it's the ground there with this in the section and says below ground you
can imagine imagine not all the service systems of the city mainly the
warehousing energy,
the conditioning. The older machines that are keeping the city alive.
Including production maybe about the ground level. You have really the
urban activities from the community. From the private, from the most
private, the most public.
I always get that. Now I was faced with trying to present This three
dimensional approach to the city,
tried to explain the barrage the possibility that this opens up and so
that one person will not think of it as a solid A cube. Let's say that
would be multiplied by 10,000. You would have 10 cubes and you fit
humanity in those kind of their schemes. So I came out with about 40
different schemes and I used 30 for the boat and I had some water. The
community is And this is one
There are two subsistence here. one is the production center showing here
in section and then the main urban center development which is this. They
live in with parks enlisted inside and so on. The productive center would
be harvesting from the water. Water material is so it could be minerals or
proteins or chemicals and so on. Is the processing and restoring the
shipping. Some of the work connected with those activities let's say
investigations, technological and scientific investigation and then some
of the urban life connected with the main bourbon liberty.
This is a city that can develop from one or two of those centers no
production into a large cost of the structure that suggested there.
Whatever you say from now on are not blueprints are just symbols of a
certain concept applied in a certain way. And the concept I think is it's
not personal, but the applications are personal. So you might agree or
disagree with the concept or might you might agree or disagree with the
application of it. The two are separate. I think the country is very
fundamental and very it's really the methodology of life to to invent and
develop itself in something more lively and the applications are mine and
so they can be as controversial as you as you can make them.
One example of an oncologist of my existing but not used in the dam.
The dam is a very large sometimes gigantic talk to built by man in a
specific spot transforming the ecology of a large area geographic area and
becoming the center of many kinds of things. Water available for domestic
uses for recreation, for power production for irrigation
broadway converging to that point. Um
and this massive kind of blind dumb block of concrete. If this was
designed of the outset was called out structure, you would make this into
a building which could be filled with life. So the damn redesigned
according to this procedure would become a center for life could be a city
health center research center, University center and so on. And this is
suggested by this model and this sketch. This is a section cut through
there against the water body. You could have only storages and some
industries you could have every industries of the foot of the dam. You
have power production, linear series carrying water in power. And then at
the altar, the outer membrane of the structure would be for residents.
That means homes and apartments and then into the larger and integral part
of the structure. You could have the what you might call the public life
from merchandizing to learning and culture.
This is an elevation showing the residential
the state of this is a try with this and the public and then the
development on the lower level of garden spots and so on.
Same concept for a smaller than again you have you have a structure which
becomes yeah cellular and then you can you can use the inner spaces, four
different kinds of activities.
Hey land. This is a much larger structure for them is the water body that
powers for the intakes for the production of. Okay, let's see
two of the well and our colleges.
Uh huh. I have to caution again. Those are not blueprints. Those are very
schematic indications of a certain organizational space To serve a large
number of people in this case. About 400,000 in this case about 300,000.
This dimension is never more than one mile and a half or so. Those are
extreme cases might be close to one mile in height. You let go that, I
told him a mile, but for tomorrow it's already a very high structure. You
can do quite a bit with it. Oh though it's a very large structure. It's a
very, very small city. If you compare these to the extension of dollars, I
don't know how large is dollars, but chances are
It might be about 200 square miles, which is a very large structure
Compared to a two square miles. By say one mile.
The car is stopped at the edge of the city cannot get in for the simple
reason that there are no roads. The city is roadless. That takes away
about 60% of the space given to the car free.
Uh, by, by this device, you reintroduce legs as one of the main means of
moving around, which seems to be quite natural. What? So you have
elevators escalate owes moving sidewalks and mainly legs, bicycles, and so
on.
Uh, at the edge of the, the skin of the city is where you have the
dwelling, the private life on the organized so that the city becomes in a
way an organism with over 1000 minds as I call it that way. And the
thinking
uh, of this city is done on the skin. So it's the skin which is composed
of those minds, of those people, of those activities. The inside is where
do you have a say the sap of the city. The cultural development, Whatever
deals with the social activities of the community,
this is the twin cities. You want to call it away again. This is no more
than one mile and a half I think or two of the most. So you are walking
distance almost from from wherever you are, wherever you want to go,
putting your friends, the library,
marketplace,
movie house,
the club there is that you're seeking. So you're wrapping around the core
of the city, the residential system, You integrate everything into one
building.
That means that you are very close to the outdoor. No matter where you are
, you can walk out of the city and be in the open landscape. What am I
supposed to
if we were ever to adopt the idea of the linear city, you would have a
certain number of advantages. One is that you would have a main legit if
this is a cut through here. Main logistical system in the center, which
means the floor, the main floor of a transportation of people.
Transpiration are well and produce and so on. Including possibly an
airport, an endless airport in the roof and then you plug in the urban
system wherever they are necessary. And those systems would create the,
the access for any dwellers to the main logistical system, to the open
landscape into the cultural centers and social centers of each urban
structure.
By somehow adopting this criteria of let's say I was seated over linear
structure that can go on for thousands of miles. You would have to bridge
obstacles and this suggestion of a canyon bridge by a town of about I
don't know if it was 40,000 people
and the same here you have a river and the town, the linear city bridges
the river and keep scaring on its own function.
Some of the very quick models of other ecologies showing the relationship
between the Empire State building in size and those are called This was
for 450 people. This about 300,
I don't remember what was this one and this 1. 3000, which is this. So
again, you see it's really a building that doesn't have to be much larger
than a large building like the Empire State building and it would be a
center of life, follow a pretty sizable community.
This is this concept developed a little more in detail cut out, showing
the inside which is the the place where he had the merchandizing, the
working learning and so on and the outside where you develop mainly the
private sector of the community.
Our view of the interior
center there, which is indicated as sheltered by remembering
if you have extremes of climate, it's almost becomes almost mandatory,
sooner or later to go into this kind of approach because that's where
again you find approval approach to the criminal survival and development.
This is still about 3000 people suggested that this was conceived as a
rural town where the farmer can have an urban life if he so chooses. I'm
not advocating that for the whole of mankind to become city developed, but
I we know that there is an organization process, there was an organization
process and the bulk of mankind is going to be urbanized,
that's still the same. 20,000 population suggests
This is a larger one, about 300,000, and it's really schematically a
cluster of skyscrapers,
but instead of being sticking out over one level, two level platform so
that you have segregated structure, you integrate them by connecting them
at different levels in different ways, so that you increase the floor if
you increase the the communication system, the interaction system, which
means you you tend to desegregate
physically a community so that you favor a possibility of a less
segregated society.
This is about 270,000
man playboy had a nice
Montage of this one in june but unfortunately, the scale is totally wrong
, so it looks gigantic. It's much more than what it looks in Playboy
magazine, but anyhow, it's the Empire State building, it's about that high
and at this level, you have parks, gardens and so on. And then in this we
try to suggest the variety of, of development, so you can somehow built
into the skeletal system and keep renewing and rebuilding and leave facing
and so on, sort of the life of the city keeps going on according to the
the context of the present.
No being given to us some kind of an abstract exercise when I was putting
down those tourist schemes. This was one of the most abstract, it's one
kilometer cube
and it's, It would serve about 450,000 people. And again this, the altar
section is well deploy. What sector of the life would develop, which means
you can build in it. Your own home can be a mansion, can be a small home
or you can have an apartment and then inside
the development of the what I call the public sector of the city.
one of those examples was a capsule and by doing that, you find out a
number of things about the little self reliance of a community and the
dependence or independence with the outside and with the environment and
so on. In this case being a space capsule, you have to be utterly self
reliant. So in a way you interior is really a chunk of universe, let's say.
And you can rely only in the inner life on the system because outside is
the and the north, the non environment of space.
One reason for doing this was to try to suggest that if we go into space
and sooner or later probably will, we should try to bring in some of the
biological aspects of the earth. So this is a cylinder. You see half of it
in this model and this city is lined with vegetation. So it's an inner
landscape and it works that way because you have a rotation on this axis
which produces a state of weightlessness at the center in a local gravity
become heavier by moving from the center towards this landscape so you can
float out of your dwelling and fly by your own means within this landscape
and land and whatever you have to do within this city being this the
center of it.
Excuse me,
This was a scheme for the meadows near new york and there was a talk about
having a third airport in the area of new york philadelphia. And with
Rutgers University and some of the 44 mother company input, I developed
this idea. The basic idea is that instead of having airport, their
terminals, which are known places, which by the way is utopia non place,
you make the terminal into a city. So this is an air terminal, one million
population.
And according to lead to the wind patterns, you have the landing strips
and the aircraft are pulled in or pulled out taxi into this taxing rings
and you learned practically at the center of the city being the taxing
links there,
you never fly on top of the city. You always fly tangential to it.
And as I was saying, instead of going to the airport and then try to get
into the city from there, you land into the city or you take off from the
city, This is 800 m high, 2.5 km in diameter, it will be for about one
million. Again, the altar including those skyscrapers all around for
residential purposes. The inner is for the life of the city itself. I want
to remind you at this point that we are not the last, so we are not
dealing only with social context, we're dealing with the social contest
the most into a cultural context which is from all the sap of the city. So
we never be compared that to ourselves. We forget that we went beyond the
right reality.
The underground indicated that in purple is for industries, both the
ground level is parks and gardens.
This was a model of this idea. This whole thing was done in one year
including the conception of it. So it was prince schematic and there are
many things I would change naturally.
This has to be seen green
the greenbelt city, that's the, the taxing, I think
gardens and parts within the structural different levels
for this diagram we made for this scheme, we made some diagrams, if this
is a section very schematic section through this building, you saw, we
gave in minutes and feet, the distances in time and and this separating
activities. So if you are this thing is a repairman or so you can see the
swiftness of moving from one event to the next because of the smallness of
the city itself, so that you increase your performance if that's what
you're after or you can use your time in better ways than driving
for one thing. Now, this implies a number of very important points implies
the reduction of the bureaucracy, the reduction of the size of any kind of
service, the reduction of the cost of any kind of service from delivery of
anything to the title of anything including garbage, sewage, postal
delivery groceries, anything that deals with with the logistics of this is
okay, is far more sweet and trouble again then what we I need no with our
bloated and gigantic
structure we call our cities in our town
and finally the acquisition anti project. This was an idea for a piece of
a side that we were not able to obtain and this was still a two
dimensional development. Then I took a little part of this and I developed
it into what you see roughly here and this is Arcosanti.
I'll have a much more detailed
scheme model to show you a few minutes, but very schematically those are
obsessed defining again different kinds of environments according to the
orientation. So we have around the building we have the structure which
are used uh soil as ground conditioning as far as climate, light breeze
view and so on, supporting, being part of them integral partner structure
supporting the roof supporting structures inside bridging of floating from
the artists and containing themselves dwelling. There are 17 ft in
thickness so that inside you have the smaller modules for this private
module for this structure. The columns contain larger structure, again
larger intermediate modules for living in the roof. Many kinds of modules
for residential. The top of the columns, large grounds for homes indicator
here schematically with those senator.
This is the land we bought.
This is our three river. We have about three miles of it, two Miles of Wet
All Year Round. There's a little stream running. This is a huh volcanic
talk and I keep forgetting names. Mhm. And we're building on one of those
ridges
overlooking some land, some farmland and we have and overlooking a little
upon which is a water tank and it's going to be repaired so it's going to
become the intermediate uh huh use of water between the domestic use and
agricultural use.
This is the actual building site which is up there
last year we established the camp which is now made of those cubes,
enlarge a cube. Some of the structure. This is the organic garden,
recycling the garbage making compost
In a sandwich of those cubes that are serving two persons. Each one that's
the site. The building will be going up about their
this is one accused that I'm going to use my studio.
Those are 8.5 ft they are trying to suggest somehow if you want to see
that we a kind of a german monastic approach to life. So we're trying to
introduce their console frugality from the beginning from the outset,
This is the area of one of the 30 columns in the building and we used
intentionally this to get the feeling on the space. It's a common building
, the octagon.
So this is part of the camp and there was a choice between having putting
up barracks that are going up and they never come down or using those
cubes that can be disassembled, well that can be made into a playground.
Later on
we are playing with silt which is the the end product of this, those rocks
through erosion. And we are using this a parting the compound in the
casting
and those are, we know it was quickly take off up towards the painting so
you get a yellow speak, does it feel to be pulled off? This is my going to
be my studio.
This is a very schematic diagram of the plan. The city access two on the
south to on directly looking into the north, northeast, north, northwest,
west and east. Each one is going to make its own kind of environmental
conditions, those are colder than those. So we have different kinds of
vegetation.
We have a naps here which is going to be for ceramics in the building
stage. We have on our own here for metal is the main a culture for a
badging plan with two offices and two homes and we're going to have a foot
center here. Those are all in the making. Now you see the structure of the
apps supporting all the structures inside supporting the roof and making.
As I was saying an environmental condition which is changing according to
the orientation. We're working now on the south side of this area, this
area in this area,
the larger model,
a cut out of the Arabs some of the bridging structure structure depending
on the apps, the main roof, which is a four level structure. The main
process for the home,
You can get a seat on the scale of the person's there. The apps around 60
ft in diameter plus 17 ft in depth.
And we are building now those structures.
This is a color out one day abscess
Showing the small module, this is about 17 x 17 x 17 and it can't be
divided with a mezzanine. You have an opening side looking into the city,
let's say into the manmade landscape. Cityscape. And then you have an
opening. I'm sorry, the opposite. Looking into the landscape and opening.
Looking into the cityscape. So you are the divider on the divider between
the man made and natural. Again, the yolk inside of the city, look outside
of the city.
Uh this is the only access of the mobile court Santee transverse alive. So
half of it will be this way have to be this way, this is the matching
plant. We have work metal work here would work here. Production of forms,
casting of forms and the distribution of module systems to your building.
Yeah, it should be reversed but anyhow
this is a, I mean the slides it turn upside down uh this is the metal form
in the process of being built with the ceramics work area And then we have
this building which is the food center, there are three private uh spaces
here, there is a main dining with the kitchen in the back and then
exhibition room on top. We are now working on the foundations of this
building.
This shows one of the apps is when the structure is up it would begin to
somehow express the person using it sort of each person does its own
finishing not only but or it can can choose its own environment, its own
inside environment but can also spill out by the construction of little
balconies or the scheme that are going to use for windows and so on.
This as I was saying is the food center with an exhibition room up there,
those are all pre cast panels in the casting place, slabs
blasting The Saddam accepts the main involved which is this one which has
been of completed, it is the support of a crane, horizontal crane which is
not there yet and we have storages and offices and living quarters and now
we are building one of those building and the other symmetrical news
foundation for this arch Very substantial because of, mainly because of
the crane. This is 60 ft spell
the making of the modules of the vault. We cast 12 of those panels three
at the time and we use silk as a forming device. We use a with all the
painted in on him, a strip out um materials so that after you cast triple
weather in all of me at that green
And this is this bolt, you're putting up panels and would there be a
living quarters and office on this side? Living quarters from this side,
this is the axis of the whole building. We are now setting up the matching
planning the back to the beginning of the apps for the ceramics looking
south as I was saying at the front and this is under the same center of
one of the big balls. So it's a building contained into another building,
sheltered by another building. There is some only relationship. The larger
apps containing the smaller apps,
there's the, the smaller half
the making of this boat is not in there,
descending of those panels.
Well, it's hard to say but from a distance is a big vault and the building
will be
enclosed in that please. This is the vault after the sandwich before the
finishing you still do the grouting the suit has to be washed away. There
are some brilliant calls
this in the Saddam mix abs in during the construction panels, making the
outside artists
this image of those panels,
the ceramics perhaps looking up from the, from the metal caps,
there's a ravine here and looking from the earth. When you see the vote
Yeah,
you can see some of the calls there. They have to be there has to be
washed away. Well, this is a cut out of the building. And while you were
looking at this area here, the day here, the ceramics, is there food
center is going to be there and it shows the difference in size and
function between Kazan T, which is so many miles away in Kazan.
I think that's about it. I have information if anyone is interested about
the program and so on.
One thing I have to say, we are using 1.5% of the of the land we have for
the building
and the remaining land is almost untouched.
All right.
All right,
mm hmm.
Mhm.
Mhm. Okay. Yeah, this concludes the workshop. Thank you forparticipating