Act 5 - Scene 1 - Architectural Opportunities

 

ARCHITECTURAL OPPORTUNITIES

 

 

IDEAS

Shelter, food, security, belonging etc

Time line of development

Living room, social spaces, food farm, think farm, education centres, workshops, transport, access routes, neighbourhood, show on master plan

THINK TANK - made out of rainwater tanks?

Woodfordia - Last resort (double meaning)

The urban form is decentralised, and satellite towns are re-established.

Compact towns, more room for gardens

Structures to be re-adapted for living - rainwater tanks, tubes

Waste is reused as building materials. Pallets, steel, mud, plastic

Donations of excess product from companies

'Binistructures' of mud  http://www.binisystems.com/

image from http://earthship.com/

Earthships

Build on slopes, leave flat land for planting/social space

Locate resources (trees, quarry) high on hill, for ease of transportation

Locate waste materials centrally for reuse (YIMBY)

500 year plan - Slow architecture (like slow food)

 

(image from http://dornob.com/100-year-treehouse-will-take-a-century-to-be-completed/)

 

This hypothetical project summarises the need for humans to slow down their development.  This is a representation of creating something so selfless, that you will never even see in your lifetime.  It is giving something to future generations.  Something so beautiful in nature will take 100 years to produce.   The industrial revolution changed the speed at which humanity impacted the each tenfold. 

 

“If we can be patient with the building time we can reduce the need for transportation, waste of material and different manufacturing processes, simply by helping nature grow in a more architectonic and useful way.” (http://dornob.com/100-year-treehouse-will-take-a-century-to-be-completed/)