INSPIRATIONS mid 20century-current
Bernard Khoury- 2010- Beirut
Hexahedron Arcology
Walking was the primary form of transportation, which was aided by a network of pedestrian walkways, elevators, and lifts.
-No Private transportation
-Living, working, and public spaces are in close proximity
-Solar energy
Paolo Soleri, Hexahedron Arcology
Fuses architecture with ecology
VERTICAL
Plug-In City
Source: Archigram, Plug-In City
Large cranes and an intricate web of railways could transport and drop the units into the network
Modular residential units to literally plug into the system
Machines and technology that was based on infinite supplies and hyper-consumption
Name a Vertical City you know from movies, games, shows....
However, “the purpose of Marine City is neither intended to enlarge the land nor to escape from the land,” but ‘Marine City’ is instead considered a new urban archetype for living on the sea
Marine City Megastructure
by Kiyonori Kikutake
Source:Archeyes.com
FLOATING on SEA
Name a floating City you know from movies, games, shows....
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Source: https://www.archdaily.com/tag/invisible-cities
UNDERGROUND
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Source: https://www.archdaily.com/tag/invisible-cities
Nature plays a key role in many of the cities that Marco describes. One example is that of Isaura, a “city of the thousand wells” built over a deep lake, where “the inhabitants dig long vertical holes in the ground and succeed in drawing up water, as far as the city extends.”
Name an underground City you know from movies, games shows....
Seattle Underground City
After the Fire
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Source: https://www.archdaily.com/tag/invisible-cities
FLOATING in AIR
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Floating
Floating Railways
Name a floating City you know from movies, games shows....
DERAILING BEIRUT
Rome, Italy
Installation
Draw an infernal circuit in which the sensation-driven tourists seeking instant gratification are propelled in a pre-determined course
the rolling capsule
“Broadacre City,” Frank Lloyd Wright
Lebbeus Woods, Aero-Livinglab from Centricity,
Many structures are totally illegible or have completely ambiguous functions, like a surreal zeppelin-like structure made from scrap material aimlessly hovering in the sky.
https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/utopian-architecture-part-2/
Name surrealist vehicules you know from movies, games, shows....
airships, moving structures, vehicles, Spaceships