Comments on: Radial Erect-Urbia: Elevated Geothermal Neighborhoods

By: andy

andy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:14:28 +0000

This is hilarious. Would like it better if the houses had shutters on them.

Also, could the open floor plate be encircled with picket fence?

By: andy

andy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:33:09 +0000

i like the 4 cables perfectly extracting a home with no foundation, ripping its infrastructural guts out of it, slamming it onto some sort of scaffolding or someone’s roof. i hope this is only a conceptual attempt at making a statement to building vertical versus horizontal. i like this in terms of ideal, not in terms of solution. but the good news is is that i dont need to get in the car to go to marshalls anymore. its now located above the melnicks house. i love that you placed home depot in this scheme. i hope they stocked extra rolls of duck tape and joint compound, because i think everyone’s walls just cracked a bit..

By: Kameron

Kameron — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:33:42 +0000

WTF?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:18:02 +0000

Good use of creativity, but I have to agree with Elish, where is the human element in all of this? Your goal was to create high density housing yet also preserve green spaces, and you achieved that, you created an environmentally sustainable project. But I fear that all you had in mind, and you must not forget the social aspect to this as well.

By: Walter Acuna

Walter Acuna — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:55:57 +0000

This is Sim City on Steroids, mobile home parks for the masses. One day we will have to build up and when you include Airship Ports on your towers I will definitely vote for your radial erect urbia.

By: Oakspar

Oakspar — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:24:09 +0000

Completely unfeasable from an engineering aspect and not cost competitive.

Modern McMansions could not handle being liftend from their foundations – they crumble into toothpicks. Modular and moble homes likely could, but you still would require a great deal gas/power/water dis- and re- connection.

This reminds me of the “Arcos” from the old sims games. Constructing a “super tower” with reasonable living space, geothermal water/power, green spaces, retail, food production, schools, etc. would be cheaper to just build from scratch (without the MASSIVE worries of transportability).

By: Nathan Lawrence

Nathan Lawrence — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:10:55 +0000

The return of Corbusier. Maybe the proposal should have been called “Corb: Redux” It didnt work in the 60s and 70s–it won’t create healthy, livable places for people. Want to get mugged in the atrium anyone?

By: Luclan

Luclan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:01:03 +0000

I don’t like the desing. I would not live in that city. The idea of redefining the structure is good but could be developed in a more «human friendly» way…

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:41:38 +0000

Someones been playing to much Sim City.

By: Nathan Strieter

Nathan Strieter — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:07:44 +0000

Congratulations on creating the one of the only projects that incorporates the given suburban landscape and proposes the integration of a new ordering system.

Given that any solution is, in part, flawed this project truly required the concept to follow a specific logic to the extreme. That was done beautifully.

A refreshing result in what seems to be a competition of tired ideas.