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treading lightly on the landscape, the building cantilevers out 27 meters to a point 18 meters above the terrain below.
franck bohbot traveled to richard neutra's VDL research house II and documented it, capturing two generations of architectural experimentation.
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the micro-hotel room is enclosed by a tiny topography of stepping terraces.
the architects say that the building, and the activity that takes place within it, is meant to transform the way in which buildings are designed, engineered, and built.
Also, if this is really about a solution to a coming global food crisis, the easiest solution is to not build sprawling suburbs doused in lawn-fertilizer over naturally arable land.
Where will they get the water from? The Aral sea? Or perhaps the Nigris river? Large scale irrigation is never the answer to desertification.
Where”s Kevin Costner or Mel Gibson?
WOWWWWWWWW!
While some build any paraphernalia mirabolante to produce vegetation and food, others deforest green areas and promote desertification, just for ignorant extractivism.
you are, ofcourse, assuming that desert sand stands still just like in computer generated images right?
Paolo Soleri meets Archigram meets Terry Gilliam
…As the Earth is crushed beneath the weight of its many track treads. My old M1A1 (yes I was a tanker) used to TEAR UP the Mojave Desert. This thing is ridiculous. Early and prolonged exposure to the Star Wars’ sand crawler is my only explanation for this.
and for this you only need a peaceful world. GOOD LUCK on that one.