express yourself - question (l)

EXPRESS YOURSELF

• QUESTION (L) •“ How do you envision the city of the future? ”

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Introduction (1)

Why did I choose to answer QUESTION (L)?

Since I was attending the High School, one of my biggest passions was architecture. I was curious about how monumental and fascinating structures were erected, which line of thought

was the mind behind the project, and how every single detail was so perfectly and harmoniously inlaid in the bigger picture.

I’ve spent so many hours daydreaming about my ideal future city, taking into account the theories of the greatest architects of all time, so that now I’m enabled to concretize those visions in a full presentation

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Introduction (2)

In order to show you my vision of the future city, I’ll briefly start with retracing an architecture’s theoretical path, that includes the most representative artists belonging to different architectural movements

Rationalism

Futurism

My vision

these currents of thought are the foundation of my vision, and their

exponents my first source of inspiration

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Rationalism (1)

The Rationalist architecture was born from the need of a real adherence to the social and economic reality following the industrial revolution, aiming to find a rational solution to the problems that the society, the needs of industrial production, the new size and functions of the city pose to 'architect and urban planner.

Period: 1915 - 1945

Rationalism's four pillars

Functionalism

Pragmatism Cubism

Neo-Plasticism

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Rationalism (2) – Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier was one of the first theorists to describe the new type of modern architecture (Rationalism) in the '30s

• Vers une architecture, Le Corbusier 1923 •

The rationalist architecture aimed to get a more detailed and refined choice of intentionally innovative, simple and essential patterns.

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Rationalism (3) – Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus was a school, but also represented the essential point of reference for all movements of innovation in the field of design and architecture related to the rationalism and functionalism.

• Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, 1919 •

Features:• pillars • roof terrace • free plan • free facade • ribbon windows

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Futurism (1)

Rationalism

Futurism(1960 – 1970 )

1945After the second world war, the urgent need to rebuild everything as quickly as possible lead to the massive use of rationalist architecture, simple and practical.

So that, the latter, first perceived an elitist form of art, became mass architecture, suddenly perceived as smallness, ugliness, carelessness and squalor, creating the expectation for a change: The Futurism.

End of World War II

Deconstructivism (Futusism) is an architectural movement often opposed to the postmodern

movement (which recovered historicism and rationalism)

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Futurism (2)

Futurism’s methods, in reaction to architectural rationalism, want to de-

construct what is built

Futurism's four pillars

Irregular Geometry

Disarticulated and

decomposed forms

Fragmented volumes, cuts and

asymmetries

Absence of traditional aesthetic canonsIt 'a new architectural vision,

where is chaos, if I may say so, the ordering element

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Inverse concept of the carrier structure at sight, instead of hidden

Futurism (3) – Renzo Piano & Peter Rogers

• Centre Pompidou, Renzo Piano & Peter Rogers, 1971 •

The Centre Georges Pompidou, 1971, considered the high-tech architecture manifesto, is today one of the most visited monuments in Paris

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“ Fluid harmony, absence of preconceptions, innovation “

Futurism (4) – Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry is one of the greatest exponent of the deconstructivistmovement

• Walt Disney Concert Hall, Frank Gehry, 2003 •

• BeekmanTower, Frank Gehry, 2011 •

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Futurism (5) – Jacques Fresco

Jacques Fresco actually represents the most important and significant visionary for me, and, further more, my first ideological stimulus

Fresco writes and lectures his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he refers to as a "resource-based economy."

Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American futurist and self-described social engineer.

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- Environment - City’s structure- Technology

The Venus Project

Futurism (6) – Fresco: the Venus Project

Fresco, with Meadows, supported the project in the 1990s through freelance inventing, industrial engineering, conventional architectural modeling, and invention consultations.

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My vision (1) – The future: “Pantapoly”

Not only what I want to propose, but what I dream for

Sustainability

Smartness

Safety

The 3SPantapoly will be erected on the intersection of the “3S principles”, listed on the right. Those will be declined in different fields: • Energy• Environment• Transports

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My vision (2) – Energy

Pantapoly will be powered entirely by renewable energy sources. There are many forms of renewable energy sources that could supply the world with more power than current global needs. Our planet needs to be heard, and we must answer.

Elon Musk has recently showed the world how simple supplying the all American continent with RE could be, if only governments would approve the project

Renewable energies’ sources:

Solar:- photovoltaic panels

- concentrated solar power

Wind- wind firms

- offshore wind turbines

Wave - ocean’s movements and

currentsGeothermal

Hydroelectricity

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My vision (3) – Environment ◦ City Structure

Pantapoly’s structure should be designed as a circular city plan. The circle is the most perfect shape present in nature: it’s elegant, it’s efficient, and it’s fair.

The city is divided into radial sectors and circular belts. The circular scheme offers maximum efficiency, bringing each radial sector closer to the central dome

The circular structure of the city would make the overall system efficient: minimum expenditure of energy, highest standard of living

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Nanotechnology combines optics and lasers, and will eventually enable

us to assemble matter, atom by atom, into whatever molecular

structure is needed.

Industrial Robots and Laser Excavators would be used for large buildings.

My vision (5) – Environment ◦ City Structure

Automated Construction Systems

A multi-function unit machine could be used to lift and later insert prefabricated housing components into a support structure.

3D PRINTERS

The 3D Printers’ technology could entirely replace the worker’s physical efforts. With the use of computer’s design programs, architects could express a multitude of different styles and frames.

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My vision (4) – Environment ◦ Total Enclosure Systems

Total Enclosure Systems(TES)

“Places with inhospitable conditions such as polar and equatorial regions have prevented us in thoroughly investigating their potential. Total enclosure systems, above ground and subterranean, provide a high standard of living and enable their inhabitants to investigate regions, generally unsuitable for human activity, for longer periods of time.”

Skyscrapers

Subterranean Communities

TES:

They could assure that more land will be available above the ground for facilities, while concurrently helping to eliminate urban sprawl.

They could assure that more land will be available below the surface, in extreme extern conditions regions

Everything, everywhere, at any time

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I.A. TRANSPORTS

Autonomous self-driving vehicles

Modular Transports

Modular transports consist of floating, detachable sections that can be rapidly loaded or unloaded. The number of sections can be varied depending on the amount of passengers travelling.

My vision (6) – Transports

Fuels MAGLEV

Transports (Magnetic Levitation)

Trains traveling on MAGLEV reduce resource waste and shorten the average travel time. These maglevs travel with supersonic speeds almost continuously.

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My vision (7) – Society

Our future creations will reflect our future society’s soul.Basically, we create what we are

We will need to create and environment which could create the proper conditions for a continuous change of our set of civil principles, because, in a globalized world, we’ll have to constantly update our rules, laws and vlues.

One race, one civilization:

the Human one

“In a Resource-based Economy the main focus is on the people and the environment. Producing a high standard

of living for all human beings on Earth while restoring, preserving and enriching the environment around them

requires the use of science and technology and also requires a higher degree of efficiency.”

Resource-based Economy:we need to control the capitalism machine and use it for our highest and purest proposals

The end.Thank you for your attention

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