NOTES ON “the line”
PROJECT.
Like ancient
voyagers, those who will travel along The
Line, as a Great Silktrail, will be able to experience
the landscape and the food, the climate and the language, the material life and
the culture, and The People of all the different regions that they cross.
People will live in The Line
designing their houses however they want, using any technologies.
The sections will be
powered by sun, wind, earth, water.
The Line, the slowest way to travel between Eastern Asia and
Europe, will develop along with the new superfast railways.
The Line will be a strip that uniting China, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran,
Armenia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Bosnjia, Croatia and Italy,
but will also create relationships, generating fluxes and connections in every
direction.
The Line inc. will be the company that
manages all the general aspects of the development: from the design, to the
building, to the sale of the spaces.
We have a dream! A
never-ending tree path, full of people on bikes and people walking through a
collage of hundreds of different landscapes,
races, colors, hairdos and clothes, where the trees change as the
geography changes.
An East Lane and a West Lane,
connected by suspended passages, above a sort of Green Canal of gardens.
The Line lays on thousands of arches, built with recycled
materials using the different techniques of each region. Houses and other kinds
of buildings are stuck under the arches like lichens on an never-ending cliff.
Two exterior roads, accessible from the path by ramps, provide entry to the
houses, shops, and other places under the arches; interspersed unoccupied
arches allow passage from one side to the other.
The people inhabiting
The Line live off of what the earth
provides in different points of the path.
They live in The Line as if in a village. In the
roads they walk, meet, talk… live.
A road parallel to The Line, to be used by cars, is for
emergencies only.