Octavia Boulevard Parcel OP (2006)

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Octavia Boulevard Parcel OP (2006)

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Let s live an other life!California is a dream. Can we help it come true?
Let s work it out!
California is raising a totally new civilisation. Can
she find happiness recycling old times solutions? Rather than letting the
automotive imperium rule our lives, spread out freeways and suburbs, should we
not try to live altogether, build up a social life in these paradise
Mediterranean gardens nobody else in the world can have?
For the last decades, Californian people have been
inventing everything. They changed the world and they still will. That is the
purpose of this competition. A new
kind of citizenship.
Let s
invent a new way!How shall we live there?Without car.
We shall free up the ground and experiment a new Californian way of life: in the midst of this paradise
made of spread out Mediterranean gardens, we?ll experiment, outdoors, a new
social life. The ground floor will be a public garden with sidewalks and small
retail shops.
Then we shall live
upstairs, among trees in very clever adaptive houses. The retail shops? roofs
will be the access way to private houses.
Technology
and poetry
We invented
software companionship, should we keep Stone Age houses? Technology can help. What California has to
invent is poetry of technology.
Housing can be
much more efficient, flexible reliable and affordable. But technology should
also be used for sensitive qualities. We have learned to live totally cut out
from the world, because we needed to protect ourselves from it. From now on, we
can use technology to produce poetry. We can finally re-express, in our
post-industrial lives and our regained environments, these fundamental
perceptions brought to us by the sun, the wind, the rain and what it makes us
smell, the shadows that twirl and the time that passes by. We can rebuild a
social life, simple and natural. We can become again human beings living in
harmony with our planet earth.
Isn't that what
modernity is supposed to be? Supposed to
bring? Didn't we do all this just to be able to live in a better world?