THE WINGED FLYERS:
MECHANISTIC BUILDING STRUCTURES
MECHANISTIC BUILDING STRUCTURES
THE "FLYERS": WINGED apartment TOWERS are the highlight of my Diploma project. I crafted them with profound love to the indomitable ideals: to nurture, to inspire and to uplift the (each) human spirit.
The Towers' structure extends all the way down to foundations on the bottom of the coastal waters - they themselves do not float once Eleos becomes imoble and inhabited. It is the waterline Macrostructure that continues to float around them (up and down, not laterally) to be arbitrarily flooded in order to create specific landscapes. The structure of the Kinetic Towers and their functionality serve the detachable apartments in the wings. These apartments are amphibious nomads. I have designed them to be lowered into the sea. Sails and an electric boat engine at their back, and they are perfectly capable of floating off anywhere along the gentle Mediterranean coast. I believe this design feature probably best underlines the spirit of living by the sea.
I hope that one future day, this lesson will be translated to landlocked cities as well. Then, colossal waving apparitions with paramagnetic radiating skins will levitate their thousand residents along endless guidelines, from nature preserve to congregation grounds, aethereal airliners streaming back and forth from one drifting leviathan to another.
The FLYER Superstructures: residential and semi-public spaces
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The classical apartment block is almost universally a dusty slab of concrete and metal wiring, hopelessly immovable and irremovable. People suffer them because of the complex and entertaining city life outside of their apartments, and this mostly only while they’re very young. In time, the claustrophobia and the tightness of the residential matchboxes push the more courageous into actively searching out vacation or replacement homes out in the airy countryside. Many more will choose the best-of-both-worlds/ lesser-of-two-evils (the second being the perceived isolation of the countryside), which is suburbia. A bit of green, more privacy and legroom are significant and valid necessities. Yet while the countryside life is frugal, the Islet city life is prosperous, and where suburbia is confined and even paranoid, the Islets are diverse and effervescent. The Flyer Apartment Blocks address these two synergistic issues: how to bring some of the airy, healthy countryside life right into the cosmopolitan downtown, and how to break up the matchbox slabs residencies while we’re at it
The classical apartment block is almost universally a dusty slab of concrete and metal wiring, hopelessly immovable and irremovable. People suffer them because of the complex and entertaining city life outside of their apartments, and this mostly only while they’re very young. In time, the claustrophobia and the tightness of the residential matchboxes push the more courageous into actively searching out vacation or replacement homes out in the airy countryside. Many more will choose the best-of-both-worlds/ lesser-of-two-evils (the second being the perceived isolation of the countryside), which is suburbia. A bit of green, more privacy and legroom are significant and valid necessities. Yet while the countryside life is frugal, the Islet city life is prosperous, and where suburbia is confined and even paranoid, the Islets are diverse and effervescent. The Flyer Apartment Blocks address these two synergistic issues: how to bring some of the airy, healthy countryside life right into the cosmopolitan downtown, and how to break up the matchbox slabs residencies while we’re at it
