fORaLLtHEcOWs / CTRLZ architectures
Working with the idea of “creating a society that is based on quality not quantity, on cooperation and not competition,” CTRLZ architectures have rethought a new model for, not just a building, but rather for society. Due to the on-going “cultural revolution” we are experiencing, the way we approach solving the problems of the world have changed, and architecture along with it. Now, the architect must not merely respond to designing spaces, but to other factors, such as society, energy, the internet, and politics, as well. “We believe that architecture is not anymore about form and/or/…function, but that it is about relations. The development of network systems shows us that the power resides in links and connections.”
More about the model and more images after the break.
Their new decentralized mode of living emphasizes the interconnectivity of social spaces and a transparent model of energy and production to create a collaborative base. “This is to promote a transparent hyperlocalized society and culture, where inhabitants can develop a public consciousness about their life cost in term of product waste and energy consumption.”
The raised housing units share a landscaped area as private and public spaces then branch off. The ground level lacks built construction and is, instead, left for the cows and cultivation. “From the bottom to the sky, the succession of relational function is (-1) commerce /// (0) landscape and food production /// (2) housing /// (3) social public places and /// (4) energy collect,” explained the architects.
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What ever this is, i don’t get it…
At least they’ve found THE good name
I do like the decentralized idea, but I’m not sure having it raised is really that beneficial. Just left with a dark patch of mud underneath? Still It would be an interesting social experiment.
where is that thing standing?!
independence (cow) day…
I get it. It is raised, to leave a grazing space for the cows. Architecture has many parts to it: Function, space constraints, environmental impact, energy savings, response to environment, it’s design and political role. Okay, I haven’t thought much about the possible political consequences of either good or bad architectural design, but I can now start to imagine how it might.
i’M nOT sURe, WhaT TheY ARe rEAllY trYIng tO Do heRE, BUt fOr THe liTTLe idEA iT loOKs vERy cOMPlicATed!?!?
my conclusion: ALTf4
It was about time someone startet to think of architecture as tool for further development of human society, and everything thad goes whit it(food production, energy…).
Architects today are not thinking of architecture as solving our living problems as much as feel goof spaces, designed becouse of personal agenda (ego, building a monument for our selves).
I wount say I like it, but it surtenly is a step in the right direction!
I love the smell of methane in the morning
ehmmm……………………………………God save us!
Ctrl Z!
Hahahaha
I wish people would make more witty/sarcastic comments like this on ArchDaily instead of trying to be so “deep” and “theoretical!”
The images remind me of a Le Corbesei Utopia philosophy for housing. he took the housing and created towers on stilts and create park land below. this idea sounded wonderful and was adapted by many many cities. the problem was that the housing ended up being terrible because everyone was packed together like sardenes and the park land became a haven for crime. I think that all of these structures have now been torn down as failures.
@chas
I don’t see exactly that people are packed like sardenes, density in this project is mcuh lower than in an “unité d’habitation” of Le Corbusier.
Can you give examples of cities where his projects were built and related to crimes? problem is that LC’s ideas were never built in totality like he projected (or at least I don’t know but i can be mistaken)
It’s not that I love LC though, I’m just asking.
other comments: It doesn’t seem to take place in a city but more likely in countryside. I like the pictures and concept, of course it looks still a bit like Science fiction.
I agree that there is not the density here as with Corbu’s low-income housing blocks but I do see a lot of similarities.
Here’s a guote about Corbu:
The most notorious failure of modern architecture was not structural but ideological. In the 1950s, when federal funds became available for urban renewal and public housing, architects and planners thought they had the answer—what Le Corbusier called the Radiant City: megablocks with standardized apartment buildings surrounded by parkland instead of traditional streets and rowhouses. Soon tens of thousands of poor people were housed in these utopian communities. Except they weren’t utopian at all. Not only did putting poor families in high-rise apartments prove to be a bad idea, so did concentrating poverty. Vandalism, crime, and drugs flourished. The housing agencies, which had done a poor job of managing, maintaining, and policing the projects, finally simply gave up. In what would become common practice, the 33 apartment buildings of the Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis (right), which had been conceived by Minoru Yamasaki, who would later design the twin towers of the World Trade Center, were dynamited. The buildings were less than 20 years old.
This is a melting pot
similar to yona friedman
To me it looks like a very inefficient inhabited power plant fallen as a fashion victim.
People ignore the amount of energy needed to produce construction materials for this long-span structurally nightmarish buildings. People ignore that nowadays photovoltaics are still not efficient enough (a market average of 12%-18%) to be worth their ecological impact. They need a lot of rare metals with high energy production costs, that eat whole mountains in China, and their lifespan rarely reaches 20 years with considerable efficiency loss after a few years, not to mention that they are prone to malfunction from dust, storms, and so on.
I’m not saying that it’s impossible to design real ecological buildings, but function is still a key aspect in this equation.
Reminds me of New Babylon, by Constant :
http://www.classic.archined.nl/news/9812/Babylon_e.html
5:33 AM Dec 14th
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