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8SPOTLIGHT MEtreePolis 2075In the late 21st century, human
optimisation of technology leads to environmental manipulation that
inadvertently prompts ecological and social utopia. Technology
becomes nature. Existing 20th-century buildings adapt to the
biogrid and become power producers rather than consumers.
Matthias Hollwich andMarc Kushner
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9EcoRedux provides a vision that no longer fears the artifi cial
or the technological manipulation of the natural environment.
Existing buildings become integral to bio-grids; the ecologies of
excess are embraced; the skyscraper becomes the site of a dystopian
farm employing genetic engineering; and by-products are employed in
a generative capacity in the urban context.
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Cover of the Ecologies of ExcessCatalogue, Future City, Planet
Earth, 2110At Rice University in Houston, Franch i Gilabert and the
Ecologies of Excess student research unit team developed an
alternative vision of the future. Rather than looking forward to a
healed planet, they envisioned a time in which the ecologies of
excess would be embraced.
Eva Franch i Gilabert F
Star Gate Venice, BroomwichProject, Meudon, France,
2008Machinism is invoked by Franois Roche and R&Sie(n) as a new
paradigm from which to approach and touch narrative and subjective
protocols. Here the series of movements of the machine, which acts
as a star gate, are captured.
R&Sie(n) + Stephen Henrich and Pierre Huyghe
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Dystopian Farm Skyscraper,Manhattan, New York, 2009A new
high-rise building type is developed for Manhattan, the dystopian
farm skyscraper. Surfaces of the skyscraper, as shown here, are
maximised as growing surfaces. Technological modes of food
production, such as genetically engineered crops, are embraced to
optimise production.
D Eric Vergne
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Surrogate House, MIT, CambridgeMassachusetts, 2010Part of the
Reaction-Diffusion research undertaken at MIT, this project
proposes the development of continuously evolving environments of
exchange between substances products and by-products. Rather than
being perceived as waste, by-products are proactively employed to
generate three-dimensional forms.
Alexandros Tsamis
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Homeway, The Great Suburban Exodus, 2009The infrastructure of
New York requires rethinking, so as to reduce the exponential
amount of waste and also to put it to benefi cial use. This top
view along the updated interstate depicts the regional conditions
between cities. In order to meet our ecological carrying
capacities, inferior patterns of sprawl need to be rethought and
dwellings brought closer to existing infrastructural arteries.
Terreform ONE + TerrefugeText 2010 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Images: pp 8-9 HWKN (HollwichKushner); p 10 Eva Franch i Gilabert;
p 11(t) Eric Vergne; p 11(b) R&Sie(n) with Stephan Henrich and
Pierre Huyghe; p 12 Alexandros Tsamis; p 13 Mitchell Joachim,
Terreform ONE + Terrefuge
