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Compact Urbanism: Evaluating urbanism through a lense of transportation
I am most passionate about collaborative buildings - connected high-rises #39; of homes, creating truly intricate complex organisms as cities. It is futile to think of buildings as self serving isolated entities. Buildings must become collaborative in the same way that information technology is. It is one of the defining characteristics of our era -- collaboration. It would be dishonest if our built environment did not reflect this defining identifiers of our epoch. Exploration of outer-space has brought many innovations. Out of necessity the international space station has used a common birthing mechanism to connect the infrastructure from divergent nations. If a common connection between divergent building methods from different nations can be accommodated in space, it is certainly feasible to have different corporate and private partners use a common connection for dynamic buildings in our urban spaces. Buildings especially residential, can and should be dynamic in their growth and collaborative in program; it is possible to manufacture individual units that expressly fit needs. With digital rapid building techniques such as Contour Crafting spaces can be fabricated on demand, on location with only an interior build-out necessary. Potentially units could be swapped out or relocated as a prefabricated kit of parts. This allows for the more common person to be able to afford specifically tailored design and gives a sense of unique ownership and specificity for their needs in ...From:Ralph Spencer SteenblikViews:1 0ratingsTime:19:02More inEducation

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