Skycar city. Ediz. illustrata: A Pre-emptive History - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 8496540588 ISBN 13: 9788496540583

Casa editrice: Actar, 2007

Riassunto

Marcus Prize Studio at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Winy Maas of MVDRV and Grace La of UWM present the work of twelve students who explored the relationship between infrastructure, architecture, and urban form. This highly investigative studio pushed the physical and conceptual limits of given definitions of city, circulation, and program. Tested in two scenarios (one real in Tianjin, China and the other purely hypothetical), the studio severed vehicular traffic flow from its traditional two-dimensional plane and then forecast the potentials of a new, hyper-volumetric city where given urban activity inflate to fully occupy all three-dimensions. Populated by 5 million inhabitants and rising 800 meters high, this new 'sky car city' is buzzing with the flows of goods and people, as they navigate the airways in several models of newly designed air-born vehicles.

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Recensione:

A supreme piece of informed science fiction, an extrapolation of what we would do to embrace a seductive piece of imagined technology. --Jonathan Bell, Things Magazine

Graphs, stats, charts, models, and timelines that sing. --Architect Magazine

We always enjoy a bit a rampant speculation; the beauty of this pocket monograph is that it makes good use of shiny CGI in its exploration of the city of tomorrow. --Wallpaper

Descrizione del libro:

¿Qué pasaría a nuestras ciudades si inventáramos coches que pudieran volar?

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• Editore: Actar
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8496540588
• ISBN 13: 9788496540583
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 237
• Redattore: Maas Winy, La Grace