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Octavia Boulevard Parcel V (2006)
Octavia Boulevard Parcel V (2006)
Renew housing
concept
These new
type friendly houses are designed to adapt themselves to their owner’s needs or
feelings. These “housing boxes” can harbour different ways of life, many kinds
of housing solutions: small flats, duplex, penthouses, terrace apartments, etc…
They will
impose very few rules (6 structural points, an access /exit system, a fluid
supplies centralised system). Then everything will be free. They are built as a
meccano. Every façade panel can be removed and changed, most internal walls and
settings can be changed. Everyone can build up the personal world he needs and
feels. Californian style colourful wooden panels can be turned into high-tech
glass ones, open up and become sun shelters or balconies, flat apartments can
turn into duplex, etc… Even the roofs are turned into sunny private or
community terraces.
Every
possible configuration remains an expression of that system that brought up
this new life. The configurations you can see on these drawings are only one
case among an infinite number of possibilities. It is a living body. Like a
computer program, it might self-evoluate under control of the community. It is
a new myth like Sausolito used to be.
Urban
system
How
shall we live there?
Without car. We’ll 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’ll 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?
concept
These new
type friendly houses are designed to adapt themselves to their owner’s needs or
feelings. These “housing boxes” can harbour different ways of life, many kinds
of housing solutions: small flats, duplex, penthouses, terrace apartments, etc…
They will
impose very few rules (6 structural points, an access /exit system, a fluid
supplies centralised system). Then everything will be free. They are built as a
meccano. Every façade panel can be removed and changed, most internal walls and
settings can be changed. Everyone can build up the personal world he needs and
feels. Californian style colourful wooden panels can be turned into high-tech
glass ones, open up and become sun shelters or balconies, flat apartments can
turn into duplex, etc… Even the roofs are turned into sunny private or
community terraces.
Every
possible configuration remains an expression of that system that brought up
this new life. The configurations you can see on these drawings are only one
case among an infinite number of possibilities. It is a living body. Like a
computer program, it might self-evoluate under control of the community. It is
a new myth like Sausolito used to be.
Urban
system
How
shall we live there?
Without car. We’ll 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’ll 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?
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