This proposal is for a new concept of urban living that responds to the
need for change in the way that we as North Americans occupy space. This
need is based on TWO ideas: ONE is a response to the growing virtual
world that we are beginning to inhabit more and more actively,
TWO is a response to the densification of cities that, while having good
intentions in reducing urban sprawl, leads to a few consequences:
subONE
unhealthy air quality, subTWO, it creates urban core ecosystems that are
sheltered from the natural environment and removes dwellers from aware
of their direct impacts on our planet.
Our proposal is centered on the urgent call to reestablish touch
with our tactile environment such that, as virtual connections link
urban cores around the world, we do not forget the
landscape that is in between them. Each individual must coexist with the
environment in such as way that s/he purifies what comes into the
household, and ensures that what
leaves it is not harmful for the immediate and distant environment. THUS
we have designed
a green wall filtration zone around the interior perimeter of the
apartment in effort to ONE clean the air that comes into the apartment,
TWO allow for small scale urban cultivation of greens, and THREE be a
sensitive environment that reacts household actions and
keeps us accountable of them in order to avoid releasing harmful
substances.
(for instance) The water system is connected to an irrigation system
through the base of the green perimeter walls such that it waters them,
but also makes them susceptible to immediate threat if the owner uses
harmful chemical products for cleaning.
The next layer to the green perimeter is a glazed room which has all
of its furniture stored in an elevated perimeter base. This not only
allows for gathering spaces that look onto the green garden around, but
also allows for an entirely clear square white space, a clean canvass of
12' x 12'. This space, the empty glazed room is a prism of clean-air, a sound-proof pavilion that,
through the use of OLED screens creates holograms of any environment that
the inhabitant chooses to download and enjoy by docking their IPOD.
$70,000 Total Prize Value
Product Design: Design a jewel box of an ultra-low-footprint apartment in 420sf (~39 m2). Win up to $70,000!
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archabits
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nathanbonneville
Your "green wall" is interresting too. To think that we as human invade green spaces (urban sprawl), it makes common sense that the inverse should start happening. On an urban scale, having plants in all units would be a fantastic way to start rebalancing our pollution impact. It'd be fantastic too to be able to live inside a space that feels like the rain forest. Personnal fantasy...
Congrats
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Stefcho25
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archabits
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silviasim
Also in my project the bed slides under the kitchen.
Is a great way to use the space.
Very good!
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svenia
rana idea owner
Actually we feel the opposite:) We feel this space really flows, spatially, visually and given the existing windows on opposite sides, ventilation wise too. And the reason it does is due to adding this step up where we were able to create low modules to store all the programmatic requirements without using the existing walls or creating transformable walls, that end up compartmentalizing the apt hence making it feel smaller than it is. We find that keeping low modules and furniture in a small space really helps with the scale of it.
The result is that the space is very open, flowing and transparant from the moment you walk in instead of feeling like you are walking into a transformable walk-in closet. Apart from the vertical garden surround which we think would add another layer of texture, vertical visual disruption was kept to a minimum which allows the user to enjoy the ambiance of the 'event' space as he wishes to program it virtually on the switch glass or physically.
That was our intention:)
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jancara
I like your work!
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bolormaa
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Yuriy
rana idea owner
How nice would it be to project an image of a terrace overlooking the sand and sea while you were having dinner! That would definitely cure my winter blues!:)
Sometimes illusions are nice!
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zoranjor