The Self Sufficient City
The Self Sufficient City is a competition organize by the Intitute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. The participant have to define five key concepts to design the dwelling of the 21st century. The design is based on an utopian reality : forgets Newton's discovery. This statement lead to 'The weightlessness city'. It may be a near or distant future. It tackle issues like functionnal or social diverity, urban sprawl or urban congestion to create the self sufficient city of the future.
Concept 01: The conservation, collective memory, the existing. The self sufficient city already exists , the majority of buildings from the late 21st century has already been built. We don't have to destroy, we have to maintain, improve and complete through the weightlessness city.
Concept 02: The ultra mobility. Travel has to be released. They shouldn't be restrainted in a plan by a concentric or radiating network. Moving will be again RES PUBLICA.
Concept 03: The ultra compacity. Urban sprawl is synonymous of waste, of time, of money, raw material, spaces, ecosystem and earth. The planar city has lived. The city has to be now in three dimensions, in weightlessnes.
Concept 04: The ultra flexibility. Buildings, previously rooted to the ground, is going to be free of the gravitational force. It can move freely to meet their needs. The function will again become functional.
Concept 05: The ultra diversity. The new proximity created by the couple's home-work will create a continuous functional carpet self-regulated, perfect, free of any law, any incitement.
Location
Paris, France
Client
The Intitute for Advanced Architecture
of Catalonia
Architect
olijf.fr
Program
Design the city of the 21 century
Time-table
Competition in october 2009
Award
13rd on 708 participants, 1st french
publish in 'The Self Sufficient City'
