Efficient Living Machine / LEDarchitecturestudio + HIDDENOFFICE

Sep 2010

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Architecture News ,Urban Design , Alessandro Liberati

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LEDarchitecturestudio + HIDDENOFFICE’s Efficient Living Machine project transforms a building into an infrastructure able to improve and expand the lifestyle of the metropolis. The firms propose that the skyscraper become a system of overlapping grids upon the existing environment as a way to read the city differently. These grids contain different layers of programmed activities, ranging from recreational areas to farms, and from public parks to areas of commerce.

More details about the project, by architects Alessandro Liberati, Roberto Straccali in partnership with Roberto Salvatelli, Simone Pirro, Luca Tappatà, and Roberto Turtù, after the break:

“Our skyscraper can offer citizens different lifestyles depending on the level where you are. You can switch it from the Farm, recreation and public parks, residences, offices all closely related to the variety of functions that already exist in the city,” explained Liberati.

Although the project offers new nodes of activity, the system fuses with the existing city’s fabric from the union of the Metro stations, both currently and in anticipation of the future. “This spatial structure increases the density of functions, which also has the ability to be mobile and change their configuration to the internal structure of each individual to follow what are the socio-economic dynamics of a metropolis in constant change and implemeting as an evolution of cross programming,” explained the architect.

The two grids are connected via a vertical link that both joins the various means of transport and simultaneously generates new public spaces for socializing. These vertical connections are specifically designed to function as generators for the self-sufficiency of the new metropolis, in terms of electricity, food, heat and oxygen. The eletricity is derived from systems of wind turbines, photovoltaic systems of high concentration and hydrogen system. The food is produced in the farm; the heating is given by the fermentation of organic waste from the farm and the whole city. The oxygen is produced from the electrolysis and circulated to the domestic buildings to improve the living comfort. The city has a system for collecting rainwater, which when purified are-re-entered into the system.

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Cilento , Karen . "Efficient Living Machine / LEDarchitecturestudio + HIDDENOFFICE" 05 Sep 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 09 Feb 2012. <http://www.archdaily.com/76571>

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smedly says:

ummm…superstudio?

# September 5, 2010 at 10:13

freq says:

ummm…Yona Friedman?

(I think we need a whole range of “ummm” paragraphs here. Please provide some more, friends.)

http://www.essential-architecture.com/IMAGES2/Yona%20Friedman%2004.jpg

# September 5, 2010 at 10:50

he even took the title straight from aforementioned visionary..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Friedman

too funny.

# September 5, 2010 at 10:52

razfaz says:

ummm …. Wolkenbugel by El Lissitzky

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Photomontage_of_the_Wolkenbugel_by_El_Lissitzky_1925.jpg&filetimestamp=20081030064340

# September 5, 2010 at 11:01

at says:

umm… constant?

http://citywiki.ugr.es/wiki/Constant.NEW_BABYLON.

# September 5, 2010 at 12:04

up_today_arch says:

spider web + internet universe + horisontal skyskrapers + economy crisis + 3d fantasy + trust in humanity + awating of future… :))) I like this concept…

# September 5, 2010 at 12:59

Milan says:

i’ve missed utopias!!!!!!!

# September 5, 2010 at 13:25

Leonardo Ximenes says:

ummm…Corbusier? :)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uC9AWuzUn-c/SwHTWXMVSKI/AAAAAAAAIto/Ucoyvq1TJTk/s1600/Picture+10.png

Seriously now, it reminds me of this sketch for Rio. But I still like the concept. Another desirable ‘side effect’ of an additional grid over the city is to prevent sprawl.

# September 5, 2010 at 13:32

Rui Agnelo says:

it just needs a couple more arms, so that sky becomes not visisble at all.

# September 5, 2010 at 14:45

slap shot says:

ummm…Arata Izosaki?

http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/575/w500h420/CRI_56575.jpg

…but this one got cows and baloons

# September 5, 2010 at 15:53

k says:

Sorry, I do not understand your project.
It is lack of reality and imagination.

# September 5, 2010 at 16:40

archygroupy says:

umm… Steven Holl?

http://www.stevenholl.com/project-detail.php?id=60&type=

# September 5, 2010 at 17:09

Hale.H. says:

remind me of the moive the fifth element…

# September 5, 2010 at 22:51

Andy Lloyd Smith says:

ummm… no

# September 5, 2010 at 23:08

Thom says:

His website is http://www.ledarchitecturestudio.com/ and on the site it says that LED is an acronym for “Logical Efficient Design.” Ha.

# September 6, 2010 at 01:09

Pedro says:

Yes, and lets completely do away with context and place. Lets drop one of those systems in every city. We can all be the same! Lets forget about the need for inefficiency in a city. Creates new space for socializing? But how? If there is too much space, then there is no space for a majority to meet and gather like they do at specific large successful public spaces.

# September 6, 2010 at 02:41

Chris says:

“Art without engineering is dreaming…” – Stephen K Roberts. Seems to fit this, this THING.

Or maybe this part fits better; “…Engineering without art is calculating.” Hmm, maybe.

I dunno. But I do know that this is absurd. Of course he’s bluffing about this project; he’s just trying to make waves. And he appears to be doing a good job at it.

# September 6, 2010 at 02:55

John H says:

Haven’t we moved on from this trash?

# September 6, 2010 at 04:24

Ralph Kent says:

One of the most blatant mash-ups I’ve seen for some time – Radiant City meets Superstudio. Why do people volunteer to publicise this sort of work – do they genuinely think we might not spot the fraud?

I tried to read more at his website but it was down. Not very efficient of it.

# September 6, 2010 at 06:34

Gio says:

yikes

# September 6, 2010 at 15:12

archi-troll says:

um . . . MVRDV Pig City.
Watch out for golf balls though. Tiger is making a comeback apparently.

# September 6, 2010 at 15:24

lapeno says:

I like utopian thinking but this is way too generic and monotone, maybe it’s just the presentation. I doubt it will work though, there’s no intensive connection with the existing urban fabric in this proposal. It will be a second city, above and isolated from the original city. A bunch of elevator shafts just won’t cut it.

# September 6, 2010 at 17:41

chasang says:

Yeah, definitely Superstudio with a little bit of (Ummmm) Archigram’s Plug-In City thrown in. Total b.s. mashup of pre-existing concepts, no originality here.

# September 6, 2010 at 21:27

Young Jono says:

This doesn’t make sense at all. sure you could say its all innovative with a transportation system and the stereotypical urban farm. from what I can see the actual proposal is unrealistic and too expensive to solve the problem. there is no way it would be possible to build at all, it is not structurally sound at all would never meet visual impact and building standards. Sure it might seem like a good idea but its too much in the realm of fantasy and not a practical solution that could actually be done.

# September 7, 2010 at 03:59

miesosoup says:

my friend’s thesis project was better:
http://oscarboyko.com/portfolio.html

# September 7, 2010 at 09:45

derustun says:

Looks like a lame fantasy novel turning into a horrible movie.. umm,no.

# September 7, 2010 at 15:45

Simone says:

Thanks to all……..

# September 9, 2010 at 09:11

Thanks to all…

# September 9, 2010 at 08:30

Rb___t_ says:

http://www.hiddenoffice.it/

# September 10, 2010 at 16:50

kelly says:

woooooow it’s great !!!… and also the site is very nice.

# September 10, 2010 at 17:22

LED says:

http://www.ledarchitecturestudio.com/

# September 11, 2010 at 10:59

Jarred Allaway says:

of course like your website but you need to take a look at the spelling on several of your posts. Many of them are rife with spelling issues and I in finding it very bothersome to tell the reality however I will certainly come back again.

# October 14, 2011 at 17:24

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