Ecosophy City Model (ECM) is proposing a theoretical machine for increasing the complexity of the City. The model articulates the concept of Three Ecologies, formulated by Felix Guattari. The model pretend to extend the traditional vision of ecology, proposing a new model of sustainability, that is structured in social ecology, environmental ecology and ecology of [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Open World City | Rio De janeiro + Space, Time and Play
With +12 million people and beautiful landscape, Rio De Janeiro sets an example of a charming mega-city. However, it also sets an example of a disconnected city with many social and natural boundaries. This observation comes in contrast to the idea which we have found in “Space, Time and Play” book that the cities in the [...]
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The City of Needles
Delirious New York & Bei-Jing city
Posted in Ali Yerdel, Mustapha Saleh Moussa, Nuri Choi Tagged Bei-Jing, Delirious New York, Encripted Mega-Cities, IAAC, Rem Koolhaas, skyscrapers, Urban Design 9 Comments
Instant City
We understand cities as huge density moments of information. Data is continuously moving around the world, but in some sites it creates big nodes where de culture appears. Our project express this idea through particles of information that move constantly and when they intersect they create huge bubbles of density. This means that all the [...]
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DESTINY OF DENSITY
“First we shape our buildings, then they shape us” [Winston Churchill, 1943] When designing any random building we are indeed designing our future for they direct and manipulate the way in which we engage with our social values, educational, commercial and spiritual needs. Cities have always been a source of attraction for people living in [...]
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