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The 'Ark' Eco Building of the Future

General Discussion
#1

Hey, now there’s a structure challenge.

"Yahoo News" said:
Alexander Remizov

The housing of the future as envisioned by Russian architect Alexander Remizov could be constructed quickly, withstand environmental disasters, and house 10,000 people at a time. Not bad if you don’t mind living in a place that looks eerily similar to a hamster Habitrail. The eco-friendly dome, ‘The Ark,’ is designed to withstand biblical flood levels and can be built on land or sea.« Read less
(Photo courtesy of Alexander Remizov)


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Ark-Eco-Building-Future/ss/events/sc/011011theark#photoViewer=/ydownload/20110110/photos_net_web_sc/1294694210

#2

Every now and then in architecture we get these “new ideas” many are interesting ideas and eventually find some aspect becoming a part of the design process (ex: solar panels) but most are a little over the edge. Confidentially most architects couldnt engineer their way out of a wet paper sack, thats why we hire engineers to make our ideas work in reality. This looks a lot like the ideas first pur forth by Paulo Solari way back in the 60’s but he figured it could only work if the entire city was designed as a living breathing machine, his Arcologies were enormous, but they could be built using todays standards and would be selfcontained living dwellings for many 1000’s of people

(http://www.iamanangelchaser.com/files/art/soleri_babel.jpg)

But if you dont want to wait and really like the idea of living in a Habitrail, well here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJW4RAUDBBo :wink:

#3

That one would be ArcoBabel II B, and it’s on the cover of the book.

Victor Smith said:
... ideas first pur forth by Paulo Solari ...
http://www.arcosanti.org/
#4

I have that book in my library somewhere, I met Solari about 20 years ago, really interesting guy.