads, and certain manufacturing facilities. If built, it will also contain commercial and residential spaces, which will be serviced by dedicated power and waste recycling facilities.

The initial cost of building the city is said to be $ 4 billion.

Express elevators or an extension of an underground railway system will run to the bottom level. Solar domes or atrium space eliminates any feeling of claustrophobia by those sensitive.

As some office, commercial and entertainment areas move underground more open space will become available above ground. A tenminute vertical commute may replace a two hour commuting run from Tokyo suburbs.

Many advantages are rapidly discovered when operating a city underground. Heating costs for the entire city are almost totally eliminated, along with the pollution that follows above ground. With a constant natural underground temperature the heat provided from the bodies of city inhabitants and the output of their machines can be collected, vented and sold to the buildings above ground at competitive rates. Anyone who has seen the $2,500-a-second computer generated graphics at Toronto's underground tour of the Universe" theatre knows that one can very quickly forget he or she is underground when such holographic-type vistas are visible outside the window.

Underground space is ideal for any city's infrastructure from the standpoints of isolation, sound insulation and earthquake resistance. A side benefit again is the preservation of above-ground environment.

Construction costs have been studied in considerable depth, a 12floor office space (80 metres deep) would cost about $577 million and a 80-metre diameter and 60-metre-high infrastructure space placed on 110 metres underground would run about $692 million. Total cost for a city of 100,000 is estimated at $4 billion, roughly half the price of one high-priced surface acre on Tokyo's Ginza strip!

"colonisation of air space by winery branches"


hack and recode the existing city


Visitors would be swept upwards by a series of gentle interlocking ramps that connect the three levels of the bridge, culmination in a park at the top


In Singapore, urban planning projects are subject to stringent control by the state. This project resists the formation of a state-engineered “Generic Empire” by inverting the skyscraper to provide a typological urban framework that cultivates difference through the coexistence and participation of multiple types and skateholders.

//Mario Testino
I wonder what story could be spun to bring this image to life. I want it to live.


http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/10-photographers-who-make-you

//Real Fantasy

From National Geographic, a real house that takes after the movie UP. What strikes me as interesting is that if not for the movie, any suggestion of floating a house by balloons would be considered ludicrous. Only after the image had been planted did people consider working the details of it out. And of course it worked. Anything can, only if you try hard enough. 

My point is the barriers of imagination, what we thought we could imagine and thus what we can do, is highly elastic. Much more than we might have expected otherwise

To consider:

kickstartr for Steve Grand, AI scientist

bouil·la·baisse (bū'yə-bās', būl'yə-bās') 
n.

1. A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish.
2. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests.

[French, from Provençal bouiabaisso : boui, imperative of bouie, to boil (from Latin bullīre , from bulla, bubble) + abaisso, imperative of abeissa, to lower (from Vulgar Latin *abbassiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Medieval Latin bassus , low).]

//I will one day go here.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/travel/06bahia-bustamante.html?hp

Dessau Inst of Arch // Understanding Crowds // Grisha Zotov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdbN0K1iu9g

Oskar Sala is one of the first electronic musicians.

time paintings

http://www.shinichimaruyama.com/

http://vimeo.com/awards/about#animation

http://www.vimeo.com/9800754
>> Callouts are nice touch

The mining city of Kiruna is the northernmost city in Sweden. Located far above the Arctic Circle, it endures one of the harshest environments on earth, and one of the most extreme conditions in terms of sunlight. From early December to early January the sun never rises, and from the end of May to mid-July the sun never sets. There is, however, a bigger problem for Kiruna. It is sinking. Mines deep underground are causing the city to subside progressively. The deeper they dig the mines, the more the city subsides. This project seeks to establish a process for gradually shifting the city to firmer ground, while maintaining a constant, critical mass. It is based on a biomimetic study of how penguins huddle in order to survive extreme cold. Just as the penguin huddle is in a state of perpetual mutation as individual penguins peal off from the front to seek sanctuary at the rear, so too here, as individual buildings begin to subside, new buildings are generated on firmer ground to the rear, thereby maintaining a constant critical mass. Individual units coalesce into larger compositions, and roads are then generated to link them. Everything is scripted in Maya Embedded Language (MEL) as an animated sequence. Stills from the sequence are presented here. The project was tutored by Neil Leach and Nick Pisca as an undergraduate Topics studio in Fall 2010.  Click here for movie

We could think of cities as the territorialization of processes, interdependencies and relations within the territory, which are critically addressed and controlled at various scales by different decision-making bodies, design teams and other agents in a constant process of defining the spaces we live in. These relations have to be understood as emergent form the historical and material dialectics preset in the territory, linking human activities with its environment in a time based evolving process, connecting courses of action which may happen simultaneously locally and at global scales.

song of the moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls

Julie Mehretu






I think of my abstract mark-making as a type of sign lexicon, signifier, or language for characters that hold identity and have social agency. The characters in my maps plotted, journeyed, evolved, and built civilisations. I charted, analyzed, and mapped their experience and development: their cities, their suburbs, their conflicts, and their wars. The paintings occurred in an intangible no-place: a blank terrain, an abstracted map space. As I continued to work I needed a context for the marks, the characters. By combining many types of architectural plans and drawings I tried to create a metaphoric, tectonic view of structural history. I wanted to bring my drawing into time and place

singapore's spatial environment is essentially interaction design.

beauty and beast... stockholm syndrome before the stockholm syndrome was coined.

when designing, do not fall to the stockholm syndrome, a dumb outpouring of love for user convenience etc. the user is a fabrication and ultimately an excuse for shoddy work

"Each day, the machine will dig about 9 meters and will remove approximately 1 000 cubic meters, or 50 truck-loads."


Such is the pace of the growth tube, 6.9m. 


http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=110879

memory is dynamic, its alive. you can create a scene from imagination and pepper it with the familiar, memory will do the rest.