ANTHROPOCENIC TOWERS OF FUTURITY - 2019
Vertical Architecture is the design of the Post-Modern era that faces the challenges of the present and must adapt to the problems of the Future, knowing that it will eventually fail.
“The task is to produce fictions that can be converted into effective virtualities - fictions that not only anticipate the future, but that can already start to bring it into being.” - Bruce Sterling, Unbuilt Towers of Futurity
“It’s their children, the unbuilt towers of futurity, that are surrounded in a dense, foggy haze of harbingers.” - Bruce Sterling, Unbuilt Towers of Futurity
Thread Cities
Technologically Advanced Towers that attempt to meet the ever changing needs and wants of humanity
TECHNOCRACY
CONTROLLed by the advancement of technology desperately trying to meet every possible need and want
Vertical Trains
Movement on its side - Transport for the vertical city
Infrastructure Wall
An Urban Barrier Against the remains of Deteriorating Nature
Salubrious Towers
The Spatial Constructs Serving only the elite that perpetuates their continued advancement
URBAn castles
Monumental structures of a totalitarian government built to be domineering and integrated with marketable information
Dumb Cities
Slow, stumbling cities of an older era
The dead space
The remains of the abandoned cities of the past, left in ruin to be used only by the desperate
Stop Building
The Stop building - limiting expansion
URBAN FARMS
Infrastructure For Self-sufficient Urbanism
TOWERS of Infrastructure
THE SUPport a society needs, standing over the petrified obsolete of an older age
SMART TOWERS
FOLLOWING THE POSTINDUSTRIAL LOGIC OF THe technological titans
archaic failures
Modern Day super-tall structures that will soon be made obsolete by the towers of the future
Stop CitY
Creating a living wall against urban expansion
Super favelas
Continually expanding spatial constructs allowing for mass housing accommodation while sacrificing safety
Vertical Parks
Vertical parks - public space for a vertical world
