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The Hyper Building Design Parameters: |
Concept
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Suburbia and Megalopoly
Industrial Revolution
Technology and Environmental Problems
Automobile Dependency
Suburban Sprawl
Pollution
Consumer-based Society
Throw Away Society, Depletion of Natural
Resources
Media Oriented Society
Social Isolation
Dilapidation of Inner Cities
Slums
Violence and Crime
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21st Century:
ARCOLOGY
Information Revolution
Healthy, Mindful Society Pedestrian
Society
People Movers, Elevators and Escalators
Efficient Technology
Longevity of Resources
Mixed-use Arcology
Interactive, Social Environment:
Rich Cutural Life Efficient Whole-city
Design
Longevity of Structure
Community Oriented
Society
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The Hyper Building is an Arcology. In an Arcology, architecture and ecology come together in the design of the city. Arcology is the implosion of the flat megalopolis, the modern city of today, into a dense, complex, urban environment which rises vertically.
The concept of a one-structure system is not incidental to the organization of the city, but central to it. Such an urban structure hosts life, work, education, culture, leisure, and health in a dense, compact system which also puts the untouched open countryside at the fingertips of the residents. The compactness of an Arcology gives 90 percent more land to farming and conservation than today's urban and suburban sprawl. This compactness makes an Arcology a more workable system.
The automobile divides a city by scattering it across the landscape. Greater attention is given to human scale in an Arcology. In it the pedestrian reigns. Distances are measured by walks and minutes. Within it the automobile is nonsensical.
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In an Arcology energy is used more efficiently than in a conventional modern city. Pollution is a direct function of wastefulness, not efficiency. The increase in efficiency and reduction of wastefulness means a reduction of pollution.
One role of the three dimensional city is to stop the spreading out of suburbia and its perniciuos effects: hyper-consumption, segregation, waste, pollution, and ecological catastrophe. Therefore we must consider not only this initial Hyper-Building: future developments in the area must be considered. All developments surrounding the Hyper-Building must be Arcological.
For reasons of economy, to do more with less, life is always framed three-dimensionally. This imperative can be referred to as the Urban Effect. Since the Hyper-Building is emblematic of the Urban Effect, it is not just an expedient though indispensible proposition: its stands for the ontological dynamics of life itself.
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The Hyper
Building
by Paolo
Soleri
a paper describing the proposed arcology
The Quartet
in A (Arcology) Major
a paper adding to the Hyper Building concept
The Hyper Building Design
Parameters:
Concept
Circulation
Construction Process
Energy
Form
Functional Composition
Population
Site Selection
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