Title : CRYSTAL CLOUDS Authors : Olivier Bacin, Martial Marquet Date : 2010 Place : Caracas.
The utopian urban project CRYSTAL CLOUDS is a reflection on urban sprawl by inviting the city to devellopped itself in the fourth dimension. Here, the fourth dimension is the speed and the transportation networks. In this project the city is developped around a mega-infrastructure wich carry on urban transportation but also housing, offices, green areas, and factories that usually composed a regular city. This mega structure is porous and allow air and light to go through, the buildings are densified around the jonctions of the network’s branches. CRYSTAL CLOUDS is an alternative to the proliferation of towers and of the tentacular suburb sprawl, this new network allow to open up cast away suburbs and help to homogenize the access to transportation inside the city.
« The « suburbs » problem keeps increasing in every city, in both MDCs (Medium Developed Countries) and LDCs (Less Developed Countries). These troubles are mainly rooted in the population which has been put aside : segregation due to the lack of economical and social diversity. The project aims at building a structure which would allow the suburbs to evolve and become spatially « multi polaire » , like a moving and evolving rhizome. The social fracture represented by the frontier between downtown and the suburbs would be abolished. The attractiveness of the core of the city, such as economical, social and other public interests will drift gently away, to become part of the 3D city network. Thanks to the 3D network, the inhabitants will be able to move freely from one place to another in less than 20 minutes by using a magnetic rail train. This would bring a solution to the segregation issue as no one would ever be far away again. This would be the era of a new united city. »
Title : CRYSTAL CLOUDS Authors : Olivier Bacin, Martial Marquet Date : 2010 Place : Caracas.
The utopian urban project CRYSTAL CLOUDS is a reflection on urban sprawl by inviting the city to devellopped itself in the fourth dimension. Here, the fourth dimension is the speed and the transportation networks. In this project the city is developped around a mega-infrastructure wich carry on urban transportation but also housing, offices, green areas, and factories that usually composed a regular city. This mega structure is porous and allow air and light to go through, the buildings are densified around the jonctions of the network’s branches. CRYSTAL CLOUDS is an alternative to the proliferation of towers and of the tentacular suburb sprawl, this new network allow to open up cast away suburbs and help to homogenize the access to transportation inside the city.
« The « suburbs » problem keeps increasing in every city, in both MDCs (Medium Developed Countries) and LDCs (Less Developed Countries). These troubles are mainly rooted in the population which has been put aside : segregation due to the lack of economical and social diversity. The project aims at building a structure which would allow the suburbs to evolve and become spatially « multi polaire » , like a moving and evolving rhizome. The social fracture represented by the frontier between downtown and the suburbs would be abolished. The attractiveness of the core of the city, such as economical, social and other public interests will drift gently away, to become part of the 3D city network. Thanks to the 3D network, the inhabitants will be able to move freely from one place to another in less than 20 minutes by using a magnetic rail train. This would bring a solution to the segregation issue as no one would ever be far away again. This would be the era of a new united city. »